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Washington Post sports writer Mike Wise suspended after hoax tweet
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| by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org |
September 02, 2010 08:01 am EST
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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 Pittsburgh Steelers...Go to full story
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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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Bloggers Spot Incorrect Wikipedia Information in UK's The Independent's Story
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| by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org |
August 19, 2010 07:53 am EST
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| Blogger Kat Arney and online technology publication The Register both scanned in The Independent's brief on The Big Chill festival, which featured information likely from Wikipedia. (Credit: Kat Arney) |
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Is Wikipedia a legitimate source for news information? The user-submitted and -edited website sometimes provides a comprehensive summary of an event or topic, but the site isn't perfect, as a recent brief story in The Independent indicates.
The brief, published Aug. 7 in The Independent, was an advance story about The Big Chill music festival. The story ended with this incorrect statement: "The Big Chill was founded in 1994 as the Wanky Balls...Go to full story
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UK's Daily Star Apologizes, Pays Damages after Publishing Hoax Story
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| by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org |
July 30, 2010 06:42 am EST
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| This Daily Star article (since removed from The Star website, but available via screenshot on Destructoid) was based on a hoax. The Daily Star issued an apology, admitting it did not attempt to verify or seek comment from Rockstar Games. (Credit: Destructoid) |
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British newspaper The Daily Star published an apology July 24 for a July 21 hoax it printed about Rockstar Games, the company that makes the Grand Theft Auto video games.
Video gaming website Joystiq wrote July 24 that Rockstar Games' forthcoming game, that turned out to be a hoax, was based on Raoul Moat's July "shooting rampage."
In real life, Moat shot his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend in early July, The Telegraph reported. Seven...Go to full story
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New Zealand Reporter Reveals "Based on a True Story" Book Likely Based on a Hoax
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| by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org |
July 08, 2010 08:20 am EST
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| Johanna Moran's fictional "The Wives of Henry Oades" is based on a 19th-century newspaper account that turns out to be, in all likelihood, a hoax. (Credit: Amazon.com) |
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A New Zealand journalist researched a book based on a true story this spring and discovered that the "true story" was in all likelihood, a hoax.
On April 18, Matt Nippert offered an analysis in the New Zealand Herald of the novel "The Wives of Henry Oades," which tells the story of a man named Henry Oades who believes his wife and children have been killed by a Maori raid. (The Maori are native people of New Zealand.)...Go to full story
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Fake General Mills press release reported by media outlets
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| by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org |
June 22, 2010 08:55 am EST
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| A Google search June 20 shows some of the articles that were written based off a fake news release about General Mills. The stories have since been retracted and the press release was immediately removed from the news wire. |
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A fake press release about General Mills led to several news reports based on the hoax, highlighting the speed of the news cycle and the importance of verifying information. The hoax has also prompted a law enforcement investigation.
Several stories written from information in the fake press release have since been retracted and removed from their sites.
The Street reported June 16 that Wall Street Journal and Reuters...Go to full story
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10 Years Later, al-Dura controversy still alive, French media watchdog wins defamation suit
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| by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org |
June 17, 2010 08:46 am EST
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| Philippe Karsenty, pictured, is the director of a French media watchdog site. He just won a libel suit, which followed his critique of a 2000 France 2 TV video. (Credit: Middle East Quarterly) |
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Another twist has been added to the decade-long debate over the "al-Dura" video broadcast by France 2, a national public television network. French mediia watchdog journalist Philippe Karsenty has won a libel suit following his criticism of the video.
The dramatic video from 2000 sowed the alleged death of a 12-year-old Palestinan boy named Mohammed al-Dura. As Atlantic Monthly wrote in June 2003, the image of al-Dura “shot dead in...Go to full story
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Gawker-owned Gizmodo duped by 3-D porn impregnation story
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| by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org |
May 19, 2010 08:01 am EST
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| Gizmodo reported the satirical story, but has since pulled the story from its site. Mediaite captured a screenshot. (Credit: Mediaite) |
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A Brazilian satire site ran a story on May 4 about an American woman who said she had been impregnated by watching 3-D pornography. Gawker-owned Gizmodo and other sites picked up the story only to be embarrassed when the story turned out to be a hoax, Mediaite reported May 13.
“Gizmodo quickly deleted the story, going so far as to clean out their online cache so no one could see it. All that is left are a few dead links on...Go to full story
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NBC Chicago, MSNBC reported fake story about NHL Canucks players
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| by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org |
May 13, 2010 09:28 am EST
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| Al Rankin, who wrote the joke story for Hockey Independent, even tweeted that the story was fake...but that didn't stop MSNBC and NBC Chicago from reporting it as real news. |
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Where's the fact checking? Apparently not at NBC Chicago and MSNBC who reported "an obviously fake story" about two pro hockey players getting in trouble for planning a tour of Chicago pizza places, Deadspin reported May 4.
National Post noted May 4 that all journalists make mistakes, but “this is just too funny to pass up.”
The stories have since been removed from NBC Chicago and MSNBC's Web sites, but SB...Go to full story
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Tiger Fauxtographer Jailed for Violating Parole, Said Searching for Tiger
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| by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org |
May 08, 2010 08:24 am EST
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| Zhou Zhenglong was put in jail for not reporting in with officials. Zhou's 2007 fauxtographs of this tiger (from a poster) in the wild sparked a three-year investigation, culminating in 13 reprimands or firings and his jailing. |
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Tiger fauxtographer Zhou Zhenglong, who created a national scandal two years ago with his faked photographs of rare tigers, was jailed for not following court instructions and properly checking in with Chinese authorities, Yahoo! News reported May 5.
The Wall Street Journal reported that the Chinese farmer said he was trying to track the tiger in the mountains when he violated his parole. Zhou was picked up April 30, Sina reported.
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