#media-ethics

#media-ethics

I have never used cocaine in my life or hosted cocaine-fueled parties. I have never pressured anyone into marriage. I have never desecrated any family heirloom or intruded upon anyone's private memorial. I have never planted any story in the press. I never compared Jacqueline Onassis' death to a dog's.

On the 10th day of the search for Nancy Guthrie, reporters camped outside of the missing woman's home noticed a strange man strut right up to the front door. It had been more than a week since the mother of Today show host Savannah Guthrie had disappeared, and authorities had just announced they had a new lead from Ring footage of what looked like a potential subject attempting to tamper with the doorbell camera on the morning of her disappearance.

Over and over, when the president repeated lies that were debunked months or years ago, Llamas responded simply right' or yeah' or didn't acknowledge them at all, Dale wrote, continuing: Trump's rapid-fire dishonesty is difficult for any interviewer to handle, especially given the limited time they are given by the White House, and it's not uncommon for them to largely ignore the serial inaccuracy in order to get to the topics they've planned to address.

CNews is the country's most-watched 24-hours TV news station but it scarcely reports the news. It provides a running commentary of loud-mouthed opinion. Emmanuel Macron is a charlatan; the Left is wicked; immigrants are mostly violent criminals; Donald Trump is a breath of fresh air; Vladimir Putin has some faults but many qualities; France is swamped with crime because of the moral weakness of the ruling elite.

Raising a flag at our capital cultural centre, the flag of a military superpower that for weeks has been implying military force against our country, is not a joke. It is not funny. It is immensely harmful, she said in a statement. Olsen said Greenlanders, particularly children, were worried and afraid about the current situation. When you amplify those fears for content, clicks or laughs, you are not being bold or creative.

Letting bad-faith Trump trolls (but I repeat myself twice) smear slain protester Alex Pretti as a violent psychopath in the name of debate is a line that responsible news organizations should not cross. Allow me to set the table here. I'm talking about the newly resurfaced viral video that desperate MAGA flying monkeys have seized on to try and stanch the bleeding from what America saw last Saturday.

Megyn Kelly skewered MS NOW for using what the channel admitted was an AI-enhanced picture of Alex Pretti, with Kelly pointing out multiple manipulations to the photo, including that they tanned him up, fixed his teeth, darkened his hair, and made his nose smaller. Kelly roasted MS NOW for the edits on the Tuesday episode of her show. Apparently, they did not think that their hero was hot enough, Kelly said. And so they or someone from whom they got the picture

A short while later, the White House posted the same photo - except that version had been digitally altered to darken Armstrong's skin and rearrange her facial features to make it appear she was sobbing or distraught. The Guardian one of many media outlets to report on this image manipulation, created a handy slider graphic to help viewers see clearly how the photo had been changed.

Trump's Lawyers Should Be Disbarred: Time for accountability.

Major American news outlets were informed of the Trump administration's plan to bombard Venezuela and abduct its president ahead of the operation early Saturday morning, but withheld their reporting on the operation to protect the military, Semafor reports. Both The New York Times and The Washington Post knew about the raid before President Donald Trump approved it on Friday night at 10:46 pm, Semafor reported over the weekend.

I'm still not clear on what the legal authority is for the United States to run the country of Venezuela, but several members of Congress and other legal experts have said this operation to take Maduro was illegal because you didn't seek congressional authorization, said Stephanopoulos. Why wasn't congressional authorization necessary? It wasn't necessary because this was not an invasion. We didn't occupy a country.

Honestly, you knock on the door of a daycare center and you're like, Let me in, let me in.' What do you expect people to do? Phillip asked. She continued, You know, in some of those cases, there were children in there. What do you want people to do? Open the door and say, come on in.' When they know that the Somali community is under attack, is being threatened every single day. What is going on here?

Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now-after every rigorous internal check has been met is not an editorial decision, it is a political one.

Professor Tobias' hobby seems to be getting himself quoted about anything and everything in news stories, Cavin wrote to staffers.

The most dangerous part of Bari Weiss's decision to pull a 60 Minutes segment last weekend isn't that she exercised her authority. It's the precedent she set that refusing to comment can function as a veto over investigative journalism. That is the line journalists inside CBS are now staring at. Once it exists, there's no unseeing it. Over the weekend, Weiss shelved a report by correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi examining Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration to CECOT, a notorious maximum-security prison in El Salvador.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging. At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground.

In an announcement, Elon Musk's AI company xAI unveiled a new tool called "Halftime" which "dynamically weaves AI-generated ads into the scenes you're watching." Instead of cutting to an ad break, Halftime manipulates the characters onscreen into deviating from the script and prominently brandishing a product of a marketer's choice. The tool is meant to make ad "breaks feel like part of the story instead of interruptions," the company said.

Future chronicles of the utter debasement of American political journalism will have to devote an entire chapter to the blowjob. The oral sex act was central to the 1998 Monica Lewinsky scandal, and figured prominently in President Bill Clinton's deposition advancing the argument that it didn't actually fall under the rubric of active "sexual relations." An avalanche of forensic scrutiny in the press ensued.

Nick's feature about the strange, sad case of "Victoria Goldiee"-a phantom writer whose spree of bylines, in publications ranging from the Guardian to Architectural Digest, have all the watermarks of chatbot prose-is the must-read piece of this closing year. With 2025 bringing flirty AI companions and lawsuits against AI giants and a looming AI bubble, his tale about the ease with which synthetic voices can now pass for human hits with the force of a horror story.

Broadcaster refuses to apologise during Oireachtas hearing Broadcaster and media coach Ivan Yates has said he has "some regrets" about his comments that Fine Gael should "smear the bejaysus" out of Catherine Connolly during the presidential campaign. But he has refused to apologise for the remarks, which he made in a podcast by Newstalk Radio, saying they were "weaponised" and "deliberately manipulated" by Ms Connolly's campaign.

Eh, millions of people that follow you. What does that mean? I mean, do they go out and Sieg Heil? I mean, come on. I got two kids in their 20s. They don't have anything to do with this guy. They know who he is. I just don't see it as a social problem. Now, maybe it will develop into one, but I doubt it. The problem is exploiting a guy like Fuentes. Now there you get into, Well, if I put him on the show, I'm gonna get high ratings. Most American broadcasters will not do that. They won't. And it's not that they're so noble, it's just that their corporate masters go, No, you're not putting that guy on. Now, I'm an independent, right? I won't put him on because I don't want to insult my audience.

It's an absolute insult, a despicable insult to the memories and families of the 97. It's purely offensive, I just can't believe they would even consider speaking

Fianna Fáil confirms Yates provided four hours of interview and debate training to Jim Gavin Housing Minister James Browne confirms he has also received media training from Yates Justice Minister Jim O'Callaghan says "nothing improper" in Fianna Fáil retaining the services of broadcaster Coimisiún na Meán now wants answers from RTÉ and Newstalk on Yates's on-air activities