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Why Journalists Shouldn't Say 'Shark-infested Waters,' Guardian Readers Editor Explains
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Why Journalists Shouldn't Say 'Shark-infested Waters,' Guardian Readers Editor Explains
By: Sydney Smith
May 11, 2013 06:00 AM EST
The term "shark-infested waters" is an inaccurate cliche, the Guardian readers' editor Chris Elliott argued in a May 5 column. Readers took the paper to task after reporting on two American tourists who...
Pig Saving Goat Hoax Video: Why Haven't News Outlets Posted Corrections?
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Pig Saving Goat Hoax Video: Why Haven't News Outlets Posted Corrections?
By: Sydney Smith
March 23, 2013 06:00 AM EST
A slew of media outlets -- from NBC's Nightly News to ABC's Good Morning America -- were hoaxed by a fake video apparently showing a pig swimming to help a goat. The New York Times, which exposed the video...
The Sun Corrects Animals, STDs & Boy Band One Direction Story after PCC Complaint
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The Sun Corrects Animals, STDs & Boy Band One Direction Story after PCC Complaint
By: Sydney Smith
August 06, 2012 01:30 PM EST
What brings a pop band, animals, and sexually-transmitted diseases together? A recent correction from the UK Sun.  The News Corp-owned newspaper corrected an April 21 story that "inaccurately suggested that...
Last Idaho Bison Killed? The Wildlife News Retracts, Apologizes
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Last Idaho Bison Killed? The Wildlife News Retracts, Apologizes
By: Sydney Smith
July 28, 2012 05:00 AM EST
Wildlife news site The Wildlife News apologized and retracted a July 26 story claiming the state of Idaho killed a bison. The Wildlife News also published a...
Fake Shark Photos Make Social Media Rounds Again, This Time Sharks Doctored into Florida Photos
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Fake Shark Photos Make Social Media Rounds Again, This Time Sharks Doctored into Florida Photos
By: Sydney Smith
July 02, 2012 05:00 AM EST
Fake Photo Photoshops Sharks in Flooded Canadian Subway Stop
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Fake Photo Photoshops Sharks in Flooded Canadian Subway Stop
By: Sydney Smith
June 16, 2012 05:00 PM EST
Fake photos of shark swimming in floodwaters at the bottom of escalators are circulating on social media, Discovery News reported. The photo was originally Photoshopped of a Toronto flood...
NYDaily News Story on Rabbit Has 3 Bylines, Anonymous Sourcing?
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NYDaily News Story on Rabbit Has 3 Bylines, Anonymous Sourcing?
By: Sydney Smith
April 10, 2012 01:45 PM EST
A March story in the New York Daily News caught iMediaEthics' publisher Rhonda Roland Shearer's eye.   The story's byline...
The Sun, Daily Mail Unpublish Stories Claiming Woman Killed by Pet Dog?
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The Sun, Daily Mail Unpublish Stories Claiming Woman Killed by Pet Dog?
By: Sydney Smith
February 12, 2012 04:25 PM EST
The Sun and the Daily Mail each apparently unpublished articles claiming that a woman named Cassandra Smith was killed by her pet Alsatian dog when she was trying to defend her children, Tabloid Watch...
Photojournalist Fired for Fake & Doctored Photos
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Photojournalist Fired for Fake & Doctored Photos
By: Sydney Smith
February 08, 2012 04:15 PM EST
BBC Defends Itself After Criticism of Fake Footage in Polar Bear Program
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BBC Defends Itself After Criticism of Fake Footage in Polar Bear Program
By: Sydney Smith
December 20, 2011 03:05 PM EST
The seven-part television series Frozen Planet aired deceptive footage in its fifth installment, the Guardian reported.  According to the Guardian, while viewers were led to believe the footage they were seeing of...
Australian Newsletter Editor Must Pay Libel Fee
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Australian Newsletter Editor Must Pay Libel Fee
By: Sydney Smith
December 01, 2011 12:20 PM EST
Australian online newsletter editor, Mal Davies, must pay $100,000 to Australian anti-animal cruelty charity after a New South Wales Supreme Court judge found the newsletter's March 19 article on the RSPCA libelous, the...
Inside BBC's Dog Stoning Hoax Story : A Case Study on a Reader's Fight for Accuracy and Accountability
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Inside BBC's Dog Stoning Hoax Story : A Case Study on a Reader's Fight for Accuracy and Accountability
By: Sydney Smith
September 27, 2011 09:55 AM EST
A dramatic tale of a Jerusalem court ordering a dog stoned to death tricked the media in mid-June. But the strangeness of the phony story went beyond the hoax.  It turns out that the BBC published the hoax story...
BBC, TIME Hoaxed by Dog Stoning Story, Will AFP Correct?
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BBC, TIME Hoaxed by Dog Stoning Story, Will AFP Correct?
By: Sydney Smith
June 26, 2011 08:15 AM EST
Add a fake dog stoning story to the (long) list of June's hoax stories that includes a Gay Girl in Damascus, the mass grave story, a French TV news station's fake interview with a Syrian ambassador, and a...
Whoa! New York Post Confuses Mule and Horse
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Whoa! New York Post Confuses Mule and Horse
By: Sydney Smith
June 18, 2011 03:45 PM EST
Hyped 'Sea Monster' Could Have Been Avoided by asking Scientists
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Hyped 'Sea Monster' Could Have Been Avoided by asking Scientists
By: Sydney Smith
June 04, 2011 02:27 PM EST
SeaWorld's Tilikum Performing Again, Said Killer Whale's 'Choice'
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SeaWorld's Tilikum Performing Again, Said Killer Whale's 'Choice'
By: Sydney Smith
April 03, 2011 08:44 AM EST
Oregon Newspaper Retracts Story Alleging Abuse at Horse Farm
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Oregon Newspaper Retracts Story Alleging Abuse at Horse Farm
By: Sydney Smith
February 23, 2011 05:18 AM EST
OSHA Fines SeaWorld for Violations, Media Never Gets Brancheau's Death's Video Footage
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OSHA Fines SeaWorld for Violations, Media Never Gets Brancheau's Death's Video Footage
By: Sydney Smith
August 29, 2010 08:04 AM EST
Tiger Fauxtographer Jailed for Violating Parole, Said Searching for Tiger
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Tiger Fauxtographer Jailed for Violating Parole, Said Searching for Tiger
By: Sydney Smith
May 08, 2010 08:24 AM EST
While media waits for SeaWorld trainer death videos, PETA calls for manslaughter charges
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While media waits for SeaWorld trainer death videos, PETA calls for manslaughter charges
By: Sydney Smith
April 27, 2010 08:58 AM EST
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