Errors and Inaccuracies in the News Media

Breastfeeding NOT cause for cancer, UK newspaper’s graphic fail

The UK Metro reported earlier this year that breastfeeding is a cause of cancer. But it wasn't true. Two people...

The Daily Mail unpublished an article that George Clooney called "completely fabricated." It also apologized for the claims in the...

In another cautionary tale about not checking facts, last month the Frederick News-Post in Maryland admitted that it published fake quotes...

Whoops! The UK Daily Telegraph wrongly reported that actor Daniel Day-Lewis is receiving an Order of the British Empire. In...

The Toronto Star apologized to a political candidate after an editor wrongly inserted a mis-characterization of the candidate's tweets into...

American Enterprise Institute scholar Charles Murray said women have underdeveloped brains. Never mind. He didn't say that. This was a...

UK newspaper Yellow Advertiser had to publish a front page apology May 16 for wrongly reporting that drugs police raided...

Fox News admitted to mixing up a video clip of a woman reacting to the Mount Everest avalanche in its...

Deadline Hollywood retracted a story after it published a hoax claiming the ABC show Scandal had re-cast the role of...