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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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After being hoaxed by a fake Sir Roger Moore interview published by the Daily Mail, Inquisitr senior editor James Johnson told iMediaEthics by email that Inquisitr has added the Daily Mail to its internal "Watch... |
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A few news sites were hoaxed by a fake Craigslist advertisement but soon made corrections after learning the ad wasn't legitimate.
The Craigslist ad showed a series of conversations between Sotheby's employees... |
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News site The Inquisitr joined the Daily Mail in publishing a retraction to admit that it published quotes from a fake interview with former James Bond actor Sir Roger Moore.
As iMediaEthics wrote back in January, the UK... |
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Taiwan newspaper Lih Pao fired a reporter for making up a story claiming a "diner owner" wouldn't "sell boxed lunches to two men after discovering that they were Filipinos," Agence France Presse... |
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Toronto Mayor Rob Ford was allegedly caught on camera smoking crack cocaine. And the person who shot the video showing this allegation tried to get both Gawker, a New York City-based "gossip" blog, and The... |
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"We're getting the big stories wrong over and over again," CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley said recently, according to the Associated Press.
Pelley, who also contributes to 60 Minutes, added that it... |
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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'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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Howard Kurtz apologized May 5 on his CNN program "Reliable Sources" for his now-retracted Daily Beast article about NBA player Jason... |
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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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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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Polish magazine Wprost was hoaxed by a satire article claiming Sarah Palin wanted President Obama to invade the Czech Republic as a retaliation for the Boston Marathon bombings, the Examiner and Jim Romenesko... |
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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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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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The Kansas City Star fact checks letters to the editor before publication, according to the newspaper's public editor Derek Donovan.
But, in an April 12 case, the paper missed an error in a letter about Rep. Paul... |
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In the four days since the Boston Marathon explosion, there have been more than a handful of high-profile errors in the media, including wrongly reporting there was a suspect in custody within hours of the... |
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Is this an example of Iran's weird science? Fars News Agency, which has ties to the Iranian government, unpublished an April 8 story claiming Iranian Ali Razeqi created a "time machine," but not before... |
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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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Was the UK Daily Mirror hoaxed by an April Fools' joke?
In an April 1 story, the Mirror reported on Virgin Atlantic Airways's announcement that it was going to premiere a plane with a glass floor. But the... |
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U.S. magazine Us Weekly was super excited to announce that Glee actress and former Beyonce back-up dancer Heather Morris was pregnant.
But, Us Weekly better check back with its sources. In back-to-back reports on April... |
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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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Several news outlets were hoaxed by a story claiming that France would start using drones to deliver... |
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The Toronto Star was "technically correct" but misled readers in some reports on Kathleen Wynne, the head of the Ontario Leader Party and Ontario's Premier, public editor Kathy English reported this... |
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San Jose, California daily newspaper The Mercury News fessed up this week to being hoaxed by a joke tweet claiming that President Barack Obama was going to lend a soccer player Air Force One.
The errors began when... |
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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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The Washington Post's Delia Lloyd thought full-figured Swedish mannequins were a hoax. But the mannequins are real, and the Washington Post tacked on a correction to her March 16 blogpost.
Lloyd had blogged about... |
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The Times of London admitted in its March 18 edition that its "exclusive" story that there was going to be a Dream Football League with a 2015 tournament in Qatar was "wrong."
In a report (partially... |
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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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The New York Daily News and New York Post had conflicting reports about a teacher and her alleged affair with a student, as iMediaEthics wrote earlier this week. Namely, the daily tabloids couldn't agree on the age of... |
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The Times of London denied that it was hoaxed by a French satire article, but the evidence against the paper looks pretty solid.
The Times' Oliver Kay... |
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Breitbart.com unpublished a story after being hoaxed by a satire site's story that had claimed New York Times columnist Paul Krugman was bankrupt, according to Slate.
Media Matters posted a screenshot of the... |
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Was the UK Daily Mail hoaxed by a fake Twitter account purporting to be Bashid Mclean, the New York man who is accused of murdering and dismembering his mother, Tanya Byrd?
