by Sydney Smith on Jan 06, 2016
USA Today Corrects: Ammon Bundy Twitter Account a Fake
USA Today admitted to being hoaxed by a parody Twitter account for Ammon Bundy, who is part of the armed...
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by Sydney Smith on Jan 06, 2016
BuzzFeed Fail? Why did BuzzFeed Publish a Story that Harms, Invades Privacy of Random Girl?
BuzzFeed went online, found something nasty happening to a random person, and then told everyone about it. This is news?...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 05, 2016
Ryan Howard, Ryan Zimmerman Sue Al Jazeera over Sports Doping Documentary
Major League Baseball players Ryan Zimmerman and Ryan Howard are suing Al Jazeera over its December documentary linking them and Peyton...
by David W. Moore on Jan 03, 2016
Why Gallup Poll Wrongly Shows Trump Tied With Pope as Second Most Admired Man in the World
The Washington Post calls it a “shocker” – that Gallup claims Donald Trump is America’s second most admired man in...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 03, 2016
No, Woman isn’t 17 MONTHS Pregnant
The New York Post made an amusing error last month when it said a woman was 17 months pregnant with triplets. That's...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 01, 2016
Will Peyton Manning Sue Al Jazeera over HGH Claim? ‘Probably’ he says
Will Peyton Manning sue Al Jazeeera? The documentary The Dark Side: Secrets of the Sports Dopers is posted on Gawker-owned site Deadspin....
by Sydney Smith on Dec 31, 2015
Top 10 Cases of Fabrication & Hoaxes in 2015
Below, see iMediaEthics' round-up of the top ten cases of fabrication, hoaxes and pranks on the media in 2015. ...
by Sydney Smith on Dec 30, 2015
NPR isn’t BuzzFeed: No Labeling of Donald Trump Racist
BuzzFeed may have OK'ed its staff calling Donald Trump a lying racist, but National Public Radio won't be doing the...
by Sydney Smith on Dec 26, 2015
iMediaEthics 10 Most Read Stories of 2015
Below, see the ten most read stories on iMediaEthics from 2015. 10 . The Post-Courier, a newspaper in Papua New...
by Sydney Smith on Dec 23, 2015
Washington Post Deletes Ted Cruz Children are ‘Political Props’ Cartoon
The Washington Post unpublished an editorial cartoon of presidential candidate Ted Cruz and his daughters. The cartoon, by Post editorial cartoonist Ann...