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Shirley Sherrod Plans to Sue Blogger Andrew Breitbart for NAACP Story
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| by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org |
August 05, 2010 07:29 am EST
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| Shirley Sherrod said last week that she plans to sue Andrew Breitbart, the conservative blogger who posted the video that led to her losing her job. Image above is screenshot from Sherrod's full lecture, posted on YouTube at the center of the controversy.
(Credit: NAACP, YouTube) |
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Shirley Sherrod, a former state director for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, announced at the National Association of Black Journalists July 29 that she intends to sue Andrew Breitbart, the conservative blogger who first published the video that led to her resignation.
Bloggers started weighing in on what grounds Sherrod could sue as soon as it became clear that the video clip was out of context.
The Backstory...
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Media Roundup: Shirley Sherrod's Firing and the Media
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| by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org |
July 28, 2010 07:08 am EST
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| An out of context comment made by Shirley Sherrod, seen here in an interview with CNN posted on YouTube, took over the media spotlight last week. (Credit: CNN, YouTube) |
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Georgia state official Shirley Sherrod was fired from her post as state director for rural development of the U.S. Department of Agriculture last week after a blog published a short video clip of one of her speeches. The clip, which was given to and first published by Andrew Breitbart's Big Government site, was unsourced and used out of context. After the whole video was examined, media and government officials have been apologizing to Sherrod and looking at...Go to full story
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Acorn Media Roundup: Criticism of MsM Coverage Runs Wild
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| by Sydney Smith, stinkyjournalism.org |
March 28, 2010 10:50 am EST
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| Screen shot from FOX & Friends broadcast of interview with student and ACORN debunker,James O’Keefe. When introduced, O'Keefe failed to correct the error in the FOX introduction by explaining that he didn't wear a pimp outfit while undercover in the ACORN offices. |
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MEDIA ROUNDUP
With the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (aka ACORN) closing this week, bloggers have been buzzing about how the media’s coverage (and mis-coverage) affected or caused the organization’s demise.
Complaints of media coverage have ping-ponged between polarized political blogs and news media outlets over the past seven months.
It all started after conservative activists and students, James... Go to full story
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Toyota Says Whole ABC News Acceleration Test (Not Just Video) Was Faulty
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| by Molika Ashford, StinkyJournalism.org |
March 13, 2010 10:09 am EST
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| Image allegedly shows electrical manipulations made to create acceleration in Toyota tests. (From Toyota's press materials) |
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StinkyJournalism wrote earlier this week about ABC News’ manipulated video supposedly showing a test of unplanned acceleration in a Toyota vehicle. Commenters pointed out that video from the alleged live-action "road test" included footage from a parked car test without disclosure.
Bottom line: ABC News tried to pass off as real, a video that wasn't an actual test but an unlabeled news "dramatization." Gawker confirmed this...Go to full story
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ABC News Fakes 'Live-Action' Video of Toyota Test
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| by Molly Ashford and Rhonda Roland Shearer |
March 10, 2010 09:47 am EST
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| The car in the ABC News "test" was supposedly out of control...but not really. Sharp-eyed commenters noted, the dashboard dial edited into the exciting sequence showed the true facts-- the car doors were open and the hand brake was on! |
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Just as in print stories, images and videos that are broadcast on television are subject to editing. And, just as manipulating a quote in a print story to make it appear more exciting can deceive readers, televised images, audio or video that are edited to stage a better story can mislead viewers.
Gawker reports commenters at "YouTube and various message boards" caught ABC News fabricating a fake "real live- action demonstration" video last...Go to full story
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Politico Lists the Year's Worst Media Blunders
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| by Molika Ashford, Stinkyjournalism.org |
January 04, 2010 08:49 am EST
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| AP image composite by Politico.com |
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If StinkyJournalism’s most popular stories of the year, or Craig Silverman’s best of the worst list of media corrections weren’t enough for you, Michael Calderone, of Politico.com has also issued a list of the years worst media blunders.
A few stories we covered here at StinkyJournalism made the list, like
2) The Washington Post’s “Salongate”: It’s understandable that newspapers are seeking new revenue streams, but the Post took...Go to full story
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Is October National Hoax Month?
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| by Katie Rolnick, Stinkyjournalism.org |
October 31, 2009 04:25 am EST
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Apparently, October is National Hoax Month -- or so it would seem, given the proliferation of fraudulent stories that appeared over the past couple weeks. It all began with a boy not in a balloon...
By now, you've almost certainly heard of Falcon Heene, the 6-year-old boy from Fort Collins, Colorado who, for a brief period of time, was thought to be trapped inside his father's homemade weather balloon. News crews flocked to capture the scene and helicopters from the Colorado...Go to full story
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Second Neda Footage Supports Authenticity of Iranian Maytyr's Death Video
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| by Rhonda Roland Shearer, StinkyJournalism.org |
July 01, 2009
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| IS THIS NEDA BEFORE AND AFTER SHOOTING? Sky News post the above screen shots with the caption: "Video appears to show Neda Agha Soltan in the crowd with her music teacher." |
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While news about Neda Agha Soltan's tragic death on the streets of Iran evoke global shock and sadness, questions also arise about the authenticity of the video.
UK's Sky News posts a second video that seems to support the authenticity of the original video circulating the Internet. The video footage shows a woman and a man, with the same clothing and physical appearance as Neda and her music teacher.
Sky News writes: "Neda Agha Soltan's death was captured on...Go to full story
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CNN's Credibility on Life Support?
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| Video of Dying Boy Appears Staged |
| by Danielle Mastropiero, StinkyJournalism.org |
March 20, 2009
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| FAKE VIDEO FROM GAZA? While much of CNN’s clip of the medical activity is below camera level, the doctor on the right with the dark brown hair who appears to be doing CPR, according the experts, is not in the correct position for doing real chest compressions. |
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Stinky Journalism's Danielle Mastropiero is a career EMT as well as a former American Heart Association CPR Instructor.
The claim captured in the title and caption of the video is dramatic: "Cameraman watches brother die: CNN's Michael Holmes reports on the Gaza cameraman who recorded the death of his own brother." When bloggers first raised doubts and suggested the scene was staged, the video was quickly removed by CNN but soon reemerged with the...Go to full story
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Huffington Post Wants You to Know:
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| "John Gibson Did Not Compare Eric Holder To Monkey With Bright Blue Scrotum" |
| by Rhonda Roland Shearer, StinkyJournalism.org |
February 24, 2009
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| This is a screen shot from the doctored video published by Huff Post with its cut and paste audio splicing. They originally reported, "At the end of a long and pointless conversation between two Fox News reporters covering a zoo escape, John Gibson compared Attorney General Eric Holder to a monkey." The fake "John Gibson" voice states "We were talking about Eric Holder today on the radio and his bright blue scrotum." Huff Post has since apologized. |
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The Huffington Post has admitted they were fooled by a fake video. Huff Post editors wrote on Feb 19, 2009: "UPDATE: The Huffington Post has learned that the below video has been doctored. We regret the error and apologize to Mr. Gibson. John Gibson never compared Eric Holder to a monkey with a bright blue scrotum. The Huffington Post regrets the error. -- Alex Leo and Danny Shea. "
Good to know. The IUSB Vision Weblog was first to chronicle this debacle. The...Go to full story
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