by Sydney Smith on Mar 06, 2013
Fox News 50-Word Rip-Off was ‘Reporting Error,’ Unpublishes Whole Story for Plagiarism
Fox News claimed that plagiarizing two sentences -- or 50 words -- from a Politico story on the sequestration was...
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by Rhonda Roland Shearer , Sydney Smith on Mar 05, 2013
Super Hero Firefighter? NBC News Caption Said ‘Fireman Holds Up a Fire Truck’ in Sinkhole
Did a firefighter act like a super hero and lift a fire truck with one hand? Apparently, a caption writer...
by Sydney Smith on Mar 04, 2013
More Deception? Another Jonah Lehrer Book Pulped By Publisher
Book publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt said it will yank Jonah Lehrer's 2010 book How We Decide from the shelves, Michael...
by Sydney Smith on Mar 04, 2013
‘Ugly’ Sorority Members? Rutgers Satire Newspaper Admits to ‘Cruel, Debasing Manner’
Rutgers University "satirical fake news" paper The Medium apologized Feb. 27 for an article "written in a cruel, debasing manner that...
by Sydney Smith on Mar 04, 2013
Was BusinessWeek Cover Racist? Editor-in-Chief Says ‘We’d do it differently ‘ if given second chance
After criticism that its Feb. 25 cover image was "stereotypical," racist and offensive, Bloomberg Businessweek editor-in-chief Josh Tyrangiel told Yahoo...
by Rhonda Roland Shearer , Sydney Smith on Mar 03, 2013
Who Gave Bashid Mclean’s Mom’s Severed Head Pic to NYPost, NYDaily News? NYPD Says Not Them
Two New York newspapers published a "stomach-turning photo" of Bashid Mclean, a New York man who is accused of dismembering...
by Sydney Smith on Mar 02, 2013
Anonymous sources cited for Clive Davis ‘fact checking’ of Kelly Clarkson? Really?
ESPN site Grantland questioned Sony Music's Chief Creative Officer Clive Davis' claim of fact checking in his recently published memoir. ...
by Sydney Smith on Mar 02, 2013
Why Transcripts Might Not Match NPR Programs, Ombudsman Explains
Ever wonder why a National Public Radio transcript might not match what you heard on a program? NPR ombudsman Edward...
by Sydney Smith on Mar 02, 2013
Wash Post’s New Readers Rep? ‘Customer Relations Person’? NPR Ombudsman Asks
As iMediaEthics wrote yesterday, the Washington Post announced the newspaper was replacing its ombudsman position with a readers representative. Notably,...
by Sydney Smith on Mar 01, 2013
NBC: We ‘Fairly and accurately reported’ on George Zimmerman’s 911 Trayvon Martin Call
NBC has responded to George Zimmerman's lawsuit arguing that it "fairly and accurately reported" on him in its stories on...