by Sydney Smith on Sep 11, 2014
Seattle TV news IDs WRONG cab driver for sex assault
Seattle TV news station KIRO's Aug. 8 story aired the photo of the WRONG man when reporting on sexual assault...
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by Sydney Smith on Sep 11, 2014
Saintly? National Review forgives, hires editor who plagiarized 41 articles at BuzzFeed
National Review must have calculated its new hire, who the magazine described as a "talented journalist, with obviously a lot...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 13, 2014
Bloomberg News still won’t break news about itself or about owner Michael Bloomberg
Bloomberg News is still not reporting on anything to do with Michael Bloomberg and Bloomberg News unless another media outlets...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 15, 2014
‘Slave ship packed tight’ like airplane seats? Penn. newspaper apologizes for ‘nationally syndicated’ cartoon
Pennsylvania newspaper and website The Lancaster Online apologized to readers after publishing a "deeply hurtful, offensive editorial cartoon" comparing slave...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 19, 2014
AP calls Terrorist Group ‘the Islamic State group’ not ISIS, ISIL or ‘Islamic State’
Why does the Associated Press now call the terrorist group, originally known as ISIS, the Islamic State Group? Does the...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 21, 2014
Hanes Factory Closing? That happened in 2008, Two news sites unpublish
The website Knitting Industry and North Carolina's Triad Business Journal both falsely reported this month that Hanesbrands was shutting down a number...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 22, 2014
Scandal Creator Shonda Rhimes is an ‘Angry Black Woman’? NYTimes Faces Criticism
Did you know that, in addition to being the creator of such hit TV shows as Scandal and Grey's Anatomy and...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 23, 2014
What are Ethics of ‘F*** It I Quit’? Reporter outed as Secret Owner of Marijuana business
Charlo Greene went viral this week after she sensationally quit her job as a reporter for Anchorage, Alaska's CBS-affiliate KTVA.On...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 24, 2014
Church of Scientology didn’t kill Michael Brown, NYTimes corrects
Did the Church of Scientology have anything to do with the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri? Apparently not,...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 24, 2014
‘Drunk Female Guests’ cause Fraternity Problems? Forbes axes writer
"Drunk female guests are the gravest threat to fraternities." Believe it or not, that was an actual headline for an...