Complaint
A reader of this online article complained that information relevant to a proper understanding of the events being reported had been edited out, and that they had been described in inappropriate and misleading terms in the video embedded in the article.聽 The ECU considered the complaint in the light of the 麻豆社鈥檚 standards of accuracy and impartiality.
Outcome
In the course of updating the story, the information that some marchers had chanted 鈥淒eath to Arabs鈥 had been removed from the text of the article.聽 The ECU accepted that its removal had resulted in an account of events which was less than duly accurate.聽 However, the subsequent restoration of the information and the addition of an explanatory update to the article seemed to the ECU to resolve this aspect of the complaint.
In the course of the embedded video, the report observed of the marchers that 鈥淭he mood of them is jubilant, festive.聽 It feels like a party... they鈥檙e celebrating their presence at this spot鈥.聽 In the complaint鈥檚 view, this gave a less than impartial impression of what was in fact a violent display of Jewish supremacism.聽 In the ECU鈥檚 view, readers in general would have taken the words in question to be a description of the marchers鈥 mood rather than an endorsement of their behaviour, particularly in a context where it was apparent that they were celebrating their presence in an area which would normally have a strong Palestinian presence had the area not been cleared by Israeli police, and where the text of the article spoke of 鈥渉ighly provocative鈥 actions taking place in Muslim areas of the city, at a time of 鈥減articularly high tensions鈥.聽 This aspect of the complaint was not upheld.
Resolved/not upheld