Bad Taste and Standards in the News Media

NZ Herald cancels cartoon strip after transphobic subject matter

The New Zealand Herald apologized earlier this year after publishing on offensive cartoon about transgender people. It also canceled the...

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel included a question about a 3-year-old shooting victim, Brooklyn Harris, in its weekly news quiz. Harris...

Australian columnist Andrew Bolt called teen climate change activist Greta Thunberg "deeply disturbed" and commented, "I have never seen a...

The New York Times demoted editor Jonathan Weisman after problematic tweets including his tweeted private message to author Roxane Gay,...

Good Morning America host Lara Spencer apologized for making fun of Prince George's ballet lessons, saying "I screwed up." Spencer...

Oklahoma City ABC-affiliate KOCO news anchor Alex Housden said her co-anchor Jason Hackett, who is black, looked like a gorilla....

It was irrelevant for the UK Sun to publish a picture of and a story speculating on a relationship between...

In a tweet about Wednesday's 18th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorism attacks, the New York Times wrote "airplanes took...

NPR producer Furkan Khan resigned and apologized for a tweet insulting Hinduism. Khan tweeted Sept. 10, "If Indians give up...