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Blogger Josh Nelson calls out Bloomberg News for misinterpreted poll, lack of correction

Josh Nelson wrote July 19 on his blog EnviroKnow that Bloomberg News "refuses to correct" a "blatantly false" story about…

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UK’s Daily Star Apologizes, Pays Damages after Publishing Hoax Story

British newspaper The Daily Star published an apology July 24 for a July 21 hoax it printed about Rockstar Games,…

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Pew’s Credibility Gap: A Strange Tale of What Passes for Transparency Among America’s Polling Leaders

Screen shot from recent poll on Pew web site that veteran pollster David Moore found in error...and Pew refused to…

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Nature photo contest winning image Plagiarized, Doctored

A Chinese man plagiarized and altered another man's image to win a nature photo contest this month, Global Times reported…

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Media Roundup: Shirley Sherrod’s Firing and the Media

Georgia state official Shirley Sherrod was fired from her post as state director for rural development of the U.S. Department…

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Advertiser’s logo featured during WABC-TV New York’s news broadcasts

Television news continues the current media trend to blur the boundary between advertising and news content to reap profits. The…

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Dallas News reporter finds doctored photo in Getty Images collection

Guy Reynolds, a photo editor at The Dallas News, wrote July 18 about his discovery that a Getty Images photo…

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NYTPicker calls out New York Times Reporter Brian Stelter for iPhone endorsement

The NYT Picker wrote July 16 that New York Times reporter Brian Stelter breached the newspaper's ethics policy on July…

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Fauxtography Classic: Famous World War II Photo Staged, Manipulated

A Soviet World War II photo inspired by the famous Iwo Jima flag raising image was both manipulated and staged, bloggers…

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Bloggers Discovered BP Doctored 3 Photos

Bloggers on Americablog and Gizmodo have discovered that at least three recently released photos from BP were photoshopped. The Washington…

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