by Sydney Smith on Jan 18, 2014
Courtney Love in Court, 1st Twitter Libel Trial in US
Courtney Love is in court defending herself against a libel lawsuit for a 2010 tweet about her then-lawyer, Rhonda Holmes....
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by Sydney Smith on Jan 17, 2014
Phone Hacking Scandal Story Wins Business Ethics Award
Here's an ethics award iMediaEthics hasn't heard of: The Joint Professions for Good and Institute for Business Ethics Writings Awards....
by Sydney Smith on Jan 17, 2014
Jezebel Pays $10K for Pre-Photoshop Lena Dunham Vogue Pics, Checkbook Journalism?
Breaking news! Fashion magazine Vogue Photoshops women. The blog Jezebel paid $10,000 to get the pre-Photoshopped photographs of Lena Dunham...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 16, 2014
3 MSNBC Incidents, MSNBC Pres. Griffin says took quick ‘action’ after Alec Baldwin, Martin Bashir, & Melissa Harris-Perry debacles
MSNBC president Phil Griffin called recent controversies involving three of network's hosts "unfortunate" and defended MSNBC's reaction as "transparent" in...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 16, 2014
Guardian may re-publish Emma Keller Post on Lisa Adams, ‘I continue to regret not giving her notice,’ Keller says
Emma Keller should have told Lisa Adams, who has stage-4 breast cancer, that she was writing about her, Guardian readers...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 16, 2014
Julie Gayet Suing over Privacy after Hollande Affair Claims
Actress Julie Gayet is suing French magazine Closer for invasion of privacy after Closer published a seven-page report with photos...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 15, 2014
W. Virginia Chemical Spill NOT Georgia-Pacific, Blog Retracts
Eastman Chemical -- NOT Georgia-Pacific -- produced the chemical polluting the water in West Virginia, according to a recent retraction....
by Sydney Smith on Jan 15, 2014
Black man with ‘Suspicious activity?’ Dominion Post Apologizes for ‘Offensive’ Report
The Dominion Post, a West Virginia newspaper, made national news this week after publishing a three-sentence report saying police were...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 14, 2014
Pres. Francois Hollande Affair Story, Photos Unpublished by French Mag Closer After Injunction
France's Closer magazine is again being accused of invasion of privacy, this time by French president Francois Hollande. In 2012,...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 14, 2014
No Apologies, NYT ‘Readers misread my point,’ says Bill Keller RE His Adams Cancer Column
Former New York Times executive editor Bill Keller claimed readers who criticized his opinion article for the Times about Lisa...