In a story about a photo Mclean reportedly... |
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ESPN's Grantland questioned Sony Music's Clive Davis' claim of fact checking in his recently published memoir. Davis' book, The Soundtrack of My Life, described what he said happened in the production... |
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Ever wonder why a National Public Radio transcript might not match what you heard on a program?
NPR ombudsman Edward Schumacher-Matos reported in a recent blogpost that NPR's versions of news programs like Weekend... |
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After being called out by the Washington Post's Ezra Klein, New York Times' conservative columnist David Brooks added a "postscript" to his column on the sequester to admit that one of his points wasn't... |
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iMediaEthics wrote earlier this month about Washingtonian's reporting that the end of the Washington Post's ombudsman's office might be near. At the bottom of the Washingtonian's story was a note... |
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Yesterday, CNN deleted information from its live blog on the search for former police officer Chris Dorner and said that it found out the interview had been with someone posing as the mayor of Big Bear Lake, Jay Obernolte,... |
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CNN was hoaxed by someone posing as Big Bear Lake Mayor Jay Obernolte, according to a note on its live blog coverage of the police manhunt for Christopher Dorner in the San Bernardino Mountains. Dorner is the former... |
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Shortly after Mediaite called the Washington Post out for being duped by a satire site, the Post scrubbed references to phony quotes and information claiming Sarah Palin was going to work for Al Jazeera... |
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The Telegraph and Guardian reported conflicting information about the employment of the two Australian hoax DJs, Mel Greig and Michael Christian. As iMediaEthics has written, the pair were behind a hoax phone call to Kate... |
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Harper's Magazine has owned up to being tricked by a satire story by releasing corrections online, in print, and on Twitter. But, in response to its error, some of the magazine's... |
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A New York Times caption mixed up Denzel Washington's wife and daughter in a Reuters photo.
The Times originally called the woman standing next to Washington on the Golden Globes red carpet his wife, but it was... |
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Zimbabwe newspaper The Standard ran a story claiming that Mike Tyson was having a sex change. But, after news outlets including the BBC called them out for being hoaxed, The Standard denied that it had been tricked and... |
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The Daily Beast's Howard Kurtz apologized to Fox News' Greta Van Susteren after misquoting her as joking that Hillary Clinton's recent hospitalization was an "immaculate... |
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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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Zee News scored an exclusive interview with the "only witness" to the December gang rape of a woman in a New Delhi bus. The unnamed woman died in a Singapore hospital last week.
The witness, a male friend... |
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Journalists including New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan were tricked by a phony Twitter account posing as author Philip Roth, the New York Observer reported. Sullivan later tweeted about having... |
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Billionaire, millionaire, same difference? Agence France Presse misidentified former U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romney as a "multi-billionaire" when he's really just a multi-millionaire.
The error... |
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Der Spiegel apologized after reporting former U.S. president George H. W. Bush had died. Bush has been in the hospital recently but just "moved from the intensive care unit to a regular patient... |
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Mediaite misidentified Randi Zuckerberg as Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg's brother in a story about a private photo of the Zuckerberg family that went public.
