Unauthorized biography of Tom Cruise sparks angry denials
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An explosive and unauthorized biography of Hollywood star Tom Cruise hit US bookshelves Tuesday, despite an angry denial of the book's most startling allegations from The Church of Scientology.
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Former board member Tom Perkins alleges the computer giant hired consultants to pose as himself and other board members to fraudulently obtain private phone records. By Kim Zetter
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A video posted seems to succeed in far less time than it would take to read a recently-published "unauthorized" biography.
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Writer Kitty Kelley has accused the White House of putting pressure on her and the US media over the new biography on the family of President George W. Bush
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Germany has barred the makers of a movie about a plot to kill Adolf Hitler from filming at German military sites because its star Tom Cruise is a Scientologist, the Defense Ministry said on Monday.
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CBS News said Monday it cannot vouch for the authenticity of documents it broadcast on &quot;60 Minutes&quot; casting doubt on the National Guard service of President Bush during the Vietnam era.
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Two experts hired by CBS News to examine records of President Bush's Vietnam-era service in the Texas Air National Guard told ABC on Tuesday that they could not vouch for the documents' veracity. Meanwhile, a former secretary in the guard said she believed the documents CBS used were fake, although they accurately reflected the thoughts of one of Bush's commanders.
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Archaeologists and clergymen in the Holy Land derided claims in a new documentary produced by James Cameron that contradict major Christian tenets, but the Oscar-winning director said the evidence was based on sound statistics.
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QUINCY, Mass. - John Russo has been a victim of identity theft. So when he was asked to fork over a photo ID just to be seated at an IHOP pancake restaurant, he flipped.
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The Web site has been fighting claims that its founder stole the idea. Now another man says he was the creator.
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When the director Bryan Singer decided to cast Tom Cruise as the German Army officer who tried to blow up Hitler toward the end of World War II, he thought he had dealt with all the possible pitfalls.
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Nelson Minar says he likes TechCrunch, but they're not journalists so be careful what you say to a TC reporter at a party. He cites two examples where he feels they acted unethically.  In one example, the reporter seems to use off the record comments exactly as they are supposed to. Most non-disclosures require that you keep the information confidential, but only until someone else discloses the information to you. If you get it from another source, on the record or off the record, the NDA is no longer enforceable. In this case they got confirmation from three off the record sources.  The other is just an example of a dumb story, not a violation of journalistic ethics. To say that a big company told a lie is hardly news. If it were about something material and not the age of one of the founders, then it would be newsworthy. But it's not an example of an integrity breach. (You can make a mistake and still have integrity. It's only a problem if you knew it was wrong when you wrote it.) Imho, too much is made of whether someone is a journalist or not. You read reports like this one in a highly reputed news organization, written by a journalist, that contain no information but leave a sensational impression for people who don't know the technology well enough to know that the reporter is talking nonsense. I'd rather read the opinion of a non-journalist who knows the subject and can defend his or her position, and clearly discloses their interest in the subject. At least I'd learn something, and no one would be misled into believing they were getting "news." However I do applaud what Nelson wrote because he had the guts to openly criticize TechCrunch. People from outside Silicon Valley must wonder why hardly anyone does, given that they are at or near the top of most lists ranking tech news sources. Why should they be immune to examination? Answer -- they shouldn't.
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By Brian Bergstein  Following revelations that a high-ranking member of Wikipedia's bureaucracy used his cloak of anonymity to lie about being a professor of religion, the free Internet encyclopedia plans to ask contributors who claim such credentials to identify themselves.
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A biography and 4-year-old video of Tom Cruise are calling attention to the actor's belief in Scientology.
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Reworking Tom Cruise's production deal turned out to be mission   impossible. Which is no surprise now that the studio holding the cards   says it frowns on couch-jumping.
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Some celebrities and their handlers are now claiming that the news media have a double standard.
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Controversy erupts at internet site Wikipedia as one of its editors is found to have falsified academic credentials.