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New York Post fakes it again, Obama photo doctored with NO disclosure

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New York Post fakes it again, Obama photo doctored with NO disclosure

By: Rhonda Roland Shearer

May 14, 2013 01:55 PM EST

Can't the New York Post play by the rules? Photo editors know they are supposed to disclose when an image is a "photo illustration" even if the image looks obviously Photoshopped to many. Sunday, the NY...

Bronx 5-Alarm Blaze Fact Check Shows Sloppy Local Reporting, Not Just In National Breaking News Coverage

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Bronx 5-Alarm Blaze Fact Check Shows Sloppy Local Reporting, Not Just In National Breaking News Coverage

By: Rhonda Roland Shearer

May 08, 2013 06:00 AM EST

It is easy to critique the media for errors during national breaking news like the Boston Marathon bombing, but what about daily local coverage? An iMediaEthics fact check of stories about a recent fire in the...

WPIX-TV airs 'Best Sex Ever' Sunday at 10 AM when Kids seek cartoons,'This is uncharted territory' Parents Television Council says

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WPIX-TV airs 'Best Sex Ever' Sunday at 10 AM when Kids seek cartoons,'This is uncharted territory' Parents Television Council says

By: Rhonda Roland Shearer

May 03, 2013 06:00 AM EST

While New York children were watching TV and munching on cornflakes while parents slept in, New York's WPIX-TV (PIX Channel 11) aired a program called "Best Sex Ever"’ on a recent Sunday morning. ...

82 percent of NY Post Anthony Weiner Front-page Story Stolen from New York Times Magazine

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82 percent of NY Post Anthony Weiner Front-page Story Stolen from New York Times Magazine

By: Rhonda Roland Shearer, Sydney Smith

April 18, 2013 06:00 AM EST

Why do an exclusive interview for your front-page if you can just steal it from another newspaper? That's what the New York Post did with the New York Times' interview of former U.S. congressman and possible NYC...

US Marines Say Philadelphia Mag's Source An Exaggerator, Not a Faker

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US Marines Say Philadelphia Mag's Source An Exaggerator, Not a Faker

By: Sydney Smith, Rhonda Roland Shearer

April 10, 2013 09:20 PM EST

Major Shawn Haney, a public affairs officer for the U.S. Marine Corps, has helped reveal the extent to which Philadelphia magazine was hoaxed by a lying...

NBC Distributes Fake Jay Leno, Jimmy Fallon Photo with No Disclosure, Road & Background Scene NOT Real

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NBC Distributes Fake Jay Leno, Jimmy Fallon Photo with No Disclosure, Road & Background Scene NOT Real

By: Sydney Smith, Rhonda Roland Shearer

April 04, 2013 04:35 PM EST

The Daily News, the New York Post, the Hollywood Reporter, the Village Voice, Fox News and other news outlets published a photograph of Jay Leno and Jimmy Fallon that used a fake background, but none of the news outlets...

Math Lab Bust? Whoops! Kentucky TV News Botches On-Air Caption

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Math Lab Bust? Whoops! Kentucky TV News Botches On-Air Caption

By: Rhonda Roland Shearer, Sydney Smith

March 28, 2013 05:25 PM EST

An on-air graphic from Lexington, Kentucky NBC-affiliate Lex18 reported: "5 arrested in math lab bust." Wait, a MATH lab? Were the perpetrators misusing pi? Making illegal shortcuts on their long...

NY Daily News vs. NY Post Fact Wars? Was teacher impregnated by 17- or 18-year-old student?

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NY Daily News vs. NY Post Fact Wars? Was teacher impregnated by 17- or 18-year-old student?

By: Sydney Smith, Rhonda Roland Shearer

March 13, 2013 05:00 PM EST

Super Hero Firefighter? NBC News Caption Said 'Fireman Holds Up a Fire Truck' in Sinkhole

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Super Hero Firefighter? NBC News Caption Said 'Fireman Holds Up a Fire Truck' in Sinkhole

By: Sydney Smith, Rhonda Roland Shearer

March 05, 2013 06:00 AM EST

Did a firefighter act like a super hero and lift a fire truck with one hand? Apparently, a caption writer for NBC News thinks...

Who Gave Bashid Mclean's Mom's Severed Head Pic to NYPost, NYDaily News? NYPD Says Not Them

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Who Gave Bashid Mclean's Mom's Severed Head Pic to NYPost, NYDaily News? NYPD Says Not Them

By: Rhonda Roland Shearer, Sydney Smith

March 03, 2013 06:00 AM EST

Two New York newspapers published a "stomach-turning photo" of Bashid McLean, a New York man who is accused of dismembering his mother. In the photograph, McLean is mugging for the camera and holding the head of...