Randi is Mark's sister, as iMediaEthics pointed... |
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10) CNBC hoaxed by email interview about NBA Escorts
Seven months after his story claiming escort services were financially suffering because of the 2011 National Basketball Association lockout, CNBC's Darren Rovell... |
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The New York Post was tricked by a fake Facebook page for Ryan Lanza, the brother of the Adam Lanza, the gunman in the Dec. 16 Connecticut school massacre. Adam Lanza killed 26 adults and children at Sandy Hook... |
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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 Matt Dornic told iMediaEthics that reports that CNN aired the wrong photo of the alleged Connecticut school shooter are false. When iMediaEthics asked about the reports, Dornic said by email:
"I... |
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When a newspaper mistakenly reports the death of a person who is still alive, a prominent correction, at the very least, would seem to be called for. But the Daily Mail determined that its own wrong... |
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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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When the media covers Occupy Wall Street activities, not everyone pictured is a protester - a fact that sometimes seems lost in a lot of photography coming out of those events. In this case, though, I knew one of the... |
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USA Today, Reuters, Entertainment Weekly and thousands of other Tumblr blogs were attacked by a worm set up by the Gay N***** Association of America (GNAA)... |
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Globe and Mail public editor Sylvia Stead noted that the newspaper's website corrected "an online headline" for a Nov. 28 story about Israel and Palestine because its was inaccurate. But iMediaEthics found that... |
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Lord Justice Brian Leveson's long-awaited report on the UK press standards and practices was released this past week, but the UK Independent spotted an error it claims Leveson made because of Wikipedia.
As the... |
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The Tabloid Watch blog highlighted an interesting UK Daily Mail correction this past week. In its corrections column, the Mail explained that it wrongly reported Nov. 27 that both of Parliament member Fiona Bruce's... |
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And yet another apology and financial settlement has been made in the UK by a news outlet over sex claims. As iMediaEthics has written, the BBC and ITV have apologized and paid libel settlements in the past month... |
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A year after the first witness spoke at the Leveson Inquiry into press standards and practices, Lord Justice Brian Leveson released his findings in a 1,987-page, Nov. 29 published report. (See all the parts of the... |
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The Associated Press issued a "KILL BULLETIN" Nov. 26 after wrongly reporting that "Google Inc. is paying $400 million" to purchase a company that serves as an "operator of Wi-Fi hotspots in... |
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Chinese newspaper People's Daily reported as fact satire site The Onion's report naming North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un the Sexiest Man Alive, Gawker reported.
People's Daily is a daily Beijing-based,... |
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Reuters retracted a Nov. 18 story "reporting that a video showed Nigerian troops shooting unarmed captives," according to a Nov. 19 statement on Reuters' website.
The story, identified by Reuters as... |
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The Journal Register Co.'s Matt DeRienzo addressed the need for prominent corrections in a Nov. 18 column about a significant error in the Register Citizen.
The Register Citizen had reported that the... |
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BBC director-general George Entwistle resigned Nov. 10, "after just 54 days in the job" the day after the British public broadcaster apologized for a child sex abuse report aired on its Newsnight program. In... |
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Toronto Star freelancer Michael Clarkson apologized for having "mishandled" a quotation that his sports editor called "below our standards" in sourcing, the Star's public editor Kathy English... |
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Nigerian governor Abiola Ajimobi is suing PM News' publisher for N1 billion (about $6.4 million) over its Oct. 30 article "Anxiety over Florence Ajimobi's alleged arrest in UK," the Nation Online... |
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The New York Post unpublished an Oct. 31 story reporting that "Mayor Bloomberg will announce later today that passenger cars will be temporarily barred from entering Manhattan," Poynter's Julie Moos... |
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The Essex Chronicle apologized after publishing a photo of the wrong person to accompany the story, "Drug dealer given three years in jail," the UK Press Gazette reported. The Chronicle is a weekly paid newspaper... |
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This month, ABC News has issued two statements about its reporting.
Earlier this month, the network retracted some claims made in a June 29 report about Bravo TV Real Housewives of Orange County personality Brooks Ayers.... |
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CNN and the Weather Channel both told viewers that the floor of the New York Stock Exchange was flooded with three feet of water Oct. 29 because of Hurricane Sandy. But, it... |
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Fake and dated photos are circulating with Hurricane Sandy coverage... |
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ESPN's SportsNation, Sports Illustrated's Peter King and others re-tweeted a fake photograph of Detroit Tigers pitcher Justin Verlander, Yahoo Sports... |
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This past week, news outlets in the UK and Canada were hoaxed by a company purporting to be a "celebrity sperm donor service" and an actor posing as the company's CEO, which all turned out to be a viral... |
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The Drudge Report linked to a fake Twitter account purporting to be Jake Gyllenhaal, Mediaite reported.
