by Rhonda Roland Shearer on Jul 27, 2009
The U.S. government’s legacy of wartime media control
"Freedom of the Press" is not a given during wartime. IconicPhotos, a blog that features "Famous, Infamous and Iconic Photos," writes...
Latest News
Latest News
by Rhonda Roland Shearer on Jul 26, 2009
Newseum’s Online Doctored Photo Exhibit
In 2001, the Newseum in Washington DC first posted an ongoing online exhibition titled, "The Commissar Vanishes: The falsification of...
by Rhonda Roland Shearer on Jul 25, 2009
‘Non-News’ is bad news for NPR’s audience: bin Laden son story
NPR's headline sounded newsworthy enough: "Bin Laden Son Reported Killed In Pakistan." Mary Louise Kelly writes in her lede: "U.S....
by Rhonda Roland Shearer on Jul 24, 2009
Japanese TV falls for fake photo scam featuring Kim Jong-Un
AFP reports that in June, TV Asahi Japan broadcast "an exclusive image" of Kim Jong-Un from a "reliable person in...
by Rhonda Roland Shearer on Jul 23, 2009
NY Times Kid Texting Photo: Staged danger?
"Were we safe? Probably not.... As journalists, we are not here to judge or to direct, but only to observe...
by Rhonda Roland Shearer on Jul 22, 2009
South Shore Press says photo doctoring okay
Fred Towle Jr, director of sales and marketing for the weekly newspaper, The South Shore Press, told The Southhampton Press...
by Rhonda Roland Shearer on Jul 21, 2009
Walter Cronkite saw problems with “news sources on the Internet”
In the Washington Post live Q&A section, Marlene Adler, chief of staff to the late Walter Cronkite, was available to...
by Paige West on Jul 20, 2009
Hearing Stories, Telling Stories
The Pig in a Garden: Jared Diamond and The New Yorker Series Art Science Research Laboratory's imediaethics.org is publishing a...
by Rhonda Roland Shearer on Jul 20, 2009
TechCrunch says: We can publish stolen Twitter documents
eLearnspace reports, "TechCrunch received over 300 documents from an individual who had hacked into Twitter’s network...The information ranges from silly...