by Sydney Smith on Apr 03, 2020
CBS uses Italian hospital footage in NYC coronavirus report
CBS News used a video footage from an Italian hospital room in a story on the coronavirus pandemic in New...
Apologies & Retractions
by Sydney Smith on Apr 01, 2020
Reuters retracts Coronavirus FDA test story. Was it April Fools’ hoax?
Reuters published a story today claiming that a company called Bodysphere had received FDA authorization for a test for coronavirus....
by Sydney Smith on Mar 19, 2020
Why Sacramento Bee unpublished Asian & Pacific Islanders populations map: ‘out of sync’ with current events
The Sacramento Bee said it will take down a story about where Asian ethnic groups live. Although the newspaper tweeted...
by Sydney Smith on Mar 14, 2020
Newspaper apologizes, donates $ after wrong suicide report
The Basildon Echo apologized after wrongly claiming a man's son left a suicide note. The Echo's Oct. 2019 article, "Inquest...
by David W. Moore , Sydney Smith on Mar 12, 2020
Restaurant owner didn’t insult customer, Birmingham Mail unpublishes
The Birmingham Mail reported a restaurant owner called a customer who left a bad review a "d**khead." But, it turned...
by Sydney Smith on Mar 10, 2020
UK Morning Star cartoon was ‘offensive to trans people’
The UK Morning Star published a cartoon that 'was offensive to trans people," the newspaper itself admitted. In a Feb....
by Sydney Smith on Mar 10, 2020
Daily Californian’s Coronavirus cartoon had ‘harmful stereotype’
The Daily Californian published a coronavirus cartoon with a "harmful stereotype of the Asian ethnic group," the paper admitted in...
by Sydney Smith on Mar 08, 2020
Sky News’ Andrew Bolt sorry for ‘hit on’ comment about grooming
Australian Sky News commentator Andrew Bolt apologized after saying Peter Kehoe, a school athletics coach, "hit on" a 15-year-old boy....
by Sydney Smith on Mar 08, 2020
CNBC host: Saying everyone should be infected with coronavirus ‘stupid’ & ‘absurd’
CNBC editor Rick Santelli apologized March 6 for his "stupid" and "absurd" comment that everyone in the U.S. should be...