by Katie Rolnick on Oct 13, 2009
President Obama’s Recommended Revisions Undermine Federal Shield Law
Not long ago, we wrote about an amendment to the proposed federal media shield, a law that would protect journalists...
Anonymous Sources
by Katie Rolnick on Oct 12, 2009
Ethics Questions Linger While Milwaukee University Lecturer Jessica McBride Continues Teaching
This summer we wrote about freelance journalist and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee journalism lecturer Jessica McBride's affair with the city's police...
by Katie Rolnick on Oct 02, 2009
Free Flow of Information Act Amendment (Shield Law) Narrowly Defines the Term “Journalist”
An amendment to the proposed Free Flow of Information Act (S. 448) has ignited heated discussion about the formal definition...
by Danielle Mastropiero on Apr 07, 2009
Media Fails to Fact Check Skewed Stats in Palestinian Conflict Death Toll
It's bad enough when TMZ and other seedy celebrity rags use "unnamed sources," but when the mainstream media incorporates them...
by Rhonda Roland Shearer on Feb 24, 2009
Huffington Post Wants You to Know:
The Huffington Post has admitted they were fooled by a fake video. Huff Post editors wrote on Feb 19, 2009:...
by Danielle Mastropiero on Feb 20, 2009
Media Protects Anonymous Sources on Rihanna-Chris Brown
Huffington Post reported that Los Angeles Times writer, Andrew Blankstein, was the first to reveal pop star Rihanna as the...
by Danielle Elliot on Feb 18, 2009
Urgency No Excuse for Inaccuracy: NYT on Caroline Kennedy False Story
Clark Hoyt, public editor of the NY Times, says the rush to beat competitors caused Times reporter Danny Hakim to...
by Rhonda Roland Shearer on Oct 27, 2008
Hey, MsM and Bloggers, Dems and GOP:
On Sunday, Oct. 26, Fox News showed The View's Elisabeth Hasselbeck introducing VP candidate Sarah Palin. Hasselbeck emphasized that Palin...
by Adam Klasfeld on Jul 03, 2007
A Brutal Speculation: NYDaily News Wrongly Said Child Raped, Killed, Doesn’t Correct
On April 23, the New York Daily News filed a story about the death of of a young girl named...