by Sydney Smith on Jan 22, 2012
Daily Beast Says ‘Ways to get Smarter’ List Not Product Placement, Advertisement
The New York Post slammed Newsweek/Daily Beast earlier this month for an article titled “31 ways to get smarter in...
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by Sydney Smith on Jan 21, 2012
Fox News Updates, Rewrites Post Accused of Lifting from Atlantic Wire
Fox News lifted an article from the Atlantic Wire, was called out for it, and updated the post with an...
by David W. Moore on Jan 21, 2012
That Pesky Margin of Error – What it Says about Gingrich’s Lead in South Carolina
In a Jan. 19 article posted on Slate, Josh Voorhees summarizes the latest South Carolina poll results in these words:...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 19, 2012
Plagiarism Discussion on Salon
Salon questioned "What is plagiarism" in a "panel debate" that included Harvard Law School professor Jonathan Zittrain, Southern Methodist University...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 18, 2012
Actress Evan Rachel Wood: ‘Doesn’t Anyone Fact Check Anymore?’
Actress Evan Rachel Wood took to Twitter Jan. 17 to ask "Doesn't anyone fact check anymore?" after a Yahoo blog...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 17, 2012
LA Times Readers Rep: Forgetting Tildes = Misspelling
tildesEdgar agreed with the reader, Jose Suarez, who wrote that "The ‘ñ’ is an official part of a major language,...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 17, 2012
Huffington Post’s Twitter Hacked
Huffington Post's Twitter account (@HuffingtonPost) was hacked Jan. 15, according to Mediaite. Tweets posted by the hackers were later deleted...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 16, 2012
Magazine ‘May Apologize’ for Cover Photo of White House with Swastikas
Ami Magazine's editor Rabbi Yitzchak Frankfurter said it "may have been a poor choice" to run a doctored photo of "White...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 12, 2012
Fairfield Minuteman Apologizes for Plagiarized Story on Sports Front-page
Journal Register owned-The Fairfield Minuteman apologized for publishing a plagiarized story Jan. 5, according to a Jan. 10 blogpost by...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 12, 2012
Why No Correction on EW.com post on Beyonce & Jay-Z’s Baby’s Name Blue Ivy?
Entertainment Weekly got the name of Jay-Z and Beyonce's new baby, Blue Ivy Carter, backwards in a Jan. 8 blogpost...