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White Sox Manager Didn't Say That! Fort Worth Star-Telegram Prints Fake Quote on Graduations
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Sydney Smith
June 16, 2013
05:00 AM EST
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram was hoaxed by a satirical website into publishing a fake quote. The Texas newspaper had published the fake quote in a June 11 editorial on controversial graduation speeches. It has since...
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Former Alabama Gov George Wallace NOT a Republican, MSNBC Corrects
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Sydney Smith
June 14, 2013
06:00 AM EST
An MSNBC graphic wrongly said George Wallace -- who was a segregationist governor of Alabama during portions of the 1960s through the 1980s, and a failed presidential candidate -- was a Republican, when he was a member of...
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Toronto Star's Front-Page Apology 1st in 18 Years, Story was 'Entirely Wrong,' Public Editor Says
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Sydney Smith
May 16, 2013
06:00 AM EST
For the first time in 18 years, the Toronto Star had to run a front-page apology after wrongly saying that a politician was on vacation, Toronto Star public editor Kathy English noted in a recent column. It was also...
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CNN Covers Up Error in Cleveland Kidnappings Case: Amanda Berry NOT Ariel Castro's Daughter's Best Friend
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Sydney Smith
May 15, 2013
10:00 AM EST
CNN's Michael Martinez made an error in his May 12 story on the Cleveland kidnappings case and suspect Ariel Castro. But, at some point since the story's publication, CNN or Martinez spotted the error and...
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Sports Reporter Fired after 'Tremendous Amount of Sex' Freudian Slip
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Sydney Smith
May 15, 2013
06:00 AM EST
Comcast SportsNet Chicago fired sports reporter Susannah Collins earlier this month, according to the sports media website Sherman Report. The May 3 firing came just days after she botched her comments about a Chicago...
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Bronx 5-Alarm Blaze Fact Check Shows Sloppy Local Reporting, Not Just In National Breaking News Coverage
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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...
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2 Media Fouls in Jason Collins Coverage, Howard Kurtz & Daily Beast 'Parted Company'
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Sydney Smith
May 02, 2013
03:30 PM EST
Washington Wizards pro basketball player Jason Collins announced in a very high-profile May 6 Sports Illustrated cover story this week that he is gay. And within a few days of Collins' story being published online,...
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John Krasinski, Arrested Development: Yahoo News Uses Wrong Photo
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Sydney Smith
May 02, 2013
07:00 AM EST
Oops! Yahoo News wrongly used a picture of director John Singleton with a news story about The Office actor John Krasinski joining the upcoming season of Arrested Development. Gawker, which posted a screenshot of...
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IVA Worldwide fund invests 145%? New York Times Math Error Prompts Correction
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Sydney Smith
May 02, 2013
05:30 AM EST
The New York Times corrected an April 7 article that wrongly -- and impossibly -- claimed that 145% of investment management firm International Value Advisers (IVA) Worldwide's "total portfolio is in European...
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Tsarnaevs didn't rob 7-Eleven, Zooey Deschanel NOT a suspect, More Errors in Boston Marathon Bombings Coverage:
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Sydney Smith
April 25, 2013
01:00 PM EST
In the ten days since the Boston Marathon bombings, there have been a handful of errors and ethical issues in the related news media reportage. iMediaEthics has already written several stories about errors, including The...
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UConn Coach Geno Auriemma Needs 'Big Lesson in Humility,' Sports Blogger Retracts Criticism
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Sydney Smith
April 22, 2013
06:00 AM EST
Chattanoogan.com blogger and veteran sports broadcaster Randy Smith retracted his April 10 blogpost, apologized for quoting Geno Auriemma, head coach of University of Connecticut women's basketball team The Huskies, out...
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NBC News Accidentally Airs Expletive in Watertown Lockdown Coverage
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Sydney Smith
April 19, 2013
07:25 PM EST
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Reuters Accidentally Publishes George Soros Obituary, at least 3rd Obit Fail in the Media since 2011
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Sydney Smith
April 18, 2013
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BBC Identifies South African Man as 'Gay Marriage' in Caption, Says Sorry for 'Technical Mistake '
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Sydney Smith
April 03, 2013
06:00 AM EST
The BBC wrongly identified a South African man named Rufus Lekala as "Gay Marriage" in an on-air segment, the Guardian reported. Lekala is...
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Drones Delivering Newspapers in France? April Fools' Day Prank Dupes Drudge Report, Tech Crunch, Washington Times
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Sydney Smith
April 02, 2013
10:10 AM EST
Several news outlets were hoaxed by a story claiming that France would start using drones to deliver...
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ANOTHER TV News Fail: Utah's KUTV Suggests Gov, Atty General are 'Gay Couple'
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Sydney Smith
April 01, 2013
10:00 AM EST
Salt Lake City TV news KUTV made an on-air caption error, Jim Romenesko reported. In a March 27 segment, the CBS affiliate showed a picture of Utah's governor and attorney general with the caption "Gay Couples...
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Math Lab Bust? Whoops! Kentucky TV News Botches On-Air Caption
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Rhonda Roland Shearer
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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...
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The Telegraph Mix-up: Wrongly Says Actor John Goodman in 80s TV sitcom, Cheers?
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Sydney Smith
March 26, 2013
06:00 AM EST
The UK Telegraph wrongly reported that actor John Goodman was in the 1980s TV show Cheers. The Telegraph's story said that Goodman "made his name in...
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Trained Gun-Toting Dolphins Gone Missing? Nope, Media Hoaxed by Animal Tale
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Sydney Smith
March 15, 2013
10:45 AM EST
News outlets, including Russian news agency Ria Novosti and later the Huffington Post and The Atlantic, were hoaxed by a phony story claiming that armed dolphins with "firearms attached to their heads" were on the...
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NY Daily News vs. NY Post Fact Wars? Was teacher impregnated by 17- or 18-year-old student?
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Sydney Smith
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Rhonda Roland Shearer
March 13, 2013
05:00 PM EST
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