Bad Taste and Standards in the News Media

CNN: Sorry for ‘Stupid Girls’ Song before Sarah Palin

CNN apologized for playing Pink's song "Stupid Girls" "as an intro into a report about" Sarah Palin, The Hollywood Reporter...

Commentary Hilary Hanson's lede in The Huffington Post August 1 article "Body Painting World Record Attempt Leads to Thong Shortage...

CNN apologized for playing the Billy Joel song "Only the Good Die young" after a July 6 report on the...

Duluth Fox-affiliate Fox 21 KQDS's news director Jason Vincent apologized and resigned after one of his Facebook posts circulated, the...

The Western Mail apologized for writing "LOL" in a caption about a man's death, the UK Press Gazette reported. The...

The Daily Mail unpublished without disclosure "an offensive paragraph" from a July 4 article on "youth unemployment," the Guardian's Roy...

The FCC fined New York City Spanish radio station WSKQ $16,000 for a five-year-old "prank call" in which a staff...

Bernard Arnault claims that French newspaper Liberation's headline calling him a "rich jerk" is "public insult," "vulgar and violent," the...

Estonian newspaper Eesti Ekspress apologized for a "fake ad" in its "humor section" that paired "a photo of prisoners at...