Bad Taste and Standards in the News Media

Retired NFL Player’s Lou Gehrig’s Disease Mocked, 3 Atlanta Radio Hosts Fired

Atlanta's 790 The Zone radio station hosts Steak Shapiro, Chris Dimino and Nick Cellini made fun of former NFL player...

Last year, Fox News aired live footage of a man named JoDon Romero killing himself with a gun after a car...

Several sites including BuzzFeed, Inside Edition and the Daily Mail splashed photos and videos of a skimpily-dressed Lindsay Mills under...

India's News Express fired its reporter Narayan Pargaien for "sitting on the shoulder of a man while reporting in Uttarakhand...

A syndicated crossword puzzle that used the term "Shylock" as a clue for the puzzle answer "Jew" got the newspaper...

iMediaEthics tried alternative images of the accused Boston bomber to test the visual result. The romantic Jim Morrison-esque image the...

Bay Area Fox-affiliate KTVU fired three producers who were involved in its July 12 viral mistake in reporting racist and...

Jeff Gauger, the executive editor of the News & Record, a daily newspaper in Greensboro, N.C., apologized for a June...

Argentinian daily newspaper Muy published photos of a murdered 16-year-old girl, Angeles Rawson, on its front page June 28, the...