by Sydney Smith on May 05, 2011
Watch Out For Fake Quotes!
The Atlantic's Megan McArdle tracked the "anatomy of a fake quotation" attributed to Martin Luther King Jr. this week. The fake...
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by Sydney Smith on May 05, 2011
Five Media Errors in reporting on Bin Laden Death
New York public radio station WNYC listed a list of "5 Big bin Laden" errors in the media in reporting...
by Sydney Smith on May 05, 2011
Staged Obama photos : Actions re-enacted but not labeled as such
Charles Apple and Poynter's Al Tompkins that White House photographers shot staged Obama photos of U.S. President Barack Obama making the...
by Sydney Smith on May 05, 2011
Journalists Not Skeptical of bin Laden Death Reports
Related, Poynter's Adam Hochberg noted that journalists and bloggers ordinarily are skeptical of President Obama's statements, but "most of the traditional...
by Sydney Smith on May 04, 2011
More Fraud Allegations against Greg Mortenson?
Kentucky radio station WFPL reported also reported that Outside magazine, which published an interview with Mortenson when the scandal first broke, has...
by Sydney Smith on May 04, 2011
New York Times Changes Style on Bin Laden
The New York Times made "two style decisions" for reporting on Osama bin Laden following his death, Poynter's Jim Romenesko...
by Sydney Smith on May 04, 2011
Breitbart Motion Calls for Sherrod Lawsuit Dismissal
Andrew Breitbart's lawyers have filed a motion to the U.S. District Court for dismissal of the lawsuit Shirley Sherrod filed...
by Sydney Smith on May 04, 2011
SF Weekly fires contributor for organizing political protest.
MediaBistro reported that SFWeekly contributor John Rinaldo was fired from the newspaper after he "organized a political protest against the...
by David W. Moore on May 03, 2011
The Media Poll-Reinforced ‘Birther’ Myth
Now that President Obama has released the long form of his birth certificate from Hawaii, you might think that the...
by Sydney Smith on May 02, 2011
Social Media Ethics : Think before you Post
In light of last year's suicide of Rutgers University student Tyler Clementi, Leone Kraus blogged on LGBTQ blog Bilerico about ethics...