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Mercury News Hoaxed by Joke Obama Air Force One Tweet, Says Story 'Clearly Did Not Meet Our Normal Standards'
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Sydney Smith
March 29, 2013
06:00 AM EST
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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Math Lab Bust? Whoops! Kentucky TV News Botches On-Air Caption
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Rhonda Roland Shearer
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Sydney Smith
March 28, 2013
05:25 PM EST
An on-air graphic from Lexington, Kentucky NBC-affiliate Lex18 reported: "5 arrested in math lab bust." Wait, a MATH lab? Were the perpetrators misusing pi? Making illegal shortcuts on their long...
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Calling Transsexuals 'Bed-wetters in bad wigs' OK with PCC, Rules not Discrimination or Harassment
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Sydney Smith
March 27, 2013
02:15 PM EST
Even though complainants in the U.K. found the Observer's column about transgender people was "offensive," the Press Complaints Commission ruled that the column didn't break the PCC's Editors...
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Anti-Semitic Tweets Posted on BBC Twitter by Syrian Electronic Army
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Sydney Smith
March 26, 2013
06:00 AM EST
Fake "political, anti-Semitic and comical" tweets were posted by hackers on "several BBC Twitter accounts' last week, the Associated Press reported. Hacking group the Syrian Electronic Army claimed...
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The Telegraph Mix-up: Wrongly Says Actor John Goodman in 80s TV sitcom, Cheers?
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Sydney Smith
March 26, 2013
06:00 AM EST
The UK Telegraph wrongly reported that actor John Goodman was in the 1980s TV show Cheers. The Telegraph's story said that Goodman "made his name in...
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Oops, Chinese News Media Publish Fake Photo of Bogus Time Magazine Cover
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Sydney Smith
March 25, 2013
06:00 AM EST
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Why isn't Sky News Prosecuted for Hacking John Darwin's Emails?
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Sydney Smith
March 24, 2013
06:00 AM EST
The UK police decided not to prosecute Sky News' Gerard Tubb for hacking the email account of John Darwin, a man accused of faking his own death, The Guardian reported. Darwin faked his death so his wife could get...
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Pig Saving Goat Hoax Video: Why Haven't News Outlets Posted Corrections?
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Sydney Smith
March 23, 2013
06:00 AM EST
A slew of media outlets -- from NBC's Nightly News to ABC's Good Morning America -- were hoaxed by a fake video apparently showing a pig swimming to help a goat. The New York Times, which exposed the video...
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Reporter 'Created Names, Years and Majors' for Fake Sources, Univ. of Alabama Student Newspaper Unpublishes 12 Stories
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Sydney Smith
March 22, 2013
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Student Newspaper Wrongly Names City Councilor a Registered Sex Offender, Gets Sued for Libel
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Sydney Smith
March 21, 2013
06:00 AM EST
A college newspaper is again the subject of a libel lawsuit. The...
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Jane Goodall is Sorry for Monkeying Around Proper Attribution in New Book
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Sydney Smith
March 20, 2013
11:10 AM EST
Chimpanzee expert Jane Goodall apologized after the Washington Post discovered that her forthcoming book, Seeds of Hope: Wisdom and Wonder From the World of Plants, co-written by Gail Hudson, fails to attribute "at...
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Neanderthal Clone Baby Story Disappears on UK Metro, Unpublishing suspected
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Sydney Smith
March 20, 2013
06:00 AM EST
The UK Metro has unpublished a Jan. 21 article containing a fake quote about the possibility of a Neanderthal clone...
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MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, WTRF Name Teen Rape Victim from Steubenville, Ohio
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Sydney Smith
March 19, 2013
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Front-Page Photo Featuring Teen Skater's Crotch was 'Unfortunate,' says Globe and Mail
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Sydney Smith
March 19, 2013
06:00 AM EST
Globe and Mail public editor Sylvia Stead joined "many readers" in complaining about the newspaper's March 18 front page photo of a teenage figure skater Kaetlyn Osmond. Osmond, 17, is pictured kicking her leg...
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Wait, Wash Post Now Says 'Plus-Size' Swedish Mannequins NOT Hoax, Corrects Error
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Sydney Smith
March 19, 2013
05:00 AM EST
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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Current Editor of UK Sunday People Newspaper Arrested in Phone Hacking Scandal
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Sydney Smith
March 18, 2013
06:00 AM EST
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We Were 'Wrong' about Qatar Dream Football League, says Times of London
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Sydney Smith
March 17, 2013
10:45 PM EST
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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Reuters' Matthew Keys faces possible 10 years in prison for helping hackers
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Sydney Smith
March 16, 2013
05:15 PM EST
Reuters deputy social media editor Matthew Keys was charged March 14 "for allegedly conspiring with members of the hacker group 'Anonymous' to hack into and alter a Tribune Company website" -- charges that,...
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Award-Winning Photo of 'Sniper' was really Staged Pic of a Photojournalism Student
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Sydney Smith
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London Shearer Allen
March 16, 2013
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Trained Gun-Toting Dolphins Gone Missing? Nope, Media Hoaxed by Animal Tale
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Sydney Smith
March 15, 2013
10:45 AM EST
News outlets, including Russian news agency Ria Novosti and later the Huffington Post and The Atlantic, were hoaxed by a phony story claiming that armed dolphins with "firearms attached to their heads" were on the...
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