StinkyJournalism.org Presents:
February 01, 2010
06:35 am EST
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2010 Top Ten "Dubious Polling" Awards
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Pollsters George Bishop and David Moore |
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Woorst polls of the last year.
Every year, poll watchers are confronted with poll results and commentary that defy either logic or science, often raising questions about the very utility of polls.
With this article, veteran pollsters, authors and political scientists, George F. Bishop and David W. Moore issue their Second Annual Top Ten “Dubious Polling” Awards. These awards are intended to mark for posterity some of the most risible and outrageous pronouncements by polling organizations during the previous year.
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March 09, 2010
07:21 am EST
To Catch a Plagiarist : Set a Trap
by Molika Ashford, Stinkyjournalism.org
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Zachery Kouwe was caught in a DealBreaker trap long before his plagiarism caused him to resign from the New York Times. (Credit: Tristanb, Wikimedia Commons - GNU Free Documentation License)
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In the aftermath of Zachary Kouwe’s plagiarism and departure from the New York Times, Clark Hoyt, the Times' reader’s editor has published a column revealing some more details of what happened. Included is a description of how some of Kouwe’s early cribbing from a blog called DealBreaker was found out; the site set a plagiarism trap.
According to Hoyt, DealBreaker published an internal Citigroup memo but changed a few words to try... Go to full story |
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Journalism and Ethics
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How long before BBC admits their "Montage" of Obama's Inaugural Address was Ethically Wrong?
BBC staff took Obama’s spoken words and rearranged them through audio editing without disclosing this to their viewers. Tampering with quotations --written or audio--is a serious breach of journalism ethics.
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