Errors and Inaccuracies in the News Media

Epitome of Stinky Journalism

Today’s issue of USA Today features an extensive series of articles chronicling Jack Kelley’s (their former reporter) journalistic misdeeds. The...

Boston Globe writer Mark Jurkowitz writes about the mistrustful divide between a writer and their audience - specifically, the media...

While Bush and Cheney speak in a closed session to the 9/11 Commission today, additional important news is surfacing about...

The article "Stewardess ID’d Hijackers Early, Transcripts Show" by journalist Gail Sheehy, published Feb. 16, 2004, in The New York...

The Wall Street Journal's Glossary of Terms defines a rowback as, “A story that attempts to correct a previous story...

Jeanette Walls of MSNBC.com reported yesterday on a tiff between actor Tom Cruise and a blog. "Lawyers for actor Tom...

While at times referring to its subject as a "so-called frog," BBC News reported an Iranian woman gave birth to...

On June 27, 2004, the BBC reported on an Iranian woman who gave birth to a frog. Its frog baby...

Phil Hirschkorn, in his two 2004 CNN.com articles, propagates an incorrect count of victims onboard the four planes hijacked on...