by Sydney Smith on Sep 05, 2011
Does Al Sharpton Know Endorsement Guidelines for MSNBC?
Al Sharpton, who was recently hired as an MSNBC host, reportedly told the Wall Street Journal he thought he could...
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by Sydney Smith on Sep 04, 2011
Fox Sports Apologizes for Univ. of Southern California Interview Video
Fox Sports has apologized and unpublished a segment purporting to "welcome" the Univ. of Southern California football team to a football...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 04, 2011
American Journalism Review Advises on Aggregation
American Journalism Review's Michaelle Bond collected the "best practices" for "aggregating without aggravating." Referencing Advertising Age's Simon Dumenco's complaints over Huffington...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 04, 2011
Phony Travel Reviews to be Reviewed
iMediaEthics wrote earlier this year when TripAdvisor was accused of hosting 27,000 defamatory reviews. Now, Forbes is reporting that the UK...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 02, 2011
WikiLeaks Accuses Guardian of Breaking Agreement, Providing Password to Now Leaked CableGate Docs, Guardian Denies
WikiLeaks began publishing from its cache of 250,000 + leaked U.S. diplomatic cables last November. Initially, the leak-publishing website linked...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 02, 2011
WikiLeaks Publishes all Diplomatic Cables, Unredacted
In light of the leak of a full unredacted copy of the diplomatic cables that make up what WIkiLeaks calls...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 01, 2011
Chicago CBS-Affiliate Denies Racism Charges, Apologizes again for Out-of-Context Quote
As iMediaEthics previously wrote, the Chicago CBS-affiliate WBBM apologized after taking a four-year-old boy's comments on guns out of context. In...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 01, 2011
Edited video of Michele Bachmann Misquotes her
A video of Michele Bachmann has been selectively edited to show the Republican politician asking "Who likes white people?" According...
by Sydney Smith on Aug 31, 2011
WikiLeaks Website was attacked, Posts 130K+ Cables
The WikiLeaks website was attacked yesterday, according to WikiLeaks. The attacker is unknown, the Associated Press reported. The Associated Press explained that...
by Sydney Smith on Aug 30, 2011
News Outlets Publish Fake Photo of Shark Swimming in Puerto Rico Hurricane Irene Floodwaters
Fake photos from Hurricane Irene are already surfacing, the Washington Post reported. A Miami TV news station, Channel 7, along...