The Daily Targum, a student paper at Rutgers, last week published an editorial decrying a bill in North Dakota that would cause “a picture of a fertilized egg… [to be] considered child pornography.” As you can imagine, the bill in question had no such measure. The paper was fooled ...

In our article ‘Wikiworld’ (3 February 2009) we repeated several claims about Jimmy Wales, the Wikipedia founder: that he had a company that dealt in “soft porn” and was short-lived: that he had had to defend himself against “allegations from former colleagues that he u...

A Queens hairstylist is suing the New York Daily News after the paper twice identified her as the woman accused of helping run a prostitution service allegedly patronized by former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer. In two stories from last week, the paper published a photo of Bojana Vuleta and identified...