Daily Reports
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Joke by Son of Political Analyst Employed in Conflict Between Parties to Gulf Crisis
AKEED, Wasfi KhushmanArab media outlets employed a joke filmed by the son of political analyst Majid Asfour in the conflict between media and political parties to the Gulf crisis. A newscast broadcast by the Qatari Al Jazeera TV hosted, via Skype, jo...
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Israel Denies Truth of Ziv"s Picture With Girlfriend
AKEED, Wasfi KhushmanNews websites and social media platforms carried pictures they said are of the security staffer of the Israeli Embassy in Amman and his girlfriend, which caused popular indignation. An Israeli news website denied the truth of the...
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Official Silence on Embassy Incident Leads Media to Error or to Israeli Story
AKEED, Wasfi KhushmanOfficial silence opened the door wide to speculation and inaccurate news, which has largely characterized press coverage of what happened in the perimeter of the Israeli Embassy in the capital, Amman, last Sunday. The official Jo...
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Dead Infant: Media Coverage Violates Sanctity of Dead and Lacks Balance
AKEED, Husam AssalMedia outlets committed an ethical violation in the middle of last week by posting a video clip showing the face of a dead newborn, having been placed in a refrigerator that is not for the dead at a private hospital in Zarqa Governo...
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Withdrawing 2022 Tournament From Qatar…International Fake News Carried by Local Websites
AKEED, Anwar ZiadatOn 15 July 2017, many local news websites carried a fake story headlined "Six Arab States Request Withdrawing 2022 Tournament From Qatar."According to the fake and fabricated story, the Swiss Gianni Infantino, president of the Fdra...
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Media Outlets Hastily Report News on "Hebrew Sign," While Others Correct Themselves
AKEED, Husam AssalSeveral news websites carried news circulated by users of social media sites about a group of Israeli tourists putting up a Hebrew sign in the ancient city of Petra, "glorifying two Israeli soldiers" killed in an operation carried o...
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"Lyrica…New Addiction Invades University of Jordan"…Press Report Based on Anonymous Sources
AKEED, Aya KhawaldehAn electronic site published a report headlined "Lyrica Pills, New Addiction Invades University of Jordan." The report said that University of Jordan students were addicted to pills called "Lyrica." The report was based on testimo...
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Professional, Ethical Violations in Publishing News About Murder of "Syrian" Child
AKEED, Aya KhawaldehLocal media outlets committed professional and ethical violations in publishing news about the murder of a Syrian child after he was assaulted. Speed prevailed at the expense of accuracy in reporting information and its credibilit...
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Trees of "Munya" Project…Media Outlets Report Denial, But Fail To Raise Issue
AKEED, Aya KhawaldehLocal media outlets have remained silent on the issue raised by users of social media sites concerning a court decision to auction off forest trees in Dibbeen. They only published the denial issued by former Prime Minister Samir R...
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Coverage of Prime Minister-Poet Issue Turns News Websites Into Arena for Wrangling
AKEED, Wasfi KhushmanSeveral news websites have turned into an arena for debate between the government on the one hand and poet Haidar Mahmoud, former minister and current senator, and his son, Ammar, adviser at the Prime Ministry, on the other.While...
