by Rhonda Roland Shearer on Jul 26, 2009
Newseum’s Online Doctored Photo Exhibit
In 2001, the Newseum in Washington DC first posted an ongoing online exhibition titled, "The Commissar Vanishes: The falsification of...
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by Rhonda Roland Shearer on Jul 25, 2009
‘Non-News’ is bad news for NPR’s audience: bin Laden son story
NPR's headline sounded newsworthy enough: "Bin Laden Son Reported Killed In Pakistan." Mary Louise Kelly writes in her lede: "U.S....
by Rhonda Roland Shearer on Jul 23, 2009
NY Times Kid Texting Photo: Staged danger?
"Were we safe? Probably not.... As journalists, we are not here to judge or to direct, but only to observe...
by Rhonda Roland Shearer on Jul 22, 2009
South Shore Press says photo doctoring okay
Fred Towle Jr, director of sales and marketing for the weekly newspaper, The South Shore Press, told The Southhampton Press...
by Rhonda Roland Shearer on Jul 21, 2009
Walter Cronkite saw problems with “news sources on the Internet”
In the Washington Post live Q&A section, Marlene Adler, chief of staff to the late Walter Cronkite, was available to...
by Paige West on Jul 20, 2009
Hearing Stories, Telling Stories
The Pig in a Garden: Jared Diamond and The New Yorker Series Art Science Research Laboratory's imediaethics.org is publishing a...
by Rhonda Roland Shearer on Jul 20, 2009
TechCrunch says: We can publish stolen Twitter documents
eLearnspace reports, "TechCrunch received over 300 documents from an individual who had hacked into Twitter’s network...The information ranges from silly...
by Rhonda Roland Shearer on Jul 19, 2009
Newsweek’s Crazy Oprah Report has Axe to Grind
A crazed-looking Oprah Winfrey appeared on the cover of Newsweek magazine's June 8 issue. The headline in the print version was "Crazy...
by Rhonda Roland Shearer on Jul 18, 2009
ABC News Time Travel?
There are scant details of how it would work and no experts are named to back physicist Ronald Mallett's claim....
by Rhonda Roland Shearer on Jul 14, 2009
Don’t Send Me Fake Weather Photos says Meteorologist
Mainstream media's new dependence on content from citizens opens new problems. Determining authenticity of weather photos is now part of...