Fact-checkers are absent when 'Editor & Publisher' covers Israel

(JNS) — For a magazine that prides itself on journalistic standards, Editor & Publisher seems to throw those standards right out the window when Israel is the subject of their reporting.

A feature story in the October issue of E&P, the leading trade magazine of the U.S. news media industry, described the difficulties faced by some reporters covering the war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. But the biggest difficulty with the article was its parroting of blatant anti-Israel falsehoods.

The author of the article, Gretchen A. Peck, who is a contributing editor, set the tone in her intr...