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Kyron Horman's Stepmom, Terri: Convicted by the media before any arrest?

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Column : Faux Paus Files

Kyron Horman's Stepmom, Terri: Convicted by the media before any arrest?

By: Robert Buckman

August 18, 2010 05:28 AM EST

DeDe Spicher, pictured above in a screenshot from a CBS news program posted on YouTube, hasn't been charged with any crime, but the media coverage of her friend Terri Horman's stepson's disappearance has...

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Column : Faux Paus Files

Rolling Stone's McChrystal profile: The Right, the Wrong, and the Ugly

By: Robert Buckman

June 27, 2010 12:27 AM EST

Michael Hastings, pictured in this screenshot from an ABC News interview posted on YouTube, wrote the Rolling Stone profile of Gen. Stanley McChrystal which led to McChrystal's resignation. (Credit, ABC News,...

Eyeball editing: Print media's overuse of spell-checker creates howlers

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Column : Faux Paus Files

Eyeball editing: Print media's overuse of spell-checker creates howlers

By: Robert Buckman

May 29, 2010 02:38 PM EST

Robert Buckman's Faux Pas Files column highlights common spelling errors in headlines, subheds, and cutlines. As promised, after castigating my broadcast colleagues in the last column for their sloppiness and...

Broadcast journalism's bad habit of wrong word choices

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Column : Faux Paus Files

Broadcast journalism's bad habit of wrong word choices

By: Robert Buckman

May 06, 2010 01:36 PM EST

In this screenshot, check out Fox News's misspelling of "education." A simple spell check could have caught this one. (Credit: Dave Anton) There seems to be a prevailing attitude among broadcast...

Ernie Pyle, WWII correspondent who got it right, Killed 65 years ago this week

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Column : Faux Paus Files

Ernie Pyle, WWII correspondent who got it right, Killed 65 years ago this week

By: Robert Buckman

April 16, 2010 03:57 AM EST

Grave site of distinguished WW II correspondent Ernie Pyle. (Credit: Cold Press Publishing, Flickr) Sixty-five years ago this week, on April 18, 1945, iconic war correspondent Ernie Pyle was killed by Japanese...

The military beat is important, so get your terms right

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Column : Faux Paus Files

The military beat is important, so get your terms right

By: Robert Buckman

March 28, 2010 01:58 PM EST

Robert Buckman, Ph,D. , is a retired Lt. Col. and Iraq veteran, now working as an associate professor at University of Louisiana at Lafayette and a member of the Society of Professional Journalists Ethics Committee....

For want of a tilde, the spelling is wrong!

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Column : Faux Paus Files

For want of a tilde, the spelling is wrong!

By: Robert Buckman

March 15, 2010 08:35 AM EST

Today is Robert Buckman's inaugural column on StinkyJournalism. Buckman,Ph,D., is an associate professor at University of Louisiana at Lafayette and a member of the Society of Professional Journalists Ethics Committee. Robert...

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