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StinkyJournalism Media Picks
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Readers criticize The New York Times' City Room blog about the late Hank Jones
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| by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org |
May 28, 2010 06:49 am EST
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| This detail from a New York Times City Room blog screen shot shows not only the picture which reporter Corey Kilgannon took of Hank Jones' apartment within 24 hours of his death, but also that Kilgannon had to address some of the negative comments from readers about his reporting inside Jones's apartment. (Credit: NYT) |
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Is it ethical for a reporter to go in a recently deceased man’s apartment and then write a blog entry about it?
New York Times City Room blogger Corey Kilgannon didn’t see anything wrong with it when he did just that in mid-May. Hank Jones died May 16, and The New York Times published an obituary of the jazz musician on May 17. Then, Kilgannon went into Jones’ apartment with Jones’ roommate and landlord Manny Ramirez. ...Go to full story
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New York Times' Reports on Blumenthal Questioned by Media Outlets
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| by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org |
May 27, 2010 08:30 am EST
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| The New York Times has been writing extensively on Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal's military record. (Credit: The New York Times) |
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Starting May 17, The New York Times has published several articles and a 58-second video to call Richard Blumenthal out for misrepresenting himself as having served in Vietnam.
The nut of The Times’s evidence was the 58-second video in which Blumenthal, Connecticut's Attorney General who is running for the U.S. Senate, said he served in Vietnam. Blumenthal didn't serve in Vietnam, but he did serve during the Vietnam era, which he also said in the...Go to full story
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New York Times caught reporting third hoax story in April?
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| by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org |
April 28, 2010 08:12 am EST
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| On a Gawker post, "Btwbdfimho" posted this photoshopped image of Ragsdale, replacing his plea of love with a joke on the New York Times.
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For the third time this month, The New York Times’ City Room blog may have been caught reporting a hoax story.
An alleged computer consultant named Jeff Ragsdale was spotted in Madison Square Park holding a sign saying “I was verbally abusive. I’m sorry, Megan.” The New York Times’s City Room Blog reported that Ragsdale directed the sign to his former girlfriend of six months, Megan Brady, after calling her a...Go to full story
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New York Times Caught Not Fact Checking April Fools' Hoax
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| by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org |
April 04, 2010 10:25 am EST
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| Eric Turkewitz's April Fools' joke was run as a real story by The New York Times. |
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The New York Times got “punked” this April Fools' Day by a New York personal injury attorney.
The newspaper, it appears, blogged a report without fact checking, Googling, or even checking the date.
The attorney, Eric Turkewitz, runs New York Personal Injury Law Blog and this April Fools' Day wrote a deadpan blog entry announcing his appointment as the “official White House law blogger,”...Go to full story
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To Catch a Plagiarist : Set a Trap
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| by Molika Ashford, Stinkyjournalism.org |
March 09, 2010 07:21 am EST
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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 to trap anyone stealing the...Go to full story
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NY Times Writer Resigns After Plagiarizing
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| by Molika Ashford, Stinkyjournalism.org |
February 22, 2010 08:31 am EST
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| A portrait of Zachery Kouwe from his old writer's page at the New York Times (Credit: NYtimes.com) |
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New York Times reporter Zachery Kouwe resigned after it was revealed that he had plagiarized repeatedly from a Wall Street Journal article, and, according to the Times, "Reuters and other sources."
The New York Times scandal that is uppermost in people's minds involved reporter Jayson Blair, who plagiarized and fabricated for years at the newspaper, and recently gave a series of ethics lectures last fall. Now, another New York Times...Go to full story
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Is the Israeli Army connection a conflict for NY Times Bureau Chief?
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| by Molika Ashford, StinkyJournalism.org |
February 10, 2010 07:54 am EST
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| NY Times Jerusalem Bureau Chief, Ethan Bronner (Image from Mediaite.com) |
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A controversy has erupted over NY Times Jerusalem Bureau Chief Ethan Bronner after Electronic Intifada--a blog committed to comprehensive public education on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict--recently revealed that Bronner’s son might serve in the Israeli army.
In a February 6 column, Times Public Editor, Clark Hoyt confirmed that Bronner’s son is in fact in the army and responded to what he writes were roughly “400” reader letters/calls...Go to full story
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More Conflict of Interest Issues at the New York Times
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| by Molika Ashford, Stinkyjournalism.org |
January 28, 2010 07:12 am EST
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| New York Times Public Editor Clark Hoyt (pictured above) writes about recent issues of conflict of interest at the newspaper. (Credit: New York Times) |
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The issue of conflicting interest has already been plaguing the New York Times this year. But that was before Clark Hoyt, the New York Times Public Editor reported that the Times has had to publish five editor's notes over the last two months (two just last week) apologizing for an undisclosed interest.
Whether the conflict is the source’s or the reporter’s, disclosure is a key step toward maintaining credibility. But as StinkyJournalism has written before,...Go to full story
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Study Finds Mainstream Media, Not New Media, Write Most "New" Stories in Baltimore
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| by Molika Ashford, Stinkyjournalism.org |
January 26, 2010 08:44 am EST
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| Mainstream media in Baltimore, like the Baltimore Sun, were responsible for 90 percent of original news reporting during one week according to a new study. |
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A study by the Project for Excellence in Journalism has found that 95% of original stories (those with new information) came from newspapers (rather than "new" media like blogs and online news sites) during one week in the city of Baltimore. These very limited results were incorrectly applied by some to the entire nation instead of only one city during one week.
The New York Times, for example, heralded the finding as a validation of the role of...Go to full story
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NYTPicker, David Pogue, Argue Over New York Times' Policy on Conflicts of Interest
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| by Molika Ashford, Stinkyjournalism.org |
January 10, 2010 09:54 am EST
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| David Pogue, shown above, "is the personal-technology columnist for The New York Times" according to his NY Times bio. |
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Though this isn't the first time the NYTPicker has criticized New York Times freelance writer David Pogue, recent exchanges seem to be uniquely heated.
The Picker, a daily blog devoted "exclusively to the goings-on inside the New York Times," argued in a recent post that Pogue gets special treatment—not having to conform to conduct rules that other freelancers were recently let go over. Pogue then responded in the Picker's comments...Go to full story
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