The one asset self-respecting journalists and newspapers prize the most is their professional reputation. That is why, the best way to press a reporter or a newspaper to do their job right is to noisily expose them in public whenever they do a shabby job.

Have you come across a news report that struck you as journalistically below the level? Here are some unmistakable signs of journalistic mediocrity in coverage of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict to keep an eye for:

• Use of “retaliation”/“response” when describing Israeli actions but never using “retaliation”/“response” when describing Palestinian actions
• Rarely using the word “occupied” when describing WB/Gaza/Jerusalem
• Using euphemisms such as "cross-fire", "targeted killing", "policy of restraint" without quotes
• Rarely describing Gilo as an illegal settlement; instead, it is described as a suburb/neighborhood of Jerusalem
• Using "areas" or "territory" when refering to land where Palestinian dwell, but the more human "neighborhood" when referring to land where Israelis dwell
• Using the word “terrorist” for Palestinians but not for Israelis -- preferring instead to use terms such as "vigilante"
• Humanizing Israeli deaths but not Palestinian deaths
• More photographs of Israeli civilian suffering and not as many for Palestinians
• Using euphemisms such as "errant bullets" or "errant shells"
• Minimizing Palestinian cooperation, and maximizing Israeli cooperation
• Rarely mentioning expressions of regret from Palestinians, but always from Israelis
• Rarely, if ever, mentioning Ariel Sharon’s war crimes and the legal proceedings against him in Belgium

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