by Sydney Smith on Feb 17, 2015
Robert Plant didn’t tear up Richard Branson’s offer to get Led Zeppelin back together
UK news service WENN retracted and apologized for its November 2014 claim that Robert Plant tore up a contract from...
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by Sydney Smith on Feb 17, 2015
FAA proposed Drone guidelines, No actual journalism reporting allowed yet
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has published proposal guidelines for handling drones. The proposal targets commercial drones and not drones...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 17, 2015
Obama’s Bad Week: Called Antichrist, Sex Assault Suspect & Now, ‘Assclown’? Media Corrections Abound
President Barack Obama has had a rough few days. First, a North Carolina newspaper called him the Antichrist in a...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 17, 2015
Peter Oborne: I quit Telegraph job, paper lets corporations ‘influence’ stories
Peter Oborne, the chief political commentator for the UK Telegraph, quit the newspaper and accused it of allowing advertisers to...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 16, 2015
Bollywood Actor Aamir Khan ‘shocked to find’ fake interview
Indian actor Aamir Khan has accused Pakistani news sites of faking an interview, the India Times reported. A major Bollywood...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 16, 2015
Obama not Antichrist, but ‘could be 7th king,’ North Carolina paper corrects headline error
It's a biblical distinction with a difference. The Lexington Dispatch wrongly published that a reader thinks President Barack Obama is...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 16, 2015
President Obama not sexual assault suspect, San Diego TV news apologizes
Fox 5 San Diego wrongly suggested that Barack Obama had been a sexual assault suspect. The television station, KSWB, showed...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 15, 2015
NPR has a ‘bias of sorts,’ says its Exiting Ombudsman Edward Schumacher-Matos
Exiting National Public Radio ombudsman Edward Schumacher-Matos wraped up his three-and-one-half-year term with a lengthy column. Specifically, Schumacher-Matos focused on...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 14, 2015
Paris City Council vote ‘green lights’ Fox News libel lawsuit, No-go zones deemed ‘insults’
Paris is moving forward with its libel lawsuit against Fox News for its false reports about "no-go zones" in the...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 13, 2015
UK Mirror ‘apologises publicly to all its victims of phone hacking’
UK newspaper publisher Trinity Mirror apologized today for phone hacking in a page-two statement. The apology admitted the Sunday Mirror,...