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Zooming In

Zooming In 5-25

Gelf highlights overlooked coverage from local media around the world. In this edition: international reaction to the Newsweek scandal, a long-nose competition, and a toilet-themed restaurant.

The Blurbs

Blurb Racket 5/24/05

Our weekly roundup of misleading review blurbs in movie ads takes on Star Wars, House of Wax, and more. Plus, new this week: Placing ad blurbs in context for videos, books, and theater.

Media

What We Can Learn From Michelle Delio

Lessons from a journalism scandal on color quotes, note-taking, and credibility problems.

Media

How The Man Is Helped by Today's Deep Throats

Newsweek, CBS, and sources who lie.

Oops

Corrections 5/9-5/15

The vagaries of death, foreign porn flicks, illiterate book coverage, and other enlightening and entertaining media corrections.

Oops

Corrections 5/2-5/9

Getting by with a little help, breakfast in bed, the divorce that wasn't, and other enlightening and entertaining media corrections.

Media

Interview with Adam Penenberg

After completing an investigation for Wired News of Michelle Delio's articles, Penenberg talks about what he found, how Wired News is changing its policies, and the state of journalism today.

Media

Michelle Delio Update

Adam Penenberg's investigation appears to have prompted the tech-news site Wired News to question quotations in 24 of 160 Delio-authored articles and to tighten its sourcing rules.

The Blurbs

Blurb Racket 5/9/05

Our weekly roundup of misleading review blurbs in movie ads exposes hellish out-of-context quotes for Kingdom in Heaven, thumbs its nose at the ad for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and more.

Nature

Fast and Loose

What's the land-speed record for electric vehicles? It depends on whom you ask.

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