by Sydney Smith on Feb 22, 2017
VP Mike Pence replaced by Lt Gen McMaster? Not fake news, Texas-size front page error
The Bryan-College Station Eagle, a daily newspaper in Texas, published a story with a faulty headline that said Lt. Gen....
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by Sydney Smith on Feb 21, 2017
Breitbart’s Provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos Resigns After Pedophilia Comments
Milo Yiannopoulos, the provocative Breitbart editor, resigned tonight from the conservative news site after video clips were posted online of him...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 21, 2017
Fat-Shaming Column on Airline Passenger gets Columnist fired
The Fergus Falls Daily Journal fired a columnist, Alan Linda, for an offensive column about overweight airline passengers. Linda wrote...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 21, 2017
Sky Sports’ Kirsty Gallacher says NOT drunk on air, Sues Sun
Sky Sports news host Kirsty Gallacher is suing the Sun after the newspaper reported claims that she was drunk on...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 19, 2017
Judge rejects Real Madrid owner’s libel lawsuit, must pay Spain’s AS newspaper’s legal costs
The owner of professional soccer team Real Madrid was upset when he read in Spanish soccer newspaper AS the suggestion that...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 18, 2017
Australia’s Yahoo7 Fined $300k for Article that led to Murder Mistrial
Australia's Yahoo7 was fined $300,000 Australian ($230,000 U.S.) for contempt of court after it published a report last summer that...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 17, 2017
Muslim Council rep Fact-Checks Media for Errors in Reporting on Islam
Miqdaad Versi has gotten British news outlets to correct more than a dozen errors in reporting on Muslims in the...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 16, 2017
UK Express Misled Readers by suggesting Paid Reader Survey was a Real Poll
The UK Express misled readers when it reported a poll found 98% wanted the UK to leave the European Union...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 15, 2017
Bild Apologizes for Fake Sexual Assault Mob Story
When the widest-circulating newspaper in Germany, Bild, reported that dozens of migrants assaulted women in Frankfurt on New Year's Eve,...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 15, 2017
NYTimes’ writer Jacob Bernstein apologizes after saying ‘Melania is a hooker’
New York Times features writer Jacob Bernstein apologized after model and actress Emily Ratajkowski tweeted that an unnamed Times reporter called Melania Trump...