
<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>http://www.Stinkyjournalism.org</title><pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 07:34:57 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Exciting news Readings ,updated daily]]></description><link>http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates.php</link><item><title>Alabama&#39;s Monster Pig Hoax, one year later</title><pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 07:34:57 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Exclusive to ESPNOutdoors.com
In January, a Clay County grand jury was to decide if the Monster Pig hunters committed animal cruelty. The public never heard that the District Attorney who was to prosecute the case suddenly canceled . Now in April, another surprise. National Geographic UK film crew is in Alabama filming &quot;Anatomy of a Hoax&quot; about the monster hog killing. With all the unexpected twists and turns in this case, what else should the public know? Fred the pig may be dead but the consequences of his killing continue.]]></description><guid>129 at http://www.stinkyjournalism.org</guid><link>http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-129.php</link></item><item><title>STEALTH REDESIGN</title><pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 07:34:57 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Last November, under the cover of media darkness, Newsweek migrated its website from the MSNBC homepage to its own web address, Newsweek.com.]]></description><guid>128 at http://www.stinkyjournalism.org</guid><link>http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-128.php</link></item><item><title>When NBC &quot;Nightly News&quot; promotes History Channel programming, the public is no April Fool</title><pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 07:34:57 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Riddle: Why did NBC run an infomercial for a competitor&#39;s programming during its Nightly News with Brian Williams on April 1st?]]></description><guid>127 at http://www.stinkyjournalism.org</guid><link>http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-127.php</link></item><item><title>The Impossible Measure of &quot;Dimness&quot;</title><pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 07:34:57 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[If the Washington Post uses low standardized test scores as evidence for innate female &ldquo;dimness,&rdquo; is the same argument for African-Americans&#39; genetic inferiority far behind?]]></description><guid>126 at http://www.stinkyjournalism.org</guid><link>http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-126.php</link></item><item><title>A McCain Affair?</title><pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 07:34:57 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[
Under a bland headline, &ldquo;For McCain, Self-Confidence On Ethics Poses Its Own Risk&rdquo; the New York Times published an article on Senator John McCain &nbsp;on February 21st that has gotten considerable attention, and provoked&nbsp;heated debate.&nbsp;]]></description><guid>125 at http://www.stinkyjournalism.org</guid><link>http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-125.php</link></item><item><title>Where The Antelope DON&#39;T Play:</title><pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 07:34:57 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A prize-winning photograph of antelope prancing merrily beneath the mammoth new railroad from China to Tibet turns out to be fake, two photographs stitched together. The photographer confessed on a Chinese photography Web site and then resigned, as did his chief editor.]]></description><guid>124 at http://www.stinkyjournalism.org</guid><link>http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-124.php</link></item><item><title>EXCLUSIVE: FOLLOW THE BACON :</title><pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 07:34:57 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;
Mike Stone, Boy';s father, said &ldquo;I regret that it (hog) didn';t die the first shot.&rdquo; 
When Jamison Stone shot and killed a massive swine in Alabama last year, the headlines blared: &ldquo;Boy Bags Monster Pig in ';Bama.&rdquo; An 11-year-old taking down a hog in Dixie was front-page news in Manhattan. &ldquo;The Today Show&rdquo; lined him up for an appearance.
Now he faces a Grand jury...]]></description><guid>123 at http://www.stinkyjournalism.org</guid><link>http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-123.php</link></item><item><title>BARBARIANS AT THE PARLOR DOOR</title><pubDate>Fri, 16 Feb 2007 07:34:57 GMT</pubDate><guid>122 at http://www.stinkyjournalism.org</guid><link>http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-122.php</link></item><item><title>ABOUT TO BUY THE (WIKI) FARM:</title><pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2007 07:34:57 GMT</pubDate><guid>121 at http://www.stinkyjournalism.org</guid><link>http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-121.php</link></item><item><title>BRING ON THE BILLIONAIRES:</title><pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2007 07:34:57 GMT</pubDate><guid>120 at http://www.stinkyjournalism.org</guid><link>http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-120.php</link></item><item><title>COX JUMPS SHIP:</title><pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2007 07:34:57 GMT</pubDate><guid>119 at http://www.stinkyjournalism.org</guid><link>http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-119.php</link></item><item><title>SPECIAL (ANONYMOUS) FRIENDS EPISODE:</title><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2007 07:34:57 GMT</pubDate><guid>118 at http://www.stinkyjournalism.org</guid><link>http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-118.php</link></item><item><title>VIEWER&#39;S CHOICE:</title><pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2007 07:34:57 GMT</pubDate><guid>117 at http://www.stinkyjournalism.org</guid><link>http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-117.php</link></item><item><title>EVEN FACT CHECKERS GET THE BLUES:</title><pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 07:34:57 GMT</pubDate><guid>116 at http://www.stinkyjournalism.org</guid><link>http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-116.php</link></item><item><title>TWISTED:</title><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2007 07:34:57 GMT</pubDate><guid>115 at http://www.stinkyjournalism.org</guid><link>http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-115.php</link></item><item><title>BURNED ON PARIS:</title><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2007 07:34:57 GMT</pubDate><guid>114 at http://www.stinkyjournalism.org</guid><link>http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-114.php</link></item><item><title>BU$TED HEAD:</title><pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2007 07:34:57 GMT</pubDate><guid>113 at http://www.stinkyjournalism.org</guid><link>http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-113.php</link></item><item><title>SHAMELESS:</title><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 07:34:57 GMT</pubDate><guid>112 at http://www.stinkyjournalism.org</guid><link>http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-112.php</link></item><item><title>INTERPORK:</title><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2007 07:34:57 GMT</pubDate><guid>111 at http://www.stinkyjournalism.org</guid><link>http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-111.php</link></item><item><title>GETTIN&#180; JIGGY WITH POLITICS:</title><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 07:34:57 GMT</pubDate><guid>110 at http://www.stinkyjournalism.org</guid><link>http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-110.php</link></item><item><title>MONKEY SEE, MONKEY DON'T:</title><pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2007 07:34:57 GMT</pubDate><guid>109 at http://www.stinkyjournalism.org</guid><link>http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-109.php</link></item><item><title>THE INVISIBLE POLITICS OF COMAIR 5191:</title><pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2007 07:34:57 GMT</pubDate><guid>108 at http://www.stinkyjournalism.org</guid><link>http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-108.php</link></item><item><title>RADIO STATIONS WITHOUT BORDERS:</title><pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 07:34:57 GMT</pubDate><guid>107 at http://www.stinkyjournalism.org</guid><link>http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-107.php</link></item><item><title>CORRECTION CONNECTION:</title><pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2007 07:34:57 GMT</pubDate><guid>105 at http://www.stinkyjournalism.org</guid><link>http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-105.php</link></item><item><title>MODERN &#60;I&#62;TIMES&#60;/I&#62;:</title><pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2007 07:34:57 GMT</pubDate><guid>104 at http://www.stinkyjournalism.org</guid><link>http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-104.php</link></item><item><title>DOES THE MEDIA REGRET THE ERRORS?</title><pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 07:34:57 GMT</pubDate><guid>103 at http://www.stinkyjournalism.org</guid><link>http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-103.php</link></item><item><title>Lifted!?$</title><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 07:34:57 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Given the current state of our national press, it';s sometimes difficult to know whether the work of media ethicists is making an impact.&nbsp; Well, if the cover image of the New York Post about the results of the Iowa caucus is any indication, at least one of Gotham';s tabloids is starting to notice our work. 
Compare an image that we published on October 19, 2007 with the Post';s from January 4, 2008. Does it look familiar?]]></description><guid>102 at http://www.stinkyjournalism.org</guid><link>http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-102.php</link></item><item><title>REAL FIREPROOF DOLL... OR PLACED AFTER FIRE?</title><pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2007 07:34:57 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Original Reuters caption: &quot;A doll lies in the charred rubble of a home in the Rancho Santa Fe area of San Diego, California October 23, 2007. Wildfires stoked by fierce winds burned unchecked across Southern California....&quot;
StinkyJournalism launched an investigation after bloggers and others questioned the validity of a Reuters photograph&nbsp;that featured&nbsp;an unburnt doll lying on top of the charred remains of a California house. Now Reuters is stonewalling efforts to bring in fire engineering experts to analyze high resolution photographs. 

