by Sydney Smith on Jan 12, 2014
Starving Dogs Hoax Bites Media: Kim Jong-un’ Uncle Not Naked, Eaten by ‘120 Ravenous Hounds’
Hoaxes are hounding the media of late. The New York Daily News and others were outright duped while others like NBC...
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by Sydney Smith on Mar 30, 2013
North Korean News Agency Fakes Training Drill Photo, AFP Says Photoshopped, Retracts
Did Korean Central News Agency doctor a photo to make it look like North Korea had more hovercraft practicing in...
by Sydney Smith on Nov 27, 2012
Chinese Communist Party’s Newspaper Reports on Onion Story Naming Kim Jong-Un World Sexiest Man as Fact
Chinese newspaper People's Daily reported as fact satire site The Onion's report naming North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un the Sexiest...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 16, 2012
Doctored Kim Jong-il Funeral Photo Ran in TIME’s Print Magazine?
TIME magazine disclosed in a Dec. 30 blogpost that it published the now-known-to-be doctored photo from Kim Jong Il's funeral...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 06, 2012
Speculation over ‘Giant’ Man Pictured in Kim Jong-il Funeral Procession Pix
We wrote in December about the Photoshopped image from Korean Central News Agency of Kim Jong-il's funeral, in which a...
by Sydney Smith on Dec 29, 2011
NYTimes Unpublishes Photoshopped Photo of Kim Jong-il Funeral Procession
The New York Times took down a Photoshopped photo of Kim Jong-Il's Dec. 28 funeral, the Times disclosed in a...
by Sydney Smith on Jul 20, 2011
Associated Press Adds ‘Kill Notice’ to Fake Photo of Korean Flood
The Associated Press has put a "kill notice" on an AP released photo that has turned out to be Photoshopped,...
by Sydney Smith on Oct 27, 2010
New Press Freedom Index List
Reporters without Borders, the nonprofit advocacy group, released its 2010 Press Freedom Index Oct. 20. The index praised countries like...
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 13, 2009
Photo Fakery Hid Kim Jong-il Illness…Until Now
July 1, 2009, Korea Beat posts new photos of Kim Jong-il, from Chosun.com that bloggers claim are most likely Photoshopped....