2005-2014

NEW YORK The Associated Press, which carried to newspapers around the world false reports on trapped miners being rescued in West Virginia late Tuesday night, said in a statement this afternoon that it had reported "accurately" based on information "provided by credible sources--family members and the governor." The statement by Mike Silverman, the news agency's managing editor, read: "AP was...

TALLMANSVILLE, W.Va. (AP) – High on a tree-shaded hill beside the Sago Baptist Church, the moss-covered inscription on a weathered tombstone reads: "Sometime we will understand." There is so much the people of this central Appalachian coal community are waiting to understand: How an explosion two miles into a mountain had trapped 13 of their men and how someone could tell them that 12 of the...

SAGO, W. Va., Jan. 4 - The mistaken information last night that 12 of 13 miners trapped in a West Virginia coal mine had been saved, when in fact 12 were dead and only one was alive, came through a series of miscommunications among rescue workers and others exhausted from more than 30 hours of searching, and desperate for a good ending to a tragic situation, the president of the mining company...

Newspapers, wire services and cable news networks all failed in one degree or another to do their jobs properly when they reported that 12 men had survived the coal mine disaster in West Virginia, media critics and chastened editors say. The collective failure was most apparent Wednesday morning on front pages across the nation. Headlines, including in about 45% of USA TODAY's 2.2 million copies...

It's painful to watch television news producers try to figure out the relative importance of the unfolding stories of the 13 trapped miners in West Virginia, and the more than 13 trapped Congressmen in Washington. Sending Rita Cosby and Anderson Cooper to the site of the mineshaft tragedy, where cameras can record family members' every painful reaction, is in the great ghoulish tradition of...

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The opening numbers of Rajdeep Sardesai's "journalist's channel" - CNN-IBN - are here and at least for the week in question, the numbers spell good news for the English news genre itself. Even though ratings might not be the final deciding factor, for a channel like this, it has a role to play in indicating what the Indian viewer, especially the relevant target, feels about the channel. Before we...

NEW YORK: Online users 55 years and older are spending more time on the Internet and less time with offline media sources, according to a report released Monday by BURST! Media. Offline media outlets are seeing more competition than ever from Internet sources for what is seen as their base demographic -- 55 years and older -- according to a survey of nearly 1,000 web users 55 years and older...

Google has confirmed it is investigating a Trojan horse that replaces its AdSense advertisements with fake ones hawking pornography and gambling sites, among others. The malware was first reported last week and discovered in the wild by Web publisher Raoul Bangera. The Trojan apparently installs itself on Windows systems via a website, and then creates fake ads which are positioned to cover up...

Given all the bad porn on the Internet, I guess it's only fair that there should be some truly terrible ideas about stopping porn on the Internet too. The latest comes from a group called CP80, which sadly isn't a phalanx of uptight androids who enjoy mysteriously homoerotic relationships with mailbox-shaped companions. Instead they're a group pushing something called the "Internet Channel...