by Danielle Mastropiero on Jan 29, 2009
Man ALMOST Attacked By a Pit Bull Is News?
The media in Riverside County, California seems to be determined to get as much mileage out of the mauling death...
Sensationalism
by Rhonda Roland Shearer on Dec 08, 2008
New Low from Down Under: Send your Sex Club Photos
The Daily Telegraph in Australia has reached what is possibly a new low in its media ethics. Embedded within a...
by Rhonda Roland Shearer on Nov 11, 2008
It’s a Rottweiler Photo; Not a Pitbull !
The KRMG Local News AP headline blares--“Woman mauled by large pitbull'-- in Tulsa, Oklahoma, October 30, 2008. A photo of...
by iMediaEthics Staff on Sep 19, 2008
“Atlantic Reaps Traffic Bounty from Photog’s Stunt”
Mixed Media's Jeff Bercovici wrote: "Photographer Jill Greenberg certainly didn't do right by The Atlantic when she posted grotesquely Photoshopped...
by Rhonda Roland Shearer on Aug 06, 2008
History repeats itself…in dog days of summer
It was August 2006 in Maine.. a strange creature's carcass was found. Hey, wait a minute. This sounds just like...
by Rhonda Roland Shearer on Mar 03, 2008
The Impossible Measure of “Dimness”
If the Washington Post uses low standardized test scores as evidence for innate female “dimness,” is the same argument for...
by iMediaEthics Staff on Feb 22, 2008
A McCain Affair?
Under a bland headline, “For McCain, Self-Confidence On Ethics Poses Its Own Risk,” the New York Times published an article...
by Adam Klasfeld on Nov 29, 2007
Anatomy of a Correction / Correction of Anatomy: Pitbull Didn’t Chew Off Leg
UPDATED 12/3/07 If StinkyJournalism staffers are the self-knighted superheroes of fact-checking, then Google Alerts are our trusty sidekicks. When founder...
by Rhonda Roland Shearer on Oct 19, 2007
iMediaEthics Study: Fred Thompson Finishes 1st with 19 stories in Newsweek
If the number of Newsweek articles were the measure of who will be US President, Fred Thompson has already won....