StinkyJournalism is also investigating the possibility that a Reuters photojournalist trespassed on private property to obtain photographs of a tragically destroyed home. In the face of mysogynist, hate-filled campaign against Rhonda Roland Shearer and her daughter, by a &quot;friend&quot; of the photographer, Shearer continues to ask Reuters to live up to the standards of ethics and integrity professed by its CEO, Tom Glocer. ]]></description><guid>101 at http://www.stinkyjournalism.org</guid><link>http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-101.php</link></item><item><title>Anatomy of a Correction / Correction of Anatomy</title><pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 07:34:57 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[
If StinkyJournalism staffers are the self-knighted superheroes of fact-checking, then Google Alerts are our trusty sidekicks.&nbsp; When founder Rhonda Roland Shearer received a suspicious news alert about an article from Toledo&#39;s WTVG (&quot;Pit bull chews off boys leg, mother sentenced&quot;), she immediately smelled that something wasn&#39;t right...]]></description><guid>99 at http://www.stinkyjournalism.org</guid><link>http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-99.php</link></item><item><title>&#39;Roid Rage</title><pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 07:34:57 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;
Maybe The New York Post';s statistics should be checked for steroid use.&nbsp;]]></description><guid>97 at http://www.stinkyjournalism.org</guid><link>http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-97.php</link></item><item><title>STINKYJOURNALISM STUDY: Fred Finishes First</title><pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 07:34:57 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Fred Thompson is a lean, mean media machine - and he&#39;s leaving the competition in the dust.
Since April, Newsweek has published 19 articles about GOP candidate Fred Thompson.&nbsp; By comparison, Democratic frontrunners Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have received 10 a piece. The bulk of the pack - folks like Dennis Kucinich, Ron Paul, Joe Biden, Sam Brownback and Bill Richardson - aren&#39;t even out of the blocks.
If the number of Newsweek articles were the measure of who will be US President, Fred Thompson has already won.]]></description><guid>96 at http://www.stinkyjournalism.org</guid><link>http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-96.php</link></item><item><title>Fred, White and Blue</title><pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 07:34:57 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[
    
