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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... |
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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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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. ... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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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Did a firefighter act like a super hero and lift a fire truck with one hand? Apparently, a caption writer for NBC News thinks... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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.
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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Julian Assange is merely accused of sexual assault -- not criminally charged, as McClatchy reported in several American newspapers. So when he called that fact to the attention of the news corporation, why was it so hard to... |
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Exclusive: Since January 17, iMediaEthics has tried, and failed, to get the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) New York chapter, The Deadline Club, to answer two simple questions about its annual contest, billed as... |
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Was conservative Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper involved in the Secret Service prostitution scandal that made the news... |
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In an exclusive interview with iMediaEthics, Abdul Qadeer Khan, the Pakistani metallurgist blamed by the West for making Pakistan a nuclear power, condemned inaccuracies in The Atlantic magazine’s November... |
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Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Bhutto was murdered at 5:16 p.m. in an attack on Dec. 27, 2007. Why, then, are the historic crime scene photographs mistimed by the Associated Press (AP) from 1:53 p.m.... |
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Photojournalism, at its best, humanizes victims of disasters and conflict zones for American audiences.
Yet the opposite can also be true. American photojournalism can also be lurid and sensational in its foreign... |
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| Images of people with their eyes closed used to be thrown away...yet a photo gallery on the New York Daily News web site publishes a photo of Robert DeNiro with his eyes shut? (Credit: Gregory Pace/BEImages)
COMMENTARY
The... |
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Abdulhadi Hairan's photo (left) of Nazia, a woman he met in 2007, shows a different injury and facial features than the one displayed by Aisha (right), the now famous Afghan woman. The photo on the right is a detail from... |
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| Figure 1: Original Chart was published in Newsweek's June 8 2009 print version. Look at the two pink areas we colored-in above. Luxembourg’s purchase of $106.1 billion is 50% smaller than “All Others” at... |
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| MORAL OF STORY? STEAL IMAGES WITH HEADLINE & CAPTIONS : After the EnvironmentalGraffiti.com publisher, Chris Ingham Brooke, said he did not have to correct errors, because he was a blogger, StinkyJournalism discovered... |
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| The "before and after' Photoshopped images are more powerful when seen on Greg Apodaca's web site.
Even when one knows that photo alterations are done in the media all the time, it is still a shock when you mouse-over... |
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IT’S A 5 MINUTE INFOMERCIAL...so why is Greg Gumbel marketed nationwide as the host of a "educational program" on CNN Headline News that’s called "Eye on America," a CBS brand?... |
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| WHY IS THE MAN WITH THE "WORLD'S LONGEST EAR HAIR" PAIRED WITH THIS YOUNG BOY WITH A HEART DEFECT? The boy's face is blurred to protect his privacy...the other children and adults featured in this ABC "Medical... |
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| Sensational speculation, instead of facts, dominated news coverage since the crash of Continental Flight 3407, February 12, 2009, in Buffalo, New York. The media's blame game harms the pilots' families and the public trust. Map... |
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TonyK at Harmless Sky blog discovered that the BBC treated Obama's inaugural speech as if it were a magnetic poetry kit. BBC staff took Obama’s spoken words and rearranged them through audio editing without... |
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Citizen journalists provide content to for-profit media outlets without getting paid. It turns out since content has value, IRS rules may consider this transaction "a gift." This is... |
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Cartoon depicts a NY Times sanctioned reporting method--contacting teens on Facebook-- that new guidelines only require "prior consultation" with editors.
Clark Hoyt,... |
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| When it comes to power, the illusion of health--if not the reality --will serve just as well. Or will it? BBC wrote: "There is fresh speculation about the health of North Korea's ' Dear Leader ' Kim Jong-il, amid... |
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| Nicole Belle, CrooksandLiars.com, claimed, gotcha!, Apr. 19 08, "Notice Anything? John McCain doesn't wear an American flag pin on THIS WEEK" (Arrows in photos are original to Belle's article. Are they big enough? )... |
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| James Joyner, Outside the Beltway said that when the hostage photograph and threat, first appeared on a website, and soon after, in the press, bloggers thought the soldier was photoshopped. However, Matt Drudge (via Politburo... |
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| Mainstream media (MsM) has tried to blame bloggers for the publication of a false rumor that made Apple stocks tumble.
James Callan, Bloomberg.com, wrote, "CNN's plunge into online citizen- journalism backfired yesterday... |
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The similarity of CNN's "Live Audience Reaction" meter to the vital sign monitors in a hospital is unmistakable. Everyone knows from TV --"Doctor, come quickly. Code blue!"-- that flat lines in wave... |
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The NetEase, 163.com article, is in Chinese, but you'll understand. The images are a step by step how-to-guide where you, at home, can fake a photo without using photoshop.
It may seem like a hokey, low-tech... |
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| The blogger carefully examined a set of photos of presidential candidates McCain and Obama at 9/11 ceremonies at Ground Zero. Obama was clearly wearing his flag pin, however McCain, the blogger pointed out, was only wearing a... |
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Go to Live.com
Go to Google Maps
Imagine going to Google Maps and not being sure if the map you see with... |
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It was August 2006 in Maine.. a strange creature's carcass was found. Hey, wait a minute. This sounds just like the "creature" just found in the Hamptons' hyped by Gawker!
In the Sun Journal, August 16... |
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Exclusive to ESPNOutdoors.com
In January, a Clay County grand jury was to decide if the Monster Pig hunters committed animal cruelty. The public never heard that the District Attorney who was to prosecute the case... |
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| Riddle: Why did NBC run an infomercial for a competitor's programming during its Nightly News with Brian Williams on April... |
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| If the Washington Post uses low standardized test scores as evidence for innate female “dimness,” is the same argument for African-Americans' genetic inferiority far... |
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Mike Stone, Boy’s father, said “I regret that it (hog) didn’t die the first shot.”
When Jamison Stone shot and killed a massive swine in Alabama last year, the headlines blared:... |
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Original Reuters caption: "A doll lies in the charred rubble of a home in the Rancho Santa Fe area of San Diego, California October 23, 2007. Wildfires stoked by fierce winds burned unchecked across Southern... |
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Fred Thompson is a lean, mean media machine - and he's leaving the competition in the dust.
Since April, Newsweek has published 19 articles about GOP candidate Fred Thompson. By comparison, Democratic... |
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| Mike Stone posts these two photos on his "hate page" and boldly states, "They are two TOTALLY different pictures and both have been shown without ANY misrepresentation, especially by CNN." Really? Photoshop... |
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| EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW : With KERRY DART, NEW YORK FARMER AND OWNER OF WORLD'S LARGEST HOG
Stinky Journalism set off a whirlwind of debunking with its investigation of suspicious photographs and lazy reporting regarding the... |
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| Dart weighs in on monster pig controversy. Says rush to slaughter pig is evidence of fraud. To be uploaded Friday, June... |
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SPECIAL REPORT Part I :
NBC TODAY SHOW DUPED! Joins the club with AP, Fox News, ABC, CBS, CNN and the rest of the world media fooled by monster pig photos. Hoax busted by a... |
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| Who would have thought that the headline to Emily Keller’s Sunday NY Daily News story, "Bye-bye, Baldwin: Fans flee after phone fury," meant only three New Yorkers weighed in against the actor Alec Baldwin, not... |
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| New York City, August 21, 2006: I called the FDNY and found out last night that it was Engine 326 that went to the scene of a motorcycle accident reported in yesterday’s New York Daily News, page 15. The headline by... |
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On June 27, 2004, the BBC reported on an Iranian woman who gave birth to a frog. Their story originated from the Farsi paper... |
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