The post directed to the tweet "As a Democrat, I'll say it now, I endorse Mitt Romney For President of the... |
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The Daily Collegian, the student newspaper at Penn State University, apologized and suspended a student writer after he fabricated quotes to attribute to Sue Paterno, the wife of the late football coach Joe Paterno, for... |
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The Daily Mail apologized and paid Nicolas Cage "undisclosed damages" in a libel settlement over a September story claiming he was "evading taxes," according to a post on Russell Jones & Walker... |
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Iran's Fars News Agency lifted a fake story by The Onion and ran it as fact, CNN reported. Fars News Agency describes itself as "Iran's leading independent news agency," but the New York Times... |
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Buffalo, New York NBC-affiliate WGRZ-2 wrongly used a photo of the singer Seal with its early September report on actor Michael Clarke Duncan's death, Deadspin reported.
The station apologized Sept. 3, calling the... |
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Facing a libel lawsuit, The Sunday Monitor apologized and retracted "defamatory statements connecting [Uganda's First Lady Janet Museveni] to land grabbing," New Vision reported.
The Monitor is a... |
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The Associated Press explained why it included a reference to Bill Clinton's perjury charge related to Monica Lewinsky, the Huffington Post reported.
As the Huffington Post explained, "The AP's... |
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A Toronto Star error reported that a business closed, when it hasn't, and correcting the record prompted a host of issues, Star public editor Kathy English explained in a recent column. The problem started, English... |
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New Rochelle's Talk of the Sound website apologized and retracted an article claiming the New Rochelle Police Department tried to "cover up" a "recent auto theft." Talk's managing editor... |
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A New York Times reporter asked to fact check an editorial showed a CIA spokesperson the column before publication, Politico reported. Mazzetti emailed the CIA spokesperson the column... |
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The BBC apologized on air for wrongly saying an Olympics boxer's mother and sister died, Yahoo Sports reported. The apology said:
"We just want to tell you that we gave you erroneous information about Luke... |
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The UK Telegraph apologized after erring in the nationality of an Olympics athlete, the Irish Independent reported.
The Telegraph had mis-identified Irish boxer Katie Taylor as British, according to the Guardian's... |
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We heard back from Glenn Kessler, the columnist for the Washington Post's Fact Checker.
Kessler was recently awash in controversy. He commented about, but did not fact check -- a recent Washington Post report,... |
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Jonah Lehrer resigned from the New Yorker yesterday after being busted for fake Bob Dylan quotes in his book Imagine, The New York Times reported.
Lehrer's journalism ethics were in the news this summer because of... |
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ABC News' president Ben Sherwood apologized for ABC News' Brian Ross' wrong report linking the Aurora, Colorado Dark Knight Rises shooting suspect James Holmes to the Tea Party, Mediaite... |
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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... |
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GQ defended its reporting after actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt called out the magazine for reporting what he says is "factually incorrect" information about the death of his brother in a cover article on Gordon-Levitt.... |
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Mitt Romney's campaign has challenged at least two Washington Post reports, and the newspaper has refused to retract the reports, as we have written.
In a July 2 column on the Romney articles, Kessler noted that The... |
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Mali news website Mali Jet ran an old photo from Somalia with its coverage of a recent whipping in Mali, France's News 24 reported.
The photo shows a man who is chest-deep in a hole that is being circulated with... |
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The Irish Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday settled a libel lawsuit by apologizing to a man they wrongly called a "convicted drug dealer" in two 2010 stories, the Irish Times... |
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Miami's WSVN-7 News based a July 5 report about NBA team the Miami Heat's "potential signing of Ray Allen," on a fake Twitter account posing as a Yahoo Sports writer.
As Miami New Times... |
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The New York Post's Page Six quoted from a parody Twitter account posing as New York Times public editor Arthur Brisbane, Poynter's Julie Moos wrote.
