by Sydney Smith on Apr 26, 2014
Police Pay After Misidentifying Man To Media As Rapist
The police in a UK town have paid a man who they misidentified to the local media as a rapist....
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by Sydney Smith on Apr 25, 2014
Daily Mail and Telegraph reporting on BBC sheep series is Baaaaad
The UK Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph both slammed the BBC earlier this month for renting rooms at the Dalmahoy...
by Sydney Smith on Apr 05, 2014
6 million is not one-third of 7 million: Fox News corrects its Obamacare sign-up graphic on air
Fox News messed up, then corrected, an on-air graphic enrollment for The Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare. The original graphic...
by Sydney Smith on Mar 11, 2014
BuzzFeed’s 29 Embarrassing culture errors, One wrong
BuzzFeed recently posted an article entitled "29 Embarrassing Things You Should Absolutely Avoid While Traveling Abroad." Unfortunately, BuzzFeed got one...
by Sydney Smith on Mar 07, 2014
U-2 Pilot Crash Story Disputed, Calif. Press-Enterprise retracts
The Press-Enterprise retracted a November story about a former U-2 pilot's experiences after it wasn't able to confirm they were...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 03, 2014
3 Errors in Google Android Stories Guardian Shouldn’t Have Published
The Guardian prematurely published an article on Google Android software, according to a correction published in its Jan. 30 Corrections...
by London Shearer Allen on Jan 31, 2014
Fact or Fiction? Pope Francis’s peace doves attacked by birds of prey story
News coverage lately has risen well past the level of absurdity. Gawker is reporting that “science” has found a “horrible...
by Sydney Smith on Jan 30, 2014
Pope John Paul II Relic case found, but Blood cloth not: 4 Problems with Media Coverage
News stories this week shouted that a vial of the late Pope John Paul II's blood was stolen by Satanists!...
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....