by Rhonda Roland Shearer on Mar 03, 2008
The Impossible Measure of “Dimness”
If the Washington Post uses low standardized test scores as evidence for innate female “dimness,” is the same argument for...
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by iMediaEthics Staff on Feb 22, 2008
A McCain Affair?
Under a bland headline, “For McCain, Self-Confidence On Ethics Poses Its Own Risk,” the New York Times published an article...
by Adam Klasfeld on Feb 21, 2008
Where The Antelope DON’T Play: Fake Photo on Chinese Website
Updated 02/25/08 4:17pm A week before the world’s highest and most controversial railroad officially opened in July 2006, connecting China...
by Rhonda Roland Shearer on Jan 29, 2008
EXCLUSIVE: FOLLOW THE BACON: The Details behind Monster Pig Hoax
Editor's Note : Rhonda Roland Shearer is the director of Art Science Research Laboratory, which she founded with her late...
by Adam Klasfeld on Jan 09, 2008
Lifted!?$ NYPost Graphic Very Similar to iMediaEthics
Given the current state of our national press, it’s sometimes difficult to know whether the work of media ethicists is...
by Rhonda Roland Shearer on Dec 10, 2007
REAL FIREPROOF DOLL… OR PLACED AFTER FIRE?
iMediaEthics launched an investigation after bloggers and others questioned the validity of a Reuters photograph that featured an unburned doll...
by Jeremy J. Miller on Nov 30, 2007
DO THE MEDIA REGRET THE ERRORS? Interview with Craig Silverman
CheckYourFacts.org interviews Craig Silverman, author of the new book, "Regret The Error: How Media Mistakes Pollute the Press and Imperil...
by Adam Klasfeld on Nov 29, 2007
Anatomy of a Correction / Correction of Anatomy: Pitbull Didn’t Chew Off Leg
UPDATED 12/3/07 If StinkyJournalism staffers are the self-knighted superheroes of fact-checking, then Google Alerts are our trusty sidekicks. When founder...
by Adam Klasfeld on Oct 30, 2007
MODERN TIMES: NYTimes’ Greg Brock on new correction database
The Times’ new office is not the only thing being modernized. Earlier this month, CheckYourFacts broke the story about the...