by Sydney Smith on Dec 31, 2010
AP Smack Down of NYT’s Definitive Gulf Oil Spill Report
Associated Press reporter Harry Weber slammed the New York Times for its Dec. 25 story about the now infamous Deepwater Horizon...
International Media Ethics News
by Sydney Smith on Dec 31, 2010
NPR Corrects Number of WikiLeaks’ Cables Leaked After Reader Complaints
National Public Radio and other news outlets "inflated" the number of diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks, NPR's ombudsman, Alicia Shepard, explained...
by Sydney Smith on Dec 30, 2010
The Sun Admits Publishing Fake Story about Al-Qaeda Threats
The Sun fessed up to publishing a fake story on its front page earlier this month, Roy Greenslade reported in...
by Sydney Smith on Dec 29, 2010
No Donations from WikiLeaks to Bradley Manning Defense Fund Yet
The Central Intelligence Agency has created a task force to investigate WikiLeaks' impact, the Washington Post reported. The task force...
by Sydney Smith on Dec 28, 2010
India Journalists Worried about Paid News, Media Monopolies
At a recent seminar, the Press Council of India called paid news "dangerous for the survival of democracy," Economic Times reported....
by Sydney Smith on Dec 26, 2010
Naming Julian Assange’s Alleged Victims? Should Media Act Like Wikileaks?
Despite being alleged victims of rape or sexual molestation, the women behind the charges against Julian Assange have been publicly...
by Sydney Smith on Dec 22, 2010
Reporters without Borders Hosting WikiLeaks Site
Reporters without Borders announced yesterday that it would launch a mirror site for WikiLeaks today. In a statement published on...
by Sydney Smith on Dec 22, 2010
“Chilling” Media Law in Hungary
Local Hungarian newspapers published "blank cover pages" in a unified stance of protest after Hungary's parliament OK'ed a bill giving...
by David W. Moore on Dec 21, 2010
Do Americans Care About War in Afghanistan? Reinterpreting the Polls
According to the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, six of ten Americans now say the war in Afghanistan has not...