by Sydney Smith on Apr 09, 2013
Is Daily Mirror Pretending It wasn’t Hoaxed by Virgin Atlantic Glass-Bottomed Plane April Fools Prank?
Was the UK Daily Mirror hoaxed by an April Fools' joke? In an April 1 story, the Mirror reported on...
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by Sydney Smith on Apr 09, 2013
Washington Times, Gizmodo, Venture Beat Quickly Admit being Fooled by April Fools’ Prank Drone Story
Outlets including Gizmodo UK, Venture Beat, and the Washington Times admitted being duped by an April Fools' hoax within 24...
by Sydney Smith on Apr 05, 2013
Indigenous People Protest ‘Hate Speech’ in Nanaimo Daily News, Will Boycott Newspaper’s Printing Service
Indigenous people opened their newspapers last week in Western Canada to read, in a letter from a reader, that their race...
by Sydney Smith on Apr 02, 2013
Drones Delivering Newspapers in France? April Fools’ Day Prank Dupes Drudge Report, Tech Crunch, Washington Times
Several news outlets were hoaxed by a story claiming that France would start using drones to deliver newspapers. News outlets...
by Sydney Smith on Mar 30, 2013
North Korean News Agency Fakes Training Drill Photo, AFP Says Photoshopped, Retracts
Did Korean Central News Agency doctor a photo to make it look like North Korea had more hovercraft practicing in...
by Sydney Smith on Mar 27, 2013
Calling Transsexuals ‘Bed-wetters in bad wigs’ OK with PCC, Rules not Discrimination or Harassment
Even though complainants in the U.K. found the Observer's column about transgender people was "offensive," the Press Complaints Commission ruled that...
by Sydney Smith on Mar 25, 2013
Oops, Chinese News Media Publish Fake Photo of Bogus Time Magazine Cover
Chinese "state-run" news agency Xinhua published a fake picture purporting to show recently deceased politician Wu Renbao on the cover...
by Sydney Smith on Mar 24, 2013
Why isn’t Sky News Prosecuted for Hacking John Darwin’s Emails?
The UK police decided not to prosecute Sky News' Gerard Tubb for hacking the email account of John Darwin, a...
by Sebastian Longdon on Mar 17, 2013
Russian Minister of Communications: ‘Journalism doesn’t have any mission, journalism is a business’
Ethics in journalism took another blow in Russia last month when the country's Deputy Minister of Communications and Mass Media,...