Errors and Inaccuracies in the News Media

Sydney Morning Herald STILL using Iran’s fake photo …a month later

Boy-on-a-Bike writes: "I grabbed this snapshot from the SMH webpage at 6.35am this morning - Sunday 3 August. That photo...

The New Zealand Herald's Edward Gay wrote: The Australian government identified the happy family in the stock photo as Aussies;...

Newsbusters' Warner Todd Huston wrote, "Associate editor Jay Boyar's profile of Pulliam described the artist as living a Zelig-like life,...

Campaign Spot's John Trenchard reported the photograph that The Independent used to illustrate America's 2008 "great depression" on its April...

Individual journalists weren’t the only ones flubbing reports in 2008. Regret The Error reports “epic organizational failure” was the trend...

2008 was the year journalists' sticky fingers as well as imaginations ran wild, as evidenced by Montreal author Craig Silverman's...

As we look back on the year that was, it's hard to single-out any particular media blunder as the worst....

A BBC radio program, What Do You Believe, took author Dorothy Rowe's comments about religion and spun them into a...

Once again, pitbulls are the target of slow news day filler. On December 19, Gerald Adelmund, 60, of Riverside, California...