Did KTVU Discover “Hydrogen Sulfide” Gas in Solid Form?
Reporters sometimes make it all too obvious that they haven’t done sufficient research before publishing a story. A routine web…
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More Questionable Photos From Gaza Strip: Are AP Photos Staged?
iMediaEthics has covered several allegations of fake photos or footage used in coverage of the conflict in the Gaza Strip. Many…
Snopes Duped! “World’s Tallest Woman” Photo a Fake
Snopes is a well-known, and often useful debunking web site. It is described as "The definitive Internet reference source for…
NY Post’s Potty Humor Given Greater Import than Accuracy
Apparently, The New York Post was more concerned about catchy consonance captions than accurately reporting the facts in a recent…
New Orleans Times-Picayune Report Avoided Identifying Rapist as “Black Man”
News of a New Orleans college student abducted and raped at knife-point is jarring enough. But did the gaping hole in…
German Media Falls for Wikipedia Prank…But Claim They Were Victims
The Local, an English language German news site, reports that the German press ran to Wikipedia to research the country’s…
Do Citizen Journalists Have Gift Tax Problem?
iMediaEthics's study on the gift tax implications of citizen journalism was the topic of a recent conversation between WBFO reporter…
Giant Snake Fauxtograph Busted:
What's a blogger to do when he or she suspects that a doctored photo is circulating the Internet? Take the…
Media Abuse of Statistics?
Here’s an article that explains the media’s “use and abuse of statistics.” Rebecca Goldin, a mathematics professor at George Mason…
Jezebel Refuses to Show Leaked Rihanna Abuse Photo
On the evening of February 19, preeminent gossip blog TMZ ran a mysteriously leaked photograph of Rihanna purportedly from the…