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You know you have stumbled upon a third rail of media ethics when a book about “the art of controversy” is published without showing the most controversial examples. Such is the case with Victor S.... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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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While decisions about what photographs to run are up to editors, what are the responsibilities of the photojournalist to name the subjects of photographs in captions? Captions can go a long way towards humanizing a... |
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Last month, media outlets such as ABC News' Good Morning America, WPIX, and the New York Daily News were duped into posting a months-old video claiming to depict the June bar brawl... |
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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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SurveyUSA interviewed 893 adults nationwide, Monday 06/04/12 through Wednesday 06/06/12. Research conceptualized and commissioned by iMediaEthics.org. Adults reachable on a home telephone (69% of respondents) were... |
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In order to evaluate the quality of polls, we need to find out a lot of information. The ten questions below, framed within the “Five Ws and One H” guideline for reporters (Who,... |
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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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New poll results are announced almost every day, in one media organization or another. Other polls are cited in all sorts of publications. Once you see a poll report, the name of the pollster should be included. You could... |
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Doing Ethics in Media: Theories and Practical Applications by Jay Black and Chris Roberts
"Who wins, who loses? Why not follow the rules?" These ethics questions are among those journalists and... |
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Commentary
When I was in law school, a professor told an apocryphal story about a judge who bragged that he was the worst judge around. When asked why, he replied, “I always follow the law.” In... |
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Of the handful of books StinkyJournalism has featured in our Books, Authors and News Organizations series, Brooke Gladstone's The Influencing Machine is easily the most breezy read.
The book used a graphic novel... |
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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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Should we believe two polling organizations that claim New York City residents are solidly supportive of the city’s efforts to expand bicycle lanes?
While Quinnipiac and Marist both have reported this year... |
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| Preacher Harold Camping tells ABC News to expect the Rapture on May 21, 2011 (Credit: ABC News, screenshot)
Another Apocalypse is predicted for October 21, 2011. Will radio host Harold Camping and his followers again... |
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Morals and the Media: Ethics in Canadian Journalism. (Credit: UBC Press)
Morals and the Media: Ethics in Canadian Journalism, which describes itself as the "first book on Canadian journalism ethics," focuses on... |
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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 Hamer is president and co-founder of the Washington News Council. (Credit: Washington News Council)
The Minnesota News Council's January 2011 closing leaves just one news council in the U.S. still active -- the... |
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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
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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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Valerie Alia, pictured above, presenting her inaugural lecture as Running Stream Professor of Ethics and Identity, Leeds Metropolian University, UK. (Photo provided)The New Media Nation, the latest book by Valerie Alia, a... |
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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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StinkyJournalism's study found that all of The New York Times' blogs are edited. (Image above is a screenshot detail from The New York Times web site. Our comments and highlighting in red, added.)
A... |
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| Four of the soldiers pictured appear twice. The Newsweek photo suggests there are 11 soldiers, but there are really only seven. Dan Levinson, who complained about the photo to StinkyJournalism, circled the "clones" or... |
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| The Daily Mail published this close-up AP photo of Ruben in his hospital bed. StinkyJournalism blurred the image.
COMMENTARY
Where is the line between the public’s right to know and a severely injured, recently... |
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| "THAT'S ME IN THE BODY BAG" : Freelance journalist, Paul Raffaele explains, "This one is scary. That’s me in the body bag [following the bombing] waiting for the chopper to take me from Jalalabad air force... |
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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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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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| 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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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 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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| Last November, under the cover of media darkness, Newsweek migrated its website from the MSNBC homepage to its own web address,... |
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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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Under a bland headline, “For McCain, Self-Confidence On Ethics Poses Its Own Risk” the New York Times published an article on Senator John McCain on February 21st that has gotten considerable attention, and... |
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A prize-winning photograph of antelope prancing merrily beneath the mammoth new railroad from China to Tibet turns out to be fake, two photographs stitched together. The photographer confessed on a Chinese photography Web... |
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If StinkyJournalism staffers are the self-knighted superheroes of fact-checking, then Google Alerts are our trusty sidekicks. When founder Rhonda Roland Shearer received a suspicious news alert about an article from... |
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Maybe The New York Post’s statistics should be checked for steroid... |
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| While working on a class project about disgraced journalists, Columbia graduate students Gretchen Cuda and Leonardo Blair began digging into the file of Jay Forman, a freelance writer who wrote a story for the online magazine,... |
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| Five-year-old Monique Fulgham was brutally raped and murdered, the New York Daily News said, but it turned out to be an accident.