        
            
            Play Video &nbsp;&nbsp;l&nbsp;&nbsp;Read Story
            
        
    

The red truck is rolling. Fred Thompson is on the campaign trail. But Stinkyjournalism has one question: Is Thompson the Republican candidate, or the NBC-Newsweek candidate?]]></description><guid>94 at http://www.stinkyjournalism.org</guid><link>http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-94.php</link></item><item><title>MONKEY TROUBLE</title><pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2007 07:34:57 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[While working on a class project about disgraced journalists, Columbia graduate students Gretchen Cuda and Leonardo Blair began digging into the file of Jay Forman, a freelance writer who wrote a story for the online magazine, Slate, titled Monkeyfishing: Cruel and Unusual? or Good Sporting Fun? ]]></description><guid>93 at http://www.stinkyjournalism.org</guid><link>http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-93.php</link></item><item><title>Pit Bull Rapist Safe For Now</title><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 07:34:57 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[After a two-year-old boy from Lockport, New York was allegedly sodomized by a family pet, a pit bull named &quot;Bear,&quot; people across the nation responded with sympathy and support for the child and the dog, who is currently in the custody of the Niagara Country SPCA. Conversations on Internet message boards showed disbelief that the dog acted alone; and citizens were concerned that it would be euthanized for the act. However, Niagara County SPCA executive director Al Chille said he will not let that happen.

