by Sydney Smith on Jun 07, 2010
Fox News’ Obama Speech Video : Was it intentionally edited to remove applause?
Bloggers questioned if Fox News removed 12 seconds of applause from the May 22 commencement speech Barack Obama gave at West Point....
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by Sydney Smith on May 31, 2010
Wyoming Judge Issues, then Lifts Restraining Order Against Newspapers
A Wyoming judge lifted May 25 a temporary restraining order keeping two newspapers from publishing stories on a community college...
by Sydney Smith on May 30, 2010
Should Anonymous Commenters Be Treated Like Sources By News Sites?
One important change made when Great Britain's The Times and Sunday Times re-launched their Web sites May 25 was the...
by Robert Buckman on May 29, 2010
Eyeball editing: Print media’s overuse of spell-checker creates howlers
As promised, after castigating my broadcast colleagues in the last column for their sloppiness and over-reliance on spell-checkers in writing...
by Sydney Smith on May 29, 2010
Free Press Launches MediaFail Web site, user-generated examples of bad media
The New York Times’s Media Decoder blog reported May 24 that the nonprofit organization Free Press “has built a Digglike...
by George F. Bishop on May 28, 2010
How Immigration Poll Majorities Are Born In The USA
Virtually every legitimate- or junk-poll these days turns up a majority (or seeming majority) in favor of the recently passed...
by Sydney Smith on May 27, 2010
New York Times’ Reports on Richard Blumenthal Questioned by Media Outlets
Starting May 17, The New York Times has published several articles and a 58-second video to call Richard Blumenthal out...
by Sydney Smith on May 23, 2010
Washington Post’s Public Editor Says the Paper is Improving its Corrections System
The Washington Post’s public editor Andrew Alexander blogged May 18 that the newspaper’s corrections problem is finally improving Alexander wrote that “readers...
by Sydney Smith on May 22, 2010
Snapshot of local reporting: Texas columnist Bud Kennedy calls out TV reporter for biased Tea Party reporting
Like the alleged "blue wall of silence" among police, it is unusual when journalists break a similar grey wall of...
by Sydney Smith on May 21, 2010
West Virginia Newspaper Dominion-Post Photoshops 3 Politicians out of Front-Page Photo
A West Virginia newspaper ran a doctored front-page photograph on May 15. The newspaper, Morgantown’s The Dominion Post , Photoshopped three...