The phony Twitter account, @timespublicedit, tweeted jokingly... |
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The New York Times corrected a June 28 article about Ann Curry's final day on the NBC "Today" show that "referred erroneously to a highlight reel of Ms. Curry" that wasn't part of the show in... |
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A CNN iReport post wrongly reported that musician Gotye died, blog Zap2it reported. The iReport, which has since been removed and replaced with a notice saying "Story Not Available: This Content is Currently... |
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Seriously? Days after we contacted the Los Angeles Times about errors in its Julian Assange reporting, the newspaper has made the same mistake of wrongly reporting there are "charges" against... |
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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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Connecticut's New Canaan News fired reporter Paresh Jha for making up "quotations and sources" and apologized for the "gross violation of our standards." New Canaan News is a weekly newspaper... |
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A new PollCheck poll by iMediaEthics reveals a great deal more public tolerance of gay marriage than what most news stories report. Instead of a highly polarized public, in fact about 7 in 10 Americans are “not... |
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We wrote earlier this month about the New York Daily News and WPIX being hoaxed by a fake video claiming to be from the alleged June bar fight between Chris Brown and Drake. The video, posted on YouTube by... |
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The Nairobi Star issued a correction for posting a fake photo with its coverage of a June 10 helicopter crash, the newspaper's public editor Karen Rothmyer wrote.
The fake photo, published June 11, came from a stock... |
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Charlotte NC's WSOC-TV 9 issued a correction, retraction and apology for mis-reporting that a high school student at the Lake Norman High School intentionally flashed the camera for a photo in the school's... |
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The New York Daily News and New York TV news WPIX-11 published fake videos purporting to be of the alleged "bar brawl" between Chris Brown and Drake this past week.
Gossip Cop... |
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According to a recent Mashable report, Forbes.com "authors, whether on staff or freelance, write their own headlines" and "press the public button themselves" and "no one edits their work. No one... |
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The New York Times countered blog posts about its late May story "Secret 'Kill List' Proves a Test of Obama's Principles and... |
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Ireland's press ombudsman ruled in 42 cases last year, according to Ireland's Press Council's recently released annual report.
One-third of the complaints to the press council last year were over "truth... |
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At a "Media Ethics and Investigative Journalism" workshop in Pakistan, U.S. journalism professor Sherry Ricchiardi advised on anonymous sourcing and fact-checking anonymous sourcing, Pakistan's Express-Tribune... |
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A journalism professor in the Philippines recommended bloggers follow journalism ethics standards and work as media watchdogs, the Philippine Star reported.
The professor, University of the Philippines... |
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The Southend Echo apologized for and corrected a March 9 report on the death of a woman named Kerry Archer after her mother filed a complaint to the UK Press Complaints Commission, Hold the Front Page reported.
The... |
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National Review apologized, corrected and unpublished a story accusing Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren of plagiarism, the Huffington Post reported.
National Review's original article,... |
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As we wrote May 17, Laurie Fine said she will sue ESPN for its coverage of sexual allegations against her husband, Bernie Fine. Laurie Fine's lawsuit alleges that portions of a taped phone call ESPN aired was... |
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The Huffington Post and Mediaite both were hoaxed by a spoof Twitter account purporting to be North Carolina governor Bev... |
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Blogger Nate St. Pierre, who created the hoax story that Abraham Lincoln patented Facebook, explained why he made up the story in a May 10 blogpost.
As we wrote May 9, St. Pierre's detailed May 8 blogpost claimed... |
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A fake story that circulated online May 8 claimed that Abraham Lincoln "patented the basic idea" for Facebook with a newspaper called The Springfield Gazette, Memeburn reported.
Nate St. Pierre started the... |
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Bahrain's King Hamad advocated for pre-publication fact-checking and journalism ethics, the Gulf Daily News reported.
Hamad also "urged reporters to support tolerance and national unity over divisionism and... |
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The Ellen DeGeneres Show took a video segment embellishing claims about Newark, New Jersey mayor Cory Booker off its website, the NJ Star-Ledger reported.
