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When Fox News staffers break ethics rules, discipline follows -- or does it?
Source: Washington Post
When Fox News staffers break ethics rules, discipline follows — or does it?
By Margaret Sullivan
Media columnist
November 29 at 6:30 AM
There are ethical standards at Fox News, we’re told.
But just what they are, or how they’re enforced, is an enduring mystery.
-snip-
When the staff for “Fox & Friends” were found to have provided a pre-interview script for Scott Pruitt, then the Environmental Protection Agency head, the network frowned: “This is not standard practice whatsoever and the matter is being addressed internally with those involved.”
“Not standard practice” is putting it mildly, as the Daily Beast’s Maxwell Tani — who broke the story — noted, quoting David Hawkins, formerly of CBS News and CNN, who teaches journalism at Fordham University:
“Every American journalist knows that to provide scripts or articles to the government for review before publication or broadcast is a cardinal sin. It’s Journalism 101. This is worse than that. It would and should get you fired from any news organization with integrity.”
-snip-
By Margaret Sullivan
Media columnist
November 29 at 6:30 AM
There are ethical standards at Fox News, we’re told.
But just what they are, or how they’re enforced, is an enduring mystery.
-snip-
When the staff for “Fox & Friends” were found to have provided a pre-interview script for Scott Pruitt, then the Environmental Protection Agency head, the network frowned: “This is not standard practice whatsoever and the matter is being addressed internally with those involved.”
“Not standard practice” is putting it mildly, as the Daily Beast’s Maxwell Tani — who broke the story — noted, quoting David Hawkins, formerly of CBS News and CNN, who teaches journalism at Fordham University:
“Every American journalist knows that to provide scripts or articles to the government for review before publication or broadcast is a cardinal sin. It’s Journalism 101. This is worse than that. It would and should get you fired from any news organization with integrity.”
-snip-
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/when-fox-news-staffers-break-ethics-rules-discipline-follows--or-does-it/2018/11/28/02a11b98-f32a-11e8-80d0-f7e1948d55f4_story.html