Bad Taste and Standards in the News Media

Kate Middleton, UK Queen Radio Prank gone wrong, then very wrong, Nurse’s suicide?

Fall out from a now high-profile prank phone call from an Australian shock jock radio program has led to two...

MSNBC edited a guest's joke calling U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham a woman from its "re-air" of Nov. 28's Morning Joe...

Mel Greig and Michael Christian of 2Day FM -- the Australian DJs who prank-called Kate Middleton's hospital posing as Queen...

The UK Sun's ombudsman told iMediaEthics that the headline "Greedy Bulgars" -- referring to a Bulgarian family -- was only...

ESPN apologized Jan. 8 for comments made by the network's Brent Musburger about the girlfriend of a football player shown during the...

A controversial column on transgender people that ran in The Observer and was later removed from its website has led to an...

News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch and the Times' editor apologized after criticism of the UK Sunday Times' Jan. 27 cartoon...

Dallas-Fort Worth NBC-affiliate KXAS apologized Feb. 2 for an insensitive Facebook post promoting a news story about a "Fort Hood...

Bangkok, Thailand newspaper the Daily News named and photographed a victim of gang rape, but later took down the identifying...