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The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America, or CAMERA, is an American non-profit pro-Israel〔 *see, e.g., "Rally in Philadelphia will support America and Israel. Press release. Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (Greater Philadelphia District). January 18, 1991. A coalition of local groups will hold a rally at the Liberty Bell on Sunday, Jan. 20, in support of American and Israeli military policies in the Persian Gulf crisis. "We'll be coming out on Sunday to say 'God bless America and Israel," said Bertram Korn Jr., executive director of the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America, one of the sponsors of the rally. "The criminal Iraqi war machine must be permanently disarmed," he added. *Zara Myers. The Name of the Game? Advocacy for Israel. ''Jewish Exponent''. Philadelphia: Nov 25, 2004. To encourage effective advocacy on behalf of Israel, the Center for Israel and Overseas of the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia will host a daylong program -- its inaugural advocacy event -- on Sunday, Dec. 5, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., at Hillel at the University of Pennsylvania, Steinhardt Hall, 215 S. 39th St. in Philadelphia. In the morning will be a panel featuring representatives from the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, all of which will discuss "Methodologies on How to Advocate for Israel...Dr. John Cohn, a local physician named Camera's "No. 1 Letter-Writer" in 2004, will serve as moderator of the panel. *CAMERA Articles For Students. (''Apply NOW to Be A CAMERA Student Representative—EARN A FREE TRIP TO ISRAEL AND $1000!'' ) Posted on CAMERA website, September 25, 2007. CAMERA is looking for fifteen passionately committed undergraduate students with excellent communication skills who can organize pro-Israel events on campus. Students earn $1000 and a free exclusive trip to Israel in June by becoming a CAMERA Fellows Representative. *Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. (CAMERA: Fighting Distorted Media Coverage of Israel and the Middle East: An Interview with Andrea Levin. ) Posted on JCPA website, June 1, 2005. Their work undoubtedly has impact, but the non-Israel-related groups do not have the same activist focus. They produce studies and polls. It is for this reason that I think pro-Israeli media watching has an importance beyond the cause of Israel. Efforts that induce better adherence to ethical journalism in one subject area are positive generally in helping to strengthen American democracy, especially, again, as there are no enforceable codes of professional conduct in the media. – CAMERA Executive Director Andrea Levin. *''The New York Times''. (MIDEAST TURMOIL: THE NEWS OUTLETS; Some U.S. Backers of Israel Boycott Dailies Over Mideast Coverage That They Deplore ). Posted on NYTimes website, May 23, 2002. While the pro-Israeli Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America, or Camera, studies newspapers for evidence of bias, Palestine Media Watch has been monitoring the coverage of newspapers like The Philadelphia Inquirer, The New York Times and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. 〕 media-monitoring, research and membership organization. According to its website, CAMERA is "devoted to promoting accurate and balanced coverage of Israel and the Middle East."〔(CAMERA: About CAMERA )〕 The group says it was founded in 1982 "to respond to the ''Washington Post''s coverage of Israel's Lebanon incursion", and to respond to what it considers the media's "general anti-Israel bias".〔("A brief history of CAMERA" ) on CAMERA's official web site. Accessed August 14, 2007〕 CAMERA is known for its pro-Israel media monitoring and advocacy.〔Manfred Gerstenfeld and Ben Green. (Watching the Pro-Israeli Media Watchers ). ''Jewish Political Studies Review''. 16:3-4 (Fall 2004).〕〔(Murdoch, Son Differ Sharply Over Israel )〕 CAMERA releases reports to counter what it calls "frequently inaccurate and skewed characterizations of Israel and of events in the Middle East" that it believes may fuel anti-Israel and anti-Jewish prejudice.〔 The group mobilizes protests against what it describes as unfair media coverage by issuing full-page ads in newspapers,〔(U.S. newspapers catching flak for Mideast war coverage: Media caught in the cross fire as both sides complain of bias ) He said the network has been targeted by the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America, which ran a full-page New York Times ad calling NPR's coverage "false" and "skewed" against Israel. The advertisement also urged NPR's financial backers to stop supporting the network.〕 organizing demonstrations, and encouraging sponsors to withhold funds.〔 CAMERA has over 65,000 paying members〔http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=50〕〔 and states that 46 news outlets have issued corrections based on their work.〔 ==History== CAMERA has chapters in major US cities and Israel, including New York City, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Miami, and in 1988 a Boston chapter and headquarters, founded and led by Andrea Levin; Charles Jacobs became deputy director of the Boston chapter. In 1991, Levin succeeded Winifred Meiselman as executive director of CAMERA. According to the organization's website, CAMERA's membership grew from 1,000 in 1991 to 55,000 in 2007.〔("A brief history of CAMERA" ) on CAMERA's official web site. Accessed October 23, 2006.〕 The director of the Washington office of CAMERA is Eric Rozenman.〔CAMERA at (Jewish Information and Referral Service ).〕 In 2002, ''The Jewish Daily Forward'' named CAMERA executive director and regular ''Jerusalem Post'' contributor Andrea Levin America's fifth most influential Jewish citizen, saying "Media-monitoring was the great proxy war of the last year, and its general is Andrea Levin."〔http://www.sfbg.com/37/35/news_npr.html〕〔http://www.pjalliance.org/article.aspx?ID=176&CID=20〕 In 2008 CAMERA launched a campaign to alter Wikipedia articles to support the Israeli side of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. The campaign suggested that pro-Israeli editors should pretend to be interested in other topics until elected as administrators. Once administrators they were to misuse their administrative powers to suppress pro-Palestinian editors and support pro-Israel editors.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Mideast Editing Wars )〕 Some members of this conspiracy were banned by Wikipedia administrators. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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