Bad Taste and Standards in the News Media

A fair breaking news MH17 headline or bad taste? CNN Reporter ‘sees bodies’ in Malaysia flight wreckage

CNN is promoting at the top of its web page that its reporter "sees bodies" from the Malaysia Airlines plane...

CNN apologized after a correspondent called a group of Israelis "scum" in a tweet. The network also pulled the same...

UK broadcast regulator OfCom fined the Investigation Discovery channel £100,000 (about $171,000 U.S.) for airing eight graphic episodes of a...

Indonesian newspaper The Jakarta Post apologized July 8 for an offensive cartoon about the terrorist group ISIS (Islamic State in...

The Daily Mail unpublished an article that George Clooney called "completely fabricated." It also apologized for the claims in the...

A skit on ABC-Australia that showed a doctored photo of a reporter having sex with a dog broke the Australian...

A West Village, New York City newspaper used the n-word in a headline about President Barack Obama. WestView News, an...

Sirius XM radio fired Anthony Cumia of The Opie and Anthony Show after he tweeted "racially-charged and hate-filled remarks" earlier...

In another cautionary tale about not checking facts, last month the Frederick News-Post in Maryland admitted that it published fake quotes...