He had a lot to say about the case. Stinkyjournalism therefore decided to publish the full text of our interview.]]></description><guid>91 at http://www.stinkyjournalism.org</guid><link>http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-91.php</link></item><item><title>Pit Bull &quot;Molested And Attacked&quot; Toddler?</title><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2007 07:34:57 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[
    
        
            
        
        
            Dan Cappellazzo/ Staff photographer/ Town of Niagara , NY
        
    

Buffalo area media outlets reported the &ldquo;bizarre and disturbing&rdquo; story of two-year old pitbull named &quot;Bear&quot; raping a two-year-old child. StinkyJournalism.org finds two misquoted experts crying foul; hospital saying child protection agency is involved; an SPCA Executive Director revealing that mother has &ldquo;relocated&rdquo; and giving StinkyJournalism advance notice of results of dog&#39;s official behavioral analysis.&nbsp; 
The voice on Buffalo, New York&#39;s WBEN news radio broadcast promised &ldquo;bizarre and disturbing&rdquo; news about &ldquo;an attack on a small boy by a pit bull.&rdquo; The mother claimed that the dog allegedly anally raped her two-year-old son. The toddler had reconstructive surgery, and is in the Buffalo&#39;s Women&#39;s &amp; Children&#39;s Hospital.&nbsp; The dog is locked up at the Niagara County SPCA, and the mother is demanding that it be euthanized as soon as possible.

It&#39;s unclear whether the story was reported the way it was out of a misplaced sense of propriety, or lurid sensationalism. Evidence, however, indicates that the press has lent credibility to the preposterous alibi of a child rapist, leaving a two-year-old in continued danger of molestation while sending an innocent pit bull to be put to sleep.]]></description><guid>90 at http://www.stinkyjournalism.org</guid><link>http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-90.php</link></item><item><title>A &quot;Brutal&quot; Speculation</title><pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2007 07:34:57 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Five-year-old Monique Fulgham was brutally raped and murdered, the New York Daily News said, but it turned out to be an accident.


They &ldquo;made no error&rdquo; and &ldquo;updated&rdquo; the story, according to a Daily News PR rep. But are &ldquo;updates&rdquo; good enough for Monique';s family, who pleaded to the Sun that &ldquo;something should be done&rdquo; about the false reportage?]]></description><guid>53 at http://www.stinkyjournalism.org</guid><link>http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-53.php</link></item><item><title>Mike Stone, Unturned</title><pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2007 07:34:57 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Mike Stone posts these two photos on his &quot;hate page&quot; and boldly states, &quot;They are two TOTALLY different pictures and both have been shown without ANY misrepresentation, especially by CNN.&quot; Really? Photoshop expert, Rob Nelson proves otherwise. Compare the same tree in both photographs. Hidden in plain sight are obvious alterations to the tree. Again, these two photos are taken from Stone&#39;s Monsterpig.com web site. Please stand up, Mr. Stone and explain to the world these photoshop alterations?

    
        
            
        
        
            The hoax was bound to fail. Look at the obvious Photoshop alterations. Compare the same tree in both photos. Discovered by expert, Rob Nelson, these two photographs are from Mike Stone&#39;s own web site &quot;hate page&quot; against the author of this report. 
        
    
]]></description><guid>52 at http://www.stinkyjournalism.org</guid><link>http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-52.php</link></item><item><title>Hyped Hog Hits Speedbump on Way to Fame.</title><pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2007 07:34:57 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;

    
        
            
        
        
            
            &quot;There&#39;s a sucker born every minute&quot; said David Hannum, competitor of P.T. Barnum.
            
