by Sydney Smith on Jul 04, 2011
Hackers Post Fake Fox News Twitter Story that Obama is Dead
Hackers formerly associated with hacking group Anonymous hacked into one of Fox News' Twitter accounts this morning and posted fake...
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by Sydney Smith on Jul 04, 2011
Media Group Awards Guttenplag Wiki Site for Catching Plagiarism
A German Wiki page called GuttenPlag Wiki crowdsourced plagiarism checking and revealed that former German Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg...
by Sydney Smith on Jul 04, 2011
Mexican State Chihuahua Gets Shield Law
The Mexican state of Chihuahua has passed the first shield law in Mexico, the Knight Center for Journalism in the...
by Sydney Smith on Jul 03, 2011
Newspapers Apologize to Pippa Middleton for Pics
The Guardian's Roy Greenslade highlighted two recent complaints Pippa Middleton filed with the UK media regulatory body the Press Complaints Commission over...
by Sydney Smith on Jul 03, 2011
Ashton Kutcher Criticizes Village Voice for Sex Trafficking Stats
Actor Ashton Kutcher criticized via Twitter the Village Voice for its sex trafficking news story claiming Kutcher's estimated number of "child...
by Sydney Smith on Jul 03, 2011
Media Group Claims Censorship at South African Newspaper
The Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) issued a press release slamming the suspension of South African journalist Brigitte Weidlich. Weidlich...
by Sydney Smith on Jul 02, 2011
Egyptian Editorial Criticizes Anonymous Source Claim on Hosni Mubarak
A Daily News Egypt editorial criticized and questioned a May Al-Shorouk article reporting that Hosni Mubarak "requests amnesty." The editorial,...
by Sydney Smith on Jul 01, 2011
Gay Girl in Damascus Hoaxes Again?
iMediaEthics wrote last month when the lesbian blogger Amina Arraf of "Gay Girl in Damascus" was revealed as a hoax sock-puppet...
by Sydney Smith on Jun 30, 2011
Serbia TV News Station Apologizes for Propaganda, Insult, Slander & Hate Speech
A Serbian TV station has apologized to the Yugoslavian people for acting as a "tool" for Slobodan Milosevic's propaganda, Isaintel.com...