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Sep 16, 2026, 4:54 AM

NAZA, Collateral Murder, and Barbara Streisand

Boeing AH-64 Apache flying over Baghdad, Iraq.
Photo by Ahodges7 – "Apache over Baghdad". Marked as public domain, more details on Wikimedia Commons.

In 2010, WikiLeaks uploaded a compilation of leaked video that they entitled Collateral Murder. It details the killing of Iraqi Reuters employees by the US military after having mistakenly identified them as combatants as well as two other attacks...

Nestor Daniel Scherman

Sep 14, 2026, 7:28 PM

When the facts are true, but the story may not be

During a stay in Turkey, I found myself doing something I normally don’t do when I travel: watching quite a lot of local television. Not because I understood Turkish. Quite the opposite. Whenever a news item caught my attention, I...

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Sep 4, 2026, 3:14 PM

Escaping the ‘More is Less’ Trap

As Israel heads for one of the most important elections in its history (some would argue: the most critical), the public needs as much truthful information as possible. But that won’t be easy. In my blog post last week, I...

Ari Z. Zivotofsky

Aug 31, 2026, 11:56 PM

The Feathers of False Accusations: The cost of reporting without verifying

New outlets, including, or especially, Israeli ones such as the Times of Israel (TOI) and the Jerusalem Post, must start doing a better job at fact checking. Recently, another textbook example of how the canard of settler violence is...

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Aug 28, 2026, 6:21 AM

When it Comes to News, “More is Less”

Here’s a question to consider: when you see an interesting headline in the news, do you then read the entire article? Thirty years ago, your answer would have been “usually yes.” Today, it’s invariably going to be “hardly ever.”...

Aug 26, 2026, 8:10 PM

Beware the ‘Populist Bump’

Last week, Der Spiegel faced a media firestorm for its cover page placement of lead Alternativ fur Deutschland (AfD) Saxony-Anhalt candidate Ulrich Siegmund. Despite the accompanying article’s critical tone, commentators from renowned center-left media outlets lambasted the publication, arguing...

Aaron Bornstein

Aug 23, 2026, 7:42 AM

I’m Begging You: Don’t Mistake Slop for AI Writing

I recently read Bret Stephens’s anti-AI op-ed, and it is frustrating how much traction those trying to shut down the use of AI in publishing seem to be gaining. Last month, according to The Guardian, a $2 million crime-novel deal...

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Aug 21, 2026, 8:38 AM

What’s Missing in Policymaking and News Production: Complexity

Everyone knows (sort of) that we live in a “complex world.” But what does that demand of us? This is a double “us”: regarding political policymakers as well as individual citizens. Let’s start with legislators, bureaucrats and the like. Given...

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Aug 14, 2026, 8:24 AM

The Predictors’ Scorecard

Israel’s elections are but several weeks away – and the press is full of who will win, who will lose, and what does that mean for Israel. Not to mention all the other news topic prognostications. Overall, is this...

Jul 31, 2026, 10:39 PM

A tip of the kippah this week to Gazan writer Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib for the evocative title of his new book, Hamas and Its Two Million Hostages. Whatever readers ultimately think of the book itself, the title captures an...

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