Media Apologia
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Use the table below to browse the archive. Click a column heading to sort the entries, or click a linked name to open the full case page.
| Accused | Accusation | Year of Apologia |
|---|---|---|
| CBS News | Mike Wallace's racist remark on 60 Minutes | 1982 |
| CNN | Using violent words like "crosshairs" in their broadcasts | 2011 |
| Dan Rather | News story on George W. Bush's National Guard Service record was not fact checked | 2004 |
| Don Imus | Racist insults directed at Rutgers women's basketball team | 2007 |
| Dr. Laura Schlessinger | Using the N-word on the air | 2010 |
| The New Republic | Stephen Glass' fabricated stories | 1998 |
| The New York Times | Jayson Blair's fabricated stories | 2003 |
| Rupert Murdoch | Printing cartoon comparing Obama to a dead chimp | 2009 |
| Stephen Glass | Fabricating stories while at the New Republic | 2003 |
| TNT | Tracy Morgan's lewd comments about Sarah Palin | 2011 |
| Alex Jones | Claimed the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a hoax. | 2012 |
| Don Hewitt, 60 Minutes | Airing 60 Minutes story about heroin smuggling that was based on a fake documentary | 1998 |
| Brian Williams | U.S. military personnel challenged the truthfulness an account he had repeatedly given about his experience while covering the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. | 2015 |
| Rush Limbaugh | Making a series of insulting and sexually charged comments about Sandra Fluke, a law student who had testified at a congressional forum about insurance coverage for contraception. | 2012 |
| Jayson Blair | The New York Times discovered that he had repeatedly plagiarized and fabricated material while working as a reporter for the newspaper. | 2016 |
| James Frey | Portions of his bestselling 2003 book A Million Little Pieces, which had been marketed as a memoir about addiction, crime, rehabilitation and recovery, did not match documented events in his life. | 2006 |
| Matt Lauer | Inappropriate sexual behavior toward a female colleague. | 2017 |
| Jeff Sneider | Backlash over posts threatening “non-stop rumors” if Inde Navarrette's representatives continued to ignore him. | 2026 |