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The Skinny on the Murder-for-fat Hoax: MSM Need to Update Stories
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| by Danielle Elliot, Stinkyjournalism.org |
December 14, 2009 06:10 am EST
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| Many news outlets used this image along with the original story on, what turned out to be, the murder-for-fat hoax. It shows police officers with "evidence" from the fake "crime scene." |
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When a story catches international attention, but turns out to be a hoax, should media update and clarify original stories or simply post new stories covering the on-going investigation?
Take the case of the Peruvian police fabricating a mass murder story in late November, a story that spread like wildfire around the globe.
As Sky News reports, “[Peruvian police] said victims' bodies were held above candles while the melted fat dripped into...Go to full story
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Former BBC Journalist Discusses Ethics Involved When BBC "Re-Records Material" at BBC
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| by Danielle Elliot, Stinkyjournalism.org |
December 04, 2009 03:29 am EST
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| Dr. Michael Ford discussing media ethics with Lincoln School of Journalism students. Photo by Dec Ackroyd |
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While addressing a student audience at the University of Lincoln (UK), former BBC Radio 4 presenter Dr. Michael Ford made strong statements regarding ethics in today’s media.
“I think these days journalism has tended to lack a strong underlying ethical framework,” he said, a great concern considering, “every story has potential ethical implications”.
In an email to Stinky Journalism, he expanded on this statement:
Journalistic Ethics has...Go to full story
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BBC Botches Iranian Rally Caption: Large Crowd Photo of Supporters Mislabeled Protesters
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| by Rhonda Roland Shearer, StinkyJournalism.org |
June 23, 2009
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| BBC editors admit they mistakenly captioned a Getty photo of a pro-Ahmadinejad rally as pro-Mousavi. A blog, WhatReallyHappened, is indirectly acknowledged by BBC, as the one who first reported the error. |
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BBC editors write, June 19, that they made a caption error two days before--that bloomed into controversy and accusations of biased coverage by bloggers who discovered the error.
BBC explains, "We made a mistake in a picture caption published on BBC News online. In the story Obama refuses to 'meddle' in Iran, we mistakenly stated that a Getty agency picture of a pro-Ahmadinejad rally was a pro-Mousavi rally."
BBC indirecly acknowledges...Go to full story
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BBC Misquotes Famous Author :
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| Her words were twisted into the opposite meaning |
| by Danielle Elliot, StinkyJournalism |
January 15, 2009
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| The BBC edited comments by author Dorothy Rowe. The edited versions represented views Rowe does not support. |
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A BBC radio program, What Do You Believe, took author Dorothy Rowe's comments about religion and spun them into a statement nearly "the opposite" of what Rowe said. This isn't the first time the BBC has come under fire for misquoting sources.
Rowe remembered her comments and immediately complained. In a letter to the BBC, posted on Rowe's website, the acclaimed psychologist said, "My words were edited to make it sound that I held a favorable...Go to full story
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Why hoax?
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| by Mark Easton, BBC News |
July 24, 2008
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BBC offers employees a new course:"How to avoid getting hoaxed."StinkyJournalism wonders if course includes BBC admitting their role in reporting the "Iranian Woman gives birth to a frog" baby hoax where they never admitted responsibility? ...Go to article
Image Source: StinkyJournalism.org |
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"Some hoaxes are for financial gain. Others for revenge or to make some political point. But this falls into that category of hoax motivated by the sheer pleasure of seeing people all around the world fall for it...The BBC now runs courses on how to avoid being hoaxed - not least because we have been rather spectacularly fooled in the past. Some viewers get satisfaction, apparently, by seeing their fake or retouched photographs being... Go to full story
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