As has now been reported in many places, several media outlets last week fell for a hoax study that claimed users of Internet Explorer have a lower IQ than people who prefer other browsers. The BBC, which covered the fake news, published a report today revealing the hoax: The story was reported by many high [...]
Given the fact that journalists have been mixing up the names of President Obama and Osama Bin Laden for a good three years or more, it’s no surprise that the coverage of last night’s huge news included many of these slips. Here’s a sampler of Obama/Osama errors. This, from a local Fox affiliate, may be [...]
A Herald Sun report about a mistake made by CNN during its coverage of Cyclone Yasi: US media giant CNN's reporting of Cyclone Yasi blew Queensland off the map, when it depicted the weather-ravaged state as being in Tasmania. The international news breaker was roundly mocked around the world, when its map of Australia on [...]
CNN has retracted a story dealing with questions surrounding the treatment of Pfc. Bradley Manning at the Marine Corp Base Quantico in Virginia. Pentagon spokesman Col. David Lapan said Tuesday that there is no investigation into the decision last week to put Manning, who has been charged with leaking classified government documents to Wikileaks, on [...]
The shooting of Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and others at a public event earlier today resulted in an onslaught of breaking news reporting. Major news organizations raced to gather reporting, and information began to spread quickly. As is often the case, this led to a lot of mistakes — including reports from NPR, Reuters, CNN, [...]
A CNN typo spotted by Gawker and TVNewser: Thanks, Daniel! Report an error
TV Newser offered this transcript of an on-air correction from Wolf Blitzer on March 5: We had a graphic on the screen that said “department of jihad” followed by a question mark and many of you tweeted me that you found that graphic to be offensive. I agree, it was. The graphic referenced a video [...]
CNN has come up with a rather unique way to atone for a mistake: free advertising. TVNewser spotted this story by Pacific News Center: Guam – CNN has agreed to provide free air time for commercials touting Guam as a tourist destination to make up for the networks mistake in airing footage of Yap last [...]
Poynter’s Amy Gahran has an interesting post up about a false report from the Press Association that moved its way around the web: On Nov. 29, the story ran in Wales Online: “We thought we were safe… then CNN stepped in!” said the headline. As of this writing you can still find it listed in [...]
From AP: CNN said Wednesday that commentator Jack Cafferty was referring to China’s leaders not the Chinese people when he described them as a “bunch of goons and thugs,” and apologized to anyone who thought otherwise. On Tuesday, China demanded an apology for Jack Cafferty’s comments broadcast on CNN, in which he also described Chinese [...]
