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StinkyJournalism Media Picks
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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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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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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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WikiLeaks Part II: Secret Afghan Documents, News source or news site?
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| by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org |
August 14, 2010 07:19 am EST
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| New York Times' report about WikiLeaks' unauthorized publication of classified Afghan war papers. (Credit: Detail above from screen shot of New York Times web page.) |
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While it's openly an advocacy and whistleblower safe haven, WikiLeaks has also caused a stir by crossing into gray journalistic territory.
But, with WikiLeaks' July 25 publication of its Afghan war diary - a collection of secret U.S. military documents from the war in Afghanistan--WikiLeaks provided three mainstream news organizations with an advance review. By doing so, the news organizations were first to publish about the data dump, and WikiLeaks...Go to full story
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WikiLeaks Part I: What Do We Know About WikiLeaks?
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| by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org |
August 13, 2010 08:23 am EST
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| Julian Assange, editor in chief for WikiLeaks, is shown here in a screenshot detail from a YouTube interview with The Guardian. (Credit: YouTube, The Guardian) |
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The late July publication of thousands of secret U.S. documents relating to the war in Afghanistan by the mysterious website WikiLeaks has launched countless questions about WikiLeaks, who's behind it, where the documents came from, what their significance is, and if the release of these raw documents can be considered journalism.
In this first part of a two-part series on WikiLeaks, StinkyJournalism writes about what people believe WikiLeaks is and isn't as...Go to full story
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Anthony Davis, Basketball Player May Sue Chicago Sun-Times
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| by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org |
August 10, 2010 08:08 am EST
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| The Chicago Sun-Times' articles claiming Anthony Davis, Jr. (pictured above) had made a financial commitment with the University of Kentucky have resulted in threats of legal action and questions of journalism ethics. (Credit: ESPN web page, detail from screen shot) |
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The Chicago Sun-Times is under fire for its publication of two anonymously sourced reports that the University of Kentucky intended to pay a commitment fee to a high school basketball player from Chicago, Anthony Davis, Jr. Davis is the 12th-ranked player for college recruitment and is currently in the process of recruitment and picking a college.
If the story were true, it would be against National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) rules and would be...Go to full story
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Do JournoList e-mails show journalists plotted?
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| by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org |
August 09, 2010 07:49 am EST
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| The Daily Caller's Tucker Carlson in an interview on Fox News talked about an upcoming JournoList story on his site. (Credit: YouTube) |
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COMMENTARY
Each time The Daily Caller publishes a set of e-mails from JournoList, the now-defunct listserv started and formerly operated by Washington Post liberal blogger Ezra Klein, the topic seems to take the media focus.
When the Daily Caller outed private e-mails from the listserv, starting in June, Klein quickly disbanded the group.
The Daily Caller, which was the first to get access and publish from JournoList's...Go to full story
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