Bad Taste and Standards in the News Media

Seattle Times Bans NFL ‘Redskins’ name as ‘Absurd, Offensive, Outdated’

The Seattle Times is the latest publication to announce it will no longer use the term "Redskins" in reporting on...

The Daily Mirror apologized after wrongly claiming that a teenage victim of sexual abuse consented to sex with her abuser....

The Australian Broadcasting Corp. has apologized on air and settled a libel lawsuit over its doctored photo calling journalist Chris...

The Chicago Sun-Times unpublished an op-ed calling transgender people "delusional," GLAAD reported. The op-ed was written by Kevin D. Williamson...

Australian Broadcasting Corp. apologized to News Corp. journalist Chris Kenny for airing a doctored photo calling him a "dogf**ker," but...

MSNBC wasn't the only TV news outlet to air an offensive Cinco de Mayo segment this year. ABC's Good Morning...

Do gays want to rewrite the Bible to justify their "sinful natures"? The editor of the Newton (Iowa) Daily News,...

MSNBC staff went too far this week in what MSNBC later admitted in an apology was a "disrespectful" and "sarcastic"...

UK newspaper The Lynn News Citizen apologized for a column that said the 25th anniversary memorial for the Hillsborough tragedy...