by Sydney Smith on Nov 24, 2015
Australian Daily Telegraph Shows Grand Mufti of Australia as Monkey after Paris Attacks
Australia's Daily Telegraph depicted a Muslim religious leader as a monkey on its front page, playing off of the "Hear...
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by Sydney Smith on Nov 24, 2015
1,200 Complaints against Sun’s British Muslims Story, Sun Stands by Poll Report
More than 1,200 people have complained about the UK Sun's cover story, "1 in 5 Brit Muslims' have sympathy with ISIS."...
by Sydney Smith on Nov 24, 2015
Vladimir Putin Didn’t say ‘To Forgive The Terrorists is Up to God, but to send them to him is up to me’
Russian President Vladimir Putin did NOT say after the attacks in Paris and the crash of Russia's MetroJet airliner that "To...
by Sydney Smith on Nov 25, 2015
Woman in Bubble Bath NOT Killed in Saint-Denis Terror Raids, News Ran Photos of Wrong Woman
Several news outlets published photos of a Moroccan woman named Nabila Bakkatha, falsely identifying her as one of the terror...
by David W. Moore on Nov 25, 2015
Fear-Mongering on Muslims’ Views of ISIS
In the wake of the Paris attacks, there has been a resurgence of anti-Muslim demonstrations in the United States and...
by Sydney Smith on Nov 27, 2015
Sun Criticized for Muslim ISIS Poll Interpretation
UK polling company Survation criticized The Sun for misinterpreting its poll to say that 1 in 5 British Muslims sympathizes...
by Sydney Smith on Nov 28, 2015
2,600 Complaints over Sun’s Claims 1 in 5 Muslims Sympathize with ISIS, Times of London Corrects
The Sun's front-page story claiming 1 in 5 Muslims "sympathizes" with ISIS has prompted a record 2,600 complaints to the...
by Sydney Smith on Nov 29, 2015
2 Public Editors on ISIS, ISIL, Daesh or Islamic State
Two public editors blogged this past week about what to call the Middle East-based terrorist organization widely known as ISIS. This...
by Sydney Smith on Nov 30, 2015
Did Parliament Member say ‘Whore’ or ‘Horde?’ Canadian Reporter Quits, Says Paper Refused to Report on Video
Reporter Mickey Djuric quit the Moosejaw Times-Herald, a local newspaper in Moosejaw, Saskatchewan, Canada, alleging the newspaper refused to publish...