by Sydney Smith on Mar 30, 2017
7 Months too late? Daily Beast’s Hines Apologizes for Olympics Outing Story
Nico Hines went on gay dating apps at the Olympic village in Rio de Janeiro last summer without identifying himself...
Apologies & Retractions
by Sydney Smith on Apr 01, 2017
Pakistani TV host who accused lawyer of blasphemy faces fine
Pakistani TV host Aamir Liaquat called a lawyer named Jibran Nasir an "atheist" who was "anti-Pakistan" and "anti-Islam." Liaquat accused...
by Sydney Smith on Apr 06, 2017
Globe and Mail Suspends Columnist after She Writes about Trying to Breastfeed Stranger’s baby
A Globe and Mail columnist wrote that she once tried to breastfeed someone else's baby without them knowing about it....
by Sydney Smith on Apr 11, 2017
Undercover sex tape of Indian politician backfires, 5 journalists arrested
Indian TV news channel Mangalam claimed a housewife asking for help from an Indian politician sent the station an audio...
by Sydney Smith on Apr 12, 2017
Melania Trump: Daily Mail pays almost $3 million to settle Escort Libel Lawsuit
The UK Daily Mail paid U.S. First Lady Melania Trump approximately $3 million after reporting claims she had been an...
by Sydney Smith on Apr 15, 2017
Sun’s Kelvin MacKenzie compared British soccer star of African descent to a gorilla, is suspended, investigated for hate crime
The UK Sun columnist Kelvin MacKenzie compared a British soccer player of African descent to a "gorilla." “I get a...
by Sydney Smith on Apr 18, 2017
White Men Can’t Vote? Fake Huffington Post Blogpost Taken Down after Author Can’t be Verified
White men around the world should be banned from voting for twenty years...or so a blogpost on Huffington Post South...
by Sydney Smith on Apr 19, 2017
The Australian newspaper is sorry it accused business exec of being part of a Ponzi scheme
The Australian, the widest circulating national newspaper in Australia, suggested that a technology company located there and its managing director,...
by Sydney Smith on Apr 21, 2017
‘I’m an idiot’ – NYT sports editor’s explanation for tweet with bogus Patriots White House visit photo comparison
The New York Times sports desk tweeted pictures comparing the size of the New England Patriots' turnout at the White...