        
    

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            EXCLUSIVE STORY HIGHLIGHTS: 
            
                Mike Stone selling rights to photos for $500 dollars
                Monster Pig website and the Legend of Hogzilla movie site registered on same day (tip thanks to J. Tithonus Pednaud)
                New Timeline exposes &quot;coincidental&quot; commercial connections
            
            
        
    
]]></description><guid>51 at http://www.stinkyjournalism.org</guid><link>http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-51.php</link></item><item><title>BIG PIG SMACK DOWN: BIG NORM&#39;S OWNER WEIGHS IN.</title><pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2007 07:34:57 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW : With KERRY DART, NEW YORK FARMER AND OWNER OF WORLD&#39;S LARGEST HOG

Stinky Journalism set off a whirlwind of debunking with its investigation of suspicious photographs and lazy reporting regarding the so-called monster pig of Alabama. Now Rhonda Roland Shearer talks with Kerry Dart, New York farmer and owner of the world';s largest pig, Big Norm. Excerpt from their conversation are below.]]></description><guid>50 at http://www.stinkyjournalism.org</guid><link>http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-50.php</link></item><item><title>PIG TALES</title><pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2007 07:34:57 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The ugly truth about fake news.

The ugly truth about fake news. 
&nbsp;Photo credit: StrasserB 
www.airliners.net/discussions/non_aviation/read.main/1622815/]]></description><guid>47 at http://www.stinkyjournalism.org</guid><link>http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-47.php</link></item><item><title>&quot;The Monster Pig Photo&#39;s a Fake:&quot;  Reader&#39;s Comments</title><pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2007 07:34:57 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Dart weighs in on monster pig controversy. Says rush to slaughter pig is evidence of fraud. To be uploaded Friday, June 1st.]]></description><guid>46 at http://www.stinkyjournalism.org</guid><link>http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-46.php</link></item><item><title>HOG WASHED!</title><pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2007 07:34:57 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[
    
        
            
            
            
        
        
            SPECIAL REPORT Part I :
            NBC TODAY SHOW DUPED! Joins the club with AP, Fox News, ABC, CBS, CNN and the rest of the world media fooled by monster pig photos. Hoax busted by a StinkyJournalism.org special investigation. NBC faced with choice to either debunk their own report during May29th segment, or make 11th hour cancellation with guests en route. They chose the latter, according to producers. 
        
    


    
        
            
            
            
        
        
            
            
            
        
        
            
            
                
                    
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                    
                
            
            
        
        
            
            
                
                    
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                    
                
            
            
        
    

*Note: MonsterPig.com has continually changed since its inception.These changes have become more drastic since StinkyJournalism&#39;s investigation began in late May. Most notably all the photos of Monster Pig have been removed except for one that has clearly been photoshopped. Therefore all MonsterPig.com links are referenced from our archive.
What&#39;s going on in these six dramatic MonsterPig.com photographs? Stinky Journalism sought retired NYU physicist, Richard Brandt&#39;s analysis as press reports cited no scientific opinions about the photos, which locals and hunters found suspicious. Stinky Journalism puts the photos to the test, with resident trick photography expert and Art Science Research Laboratory director Rhonda Roland Shearer&#39;s special report.

    
        
            EXCLUSIVE STORY HIGHLIGHTS: 
            
                NBC Today Show cancels segment on monster pig after flying boy and father to NYC instead of disclosing their role and the hogs to the public
                AP photo fails stink test according to retired NYU physicist, Richard Brandt
                Scientific measurements prove that if the boy is 5 feet 5 inches, as cited, the pig would measure a colossal 15 feet (and not the 9 feet, 4 inches, which was claimed)
                Alternatively, Brandt&#39;s report states, the boy would measure a puny 3 feet 9-1/2 inches instead of 5 feet 5 inches, if the beast&#39;s length is calculated at 9 feet 4 inches
            
            
        
    

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            Awe-inspiring photograph of boy hunter and his kill. Here lies the monster pig and slayer, Jamison Stone, 11 years old.
        
