AP Meteor Crash Report Was a Hoax
Associated Press editors were forced to retract an earlier report that a meteorite might have hit near Olympia, Wash., this…
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NY Daily News Reporter Michele McPhee Won’t Admit Her Mistake
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The 2004 State of the Press Address
The newly released 2004 State of The News Media 2004 Journalist Survey, a project of the Pew Research Center for…
Franken: ‘Boring Corrections’ and the Airwaves That Propagate Them
Marshall Fine of New York’s newspaper The Journal News recently covered Al Franken and Katherine Lanpher’s show "The O’Franken Factor,"…
Fabulist Times
We’re living through fabulist times, which shouldn’t be confused with fabulous times. The two words are next-door neighbors in the…
Graphic Pics Passed off as News
On May 4, WorldNetDaily.com reported that the sexually graphic photos "of U.S. servicemen raping and sexually abusing Iraqi women were…
Reporter’s charge of 9/11 Commission Censorship Proven False
The article "Stewardess ID’d Hijackers Early, Transcripts Show" by journalist Gail Sheehy, published Feb. 16, 2004 in The New York…
A Year After Jayson Blair: Ethical Behavior Promoted in Media and Government
One year ago today, the Associated Press says, "The New York Times announced on its Web site that one of…
World Press Freedom Day: A Snapshot of Death and Censorship
May 3 is the 14th World Press Freedom Day. According to Reporters Without Borders, more than 130 journalists are imprisoned…