by Sydney Smith on Jun 04, 2010
AP Reports Their Fact Checking Stories as the Most Clicked, Most Linked
Greg Sargent blogged on The Washington Post’s Plum Line May 19 about the Associated Press’s “strong fact-checking work.” Sargent reported that...
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by George F. Bishop on May 28, 2010
How Immigration Poll Majorities Are Born In The USA
Virtually every legitimate- or junk-poll these days turns up a majority (or seeming majority) in favor of the recently passed...
by Sydney Smith on May 20, 2010
Where’s the Outrage? Dutch Newspaper Interviews 9-year-old Plane Crash Survivor from his Hospital Bed
Where is the line between the public’s right to know and a severely injured, recently orphaned young boy's right to...
by George F. Bishop on Apr 22, 2010
The Tea Party Myths : Polls “R”Us
Polls and commentary about the Tea Party movement and its supporters, their politics, their demographics and psychographics proliferate as I...
by Siobhan Dixon on Mar 20, 2010
White House Calls Out AP for Bad Fact Checking
The Democrats took to the blogosphere to blast the Associated Press for poor fact checking in a recent story that...
by Robert Buckman on Mar 15, 2010
For want of a tilde, the spelling is wrong!
What a character! Literally. I refer to the tilde, aka, “the little squiggly thing over the “n” in Spanish. In...
by Danielle Elliot on Dec 14, 2009
The Skinny on the Fat Murderer Hoax: Media Need to Update Stories
When a story catches international attention, but turns out to be a hoax, should media update and clarify original stories...
by Molika Ashford on Nov 09, 2009
AP Defends Jayson Blair As Ethics Lecturer: Calls Lying And Plagiarism Simply “Failure”
Last week Jayson Blair, the New York Times reporter now famous for dramatic acts of plagiarism and falsification, spoke at...
by Molika Ashford on Oct 30, 2009
Balloon Boy, The Yes Men, Now A Latvian Meteorite Joins The List of Recent Hoaxes
In recent weeks, the media has reported on a number of hoaxes. First, Balloon Boy; then, a fake Chamber of Commerce...
by Molika Ashford on Oct 23, 2009
Move Over Balloon Boy, Remember Monster Pig Hoax? : Forced Perspective Photo Tricks on Flickr
Before the Colorado "Balloon Boy" hoax, there was the "Monster Pig" publicity stunt, which much like "Balloon Boy" involved the exploitation...