    

The Associated Press News Wire, followed by FOX News, reported that a &quot;monster pig&quot; had been shot by an eleven-year-old boy in rural Alabama. A dramatic photo (see Figure 2) accompanied the story. It showed the young hunter, Jamison Stone, a hardy 5 feet 5 inches, leaning on the back of the stupendous and dead 1,051 pound, 9 foot 4 inch, feral pig. This striking photo, which ran on the front page of the Saturday May 26th New York Post created an international news stir.
One problem. Evidence collected by Stinky Journalism indicates that the photos, which ran on televisions and newspapers throughout the world, are not the straightforward snapshots they seem--but fakes.
&nbsp;]]></description><guid>45 at http://www.stinkyjournalism.org</guid><link>http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-45.php</link></item><item><title>The Ascent of Truth</title><pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2007 07:34:58 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[
    
        
            
            Evolution of WNBC Correction
        
    

A staggeringly inaccurate account appeared on the website of news channel WNBC about Critical Mass, a monthly bike ride described as a &ldquo;celebration,&rdquo; &ldquo;gathering,&rdquo; and &ldquo;protest&rdquo; occurring in cities around the world. In WNBC&#39;s 118-word article, an impressive 49 words communicated misleading or inaccurate information.

Adam Klasfeld&#39;s pursuit of correction became a maddening lesson in the fickle evolution of a flawed news story. But no one ever said evolution was simple or straightforward. The process was mapped against a modified version of Darwin&#39;s &quot;March of Progress,&quot; which he renamed the &quot;Ascent of Truth.&quot;]]></description><guid>44 at http://www.stinkyjournalism.org</guid><link>http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-44.php</link></item><item><title>NY DAILY NEWS CASTS BIG APPLE AS MAYBERRY</title><pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2007 07:34:58 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[
    
        
            
            &quot;Golly gee, Andy. If NY Daily News
            woulda talked to me ';bout Alec Baldwin,
            they';da had four sources.&quot;
        
    

Who would have thought that the headline to Emily Keller';s Sunday NY Daily News story, &quot;Bye-bye, Baldwin: Fans flee after phone fury,&quot; meant only three New Yorkers weighed in against the actor Alec Baldwin, not hundreds? The Daily News editors must have been too busy posing for the giant photo used in the double-page, self-congratulatory Pulitzer-win spread to stop Keller';s piece from slipping through.]]></description><guid>42 at http://www.stinkyjournalism.org</guid><link>http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-42.php</link></item><item><title>StinkyJournalism investigation triggers retraction from Tribune columnist Charles Madigan</title><pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2007 07:34:58 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[
    
        
            
        
        
            
            Charles Madigan:
            Info-Pimp?
            
        
    

