MEDIA & ETHICS
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.
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VIOLATIONS
VIOLATIONS
Daily Beast’s Sean Craig Whitewashes Abuse of Women; Sources Story to Wife Beaters & Sex Trafficking Enablers
The Daily Beast’s desperation to exercise their anti-Scientology bigotry causes them to ignore the compromised and deeply disturbing backgrounds of their sources.
VIOLATIONS
Reporters Support Sex Trafficking at the Expense of Child Victims
Backpage was seized and shut down by the government, its founder jailed (after another committed suicide). So why are reporters standing up for the site and its sex trafficking?
VIOLATIONS
Far Out’s Editor Lee Thomas Blocks Targets of His Bigotry, Violates His Own Guidelines
Editor of bigoted anti-Scientology article responds to complaints by simply blocking the accounts that make them. Lee Thomas fails the basic tests of journalistic fairness.
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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