MEDIA & ETHICS

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. 

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VIOLATIONS

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. 

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?

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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