MEDIA & ETHICS
VIOLATIONS
Trust in News Collapses as Algorithms Govern Information Access
A trust deficit is affecting almost every mainstream news source. Low-quality, biased reporting means smaller audiences and a less informed populace. It’s a vicious circle.
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VIOLATIONS
VIOLATIONS
Trust in News Collapses as Algorithms Govern Information Access
A trust deficit is affecting almost every mainstream news source. Low-quality, biased reporting means smaller audiences and a less informed populace. It’s a vicious circle.
VIOLATIONS
Reports of Hector Becerra’s Bullying Emerge as Yet More LA Times Staff Flee
Managing editor Hector Becerra, who boasts a history of celebrating misogynists and abusers, accelerates his publication’s 15-year trend toward utter collapse.
VIOLATIONS
Daily Beast CEO Ben Sherwood Is the Same Kind of Sexual Predator He Regularly Platforms, Accusers Say
As The Daily Beast nears oblivion, their CEO’s sordid past is rearing its ugly head. Their use of sources for articles with the same ugly history of which Sherwood stands accused probably isn’t helping.
TRENDS
TRENDS
Media Move to Prioritize Balance Over Bias
Media owners are coming to recognize that their reporters have been writing with bias for years—and are taking action to correct their publications.
TRENDS
BBC and Reporter Issue Self-Congratulations for Finding a Story
What used to be considered Journalism 101—find and tell a story—has become so rare that it results in a first-person victory lap by a BBC reporter. Media consolidation has broken journalism.
TRENDS
Wikipedia Under Fire for Editing Bias and Lack of Accountability
On the anniversary of the passing of Ben Bradlee, here’s a look at the antithesis of the level of objectivity he championed.
MAGAZINE
THE POSSE OF LUNATICS
Recently, a handful of not so self-respecting journalists ran with apocryphal tales on the Church of Scientology. Even the most cursory comparison from one bit of reportage to the next reveals an unmistakable similarity one to the next. For each drew their sources from the same small cadre of ex-Scientologists. Those individuals are the subject of this
publication.
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