Errors and Inaccuracies in the News Media

Vanity Fair Writer Admits Error in Sarah Palin Profile

A Vanity Fair writer has admitted to making an error in a profile of Sarah Palin, but the mistake hasn't...

"The Ground Zero mosque" phrase and idea has dominated headlines recently and stirred up political and media controversy. But, the numerous...

Josh Nelson wrote July 19 on his blog EnviroKnow that Bloomberg News "refuses to correct" a "blatantly false" story about...

The New York Times’s Media Decoder blog reported May 24 that the nonprofit organization Free Press “has built a Digglike...

There seems to be a prevailing attitude among broadcast journalists that they really don’t need to worry as much about...

There's a new case of poor (or no) fact checking by the mainstream media. This time, the culprit is CBS...

Recent reports about skeletons discovered in South Africa have declared the “missing link” between humans and apes has been discovered. But,...

A British appeals court has ruled that the courts shouldn’t settle scientific disputes. The court ruled in favor of writer...

Fox News Channel’s promotional clips for Sarah Palin’s new show, Real American Stories, have left the channel with a lot...