Bad Taste and Standards in the News Media

Winnipeg Sun’s insensitive Alex Trebek headline says ‘Game over?’

The Winnipeg Sun offended readers with an insensitive headline about Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek, who recently announced his pancreatic cancer...

The San Diego Union-Tribune apologized for and unpublished a cartoon that showed James Baldwin, Toni Morrison and Jussie Smollett. Why?...

The UK radio show The James Whale Show, aired on Talk Radio, dismissively interviewed self-identified sexual assault victim Nichi Hodgson....

The University of Iowa men's basketball radio announcer Gary Dolphin called a black University of Maryland player, Bruno Fernando, "King...

Black Entertainment Television (BET) criticized rapper Nicki Minaj in a tweet about rapper Cardi B winning best rap album at...

The Daily Caller's White House correspondent Amber Athey apologized for her 2012 tweets about the Holocaust and Jewish people and...

USA Today's editor-in-chief Nicole Carroll admitted she published a blackface photo when she was editor of her college yearbook. In...

Japanese weekly tabloid magazine Spa! published an offensive article last month that listed the easiest universities to get women to...

Tom Brokaw said Hispanics should "work harder at assimilation." His comment was made Jan. 27, during an appearance on NBC...