Category Archives: Radio

Aussie radio station apologizes for broadcasting false rumor


Quiet — or else!


Those elusive broadcast corrections


Station fires host after he, um, praises Condoleezza Rice

Excerpt from an AP story:
A St. Louis radio station quickly fired a talk show host for uttering a racial epithet as he talked about Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on his morning show Wednesday.
Dave Lenihan apologized on the air immediately after making what he said was a slip of the tongue. KTRS president and general [...]

False tsunami warning sent to Alaskan media


Media hoaxed by fake Ryan Seacrest interview

On Thursday the Trentonian newspaper reported about a New Jersey radio DJ who had a heated exchange with Ryan Seacrest about whether or not he was gay. From the story:
“Ryan,” Carton said, “Are you gay?”
Silence.
“Ryan, are you a homosexual?”
With that, Seacrest was headed for the door.
“I can’t stay here, man,” Seacrest said. “I gotta jet.”
The [...]

Former NPR reporter sues NPR and MoMA over “false correction”


The media and the miners

By now it’s common knowledge that a terrible, tragic mistake was made in the reporting of 13 miners trapped in a West Virginia coal mine. For a few hours the world believed that all but one of the men had made it out alive. Because of production deadlines, many papers reported this on their front [...]

Of lies and lawyers


Networks argue over false death report


Failure of evolution theory exposed!


Iraq not quite so hellish


A listener with a sense of humor


BBC editor: Journalists must comment on the news


Novak corrects himself


BBC apology


Fragment of a correction


Ah, now it makes sense


BBC hoaxed

BBC TV and Radio fell victim to a hoaxer last week. A man who said his name was Jude Finisterra and claimed to be a spokesman for Dow Chemical went on the air at the Beeb and said Dow was taking full responsibility for the 1984 Bhopal disaster, and had set up a $12 billion [...]

Two channels are better than one (especially when you know about them)


Make hot dogs, not war