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StinkyJournalism Media Picks
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There's No ' Ground Zero Mosque' --There May Be a Community Center NEAR Ground Zero
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| by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org |
September 04, 2010 07:19 am EST
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| This detail of a Google Maps search shows the distance between the actual location of Ground Zero and the planned location for the Park 51 Community Center project. (Credit: Google Maps) |
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"The Ground Zero mosque" phrase and idea has dominated headlines recently and stirred up political and media controversy.
But, the numerous headlines, cutlines, quotes and stories about the "Ground Zero mosque" are misleading because the intended development project is a community center, with a mosque among other facilities. And, it's near, not at or on Ground Zero.
As YahooNews! Michael Calderone wrote Aug...Go to full story
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Ohio Newspapers Publicly Question Each Other's Ethics
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| by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org |
September 03, 2010 08:11 am EST
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| Brown Publishing Co. published this open letter to its readers after Dayton Daily News published articles accusing the company of inflating circulation figures. |
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It's unusual for news organizations to openly criticize each other. The Dayton Daily News reported a series of articles calling out another Ohio newspaper publishing group for the unethical practice of inflating circulation numbers for advertising purposes back in 2008.
In response, the publishing group - Brown Publishing Company - critiqued the Dayton Daily News for using anonymous sources and confidential information to write negatively... Go to full story
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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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WikiFactCheck Site Sets to CrowdSource Fact Checking
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| by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org |
August 30, 2010 07:50 am EST
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| Andrew Lih, pictured above, has created a new fact checking site, WikiFactCheck. (Credit: Flickr, "TheSeafarer" |
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The community submitted, edited and free for users Wikipedia has been around for a few years now. Google ranks Wikipedia as the fifth most trafficked site on the web. The Wiki brand recently leaped into another international controversy with WikiLeaks' publication of secret U.S. military Afghan war documents.
And now, the next Wiki on the scene is WikiFactCheck, a wiki site created by journalist Andrew Lih. Wikis are open-content sites, which allow...Go to full story
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New NYT Public Editor Arthur Brisbane's First Column on "Absolutes"
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| by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org |
August 28, 2010 07:44 am EST
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| Arthur Brisbane, above, wrote his first column as the public editor of the New York Times on the danger of using "absolutes." (Credit: Earl Wilson/The New York Times) |
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The first column by Arthur Brisbane, The New York Times' new (and fourth) public editor, focused on the often troubling use of "absolutes" - the claim that something is the most, the best, 100%, and so on. The three previous public editors have been Clark Hoyt, Byron Calame and Daniel Okrent.
Brisbane wrote that "a danger awaits stories that venture into the land of 100%." He said, "Stories that report on something that is a 'first,'...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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NBC's new spoof "Fact Checkers Unit" features Luke Perry & a phone
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| by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org |
August 21, 2010 07:52 am EST
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| THE THREE STARS OF THE SERIES: PETER KARINEN, BRIAN SACCA AND THE SAMSUNG GALAXY S PHONE--The show is a "partnership" between NBC and Samsung. Screenshot detail captured from the premiere episode. (Credit: NBC) |
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A new NBC web series called Fact Checkers Unit launched Aug 17.
The eight-episode comedy program - not available conventionally but only digitally through the Web or Video on Demand downloading - follows the two men in the fact-checking department of fictional Dictum magazine. It seems to be a spoof of the rarefied reputations of magazines, such as The New Yorker and The Atlantic Monthly, whose fact-checking departments are both mythical and legendary....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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NY Post deletes incorrect liver transplant story after page 2 correction
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| by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org |
August 17, 2010 06:42 am EST
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| The New York Post published an article on July 26 that claimed Johnny Concepcion, a man accused of killing his wife, had a liver transplant at New York Presbyterian Hospital. The hospital says it's untrue. See the Post article in a screenshot from Google Cache. |
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An unusually large correction with a big font headline ran on page 2 in the print edition of the New York Post July 28 and online.
The New York Post published a false story, July 26, that claimed notorious Johnny Concepcion, accused of killing his wife over the Fourth of July weekend, got a liver transplant at a New York hospital.
The story was quickly picked up and re-reported by many mainstream media outlets including Forbes, MSNBC, CBS...Go to full story
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Epoch Times Claims Chinese Govt Behind Fake Photo It Published
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| by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org |
August 16, 2010 07:35 am EST
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| See above an AFP/Getty Image of the actual Nanjing disaster. Independent news outlet The Epoch Times claims that the Chinese government provided it with an inaccurate photo of the disaster. (Credit: AFP/Getty Images/Epoch Times) |
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In a recent news story, independent news outlet The Epoch Times accused the Chinese government of attempting to discredit its reporting and suppress media coverage of a late July factory explosion.
The Epoch Times is an online and print newspaper considered critical of the Chinese government. It is based in New York with reporters around the world and its website says that it is a privately held media company.
The newspaper was...Go to full story
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