As the Star-Ledger explained, when Booker... |
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The New York Times' public editor wrote last month about complaints over the New York Times' March 14 Dining section feature "I was a Cookbook... |
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Tabloid Watch questioned the Daily Mail's failure to publish an apology or correction for its November 28 story reporting that a woman named Lyn Marie Cunliffe "has taken her obsession with Victorian literature to... |
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The Gloucestershire Echo unpublished an article and apologized to a man named Bob Sayers after the Echo published an article that suggested Sayers was interviewed by the Echo, the UK Press Complaints Commission reported.... |
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MSNBC aired a fake news report claiming that "technology juggernauts Apple and Microsoft were 'marrying up' and taking on same-sex marriage opponent the National Organization for Marriage," Fox News'... |
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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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A new PollCheck by iMediaEthics finds a more disengaged public on the government’s efforts to save the auto industry from what was reported by either Gallup or Pew in February.
While those polls suggested that... |
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METHODOLOGY STATEMENT FROM SURVEY USA
SurveyUSA interviewed 849 adults nationwide Friday 03/16/12 through Monday 03/19/12. Research conceptualized and commissioned by iMediaEthics.org. Adults reachable on a home... |
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Just before April 1, the Bakersfield Californian issued a retraction for an "item in Friday's Outdoors column, by Steve Merlo." According to the retraction, the portion of the column "Foreign trout... |
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The Mail on Sunday apologized again to Société Générale for its August 2011 story about the financial institution and said it will be paying damages, according to Journalism.co.uk.
According... |
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Broadcaster Al Jazeera announced March 27 it won't "broadcast video footage of three deadly shootings in southern France filmed by an al Qaeda-inspired gunman using a camera strapped to his body," Reuters... |
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The New York Post erred in its photo caption for a picture accompanying a March 25 article by Phil Mushnick, "Islamic Activists get Media Pass."
The caption for the photo accompanying the print version of this... |
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According to Media Bistro's TV Newser, Fox News didn't make "a rather awful series of graphic mistakes...when reporting a story on the gunman that was killed in the city of Toulouse, France," March... |
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News Corp.-owned Times of London won a Supreme Court appeal in the libel case against its 2006 article on Gary Flood and found the article to be in the public interest, Journalism.co.uk reported. According to the Press... |
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The Guardian explained in a March 14 post how it verified the "cache of 3,000 emails" from Syria's leader Bashar al... |
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In The Oregonian's correction of its original obituary for one of its editors, Bob Caldwell, the newspaper revealed that Caldwell was having an affair and reported that Caldwell gave money for school-related purchases to... |
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Blog Ivy Gate published on March 7 information from the Twitter account of @bougpunk, which Ivy Gate identified as the account of Scout Willis, the daughter of actors Demi Moore and Bruce Willis, People reported. Ivy Gate... |
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Public radio program This American Life retracted a report on Apple by Mike Daisey that was "the single most popular podcast" in the show's history. Daisey's show is a monologue about "how... |
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The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland upheld former Irish presidential candidate Sean Gallagher's complaint over RTE's airing the contents of a tweet that turned out to be phony during a presidential debate, the... |
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Pittsburgh TV news WPXI aired information from a "spoof report" about the football player Hines Ward, Media Bistro's TV Spy... |
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Canada's Mental Health Commission studied print and broadcast news reports and found that "media coverage of mental illness in Canada is overwhelmingly negative," the Windsor Star reported. The commission... |
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The New America Foundation released its study "Misinformation and Fact-checking: Research Findings from Social Science," which examined "how people perceive the accuracy of information -- and how... |
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The North Carolina Star News' Jan. 15 editorial was accused of containing factual errors, according to a blog on the John Locke Foundation website.
The John Locke Foundation identifies itself as an "independent... |
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TIME magazine apologized, sort of, for featuring a non-Latino on its March 5 cover, titled "Yo Decido: Why Latinos will pick the next President." The cover image (See above) shows twenty faces of men and... |
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Mediaite apologized for incorrectly reporting that journalist Touré tweeted "defending Chris... |
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The Indonesian Alliance of Independent Journalists advised journalism outlets put accuracy before being first, the Jakarta Post reported.
