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StinkyJournalism Media Picks
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Fox News' Obama Speech Video : Was it intentionally edited to remove applause?
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| by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org |
June 07, 2010 10:30 am EST
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| Fox News' video of Barack Obama's speech at West Point notable featured roughly 12 seconds of silence. This screenshot from the Fox News video shows Obama standing at the podium.=(Credit: Fox News) |
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Bloggers questioned if Fox News removed 12 seconds of applause from the May 22 commencement speech Barack Obama gave at West Point.
The complete White House video shows cadets applauding Obama for 12 seconds after Obama says "we are poised to end our combat mission in Iraq this summer." However, in the Fox News video, after that statement, video footage shows Obama standing silently at the podium for 12 seconds. Then, the...Go to full story
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Fox News reports allegation of cover-up before fact checking anonymously written and sourced story
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| by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org |
April 29, 2010 08:07 am EST
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Journalists--especially in the mainstream media--aren’t supposed to run with anonymously written and sourced stories before verification, right?
Whoops.
Media Matters reported April 27 that Fox News was “burned” when Megyn Kelly and Bret Baier “seized on a dubious, anonymously sourced post on The American Spectator’s Washington Prowler blog that claimed that the Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS)...Go to full story
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FOX News Cancels Sean Hannity's Tea Party Event Coverage
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| by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org |
April 17, 2010 07:47 am EST
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| See detail above from a promotion for the Cincinnati Tea Party rally. Sean Hannity is listed as a headline speaker. (Credit: MediaMatters) |
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Kudos to Fox News for pulling Sean Hannity's program from its coverage of the Cincinnati Tea Party, even if it was at the last minute.
Hannity was scheduled to broadcast his show from the Cincinnati Tea Party rally on April 15. But, Hannity and his broadcast were yanked back to New York when Fox News found out the Tea Party was charging admission to the rally, The New York Times blogged.
According to its Web site, the...Go to full story
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"Terrifying Sea Critter" Not So Terrifying After All
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| by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org |
April 07, 2010 08:48 am EST
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| The main picture used for stories about the isopod, see top photo, shows the isopod without perspective or scale. (Credit: email to Ross Gwynn).
When in context, the isopods in the bottom photo look about as threatening as lobsters in a supermarket tank. (Credit: Fox News) |
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Was a mysterious sea creature found in the deep ocean? Recent sensationalized media and blog coverage of a sea isopod discovered in late March by a sub-sea survey company certainly presents it that way.
On March 27, Ross Gwynn, under the username "Gwynzer," posted photos of an isopod on Reddit. Reddit is a community-managed, user-submitted collection of posts that are or could be "new and popular" on the Web. Gwynn asked Reddit...Go to full story
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Fox News promoted Palin's new show with old LL Cool J interview
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| by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org |
April 05, 2010 08:02 am EST
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| LL Cool J turned to Twitter to complain about Fox News' recycling of a 2008 interview with him for Sarah Palin's new show. |
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Fox News Channel’s promotional clips for Sarah Palin’s new show, Real American Stories, have left the channel with a lot of questions from the media, the public and the celebrities who were advertised to be on the show.
Actor and rapper LL Cool J, country singer Toby Keith and former GE CEO Jack Welch were all featured as celebrities whose “Real American Stories” will appear in the first show. Well, that is, until LL Cool J...Go to full story
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More Bizarre Medical Images, This time at FOX News
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| by Molika Ashford, Stinkyjournalism.org |
February 28, 2010 10:01 am EST
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| IS THIS NEWS? A detail from a FOX News screen capture shows a mislabeled image in their “Outrageous Injuries” photo gallery. Is it ethical for FOX to publish X-Rays of a possible rape victim as infotainment? (It is not disclosed how the bottle got lodged in the abdomen--likely violently, even if voluntarily, through the man's rectum). |
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As StinkyJournalism wrote previously, photo galleries of bizarre medical conditions or injuries do not make ethical medical journalism.
But following on ABC's footsteps, FOX News is now running a gallery of images of "outrageous" injuries. Is it an adjunct to some illustrative medical reporting? They do not say.
In the “Outrageous Injuries” photo gallery text, FOX offers no reporting of substance, calling into question the news value and ethical...Go to full story
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Fact-Checking MediaMatters's claim: Fox & Friends' Wrong On Two Polling Questions?
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| by Molika Ashford, Stinkyjournalism.org |
October 27, 2009 3:21 pm EST
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| A still image of a Fox News Broadcast. MediaMatters.org criticizes Fox for "baselessly" attacking a recent CBS/Washington Post poll. (Credit: Mediamatters.org) |
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MediaMatters.org, a progressive website dedicated to correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media, brought up two instances of bad poll reporting in the press last week.
In one, they criticize the conservative press for calling a recent poll finding majority support for a public health care option “fraudulent," and "rigged." In another, they specifically call out the program Fox & Friends for using an outdated poll...Go to full story
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Bioethicist Cites Bad Flu Reporting, Asks: Can We Really Expect Any Better From Journalism?
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| by Molika Ashford, Stinkyjournalism.org |
October 26, 2009 07:31 am EST
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| Sensationalism hounds H1N1 media reporting. |
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The spring and fall flu seasons this year have spurred a flood of sensationalist medical reporting focused on the H1N1 virus, or swine flu. Some egregious examples from British tabloids like the Daily Express have been called out, as well as from Fox News, and ABC Australia News.
In a philosophical look at why we’ve seen such faulty journalism on the subject, Iain Brassington, a Lecturer in Bioethics, with a PhD from the University of Birmingham, argues a radical...Go to full story
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Fact-Checking the Press: The White House as Watchdog
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| by Katie Rolnick, Stinkyjournalism.org |
October 14, 2009 04:40 am EST
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| The logo above is taken from the White House blog of the same name. |
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COMMENTARY
It seems the White House has taken on a new role: fact checker. But they're not just keeping tabs on political opponents. According to Time magazine, the White House will now respond directly to media and press coverage that the administration believes to be "misleading or simply false."
Rebuttals will be made via the White House blog "Reality Check," where the President's communications team will...Go to full story
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FOX News Broadcasts Bad Advice From H1N1 Flu "Expert"
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| by Molika Ashford, Stinkyjournalism.org |
October 08, 2009 04:44 am EST
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| Dr. Kent Holtorf, on right, is described by FOX News as an “infectious disease expert” they use to advise America as the fall flu season kicks off. |
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In a recent broadcast, “Tracking H1N1,” Fox News taps the wisdom of Dr. Kent Holtorf to advise America as the fall flu season kicks off. They describe him as an “infectious disease expert.”
Twitter tipped me off again here, with @ivanoransky noting that Holtorf is, in fact, not an infectious disease expert, but an "anti-aging" specialist, according to the bio posted on the website of his own clinic, where he advocates the use of...Go to full story
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