by Sydney Smith on Feb 25, 2017
Gay Pride Mass Streaking? Manchester Evening News DUPED by Hoax Press Release
The UK Manchester Evening News fell for a hoax press release claiming there was going to be a "naked streak" in...
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by Sydney Smith on Feb 24, 2017
Australian Newspaper Breaks Suicide Reporting Guidelines
In March 2016, an Australian woman, Jasmine Riley, died by suicide, killing her two-year-old son with her. The Courier-Mail, a...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 23, 2017
Is Tom Brady’s Super Bowl Jersey Worth $500 Million? Houston’s KPRC-TV Botches Headline
Is Tom Brady's missing Super Bowl jersey really worth $500 million? Louisiana State University assistant professor of journalism Steve Bien-Aime...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 22, 2017
VP Mike Pence replaced by Lt Gen McMaster? Not fake news, Texas-size front page error
The Bryan-College Station Eagle, a daily newspaper in Texas, published a story with a faulty headline that said Lt. Gen....
by Sydney Smith on Feb 21, 2017
Breitbart’s Provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos Resigns After Pedophilia Comments
Milo Yiannopoulos, the provocative Breitbart editor, resigned tonight from the conservative news site after video clips were posted online of him...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 21, 2017
Fat-Shaming Column on Airline Passenger gets Columnist fired
The Fergus Falls Daily Journal fired a columnist, Alan Linda, for an offensive column about overweight airline passengers. Linda wrote...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 21, 2017
Sky Sports’ Kirsty Gallacher says NOT drunk on air, Sues Sun
Sky Sports news host Kirsty Gallacher is suing the Sun after the newspaper reported claims that she was drunk on...
by David W. Moore on Feb 20, 2017
HuffPollster’s Ironic Criticism of PPP’s “Bowling Green Massacre” Poll
Earlier this month, Public Policy Polling issued a poll news release, which claimed that more than half of President Trump’s...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 19, 2017
Judge rejects Real Madrid owner’s libel lawsuit, must pay Spain’s AS newspaper’s legal costs
The owner of professional soccer team Real Madrid was upset when he read in Spanish soccer newspaper AS the suggestion that...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 18, 2017
Australia’s Yahoo7 Fined $300k for Article that led to Murder Mistrial
Australia's Yahoo7 was fined $300,000 Australian ($230,000 U.S.) for contempt of court after it published a report last summer that...