The group's Indonesia chairperson, Eko "Item" Maryadi told the... |
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The Asian American Journalists Association issued a Feb. 22 "media advisory" for reporting on Jeremy Lin.
Lin is a basketball player for the... |
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The New York Times issued a Feb. 17 corection to its article the same day titled "Have an Unruly Cat? For a Fee, She Will Wrangle It."
The correction emphasized the need to double check the spelling of all... |
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Chicago TV news station CLTV is being accused of and sued for airing "a picture of the wrong man" in a 2011 sexual assault story and then of covering its tracks to hide the alleged error, the Chicago Tribune... |
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The Washington Post published a Dec. 18 article about errors in Virginia textbooks. Since the article's publication, though, the Post has acknowledged making two errors in its story on... |
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According to numerous international news reports, two Dutch TV hosts, Dennis Storm and Valerio Zeno, reportedly "ate each other's freshly cooked flesh" during a December program of their show Proefkonijnen... |
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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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Richard Greco suggested in a post on Philadelphia sports news site GCobb.com that journalists shouldn't automatically assume tweets are fact-checked before running with the information in light of some of the media's... |
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The Nairobi Star's public editor Karen Rothmyer reported that the newspaper ran old news as if it were new in a mid-January edition.
As Rothmyer explained, the newspaper's Jan. 12 Page 2 story and photos... |
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PolitiFact Oregon corrected its Jan. 18 ruling that "Republican Rob Cornilles had the endorsements of a variety of local mayors, including Democrat, Republican and Independent" for his "campaign for the 1st... |
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OfCom ruled Jan. 23 that UK broadcaster ITV News broke OfCom standards by airing two segments with incorrect footage in September, Journalism.co.uk reported. The errors misled audiences of ITV News. OfCom is the UK... |
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Three Lagos, Nigeria government officials including Lagos' attorney general questioned an advertorial published in the Nigerian Tribune, national newspaper Leadership reported.
The officials -- Ade... |
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Actress Evan Rachel Wood took to Twitter Jan. 17 to ask "Doesn't anyone fact check anymore?" after a Yahoo blog post reported old information about her as new.
Yahoo reported earlier that day that Wood... |
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The Toronto Star ran an incorrect story reporting that Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper "is making plans to play on a Canadian hockey team in two exhibition games against a Russian squad that will include Prime... |
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Ad Age claims the Daily Mail's Dec. 28 report about an Ad Age poll is wrong because Ad Age never created the poll at the center of the Daily Mail's report. According to Ad Age's Dec. 30 story "We... |
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Over the weekend, two high-profile Twitter accounts garnered a good bit of attention -- @RupertMurdoch and @Wendi_Deng.
However, only one of those is a real account -- Rupert Murdoch's. The News Corp CEO... |
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Pam Nelson at the American Copy Editors Society published a list of "10 tips for copy editors" Jan. 2.
Nelson, who notes she "did not learn to check facts in my first few years as a copy editor,"... |
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The Washington Post corrected a photo gallery's headline and sub-headline after the newspaper's public editor received at least 1,500 complaints, Post public editor Patrick Pexton reported in a Dec. 9... |
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The Federal Reserve claimed Bloomberg News made a "variety of egregious errors and mistakes" in a letter to Congress signed by Ben Bernanke, the New York Times reported.
The Times noted that the Federal... |
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A new software program created by Dartmouth College professors Hany Faird and Eric Keemay may be able to figure out if a photo has been doctored, according to UK gadget news site Pocket-Lint.com. The software aims to... |
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Dublin, Ireland university Trinity College Dublin banned the sale of the Irish Daily Mail and its sister publication the Irish Mail on Sunday in its stores on campus because the newspaper published fake news about a... |
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CBS-affiliate WBTV Channel 3 made an on-air correction Dec. 3 after incorrectly reporting that evangelist Billy Graham died, according to Media Bistro's TV Spy.
