Media Goofs

Mostly True Stories Sixpence Error
  • 28 October 2014
Urban legends TV show falls for joke about Blackbeard's using a nursery rhyme to recruit...
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Mostly True Stories Sixpence Error
Dear Abby Simpsons Column
  • 1 May 2014
'Dear Abby' falls for a letter taken from an episode of 'The Simpsons'?
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Dear Abby Simpsons Column
Urban Myths Board Game Error
  • 3 November 2013
Urban myths board game falls for joke about Blackbeard's using a nursery rhyme to recruit...
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Urban Myths Board Game Error
Japanese Eyeball-Licking Craze
  • 8 August 2013
Has an eyeball-licking fad produced a widespread outbreak of ocular maladies among Japanese schoolchildren?
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Japanese Eyeball-Licking Craze
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Premature CNN Obituaries
  • 22 April 2013
Technical glitch on CNN web site revealed obituaries for several famous but not-yet-dead people?
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Premature CNN Obituaries
Hotel Sheep
  • 9 April 2012
Has the world's first hotel for sheep opened in Japan?
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Hotel Sheep
Toolooz
  • 31 March 2012
Graphic shows errors in a Fox News report about the killing of three French soldiers...
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Toolooz
Terri Schiavo TV Film
  • 1 April 2011
CBS has announced plans to produce a made-for-TV movie about the Terri Schiavo case?
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Terri Schiavo TV Film
Enlarged Prostate Captioning Error
  • 11 January 2010
Captioning glitch on news program transforms 'enlarged prostate' into something more exciting?
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Enlarged Prostate Captioning Error
2003 NYC Blackout Photo
  • 11 January 2010
FOXNews photo depicting the NYC skyline after the 2003 blackout includes a view of the...
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2003 NYC Blackout Photo