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Monday, March 29, 2010

Today's fake: Italian journo fabricated interviews with famous writers

Via Galleycat: An Italian journalist called Tommaso Debenedetti may have fabricated interviews with Philip Roth and John Grisham. The fake interviews were published in Italian newspapers.

technorati: fakes, fraud, writers

Labels: Beat writers, fakes, journalism

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

On the other hand, 'Holy shit, they're shooting at us' pretty much covers it

140 characters is a novel when you're being shot at.

-- Oft-retweeted message on the #iranelection Twitter stream, presumably in answer to the objections
that posts on Twitter can't offer much in the way of detailed news

Labels: journalism, twitter

Friday, May 29, 2009

Today's fake: Ersatz reporter/Catholic "priestess" carried from press area

A woman who said she was a reporter for an obscure Georgia monthly newspaper, and who was wearing a cassock and also identified herself as a Roman Catholic "preistess," was carried out bodily by Secret Service agents from a press corral yesterday as President Obama was about to arrive at LAX to depart for Washington on Air Force One. The woman wanted to give Obama a letter asking him to "take a stand for traditional marriage," she said. The Secret Service asked her to leave when she refused to give the letter to an Obama staffer, and when she refused to leave, they carried her out. (Courtesy MediaBistro's Daily Media News email.

Labels: fakes, journalism, Obama

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

A dick to the end, Bush snubs Helen Thomas

Buried in this masturbatory CNN piece about Bush's final press conference, in which the network's White House reporter spends several minutes discussing whether or not the president purposely mispronounces her name, is the note that in his candid farewell to the press, Bush snubbed 88-year-old Helen Thomas, who has covered nine presidents and is regarded as the dean of the White House press corps.

technorati: Bush, journalists, Helen Thomas

Labels: Bush, journalism

Friday, August 10, 2007

Headline of the month

I saw this on Salon.com in their "From the Wires" section of news reports. I didn't click on it -- the headline itself is too sublime and my mental image of what the story is actually about cannot be improved by mere facts. Behold: