CHECKED by HonestReporting Transistor (https://transistor.fm) https://feeds.transistor.fm/checked-by-honestreporting <p>If you follow coverage of Israel, you already know something’s off. CHECKED tells you what, and who.</p><p>Ben Chertoff and Joe Truzman don’t cover the news. They cover the coverage.</p><p>On Front Page, they break down how the biggest outlets covered the story of the week, and the editorial choices that led to bias. On The Feed, they track what’s going viral and why it matters. In Open Cases, they go inside HonestReporting’s own investigations into newsrooms, their sources, and their funders. To round it off, every week they bring two pieces of coverage to the table and rule on each one cold: honest mistake, or on purpose?</p><p>They cover the news. We check their work.</p><p>CHECKED is a production of HonestReporting, the information watchdog on anti-Israel bias. New episodes every Wednesday. Streaming live on X, Youtube and Instagram at 12:30 PM ET and in your podcast feed shortly after.</p> © 2026 HonestReporting 5cecc15d-c79f-530f-aeae-60f44eb00ee4 yes en Fri, 23 Oct 2026 09:14:01 -0700 Fri, 23 Oct 2026 09:14:16 -0700 http://www.honestreporting.com https://img.transistorcdn.com/DXqxW3a92orgBMdiQ7Mk-6jpoWUPtfyvedoOvgSPRRY/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8zY2I5/ZjQ2ZmMwODgwYWJh/ODhmY2UyZTFlNmQ5/Y2Y2NC5qcGc.jpg CHECKED by HonestReporting http://www.honestreporting.com episodic HonestReporting <p>If you follow coverage of Israel, you already know something’s off. CHECKED tells you what, and who.</p><p>Ben Chertoff and Joe Truzman don’t cover the news. They cover the coverage.</p><p>On Front Page, they break down how the biggest outlets covered the story of the week, and the editorial choices that led to bias. On The Feed, they track what’s going viral and why it matters. In Open Cases, they go inside HonestReporting’s own investigations into newsrooms, their sources, and their funders. To round it off, every week they bring two pieces of coverage to the table and rule on each one cold: honest mistake, or on purpose?</p><p>They cover the news. We check their work.</p><p>CHECKED is a production of HonestReporting, the information watchdog on anti-Israel bias. New episodes every Wednesday. Streaming live on X, Youtube and Instagram at 12:30 PM ET and in your podcast feed shortly after.</p> <p>If you follow coverage of Israel, you already know something’s off. HonestReporting No No Extra Virgin Outrage: Lander's olive harvest, the Gaza aid story NPR half-told, and Palestine Action's new names | With Michael Starr 1 1 Extra Virgin Outrage: Lander's olive harvest, the Gaza aid story NPR half-told, and Palestine Action's new names | With Michael Starr full bff8bee2-7664-47aa-aab6-f7f2d37ab42d https://share.transistor.fm/s/8e31d59e CHECKED is HonestReporting's new weekly live show. Every Wednesday, Ben Chertoff and Joe Truzman take apart the week's coverage of Israel. They look at what got reported, what got left out, and who decided.


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Front Page: NPR gave the head of the World Food Programme six uninterrupted minutes on Gaza aid cuts. We count five things that never came up: who stopped paying, who stole the food, what happened to the famine declaration, who else is starving (Sudan, 25 million people), and who else is delivering aid on the ground.


The Feed: NYC Comptroller Brad Lander goes to the West Bank olive harvest, calls it "ethnic cleansing," gets detained in a closed military zone, and posts about it from the bus. We compare that with what the IDF actually said. And we bring in Matti Friedman's question: why does an olive harvest draw more cameras than entire countries?


Open Cases: Michael Starr, head of HonestReporting's investigative team, walks through our investigation into Palestine Action U.S. That covers the network behind it, the outlets that amplify it, and how designated groups rebrand to stay a step ahead.


Honest Mistake, or On Purpose? Two cases, one ruling each, no hedging. Al Jazeera's "open-air prison" framing, and a Washington Post parenthetical that gave the game away.


Live every Wednesday at 12:30 ET on YouTube, Instagram and X. Follow CHECKED on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

]]> CHECKED is HonestReporting's new weekly live show. Every Wednesday, Ben Chertoff and Joe Truzman take apart the week's coverage of Israel. They look at what got reported, what got left out, and who decided.


Episode 1:


Front Page: NPR gave the head of the World Food Programme six uninterrupted minutes on Gaza aid cuts. We count five things that never came up: who stopped paying, who stole the food, what happened to the famine declaration, who else is starving (Sudan, 25 million people), and who else is delivering aid on the ground.


The Feed: NYC Comptroller Brad Lander goes to the West Bank olive harvest, calls it "ethnic cleansing," gets detained in a closed military zone, and posts about it from the bus. We compare that with what the IDF actually said. And we bring in Matti Friedman's question: why does an olive harvest draw more cameras than entire countries?


Open Cases: Michael Starr, head of HonestReporting's investigative team, walks through our investigation into Palestine Action U.S. That covers the network behind it, the outlets that amplify it, and how designated groups rebrand to stay a step ahead.


Honest Mistake, or On Purpose? Two cases, one ruling each, no hedging. Al Jazeera's "open-air prison" framing, and a Washington Post parenthetical that gave the game away.


Live every Wednesday at 12:30 ET on YouTube, Instagram and X. Follow CHECKED on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

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Episode 1:


Front Page: NPR gave the head of the World Food Programme six uninterrupted minutes on Gaza aid cuts. We count five things that never came up: who stopped paying, who stole the food, what happened to the famine declaration, who else is starving (Sudan, 25 million people), and who else is delivering aid on the ground.


The Feed: NYC Comptroller Brad Lander goes to the West Bank olive harvest, calls it "ethnic cleansing," gets detained in a closed military zone, and posts about it from the bus. We compare that with what the IDF actually said. And we bring in Matti Friedman's question: why does an olive harvest draw more cameras than entire countries?


Open Cases: Michael Starr, head of HonestReporting's investigative team, walks through our investigation into Palestine Action U.S. That covers the network behind it, the outlets that amplify it, and how designated groups rebrand to stay a step ahead.


Honest Mistake, or On Purpose? Two cases, one ruling each, no hedging. Al Jazeera's "open-air prison" framing, and a Washington Post parenthetical that gave the game away.


Live every Wednesday at 12:30 ET on YouTube, Instagram and X. Follow CHECKED on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

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