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Wednesday, June 27, 2012 By

Wall Street Journal has same problem as SPH

Immediately after Singapore Press Holdings fired a journalist for fabricating content, it’s the turn of the Wall Street Journal.

A Wall Street Journal intern has been fired after just three weeks on the job. “Many of the names contained in the article about the re-opening of the 103rd Street Pedestrian Bridge in Manhattan were fabricated by reporting intern Liane Membis, and the quotes couldn’t be independently verified,” said an editor’s note.

 

When I first saw the news in a tweet from Politico, I was immediately reminded of Singapore Press Holdings. It fired a content producer for its Stomp website after she posted a misleading photo. The photo of an MRT train running with a door open was found to be false, reported AsiaOne, after a big fuss over the authenticity of the picture. The producer, who claimed to have taken the photo herself, later admitted she took it from Twitter.

The SPH editor-in-chief apologised for the incident, but that has not stopped bloggers, tweeters and others from taking digs at the media organization.

I thought, why not link to the various reports, blog postings, tweets and Facebook on Storify?

Storify helps its users tell stories by curating social media. That’s what the Storify website says and that’s what it does. It’s easy to use, looks good, preserves all the links and attributions, and you can arrange the links in any sequence you like – from “breaking news” style, giving the latest news first, to chronologically, starting with what happened first. I love Storify because it adds more voices to your story — and none of the quotes are “fabricated”!


Singapore Press Holdings STOMPed

Singapore Press Holdings fired a content producer for its STOMP website after a photo of an MRT train moving with a door open was found to be false. She claimed to have taken the photo, but it was found to have been taken from Twitter. The scandal was a blow to SPH.

Storified by Abhijit · Wed, Jun 27 2012 06:28:26

Staff of Stomp masquerades as user submitted content, fabricates post on SMRT, fired, with SPH editor-in-chief apology. http://bit.ly/LKiHjxthepicturestory
Time for STOMP to come clean | DKSGSubmitted by dk on June 24, 2012 – 1:23 PM No Comment | 803 views When I first saw the SMRT doors remain open even as train moves off pos…
Posting without due credit to the original photo/article landed up being sacked. Worst, she still claims the photo was taken by her. “”A content producer of STOMP has been sacked by the Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) for posting a fake photo showing a MRT train with doors open which sparked an outcry last week. 23 year old Samantha Francis initially claimed she took the photograph herself at Lakeside MRT station last Tuesday night which was strenuously denied by SMRT. After some questioning by SPH, Ms Francis admitted that she copied the image from Twitter without giving due credit.”"Bobcatsysop YK Chan
So SPH/STOMP allows its content producers to pose as anonymous member of the public to post stuff on their site ah?Kinmun Lee
Now that Samantha Francis has been fired by SPH/Stomp, she can join Mediacorp as a writer for Noose.IZ Reloaded
Paid content producer for citizen journalism! No wonder there’s so much wonderful stuff on Stomp…Soon Chun Siong
RT @izreloaded: Now that Samantha Francis has been fired by SPH/Stomp, she can join Mediacorp as a writer for Noose.goh chengying
Erhhh, time for Code of Conduct for SPH first ???Roy Yeo
STOMP – a cesspool of disgrace to citizen journalism | publichouse.sgBy Andrew Loh When STOMP content producer Samantha Francis was found to have lied to the authorities and had “fabricated” a picture of an…
mrbrown.com: STOMP kena STOMPedMs Samantha Ann Francis, a STOMP content producer (STOMP is the “citizen journalism” site of SPH) was fired for posting a photo of an MRT…
SPH sacked STOMP staff for fake ‘MRT open door’ photoA content producer of STOMP has been sacked by the Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) for posting a fake photo showing a MRT train with doors…
SPH sacked STOMP staff for fake ‘MRT open door’ photoA content producer of STOMP has been sacked by the Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) for posting a fake photo showing a MRT train with doors…
mrbrown.com: STOMP kena STOMPedMs Samantha Ann Francis, a STOMP content producer (STOMP is the “citizen journalism” site of SPH) was fired for posting a photo of an MRT…
Editor-in-chief apologises to SMRT over Stomp pictureThe photograph that a content producer of citizen journalism website Stomp posted online, supposedly of an MRT train running with one set…
#STOMPgate – Singapore online community’s moment of sweet schadenfreude | Asia News – Politics, Media, Education | Asian CorrespondentSingapore Press Holdings’ (SPH) – the organisation which owns and runs newspapers, magazines and websites (among other things) – has had …
TOC News ” When will citizen journalism website STOMP clean up its mess?Singapore’s #1 Socio-Political Site
SPH falls out of open train doorAh, schadenfreude! Government-linked Singapore Press Holdings has apologised to government-linked SMRT Corporation for an instance of lib…
SMRT treating fake photo case seriously, considering responseTrain operator SMRT said on Monday that it is treating seriously the matter of a false picture of one of its trains moving off with its d…
Feeling Stomped all overThis Stomp fiasco brings back so many bad memories. Many moons ago, TNP had to apologise to ex-DPM Toh Chin Chye for saying that he had b…
Good going, SPH, the medal-winning media giant of Singapore Hans Lee
STOMP and SPH is indeed dumb to use their own staff to generate and report news.Occupy Singapore
RT @longadin: Shun STOMP. Don’t retweet, don’t share links, don’t visit the site. No traffic=no profit=SPH killing it. #STOMPgateDilys
Holy shit, the owner of Stomp got sacked by SPH for posting the fake photo of MRT doors being open while on the moveFarrah Fazirah
RT @miyagi That’s why I say, if you think you need an Internet Code of Conduct, just ban #STOMP. http://miy.ag/MU7vyptkphua
SPH sorry over error on Stomp website http://ping.fm/04f4JNewsMeBack
How many openly racist posts on STOMP are created by paid SPH content producers masquerading as “citizen… http://fb.me/1pN09WlvZTOC News
STOMP, which operates under the Straits Times which itself is under the SPH umbrella, is a cesspool of disgrace… http://fb.me/134L1u5CdOccupy Singapore
‘I am glad that SPH ( SIngapore PRess Holdings) found a lowly employee to fire so that Management and the editorial leadership above her were not hurt by her lies and poor journalistic practices. The nation would never recover from such a blow if senior people had to be accountable every time one of their junior staff did something wrong.’ – mrbrown Yeah, in keeping with the tradition and practices of the Singapore Inc. of NOT holding senior staff (or cabinet ministers) accountable for gross mistakes and negligence, we all say, “AMEN”.http://news.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/Motoring/Story/A1Story20120625-355071.htmlTatanka Katsuo
Pointed reactions after STOMP content producer fired for fabricated …23 hours ago … HAVE YOUR SAY: A STOMP staffer gets the boot after her post turned out to be made up from a picture off Twitter – is S…

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