Retired NFL Player’s Lou Gehrig’s Disease Mocked, 3 Atlanta Radio Hosts Fired
Atlanta's 790 The Zone radio station hosts Steak Shapiro, Chris Dimino and Nick Cellini made fun of former NFL player…
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BBC Reporter Adam Kirtley Promoted PR Wife’s Business When Interviewing Students of Her Client
Freelance BBC reporter Adam Kirtley, in effect, promoted his wife's public relations clients when interviewing students at Cranbourne Business and…
Nelson Mandela NOT Dead, Germany’s Deutsche-Welle Wrong
Deutsche Welle wrongly reported that Nelson Mandela died. In a June 14 retraction statement, the German "international broadcaster" said…
White Sox Manager Didn’t Say That! Fort Worth Star-Telegram Prints Fake Quote on Graduations
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram was hoaxed by a satirical website into publishing a fake quote. The Texas newspaper had published…
Australian Radio Shock Jock Fired for Asking PM Julia Gillard if Partner was Gay
Australia's Fairfax Radio fired host Howard Sattler for a "disrespectful and irrelevant" interview with the country's prime minister, Julia Gillard,…
Former Alabama Gov George Wallace NOT a Republican, MSNBC Corrects
An MSNBC graphic wrongly said George Wallace -- who was a segregationist governor of Alabama during portions of the 1960s…
UK Sun: ‘We apologise to any alien lifeforms for linking them to Scientologists’
The UK Sun newspaper apologized to aliens for a story saying "Flying saucers [were seen] over British Scientology HQ." Yep,…
Why 3 Polls on NSA Snooping Produce Wildly Contradictory Results
Three recent polls have all purported to measure the public’s reaction to the revelations that the National Security Agency (NSA)…
Welsh Newspaper IDs Rape Victim with Story, PCC Rules
In its reporting on a trial, the South Wales Argus provided enough information to identify a rape victim, the Press…
NYT Unpublishes Anthony Weiner Story after ‘Inadvertently’ Publishing It
The New York Times unpublished a story about women to whom then-Congressman Anthony Weiner sent sexts back in 2011, according to…