by Sydney Smith on Sep 06, 2011
Alabama TV News Station Retracts Story on Supreme Court Vote that hasn’t Happened
Alabama NBC-affiliate WSFA issued a retraction in mid-August for its Aug 12 story on an Alabama Supreme Court decision on...
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by Sydney Smith on Sep 05, 2011
NYT Business Editor Ingrassia Rejects Ombudsman’s Criticism of Dealbook
In his Aug. 27 column, New York Times public editor Arthur Brisbane criticized NYT's "financial news service" section, DealBook, and suggested the site...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 05, 2011
Does Al Sharpton Know Endorsement Guidelines for MSNBC?
Al Sharpton, who was recently hired as an MSNBC host, reportedly told the Wall Street Journal he thought he could...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 04, 2011
Fox Sports Apologizes for Univ. of Southern California Interview Video
Fox Sports has apologized and unpublished a segment purporting to "welcome" the Univ. of Southern California football team to a football...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 04, 2011
American Journalism Review Advises on Aggregation
American Journalism Review's Michaelle Bond collected the "best practices" for "aggregating without aggravating." Referencing Advertising Age's Simon Dumenco's complaints over Huffington...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 04, 2011
Phony Travel Reviews to be Reviewed
iMediaEthics wrote earlier this year when TripAdvisor was accused of hosting 27,000 defamatory reviews. Now, Forbes is reporting that the UK...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 02, 2011
WikiLeaks Accuses Guardian of Breaking Agreement, Providing Password to Now Leaked CableGate Docs, Guardian Denies
WikiLeaks began publishing from its cache of 250,000 + leaked U.S. diplomatic cables last November. Initially, the leak-publishing website linked...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 02, 2011
WikiLeaks Publishes all Diplomatic Cables, Unredacted
In light of the leak of a full unredacted copy of the diplomatic cables that make up what WIkiLeaks calls...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 01, 2011
Chicago CBS-Affiliate Denies Racism Charges, Apologizes again for Out-of-Context Quote
As iMediaEthics previously wrote, the Chicago CBS-affiliate WBBM apologized after taking a four-year-old boy's comments on guns out of context. In...
by Sydney Smith on Sep 01, 2011
Edited video of Michele Bachmann Misquotes her
A video of Michele Bachmann has been selectively edited to show the Republican politician asking "Who likes white people?" According...