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One-Third of the Public Doesn't Care about Immigration Reform, New iMediaEthics PollCheck Finds

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One-Third of the Public Doesn't Care about Immigration Reform, New iMediaEthics PollCheck Finds

By: David W. Moore

May 13, 2013 05:00 AM EST

A new iMediaEthics poll suggests Americans are more laid back about immigration reform than what most polls show, with about a third of the public unengaged on the issue. The rest appear to be about evenly divided on whether...

IMediaEthics Immigration Survey: Methodology & Topline

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iMediaEthics Immigration Survey: Methodology & Topline

By: David W. Moore

May 13, 2013 05:00 AM EST

IMEDIAETHICS METHODOLOGY FOR IMMIGRATION SURVEY Geography Surveyed: USA 50 States Data Collected: 04/13/2013 - 04/16/2013 Immigration: 896 adults nationwide were interviewed by SurveyUSA Saturday 04/13/13 through...

Campus Police Intimidate Student Journalists, Lessons learned from Stony Brook Univ. fire

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Campus Police Intimidate Student Journalists, Lessons learned from Stony Brook Univ. fire

By: Wasim Ahmad

May 09, 2013 07:00 AM EST

There are journalists, and then there are police. And then there are student journalists. And campus police. Whereas battle-hardened, experienced journalists know how to pick their battles and navigate their way...

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. ...

'Ask iMediaEthics' Column Launched: High Beam takes down article after iMediaEthics inquiry, Reader's complaint resolved

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'Ask iMediaEthics' Column Launched: High Beam takes down article after iMediaEthics inquiry, Reader's complaint resolved

By: Sydney Smith

February 25, 2013 06:00 AM EST

This is the first in a new series from iMediaEthics called Ask iMediaEthics. iMediaEthics will feature interesting case studies in response to our readers' requests for help or advice related to media ethics or...

AFP Doesn't Care If Photojournalists Get Your Name

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AFP Doesn't Care If Photojournalists Get Your Name

By: Wasim Ahmad

February 04, 2013 08:45 AM EST

You see it all the time in wire service photography these days - the un-named figures, prominently displayed but not prominently identified. It's something iMediaEthics has covered in the past, in regards to Occupy Wall...

Fmr Bild Journalist Bought German Actor Otti Fischer's Sex Video, Acquitted of Coercion Charges

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Fmr Bild Journalist Bought German Actor Otti Fischer's Sex Video, Acquitted of Coercion Charges

By: Nicole Salomon

January 31, 2013 05:20 AM EST

A journalist who paid for a sex video showing a top German actor in bed with two prostitutes has been acquitted of coercion charges that could have seen him...

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...

New iMediaEthics Poll: Stricter Gun Laws Wanted Post Sandy Hook?

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New iMediaEthics Poll: Stricter Gun Laws Wanted Post Sandy Hook?

By: David W. Moore

January 14, 2013 10:00 AM EST

IMediaEthics Gun Control Poll, Post Sandy Hook: Methodology and Topline Statement

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iMediaEthics Gun Control Poll, Post Sandy Hook: Methodology and Topline Statement

By: David W. Moore

January 14, 2013 09:55 AM EST

This poll is part of a series of PollCheck surveys, designed by iMediaEthics and conducted by SurveyUSA, to “fact check” the results of other polls. Other PollCheck surveys can be found here. They include a...

Measuring Subway Platform Discredits NY Post Abbasi Subway Photo Tale

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Measuring Subway Platform Discredits NY Post Abbasi Subway Photo Tale

By: London Shearer Allen

December 07, 2012 12:30 AM EST

iMediaEthics went to the 49th Street and 7th Avenue N, R and Q subway station and examined the platform where Han was tragically killed Monday, December 3. We used R. Umar Abbasi's published images as a guide to...

What's worse? NY Post Subway Death Photos or 2 Historic Media Scandals?

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What's worse? NY Post Subway Death Photos or 2 Historic Media Scandals?

By: Alan Bisbort

December 05, 2012 08:35 PM EST

While the Post’s photograph, taken by Umar Abbasi, and its sensational headline (“DOOMED”), were jarring and repulsive for many, it’s instructive to step back and realize that this sort of gore was...

Clues that Abbasi lied about New York Post subway photo?

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Clues that Abbasi lied about New York Post subway photo?

By: London Shearer Allen

December 04, 2012 06:20 PM EST

News media has been awash with debate over the front-page photograph by Umar Abbasi in today's New York Post. There are a number of clues in his pictures that the story Abbasi has told about the photograph is...

Tweets ask Did a man die because a NY Post photographer failed to help?

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Tweets ask Did a man die because a NY Post photographer failed to help?

By: London Shearer Allen

December 04, 2012 11:45 AM EST

Yesterday, December 3, 2012, a tragedy unfolded in the underground subway station near Times Square, New York. Ki-Suck Han of Queens was allegedly pushed onto the tracks by a deranged man and was struck by on oncoming...

Broke New World: 'Changing Journalism' Makes Clear Real Journalism is in Peril

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Broke New World: 'Changing Journalism' Makes Clear Real Journalism is in Peril

By: Sam Eifling

October 08, 2012 06:30 AM EST

The journalists described in “Changing Journalism” (Routledge), the readable and summarily dour analysis by a trio of UK media researchers, resemble nothing more than the frog in the increasingly steamy pot of...

IMediaEthics PollCheck Highlights Problem with General Questions in Gun Control Polls

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iMediaEthics PollCheck Highlights Problem with General Questions in Gun Control Polls

By: David W. Moore

September 10, 2012 05:00 AM EST

A new iMediaEthics PollCheck survey, designed to check the validity of media polling, finds that when the American public is asked about new specific gun control measures, large majorities express strong support. Such...

IMediaEthics Poll on Gun Control: Methodology Statement & Topline

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iMediaEthics Poll on Gun Control: Methodology Statement & Topline

By: David W. Moore

September 10, 2012 04:45 AM EST

840 adults nationwide were interviewed by SurveyUSA Friday 08/10/12 through Monday 08/13/12. Research, conceptualized and commissioned by iMediaEthics.org, was conducted 100% by telephone, as follows: Adults reachable on a...

Murder Is Our Business: Have We Really Evolved Since the Days of Weegee?

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Murder Is Our Business: Have We Really Evolved Since the Days of Weegee?

By: Alan Bisbort

August 28, 2012 01:25 PM EST

Commentary In the past week, a whole lot of shaking of heads has been going on in newsrooms across America about the printing and broadcasting of graphic photographs from a murder scene near the Empire State Building on...

One Picture May Need a Thousand Words: Occupy Wall Street Photos Don't Tell the Whole Story

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One Picture May Need a Thousand Words: Occupy Wall Street Photos Don't Tell the Whole Story

By: Wasim Ahmad

August 28, 2012 06:00 AM EST

Commentary A few days after the Nov. 15 raids of the Occupy Wall Street movement’s initial camp at New York's Zuccotti Park, a photo of Brandon Watts, a protestor whose face had been bloodied by the police, was...

Tweeting to God: Technology, Culture Clashes & Search for Global Ethics

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Tweeting to God: Technology, Culture Clashes & Search for Global Ethics

By: Sam Eifling

August 20, 2012 05:00 AM EST

Pursuing a global version of media ethics is a difficult charge on multiple fronts, akin to deciding on the rules of a new sport while in the middle of a match. Let’s consider two of those obstacles, drawn broadly from...

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