Fake News, Fabrication and Fakery in the News Media

Why does Daily Mail give credence to psychic healer?

The Quackometer, a blog commenting on pseudoscience, reported this week on such a blatantly bad story in the London-based Daily Mail,...

Last week, iMediaEthics wrote about the media’s cushy treatment of a British psychic claiming to be able to cure cancer, and...

On October 9, on freerepublic.com, Vietnamese blogger DieuVan Nguyen argued that a news photo implicating two Vietnamese journalists was a...

Most film audiences are familiar with the phrase, "Based on a true story," or the even looser attribution, "Based on...

In the October 21 edition of the Cornell Daily Sun, reporter Dani Neuharth-Keusch gives a rundown of the previous day’s lecture on...

In recent weeks, the media has reported on a number of hoaxes. First, Balloon Boy; then, a fake Chamber of Commerce...

Usually young journalists learn their ethical lessons from the paragons of good behavior--role models whose writing and conduct embody the...

With Jayson Blair lecturing publicly to university students about how plagiarism and fabrication got him kicked off the New York...

With some journalists lamenting that the media don’t take scientists seriously enough, Newsweek has now pointed out that some are...