Gun Barrel Smoke NOT Fake in Obama's WH Skeet Shooting Photo, says Head of National Skeet Shoot Assn

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Gun Barrel Smoke NOT Fake in Obama's WH Skeet Shooting Photo, says Head of National Skeet Shoot Assn

By: Rhonda Roland Shearer, Sydney Smith

February 06, 2013 06:00 AM EST

A few days after The New Republic tweeted and then deleted a fake photo of President Obama skeet shooting, the White House released an actual photo of the president skeet shooting. But, some are claiming that photo is...

Anthony Weiner's New Job? 3 New York Media Fact Check Fails

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Anthony Weiner's New Job? 3 New York Media Fact Check Fails

By: Rhonda Roland Shearer

January 17, 2013 07:55 AM EST

How could the New York Post have mixed up the infamous former Rep. Anthony Weiner with an Andrew Wiener, a man with a completely different name in its Jan 10 story? New York Magazine’s Kevin Roose fact checked the...

ABC News Caption Refers to 'President Biden,' Anonymous Sources Add Doubt to Gun Ban Push

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ABC News Caption Refers to 'President Biden,' Anonymous Sources Add Doubt to Gun Ban Push

By: Hallie Golden, Rhonda Roland Shearer

January 12, 2013 01:00 PM EST

Was the White House really “moving away from pushing an assault weapons ban” as ABC News claimed based on anonymous sources in a Jan. 11 online...

Prosecutor: If Manning Leaked to New York Times, Not Wikileaks, Same Charges

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Prosecutor: If Manning Leaked to New York Times, Not Wikileaks, Same Charges

By: Rhonda Roland Shearer

January 10, 2013 06:45 AM EST

In the ongoing case against Private Bradley Manning, the military prosecutor, Capt. Angel Overgaard, revealed that if the New York Times had first received the restricted government documents leaked by Manning, instead of...

Jared Diamond misleads UK Observer Editor: Libel lawsuit NOT dismissed, voluntarily withdrawn without prejudice

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Jared Diamond misleads UK Observer Editor: Libel lawsuit NOT dismissed, voluntarily withdrawn without prejudice

By: Rhonda Roland Shearer

January 07, 2013 10:00 AM EST

What happened to Jared Diamond’s libel lawsuit where he was sued by two Papua New Guinea tribesmen in 2009? Diamond falsely claimed in an article by Robin McKie published in The Observer on Jan. 5, 2013, that the case...

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Is Stealing an Idea Plagiarism?

By: Rhonda Roland Shearer

December 31, 2012 08:00 AM EST

Norman P. Lewis, assistant professor in journalism for University of Florida, writes about a lesser-known form of plagiarism in his paper, “Idea Plagiarism: Journalism’s Ultimate Heist.” Dr. Lewis...

CJR Reporter Lying, Exploiting a Source? What's happening at Columbia Journalism Review?

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Special Investigation : CJR's Bruce Porter's Lies

CJR Reporter Lying, Exploiting a Source? What's happening at Columbia Journalism Review?

By: Rhonda Roland Shearer

December 18, 2012 08:50 AM EST

Marcy, his source, accused Bruce Porter of lying in Newsweek in 1967. He admits lying to a Michigan journalist about her in 2011. So why is CJR not telling its readers? Porter to Michigan reporter: "This is probably the...

TIMELINE: Columbia Journalism Review reporter's exploitation of Marcy, his former Newsweek teen source

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Special Investigation : CJR's Bruce Porter's Lies

TIMELINE: Columbia Journalism Review reporter's exploitation of Marcy, his former Newsweek teen source

By: Rhonda Roland Shearer

December 18, 2012 08:45 AM EST

CJR reporter, Bruce Porter feigns caring about his source, Marcy, as he exploits her through time. iMediaEthics' latest special investigation unearths the abuses and lies over 45...

CNN Misquotes Billionaire Saying Mitt Romney 'Level-Headed Buy'

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CNN Misquotes Billionaire Saying Mitt Romney 'Level-Headed Buy'

By: Rhonda Roland Shearer, Sydney Smith

December 05, 2012 09:45 AM EST

CNN's typo in a quote about Mitt Romney significantly changed the meaning of the comment, made by billionaire John Catsimatidis. The "typo" is significant since the article is about "financial...

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Here is the UK Leveson Inquiry Report!

By: Rhonda Roland Shearer

November 29, 2012 10:05 AM EST

Here is the UK Leveson Inquiry Report. We will be reporting more soon. Meanwhile, here is the text from the report's cover: AN INQUIRY INTO THE CULTURE, PRACTICES AND ETHICS OF THE PRESS The Right...

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