Stinkyjournalism.org is a website which report the "dark size" of journalism, in order to represent the "reality to the audience. This website was created by Art Research Laboratory, which is a non-profit organization founded by Rhonda Roland Shearer, who is an awesome and great woman. It was awarded by Webby Worthy Award in 2005.
The purpose of this website is try to advocate the methodology of Journalism, which Journalism should actually be more rigorous and scientific. The most of the situation when stories go bad with errors, the first reaction by Journalists are usually blame on anything they can, however not to edit the stories, or making any corrections.
For Journalism, their first duty should be "seek truth and report it", somehow it is totally fall and become something else. Nowadays, you will feel powerless as an audience; since no matter what you did, such as wrote a letter to the editor to cite an error, it will always went ignore.
In the year of 2009, this website is mostly focus to the case of Jared Diamond's, whose a Pulitzer Prize winner, in addition best selling author published abandon of lies in The NewYorker. The author is actually making up stories for the "characters", which is dramatic, touching and interesting, however when Rhonda sent a few researchers to the place, she founded out the the truth, and helped the victims of Diamond's to sue him for their justice.
More than this, actually this website always report others kind of news, such as fake photo in Journalism, "photoshop reality", and so on. This website is meaningful, moreover we can actually learn something from it.
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