MediaMatters.org, a progressive website dedicated to correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media, brought up two instances of bad poll...
The spring and fall flu seasons this year have spurred a flood of sensationalist medical reporting focused on the H1N1...
In the October 21 edition of the Cornell Daily Sun, reporter Dani Neuharth-Keusch gives a rundown of the previous day’s lecture on...
Last week National Public Radio joined ranks with the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal and others by issuing social...
One of the first rules of honest journalism is to approach a source or subject with an open mind. Sure,...
Reuters (and subsequently The New York Times and Washington Post) fell for a hoax press release issued by the farcical...
What began as a fact-checking mission escalated when missiles were launched, and has now morphed into a full-blown battle between...
60 Minutes recently rebroadcast a 2007 story titled “The Age of Megafires,” which discusses the link between forest management policies,...
Last month a Wisconsin ABC affiliate, WKOW, sent letters to local doctors offering an advertising opportunity that seemed to imply that...
In a new development in the ongoing libel suit of UK journalist Simon Singh by the British Chiropractic Association (BCA),...