by Sydney Smith on Mar 23, 2018
UK Mail Broke Accuracy Guidelines Reporting on 10-Day-Old Tweet as News
During an ongoing police incident in Oxford Circus last year, The UK Mail Online published a story that claimed gunshots...
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by Sydney Smith on Mar 24, 2018
MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle Sorry if Larry Kudlow Comments were ‘dismissive of his faith’
Larry Kudlow, who was last week named a White House adviser, addressed his appointment last week on CNBC, where he...
by Sydney Smith on Mar 26, 2018
PBS countersues Tavis Smiley for $1.9 million, claiming morals clause breach
PBS, which suspended Tavis Smiley and his program in December after sexual misconduct allegations were made against him, is countersuing...
by Sydney Smith on Mar 28, 2018
Austin ABC-affiliate cans closed captioning company after bombing victim called ‘monkey’
Austin ABC-affiliate KVUE called Austin bombing victim Draylen Mason "this young man." But closed captioning wrongly claimed the reporter called...
by Sydney Smith on Mar 28, 2018
ABC co-host faces blowback after ‘insensitive’ interview with disability advocate Carly Findlay
Australian Broadcasting Corp. Radio cohost Jon Faine admitted "a number of his questions and comments were insensitive" when interviewing Carly...
by Sydney Smith on Mar 30, 2018
Weekly Chicago Newspaper fires Editor over payment from political candidate
The Chicago Defender, a weekly African-American newspaper in Chicago, fired its managing editor, Mary L. Datcher, because of her work...
by Sydney Smith on Mar 31, 2018
BBC Wrongly said Muslim scholar said ‘Jews are descended from pigs’
The BBC claimed Dr. Haitham al-Haddad, a Muslim jurist and judge for the Islamic Sharia Council, said that "Jews were descended...
by Sydney Smith on Apr 02, 2018
Sun ‘Tran and Wife’ Headline on Wedding Notice got 7 complaints to IPSO
The UK Sun upset readers when it published a front page story on a transgender couple who got married. Why?...
by Sydney Smith on Apr 03, 2018
NPR airs ‘Major’ Correction for Gina Haspel Claims after ProPublica correction
The New York Times and ProPublica aren't the only outlets amending their reporting on Gina Haspel, who was nominated to...