by Sydney Smith on Feb 14, 2015
Paris City Council vote ‘green lights’ Fox News libel lawsuit, No-go zones deemed ‘insults’
Paris is moving forward with its libel lawsuit against Fox News for its false reports about "no-go zones" in the...
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by Sydney Smith on Feb 13, 2015
UK Mirror ‘apologises publicly to all its victims of phone hacking’
UK newspaper publisher Trinity Mirror apologized today for phone hacking in a page-two statement. The apology admitted the Sunday Mirror,...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 13, 2015
Sun Crime Reporter denies paying police, Prosecution drops Second Charge
Anthony France, a crime reporter for the UK Sun, denies he paid police for stories. While he was originally charged with...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 12, 2015
You’re fired! Jared Keller canned by Mic for plagiarism, internal review continues of fmr news director
Jared Keller was fired by the news media website Mic today after being busted for plagiarism by Gawker, iMediaEthics just...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 11, 2015
Match.com, Amazon Wishlists? New Unverified Sources for Chapel Hill Murders, Cannibal Cop Reporting
Next time you make out a Match.com page or an Amazon Wishlist, bear in mind that if you end up...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 10, 2015
Obama Death Threat Posted, Newsweek’s Twitter Hacked
Newsweek lost control of its Twitter account for 14 minutes this morning because the account was hacked, the magazine confirmed...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 09, 2015
Sun Unpublishes Front-Page Claim Sports broadcaster Gary Lineker is Tax Deadbeat
The Sun accused on its front page that BBC sports commentator and former England soccer player Gary Lineker owed £1.3...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 08, 2015
Phone Hacker now a victim? Guardian pays for ‘sinister’ claims it quoted from Book
The Guardian paid former News of the World news editor James Weatherup "a four-figure sum" for repeating false claims from...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 07, 2015
Kyrzbekistan is NOT a country, NYTimes corrects
Better bone up on former Soviet bloc countries, New York Times. The Times mistakenly reported that there is a country...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 07, 2015
A Pound’s Worth $15? NYTimes Article reported 11 Million Pounds equals $166 Million
The New York Times wrongly reported an optimistic view that £11 million is worth about $166 million. This false claim...