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The Atlantic criticizes HuffPost for being duped by satire site & not admitting error
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| by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org |
August 24, 2010 06:25 am EST
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| Screenshot detail shows Huffington Post's updated version of its article that originally critiqued ChristWire's satirical article. (Credit: Huffington Post) |
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The Atlantic Wire's John Hudson called out the Huffington Post Aug 19 for treating a satirical article as news and not being transparent in its corrections.
According to Hudson, Huffington Post's Katla McGlynn criticized a joke article "Is my Husband Gay?" as if it were a serious, not a satirical article. The article was published Aug 14 on ChristWire.org, which labels itself "Conservative Values for the Unsaved World." While the...Go to full story
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WikiLeaks Part I: What Do We Know About WikiLeaks?
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| by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org |
August 13, 2010 08:23 am EST
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| Julian Assange, editor in chief for WikiLeaks, is shown here in a screenshot detail from a YouTube interview with The Guardian. (Credit: YouTube, The Guardian) |
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The late July publication of thousands of secret U.S. documents relating to the war in Afghanistan by the mysterious website WikiLeaks has launched countless questions about WikiLeaks, who's behind it, where the documents came from, what their significance is, and if the release of these raw documents can be considered journalism.
In this first part of a two-part series on WikiLeaks, StinkyJournalism writes about what people believe WikiLeaks is and isn't as...Go to full story
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Fred Barnes said not on 'conservative team,' Yet Republican Party pays him to speak
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| by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org |
August 08, 2010 07:04 am EST
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| Fox News commentator Fred Barnes said he's never been on a conservative team, but Salon's Joe Conason has found several times where Barnes has given speeches at Republican Party events. (Credit: Twitter) |
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Journalist Fred Barnes wrote July 22 for the Wall Street Journal’s opinion page slamming liberal colleagues for disregarding the tenets of "traditional journalism" when corresponding on JournoList about the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
But, while criticizing the JournoList members for teaming up along party lines, it turns out he himself has violated journalism ethics by not disclosing a financial conflict of interest. Barnes has accepted money from...Go to full story
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Slate Criticized for Critique of Politico's Corrections
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| by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org |
August 04, 2010 08:18 am EST
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| This detail from a screenshot shows Slate's article requesting corrections by Politico...The article now has its own corrections. |
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Slate published July 20 an article critiquing Politico for not disclosing corrections.
However, the Slate article, by Jeremy Singer-Vine, itself, now features a handful of corrections. And, it turns out Slate's own corrections policy also would have allowed the non-disclosure of almost all of the same corrections they called out in Politico in the first place. Columbia Journalism Review quoted Michael Newman, the Slate editor ...Go to full story
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Washington Post Blogger Lack of Disclosure Called Out, Fixed Quickly
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| by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org |
July 06, 2010 08:25 am EST
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| Patricia McGinnis's Washington Post bio didn't disclose that she is a White House adviser until The Raw Story called the newspaper out on this miscue. Her bio has been updated. (Credit: Washington Post) |
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The Raw Story revealed July 2 that The Washington Post hadn't disclosed that blogger Patricia McGinnis has ties to the White House, even while she is blogging about the White House. The Post quickly disclosed the conflict of interest after The Raw Story's article, according to an update on the original article.
McGinnis is an unpaid adviser to the White House on leadership programs for presidential appointees. The Raw Story included a...Go to full story
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Politico deletes text from McChrystal post with no disclosure, Media writers raise objections
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| by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org |
June 27, 2010 08:31 am EST
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| CJR, Jay Rosen, and Media Matters have called out Politico for deleting an interesting section of its text on Gen. McChrystal. (Credit: Flickr, "The Truth About") |
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Politico is being called out online by media writers for deleting a chunk of text from its June 22 blog on Gen. Stanley McChrystal.
McChrystal resigned after comments in a Rolling Stone profile by freelancer Michael Hastings were leaked throughout the media. (Politico posted the Rolling Stone online before Rolling Stone even had).
In the June 22 story on Politico, Gordon Lubold and Carol E. Lee wrote about the McChrystal incident. But, on...Go to full story
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Lavender magazine's undercover outing of Rev. Tom Brock gay feelings, Was it ethical?
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| by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org |
June 25, 2010 08:59 am EST
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| Minnesota magazine Lavender's cover story on Rev. Tom Brock featured information from a confidential 12-step program meeting. (Credit: Lavender) |
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LGBT magazine Lavender may have gotten a lot of press by exposing a Minnesota reverend's participation at a meeting for people "struggling with same-sex attraction" in its cover story, but did it violate media ethics guidelines?
The magazine just published in its current issue a lengthy article by John Townsend, which detailed Rev. Tom Brock's participation in a confidential 12-step therapy meeting. The Associated Press reports that...Go to full story
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Chicago Trib Calls Out HuffPo Blogger for Not Disclosing Relationship To Rev. Jesse Jackson
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| by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org |
June 20, 2010 08:34 am EST
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| Tamara Holder, pictured here in this screenshot from a YouTube video, was called out for not disclosing her relationship to Rev. Jesse Jackson when blogging about Jackson's son. |
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Journalists should be careful to always disclose unavoidable conflicts of interest when reporting. But does this principle apply to the blogosphere as well?
Chicago Tribune business writer Ameet Sachdev called out lawyer and Huffington Post blogger Tamara Holder for not disclosing in her June 9 Huffington Post blog her relationship to Rev. Jesse Jackson.
Holder had written a blog post for The Huffington Post June 9 titled...Go to full story
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Lance Armstrong's real T-shirt doesn't curse, Outside Magazine uses Photoshop
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| by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org |
June 19, 2010 09:05 am EST
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| Lance Armstrong tweeted his complaint about Outside magazine photoshopping a fake logo on his plain T-shirt--complete with abbreviated cursewords--for its cover. Outside defends itself by pointing to a small font disclosure on the cover--see small text circles in red and enlarged in yellow box above. (Credit: Outside magazine) |
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Outside magazine's July issue features a cover image of seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong donning a T-shirt reading: "38. BFD." (FYI 38 is Armstrong's age and BFD stands for Big F****** Deal, according to the Urban Dictionary.)
But, Armstrong wasn't wearing that T-shirt in the photo shoot. The 38 and the BFD were Photoshopped.
Stylelist.com reported that Armstrong "is pretty P.O.'d about his appearance on the July...Go to full story
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ABC's Exclusive Interview with Casey Anthony's Parents Doesn't Disclose Previous $200,000 Payment
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| by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org |
June 18, 2010 09:04 am EST
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| Screen shot from ABC's Good Morning America exclusive interview with the Anthonys (Credit: ABC's GMA website) |
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"Good Morning America's" June 15 interview with George and Cindy Anthony may have been an exclusive for the ABC network. However, nowhere in the "Good Morning America" interview or the accompanying online article does ABC disclose the $200,000 payment to the Anthonys the network has made in the past for the licensing of photos used in an earlier interview.
Even though the recent online version of the story linked to a photo gallery...Go to full story
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