by Rhonda Roland Shearer on Aug 03, 2009
MSNBC News Headline links to Kirsten Gillibrand campaign ad on iGoogle
When MSNBC.com business news headlines appear on my iGoogle page, I expect links to MSNBC news content--not to an advertisement...
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by Rhonda Roland Shearer on Aug 02, 2009
Privacy cited as reason for Gisele’s Photoshopped belly
London Fog announces it has found a new use for Photoshop in their new media campaign. They openly used the...
by Rhonda Roland Shearer on Aug 01, 2009
Photoshop Nation? LA Times investigates Photoshop-effects in the media
Scott Kelby, president of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (yes, there is such an organization!), tells The Los Angeles...
by Rhonda Roland Shearer on Jul 31, 2009
"Gossip Cop" weighs in: Madonna’s "scary arms" photo is most likely a fake
There appears to be a new sheriff in town. After seemingly endless years of fake information about celebrities, Gossip Cop...
by Rhonda Roland Shearer on Jul 30, 2009
Beware of New Type of Fake News
Watch out for fake news outlets on the web. Take Tom Chilton's news story, "Millions of people without jobs, but...
by Rhonda Roland Shearer on Jul 29, 2009
Obama, Gates, Crowley Meeting: Race Relations or Beer Commercial?
With the help of the media, the "teaching moment" among President Obama, Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates and Cambridge police...
by Rhonda Roland Shearer on Jul 28, 2009
AP is Watching YOU : New meta-tag “beacons” track copyright violators
Journalism.co.uk reports the Associated Press has just announced its Big Brother-like "news registry." It's a "new system" that embeds meta-tags...
by Rhonda Roland Shearer on Jul 27, 2009
The U.S. government’s legacy of wartime media control
"Freedom of the Press" is not a given during wartime. IconicPhotos, a blog that features "Famous, Infamous and Iconic Photos," writes...
by Rhonda Roland Shearer on Jul 26, 2009
Newseum’s Online Doctored Photo Exhibit
In 2001, the Newseum in Washington DC first posted an ongoing online exhibition titled, "The Commissar Vanishes: The falsification of...
by Rhonda Roland Shearer on Jul 25, 2009
‘Non-News’ is bad news for NPR’s audience: bin Laden son story
NPR's headline sounded newsworthy enough: "Bin Laden Son Reported Killed In Pakistan." Mary Louise Kelly writes in her lede: "U.S....