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Gun Cure for Hiccups? NBC Affiliate’s Tasteless FB Joke Prompts Criticism, Apology

Dallas-Fort Worth NBC-affiliate KXAS apologized Feb. 2 for an insensitive Facebook post promoting a news story about a "Fort Hood...

The New Republic tweeted a fake photo purporting to show President Obama skeet shooting, the Weekly Standard reported. The Weekly...

Daily Spanish newspaper El Pais ran a fake photo of Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez on its front page and briefly...

Newspaper The Sunday People apologized and announced it's paying Roger Moore "damages and legal costs" after its touted September interview with...

Media Spy apologized for and unpublished a December 11 story after it published a fake interview with an actor accused...

Der Spiegel apologized after reporting former U.S. president George H. W. Bush had died. Bush has been in the hospital recently...

Bruce Porter, a retired Columbia University journalism professor and the author of the book-turned-movie Blow, decided in 2011 that he...

The media made several major errors, including using the wrong photo, naming the wrong shooter, and reporting that the shooter's...

According to a Dec. 12 retraction, The Jewish Press apologized for a recent blogpost about Jack Abramoff, the former lobbyist...