Charles Madigan, longtime writer and editor for The Chicago Tribune recently claimed to have invented a new word: info-pimp... Trouble is, he hadn';t, and worse yet, he didn';t check to see if he had.]]></description><guid>41 at http://www.stinkyjournalism.org</guid><link>http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-41.php</link></item><item><title>Public Attitudes Toward the State of the Journalism Charted</title><pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2004 07:34:58 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Just heard from NPR this morning, March 16 2004, about Study: Public Losing Trust in Media. Here are some statistics we found from The Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ):]]></description><guid>39 at http://www.stinkyjournalism.org</guid><link>http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-39.php</link></item><item><title>Epitome of Stinky Journalism</title><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2004 07:34:58 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[UNBELIEVABLE!!! Today';s issue of Usa Today features an extensive series of articles chronicling Jack Kelley';s (their former reporter) journalistic misdeeds.]]></description><guid>38 at http://www.stinkyjournalism.org</guid><link>http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-38.php</link></item><item><title>Take the Story and Run</title><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2004 07:34:58 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Do the facts matter? To whom? These are just rhetorical questions, right?
In his article &quot;The Brokaw Hoax,&quot; Rory O';Connor, a New York Media Columnist tackled this important issue the same week as NPR';s &quot;This American Life&quot; - their most recent show was titled &quot;The Facts Don';t Matter.&quot;]]></description><guid>37 at http://www.stinkyjournalism.org</guid><link>http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-37.php</link></item><item><title>Howard Stern Attacks</title><pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2004 07:34:58 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[On Howard Stern ';s radio show this morning they played a clip of a female from Dennis Miller';s March 24th show on CNBC. Stern identified the voice as that of California columnist Cathy Seipp.&quot;]]></description><guid>36 at http://www.stinkyjournalism.org</guid><link>http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-36.php</link></item><item><title>Gail Sheehy Article About 9/11 Commission Under Fire Again</title><pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2004 07:34:58 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[While Bush and Cheney speak in a closed session to the 9/11 Commission today, additional important news is surfacing about past hearings. Cybercast News Service staff writer Robert Bluey published a piece today called &quot;Accused Plagiarist Slammed Again for Article on 9/11 Commission&quot; on csnnews.com.]]></description><guid>35 at http://www.stinkyjournalism.org</guid><link>http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-35.php</link></item><item><title>World Press Freedom Day: A Snapshot of Death and Censorship</title><pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2004 07:34:58 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[May 3 is the 14th World Press Freedom Day. According to Reporters Without Borders, more than 130 journalists are imprisoned around the world, and 42 have been killed in the last year, a death toll at its highest since 1995.]]></description><guid>34 at http://www.stinkyjournalism.org</guid><link>http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-34.php</link></item><item><title>&quot;Chicken Noodle News&quot; Disconcerting for the &#39;Late Show&#39; Soul</title><pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2004 07:34:58 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Tom Shales, television editor and chief television critic for The Washington Post, reports that CNN';s credibility might be shrinking these days.]]></description><guid>33 at http://www.stinkyjournalism.org</guid><link>http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-33.php</link></item><item><title>Consuming What One Does Not Trust</title><pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2004 07:34:58 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Boston Globe writer Mark Jurkowitz writes about the mistrustful divide between a writer and their audience - specifically, the media and the public. Journalists, he says, &quot;have a much loftier view of their profession than their audience does.&quot;]]></description><guid>32 at http://www.stinkyjournalism.org</guid><link>http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-32.php</link></item><item><title>A Year After Jayson Blair: Ethical Behavior Promoted in Media and Government</title><pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2004 07:34:58 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[One year ago today, the Associated Press says, &quot;The New York Times announced on its Web site that one of its reporters, Jayson Blair, had ';committed frequent acts of journalistic fraud,'; according to an investigation conducted by the paper.&quot;]]></description><guid>31 at http://www.stinkyjournalism.org</guid><link>http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-31.php</link></item><item><title>Reporter's charge of 9/11 Commission Censorship Proven False</title><pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2004 07:34:58 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The article &quot;Stewardess ID';d Hijackers Early, Transcripts Show&quot; by journalist Gail Sheehy, published Feb. 16, 2004 in The New York Observer, contains significant factual errors.]]></description><guid>30 at http://www.stinkyjournalism.org</guid><link>http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-30.php</link></item><item><title>Porno Pics Passed off as News</title><pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2004 07:34:58 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[On May 4, WorldNetDaily.com reported that the sexually graphic photos &quot;of U.S. servicemen raping and sexually abusing Iraqi women were actually taken from American and Hungarian pornography sites.&quot;
&nbsp;]]></description><guid>29 at http://www.stinkyjournalism.org</guid><link>http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-29.php</link></item><item><title>Fabulist Times</title><pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2004 07:34:58 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[We';re living through fabulist times, which shouldn';t be confused with fabulous times. The two words are next-door neighbors in the dictionary but have as much in common as George W. Bush and George Carlin.]]></description><guid>28 at http://www.stinkyjournalism.org</guid><link>http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-28.php</link></item><item><title> Franken: &#39;Boring Corrections&#39; and the Airwaves That Propagate Them</title><pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2004 07:34:58 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Marshall Fine of New York';s newspaper The Journal News recently covered Al Franken and Katherine Lanpher';s show &quot;The O';Franken Factor,&quot; which airs on Air America Radio.]]></description><guid>27 at http://www.stinkyjournalism.org</guid><link>http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-27.php</link></item><item><title>The 2004 State of the Press Address</title><pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2004 07:34:58 GMT</pubDate><guid>26 at http://www.stinkyjournalism.org</guid><link>http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-26.php</link></item><item><title> EDITORIAL: Hunter S. Thompson went too far</title><pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2004 07:34:58 GMT</pubDate><guid>25 at http://www.stinkyjournalism.org</guid><link>http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-25.php</link></item><item><title>&#60;I&#62;NY Daily News&#60;/I&#62; Reporter Won't Admit Her Mistake</title><pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2004 07:34:58 GMT</pubDate><guid>24 at http://www.stinkyjournalism.org</guid><link>http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-24.php</link></item><item><title> AP Meteor Crash Report Was a Hoax</title><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2004 07:34:58 GMT</pubDate><guid>23 at http://www.stinkyjournalism.org</guid><link>http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-23.php</link></item><item><title>MSNBC, Miami Herald Zap Wrong &quot;Fly&quot;</title><pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2004 07:34:58 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Jeanette Walls of MSNBC.com reported yesterday on a tiff between actor Tom Cruise and a blog. &quot;Lawyers for actor Tom Cruise have threatened to sue AFlyOntheWall.com over its reports,&quot; the article claimed. The Miami Herald also ran a shortened version of the story today.]]></description><guid>22 at http://www.stinkyjournalism.org</guid><link>http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-22.php</link></item><item><title>When Fear Mongers Attack</title><pubDate>Tue, 12 Dec 2006 07:34:58 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The public outcry against the pit bull terrier may be fueled as much by imprecise news reports as it is by sketchy data. A recent story reported by Greensboro, North Carolina';s CBS affiliate, WFMY, illustrates how the issue has gained momentum through the willful fudging of basic information. The story, titled &quot;Pit Bull Attacks Child,&quot; is of the typical fare: a bloodthirsty dog, two unwitting children, a tragedy of unspeakable horror. This photo was published along with the article. Notice anything strange about it?&quot;]]></description><guid>21 at http://www.stinkyjournalism.org</guid><link>http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-21.php</link></item><item><title>You thought you were having a difficult day?</title><pubDate>Sat, 26 Aug 2006 07:34:58 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[New York City, August 21, 2006: I called the FDNY and found out last night that it was Engine 326 that went to the scene of a motorcycle accident reported in yesterday';s New York Daily News, page 15. The headline by Anthony Delmundo above the photograph states, &quot;Cycle Wreck Leaves 2 Hurt.&quot; (See photo and caption below).]]></description><guid>20 at http://www.stinkyjournalism.org</guid><link>http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-20.php</link></item><item><title>EVEN A FROG WILL KICK THE BBC</title><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2004 07:34:58 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[On June 27, 2004, the BBC reported on an Iranian woman who gave birth to a frog. Their story originated from the Farsi paper Etemaad:

