by Sydney Smith on Apr 01, 2013
ANOTHER TV News Fail: Utah’s KUTV Suggests Gov, Atty General are ‘Gay Couple’
Salt Lake City TV news KUTV made an on-air caption error, Jim Romenesko reported. In a March 27 segment, the...
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by Sydney Smith on Mar 31, 2013
Is UK Media Harassing Vicky Pryce in Prison? Family Files Complaint with PCC
Georgia and Alexandra Pryce complained to the Press Complaints Commission that the UK Telegraph was harassing their recently imprisoned mother,...
by Sydney Smith on Mar 30, 2013
North Korean News Agency Fakes Training Drill Photo, AFP Says Photoshopped, Retracts
Did Korean Central News Agency doctor a photo to make it look like North Korea had more hovercraft practicing in...
by Sydney Smith on Mar 29, 2013
Mercury News Hoaxed by Joke Obama Air Force One Tweet, Says Story ‘Clearly Did Not Meet Our Normal Standards’
San Jose, California daily newspaper The Mercury News fessed up this week to being hoaxed by a joke tweet claiming...
by David W. Moore on Mar 28, 2013
Opposition to Same-Sex Marriage Likely Smaller Than What Most Polls Show
With the Supreme Court considering two cases involving same-sex marriage, it may be useful to review how opposed the public...
by Rhonda Roland Shearer , Sydney Smith on Mar 28, 2013
Math Lab Bust? Whoops! Kentucky TV News Botches On-Air Caption
An on-air graphic from Lexington, Kentucky NBC-affiliate Lex18 reported: "5 arrested in math lab bust." Wait, a MATH lab? Were...
by Sydney Smith on Mar 27, 2013
Calling Transsexuals ‘Bed-wetters in bad wigs’ OK with PCC, Rules not Discrimination or Harassment
Even though complainants in the U.K. found the Observer's column about transgender people was "offensive," the Press Complaints Commission ruled that...
by Sydney Smith on Mar 26, 2013
The Telegraph Mix-up: Wrongly Says Actor John Goodman in 80s TV sitcom, Cheers?
The UK Telegraph wrongly reported that actor John Goodman was in the 1980s TV show Cheers. The Telegraph's story said...
by Sydney Smith on Mar 26, 2013
Anti-Semitic Tweets Posted on BBC Twitter by Syrian Electronic Army
Fake "political, anti-Semitic and comical" tweets were posted by hackers on "several BBC Twitter accounts' last week, the Associated Press...
by Sydney Smith on Mar 25, 2013
Oops, Chinese News Media Publish Fake Photo of Bogus Time Magazine Cover
Chinese "state-run" news agency Xinhua published a fake picture purporting to show recently deceased politician Wu Renbao on the cover...