by Sydney Smith on Oct 29, 2017
BBC Interviewed Climate Change Doubter who Gave Inaccurate Info
The BBC interviewed a climate change doubter, Lord Nigel Lawson, making it possible for him to boost his false claim...
Apologies & Retractions
by Sydney Smith on Oct 28, 2017
Why does Alan Dershowitz wants anti-semitic cartoon of him in U Of Cal Berkeley paper to stay published?
The Daily Californian, the student newspaper for University of California-Berkeley and for the wider community, unpublished an anti-Semitic cartoon of...
by Sydney Smith on Oct 26, 2017
Why The Forward Posted & then Deleted Elie Wiesel Groping Claim
The Forward, a national Jewish newspaper, published a story about a sexual groping allegation against Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor...
by Sydney Smith on Oct 25, 2017
Fake Quotes in Campus Newspaper? Reporter Quits Before Hearing
Fake news is all the talk in mainstream and social media, but student publications have largely been left out of...
by Sydney Smith on Oct 24, 2017
Grieving family rocked by Belfast Telegraph’s photograph of child and her coffin
The Belfast Telegraph published a photograph of a 7-year-old girl who died of meningitis earlier this year, as well as...
by Sydney Smith on Oct 23, 2017
Why Did London Evening Standard cut Solange Knowles’ Hair using Photoshop?
Fashion magazines Photoshop their subjects, but news outlets are not supposed to "editorialize" and change the appearance of photos. So...
by Sydney Smith on Oct 22, 2017
Fox News Tricked by Man with fake War Credentials, Fails to Correct for nearly two weeks
Two weeks ago, Fox News broadcast a story about a glass artist named John Garofalo, who claimed to be a...
by Sydney Smith on Oct 20, 2017
NJ News Site Redbankgreen Sensationalizes Suicide story by providing home address, parents’ names and adding link to Springsteen
Redbankgreen, a New Jersey news site, published an Oct. 15 news story about a "lockdown" following a man's death by...
by Sydney Smith on Oct 18, 2017
Tablet news site headline, ‘Specifically Jewy Perviness of Harvey Weinstein,’ under attack
Tablet Magazine, a news site covering "Jewish life," published an article headlined, "The Specifically Jewy Perviness of Harvey Weinstein." The...