Bad Journalism

Help expose bad journalism — and fight the spin that is spreading in the news media and on the Internet.

In October 2009, we hosted a News Hunt for Bad Journalism with Santa Clara University, to identify news and opinions that are inaccurate, biased, irresponsible or superficial.

Check our News Hunt Results to see which stories we found to be bad journalism.

Try reviewing some of the stories below. For tips on how to review a story, check our quick guide — and read journalism professor Howard Rheingold’s excellent article, Crap Detection 101. We also invite you to post more examples of bad journalism on this page (be sure to put them in the Bad Journalism topic when you post them).

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