They “made no error” and “updated” the story, according to a Daily... |
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| A staggeringly inaccurate account appeared on the website of news channel WNBC about Critical Mass, a monthly bike ride described as a “celebration,” “gathering,” and “protest” occurring in... |
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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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| Charles Madigan, longtime writer and editor for The Chicago Tribune recently claimed to have invented a new word: info-pimp... Trouble is, he hadn’t, and worse yet, he didn’t check to see if he... |
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| The public outcry against the pit bull terrier may be fueled as much by imprecise news reports as it is by sketchy data. A recent story reported by Greensboro, North Carolina’s CBS affiliate, WFMY, illustrates how the... |
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| Extra, extra, South American cat gives birth to puppies! That, at least, was the story being peddled last month-not on the sordid pages of the National Enquirer or The Sun, but by the eminent news service,... |
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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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While at times referring to its subject as a "so-called frog," BBC News reported an Iranian woman gave birth to a frog. Citing "The Iranian daily Etemaad," BBC News says, "the paper carries quotes... |
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| Jeanette Walls of MSNBC.com reported yesterday on a tiff between actor Tom Cruise and a blog. "Lawyers for actor Tom Cruise have threatened to sue AFlyOntheWall.com over its reports," the article claimed. The Miami... |
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| Marshall Fine of New York’s newspaper The Journal News recently covered Al Franken and Katherine Lanpher’s show "The O’Franken Factor," which airs on Air America... |
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| We’re living through fabulist times, which shouldn’t be confused with fabulous times. The two words are next-door neighbors in the dictionary but have as much in common as George W. Bush and George... |
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| On May 4, WorldNetDaily.com reported that the sexually graphic photos "of U.S. servicemen raping and sexually abusing Iraqi women were actually taken from American and Hungarian pornography... |
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| The article "Stewardess ID’d Hijackers Early, Transcripts Show" by journalist Gail Sheehy, published Feb. 16, 2004 in The New York Observer, contains significant factual... |
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| One year ago today, the Associated Press says, "The New York Times announced on its Web site that one of its reporters, Jayson Blair, had ’committed frequent acts of journalistic fraud,’ according to an... |
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| May 3 is the 14th World Press Freedom Day. According to Reporters Without Borders, more than 130 journalists are imprisoned around the world, and 42 have been killed in the last year, a death toll at its highest since... |
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| While Bush and Cheney speak in a closed session to the 9/11 Commission today, additional important news is surfacing about past hearings. Cybercast News Service staff writer Robert Bluey published a piece today called... |
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| On Howard Stern ’s radio show this morning they played a clip of a female from Dennis Miller’s March 24th show on CNBC. Stern identified the voice as that of California columnist Cathy... |
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| Boston Globe writer Mark Jurkowitz writes about the mistrustful divide between a writer and their audience - specifically, the media and the public. Journalists, he says, "have a much loftier view of their profession than... |
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| UNBELIEVABLE!!! Today’s issue of Usa Today features an extensive series of articles chronicling Jack Kelley’s (their former reporter) journalistic... |
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| Do the facts matter? To whom? These are just rhetorical questions, right?
In his article "The Brokaw Hoax," Rory O’Connor, a New York Media Columnist tackled this important issue the same week as NPR’s... |
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| Tom Shales, television editor and chief television critic for The Washington Post, reports that CNN’s credibility might be shrinking these... |
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Just heard from NPR this morning, March 16 2004, about Study: Public Losing Trust in Media. Here are some statistics we found from The Project for Excellence in Journalism... |
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