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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MAINSTREAM MEDIA
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The Foxified debate over whether the White House is being mean to a certain network is morphing into a broader ...
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MSNBC
by
Rachel Maddow, Dave Weigel
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Oct. 20, 2009
(News Report)
(Video)
The right has fractured over this one race. They are not only disagreeing over whether to chose the conservative or ...
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Denver Post
by
Jennifer Brown
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Oct. 19, 2009
(News Report)
Colorado insurance executives, cautious supporters of health care reform throughout the past year, are now warning ...
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Former US homeland security chief Tom Ridge charges in a new book that top aides to then-president George W. Bush ...
INDEPENDENT MEDIA
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Following White House communications director Anita Dunn's entirely justified criticisms of Fox News as an "arm" of ...
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Huffington Post
by
The Huffington Post News Team
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Oct. 18, 2009
(News Report)
(Video)
White House senior adviser David Axelrod and Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel continued the Obama administration's ...
MAINSTREAM MEDIA
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But Zapatero has been met with significant opposition. Last Saturday, some sources estimate that more than 1 ...
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Newsweek
by
Jacob Weisberg
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Oct. 18, 2009
(Opinion)
That Rupert Murdoch may tilt the news rightward more for commercial than ideological reasons is beside the point. ...
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The training of the Afghan security forces is a key element in the West's exit strategy from Afghanistan and there ...
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It has a weak and feckless government, is beset by poverty and corruption, and militants sympathetic to al Qaeda ...
INDEPENDENT MEDIA
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(Video)
A 6 minute advocacy video showing how the conservative movement uses mass-media to promote their agenda, according ...
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Talkers Magazine
by Mark Levin
| Oct. 21, 2009
(Interview)
I’d been a professional talk radio listener
since I was a kid in Philadelphia. I used to
listen to folks like ...
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Glenn Beck,
Fox News
by
Glenn Beck
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Oct. 21, 2009
(Opinion)
The job of the government is to take care of you -- no it's not. They get this idea from the "promote the general ...
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Savage Nation, Talk Radio Network
by Michael Savage
| Oct. 21, 2009
(Opinion)
(Audio - streaming)
Michael Savage dubs Sen. Snowe "Jezebel" for Finance Committee health care vote. From the October 13 edition of ...
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"We're covering the story from every angle!" enthused a Fox News anchor Friday, as Rupert Murdoch's all-news ...