Etemaad published this photo on June 27.]]></description><guid>19 at http://www.stinkyjournalism.org</guid><link>http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-19.php</link></item><item><title>Journalistic Standards Go to the Dogs (and Cats)</title><pubDate>Tue, 12 Dec 2006 07:34:58 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Extra, extra, South American cat gives birth to puppies! That, at least, was the story being peddled last month-not on the sordid pages of the National Enquirer or The Sun, but by the eminent news service, Reuters.&quot;]]></description><guid>6 at http://www.stinkyjournalism.org</guid><link>http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-6.php</link></item><item><title>MY SO-CALLED FROG</title><pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2004 07:34:58 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[While at times referring to its subject as a &quot;so-called frog,&quot; BBC News reported an Iranian woman gave birth to a frog. Citing &quot;The Iranian daily Etemaad,&quot; BBC News says, &quot;the paper carries quotes from medical experts who say there are human characteristics to the animal.&quot;
The BBC carries a lovely photo of a frog, but it reeks of stock footage:
]]></description><guid>5 at http://www.stinkyjournalism.org</guid><link>http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-5.php</link></item><item><title>Are Hijackers Counted As Victims?</title><pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2005 07:34:58 GMT</pubDate><guid>3 at http://www.stinkyjournalism.org</guid><link>http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-3.php</link></item><item><title>Self-Correcting News Network</title><pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2005 07:34:58 GMT</pubDate><guid>2 at http://www.stinkyjournalism.org</guid><link>http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/latest-journalism-news-updates-2.php</link></item></channel></rss>
