Talk:Journalism scandals
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I moved this to journalistic fraud, since that phrase is grammatically correct, whereas journalism fraud is not. Perhaps more importantly, the latter phrase doesn't seem to be used much except on Wikipedia. --Delirium 04:22, May 23, 2004 (UTC)
This would be better called "journalism scandals," that's how people would look it up. Maurreen 10:19, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Janet Cooke
The Janet Cooke entry needs a bit of clarification. She confessed that the "Jimmy" of her articles was a fabrication. She claimed that he was a composite of several real individuals, but I do not believe that the Post ombudsman was ever able to verify that she ever had any contact with any real child heroin addicts. This should be checked against the ombudsman's article in the Post which appeared shortly after she was stripped of the Pulitzer. 19:34, 11 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Fraud / Scandal
The CNN section is not necessarily fraud. It is not "fraud" to withhold stories, but it is fraud to fabricate stories. Removing and replacing here for discussion:
- === CNN (2003) ===
- In the April 11, 2003 edition of the New York Times, CNN chief news executive, Eason Jordan, wrote that CNN had suppressed information about atrocities committed by the Saddam Hussein regime against its own people in order to protect CNN staff stationed in Baghdad.
- New York Times: The News We Kept To Ourselves (http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0C16FD3C5F0C728DDDAD0894DB404482)
--Admbws 17:28, 9 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Al-jazeera / Iraqi spies
Additionally, there is not a lot of evidence to back up the claim the Iraqi spies did infiltrate the Al Jazeera television network, or held any position where they could significantly affect reporting - stating so. I would recommend this for removal if no further evidence appears. --Admbws 17:28, 9 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Al-jazeera speculation removed
The latest edit removed a section with the summary "al-jazeera speculation removed". I do not understand why this was removed, but I also don't know whether it's proper to restore it. Does anyone have more information?
Acegikmo1 06:19, 1 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Hoax
Despite the disclaimer, this doesn't belong here. If someone wants to preserve it somewhere, then how about a page like Famous hoaxes.
- === Orson Welles (1938) ===
- In 1938 Orson Welles broadcast a radio adaptation of the science fiction story The War of the Worlds, causing panic as many mistook the fictionalized account of a Martian invasion of the United States to be an actual event. Strictly speaking, though, Welles' broadcast more properly qualifies as a hoax rather than an instance of journalism fraud.
-- Viajero 11:03, 23 Oct 2003 (UTC)
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other stuff u need to add:
the thing with that british dude, about the poison gas the US army was using in vietnam or something. tailwind scandal? something like that. peter arnett was reading cue cards and he got fired.
another thing was the time 60 minutes didnt air some tobacco story or something
a minor one documented in Harry Wu's books, one of them, was about when a reporter made video of graves of people killed by the chinese govt, but it was actually the wrong graves or something.
im sure there are a million of these. good page. good article.
Mike Barnicle
There is a stub for the columnist Mike Barnicle, how is a link created to it?Scranton 01:27, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- Entry for Mike Barnicle added by User:Alkivar on Dec 16, 2004.
Why do so many of the instances of fraud involve liberal/left-wing reportage vs. so few of a conservative/right-wing reportage? Just curious, actually. 68.77.93.174 13:33, 12 Dec 2003 (UTC)
And why are they all US (with one exception), and one piece of what I presume is black propaganda - the Al-Jazeera (2003) entry. I wonder if they retracted it later - the image that the independent arab media is a front for the "bad guys" sticks however. Secretlondon 13:38, Dec 12, 2003 (UTC)
- Sorry but that accusation is false. There is a very LARGE section on Brit James Forlong (noticeably larger than the rest). Any other major scandals have simply not made it there yet. Alkivar 01:44, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)