PollSkeptics Report
September 01, 2010
05:10 am EST
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“Ground Zero” Mosque-and-Muslim Media Polls Tell Us What?
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A screenshot of a CBS News report posted on YouTube, shows that recent polls have been framed to question if America is growing Islamophobic. (Credit: YouTube, CBSNews)
“Ground Zero” Mosque-and-Muslim media polls tell us what? That a majority of Americans are just a bunch of Islamophobes?
So goes the media polling beat about building a mosque and Islamic cultural center near the site of the World Trade Center in New York.
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September 02, 2010
08:01 am EST
Washington Post sports writer Mike Wise suspended after hoax tweet
by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org
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Mike Wise, a Washington Post sports writer, was suspended for the above tweet, a fake news update to an ongoing sports story. (Credit: Twitter)
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Washington Post sports columnist Mike Wise was given a 30-day suspension after knowingly tweeting fake information. His Twitter bio identifies him as a columnist for The Post and he has more than 3,500 followers. Wise is just the latest of many reporters discliplined for their online postings. Others include The Washington Post's Dave Weigel and CNN's Octavia Nasr.
Wise tweeted a hoax message that... Go to full story |
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Not all journalism stinks. But there are times when reported "facts" smell fishy. When news stories go bad, the reporter’s method is usually to blame. At Stinkyjournalism.org we advocate for more rigorous - and scientific - journalistic methodology.
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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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