The Charlotte, North Carolina TV news station issued a... |
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A failed candidate for Ireland's presidency accused RTE of violating journalism standards because it aired seemingly unverified claims from a fake tweet, the Irish Independent reported.
The candidate, Sean Gallagher... |
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Ireland's public broadcaster, RTE, accused the deceased Brother Gerard Dillon of sexual abusing a student at a South African school, according to the Irish Independent. Brother Dillon's family has called for a... |
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South African news website BizCommunity.com retracted an Oct. 31 article about South African newspaper the Daily Sun and its editor-in-chief at the time, Themba "TK" Khumalo.
According to the Nov. 3 retraction... |
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| UK print regulatory body the Press Complaints Commission upheld a complaint against UK magazine Woman for the magazine's March 2011 "first-person story about a custody battle," Journalism.co.uk reported. The... |
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The Guardian apologized to News International for its front-page report claiming the company had a Sun journalist "doorstep a barrister involved in the Leveson Inquiry," Press Gazette reported. According to the... |
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| Baton Rouge, Louisiana newspaper The Advocate recently apologized for wrongly attributing quotes to a local high school football coach.
But the kicker is that The Advocate doesn't know who its reporter got the quotes from,... |
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| The Daily Express' Oct. 18 article, the Independent's Oct. 18 article, the Sun's Oct. 18 article, and the Daily Mail's Oct. 17 article on cannibalism in French Polynesia triggered a complaint by the advocacy group... |
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| French media erred in its reporting on the Sept. 29 death of an Indian man named Rajinder Singh, Time magazine reported.
According to Time, the media turned Singh's (nicknamed "Babu") death in Paris into... |
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| Scottish newspaper the Evening Times apologized after reporting an unsubstantiated story of a woman's rape, Regret the Error's Craig Silverman wrote.
The newspaper's Oct. 14 apology explained that the newspaper couldn't... |
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| The UK Sun issued an apology for reporting a fake event about UK soccer player Tom Cleverley, the Guardian reported.
The Sun had reported in August 2011 that soccer player Tom Cleverley "repeatedly badgered [a... |
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| The nephew of Ghana's president intends to file a lawsuit against the Statesman after the newspaper published what he says is a fake story, Ghana Web reported. The story, "Mills' Nephew Buys $285,000 Car," claims that... |
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| The Huffington Post's Sam Stein detailed the "myth" that the Department of Justice paid $16 a piece for muffins. As Stein explained, the muffin story originated from a Justice Department report on ... |
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| Was the BBC hoaxed by an interviewee?
Despite denials from both the BBC and group The Yes Men that a man named Alessio Rastani tricked the BBC in his late September iinterview on the news network, journalists questioned if... |
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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... |
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| Mexican newspaper La Jornada has defended itself against charges of photo fakery for its photo of a political meeting, the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas reported earlier this month.
La Jornada is a Mexico... |
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CBS News unpublished all of its "web series" posts from "What's Trending" because "What's Trending" tweeted fake news that Steve Jobs died, Hollywood Reporter reported.
According to... |
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Agence France-Presse (AFP) retracted a story suggesting that French newspaper Le Monde was "the source of false information that has largely contributed to Société Générale’s stock... |
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Fred Brown, pictured above, oversaw the revision for the SPJ's ethics book. (Credit: 9News)
Last year, the Society of Professional Journalists publicly "denounced" ABC, NBC, CNN and CBS for paying sources... |
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John McManus, pictured above. (Credit: Chronicle/Scott Sommerdorf via Namle.net)
The 2009 book Detecting Bull by journalist and author John McManus advocates that the public have a "BS meter" in order to... |
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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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Bill Kovach (Credit: Committee of Concerned Journalists)
Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel, the authors of the standby journalism textbook, The Elements of Journalism, have published a new book on changing media and... |
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