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Where The Antelope DON'T Play:

By: Adam Klasfeld

February 21, 2008 12:00 AM EST

A prize-winning photograph of antelope prancing merrily beneath the mammoth new railroad from China to Tibet turns out to be fake, two photographs stitched together. The photographer confessed on a Chinese photography Web...

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Lifted!?$

By: Adam Klasfeld

January 09, 2008 12:00 AM EST

Given the current state of our national press, it’s sometimes difficult to know whether the work of media ethicists is making an impact. Well, if the cover image of the New York Post about the results of the Iowa...

Anatomy of a Correction / Correction of Anatomy

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Anatomy of a Correction / Correction of Anatomy

By: Adam Klasfeld

November 29, 2007 12:00 AM EST

If StinkyJournalism staffers are the self-knighted superheroes of fact-checking, then Google Alerts are our trusty sidekicks. When founder Rhonda Roland Shearer received a suspicious news alert about an article from...

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MODERN TIMES:

By: Adam Klasfeld

October 30, 2007 12:00 AM EST

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'Roid Rage

By: Adam Klasfeld

October 18, 2007 12:00 AM EST

Maybe The New York Post’s statistics should be checked for steroid...

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THE INVISIBLE POLITICS OF COMAIR 5191:

By: Adam Klasfeld

September 06, 2007 12:00 AM EST

US Media Ethics News :

Special Investigation : Pitbull Rapist

Pit Bull Rapist Safe For Now

By: Adam Klasfeld

July 18, 2007 12:00 AM EST

After a two-year-old boy from Lockport, New York was allegedly sodomized by a family pet, a pit bull named "Bear," people across the nation responded with sympathy and support for the child and the dog, who is...

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Special Investigation : Pitbull Rapist

Pit Bull "Molested And Attacked" Toddler?

By: Adam Klasfeld

July 13, 2007 12:00 AM EST

Buffalo area media outlets reported the “bizarre and disturbing” story of two-year old pitbull named "Bear" raping a two-year-old child. StinkyJournalism.org finds two misquoted experts crying foul;...

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EVEN FACT CHECKERS GET THE BLUES:

By: Adam Klasfeld

July 10, 2007 12:00 AM EST

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A "Brutal" Speculation

By: Adam Klasfeld

July 03, 2007 12:00 AM EST

Five-year-old Monique Fulgham was brutally raped and murdered, the New York Daily News said, but it turned out to be an accident. They “made no error” and “updated” the story, according to a Daily...

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The Ascent of Truth

By: Adam Klasfeld

May 03, 2007 12:00 AM EST

A staggeringly inaccurate account appeared on the website of news channel WNBC about Critical Mass, a monthly bike ride described as a “celebration,” “gathering,” and “protest” occurring in...

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