Bad Taste and Standards in the News Media

ABC’s Lara Spencer’s Cinco de Mayo segment: Bad accents, drinking & sombreros prompt apology

MSNBC wasn't the only TV news outlet to air an offensive Cinco de Mayo segment this year. ABC's Good Morning...

Australian Broadcasting Corp. apologized to News Corp. journalist Chris Kenny for airing a doctored photo calling him a "dogf**ker," but...

The Chicago Sun-Times unpublished an op-ed calling transgender people "delusional," GLAAD reported. The op-ed was written by Kevin D. Williamson...

The Australian Broadcasting Corp. has apologized on air and settled a libel lawsuit over its doctored photo calling journalist Chris...

The Daily Mirror apologized after wrongly claiming that a teenage victim of sexual abuse consented to sex with her abuser....

The Seattle Times is the latest publication to announce it will no longer use the term "Redskins" in reporting on...

St. Louis Post-Dispatch will no longer publish George Will's twice-weekly columns. The final straw was Will's June 5 column. "The...

In another cautionary tale about not checking facts, last month the Frederick News-Post in Maryland admitted that it published fake quotes...

Sirius XM radio fired Anthony Cumia of The Opie and Anthony Show after he tweeted "racially-charged and hate-filled remarks" earlier...