Don’t Trust Polls about TSA Pat-Downs, Full Body X-Rays
A news ticker on the TSA homepage promotes a recent poll that finds "Most OK with TSA full-body scanners." (Credit:…
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US Govt Warns About Checkbook Journalism… In Liberia, USAID Gives Liberia $11 Million to Train Journalists
Last month, the U.S. State Department paid for Liberian journalists to be trained by an American journalist, apparently a "regular…
Cooks Source Magazine Shuts Down After Charge of Copyright Infringement
Digital Journal reported that Cooks Source's editor Judith Griggs confirmed that the New England cooking magazine has closed. Griggs and Cooks Source were…
Canadian News Agency Updates Editorial Standards Guide
The Canadian news agency CBC announced Nov. 17 that is has updated its "CBC Journalistic Standards and Practices (JSP) manual."…
The Sun Criticized for Waterboarding Video, Call for Censorship
A politiican criticized British newspaper The Sun for its video on waterboarding, the Guardian reported Nov. 12. The poltiican, Labour MP…
Iran Charges 2 German Reporters As Spies
The New York Times reported Nov. 17 that the government of Iran has changed its charges against two German newspaper reporters.…
RTE: Hoax Story on Mary Harney by Phony Reporter Jennifer Maguire A ‘Prank’
Irish national TV and radio station RTÉ personality Jennifer Maguire posed as a reporter and spread a rumor that Irish…
Fox News Corrects Chief Sitting Bull Headline After Complaints of Error
Fox News fixed an incorrect headline after the Native American Journalists Association (NAJA) publicly criticized the news site for a…
MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough Suspended for Political Donations
MSNBC host Joe Scarborough was suspended for two days without pay after Politico revealed he made political contributions, a violation…
Wisc. Newspaper Bans Comments on Crime, Courts, Sex, Race, Accident Stories
The Wisconsin newspaper Janesville Gazette announced in a Nov. 7 blog post that its website, GazetteXtra.com, will no longer permit comments on…