Dirty, big secrets: Why won’t CNN and Fox account for their mistakes? | Poynter

Written by

Trent

in

Dirty, big secrets: Why won’t CNN and Fox account for their mistakes? – Poynter

From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter helps journalists sharpen skills and elevate storytelling throughout their careers.

via Poynter: https://www.poynter.org/ethics-trust/2017/dirty-big-secrets-why-won’t-cnn-and-fox-account-for-their-mistakes/

If the rapid response to the Blair scandal is a gold standard of what news organizations should do when something goes awry, the silence by Fox News and CNN over what went wrong inside their organizations when they retracted politically sensitive stories in May and June is a major failure and corrosive to the industry’s credibility.

More posts