Bad Taste and Standards in the News Media

ESPN suspends Jemele Hill for ‘impulsive tweet’

ESPN suspended SportsCenter host Jemele Hill for two weeks after she violated the network's social media guidelines. The tweet that...

Tablet Magazine, a news site covering "Jewish life," published an article headlined, "The Specifically Jewy Perviness of Harvey Weinstein." The...

The Kentish Gazette suspended editor Bob Bounds and reporter Alex Claridge after an offensive column about a transgender person in...

Halloween can blur the line between what's real and what's make believe. And news outlets are not immune to this...

The Los Angeles Times' David Horsey described White House spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders as a "chunky soccer mom." After the characterization...

How soon after the sudden tragic death of a well-known person is it appropriate to discuss the grisly details? Boston...

Gay Times magazine fired its new editor Josh Rivers because of his offensive, anti-Semitic tweets from years earlier. The UK...

Boston sports radio WEEI suspended radio host Alex Reimer after he called New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady's 5 -year-old...

Fox News published, then hit delete on, a heavily criticized column that slammed those praising diversity within the U.S. Olympics...