by Danielle Elliot on Mar 09, 2009
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...
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by Danielle Mastropiero on Mar 06, 2009
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...
by Danielle Mastropiero on Mar 05, 2009
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...
by Danielle Mastropiero on Mar 04, 2009
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...
by Danielle Mastropiero on Mar 03, 2009
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...
by Danielle Elliot on Feb 27, 2009
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...
by Danielle Elliot on Feb 26, 2009
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...
by Danielle Mastropiero on Feb 25, 2009
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...
by Rhonda Roland Shearer on Feb 24, 2009
Huffington Post Wants You to Know:
The Huffington Post has admitted they were fooled by a fake video. Huff Post editors wrote on Feb 19, 2009:...
by Rhonda Roland Shearer on Feb 23, 2009
Citizens Now More Savvy About Fauxtography:
The most recent extreme scary animal photos published by bloggers and mainstream media was almost instantly identified as a hoax...