Worst Moments in Journalism?

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What are the worst moments in the history of journalism?

Has good journalism ever existed? When did that stop being the standard and why?
 
CNN doing damage control for the Clinton campaign is pretty high up on my list. Chris Cuomo would hang up on video guests that brought up the leaked clinton e-mails, and he told his audience it was illegal for anyone but media outlets to read said e-mails. I’ve never seen a journalist disrespect their audiences’ intelligence quite like that.
 
Off the top of my head:

Geraldo Rivera in 1986 with Al Capone's vault.

Janet Cooke winning the Pulitzer in the 1980s.

Sidd Finch back in the 1980s, a baseball prospect from England that threw like 200 MPH and was believed to be true but was actually an April Fool's joke.

Stephen Glass's wholesale fabricated or exaggerated articles in The New Republic in the 90s. Genuinely killed the reputation of what was once one of the foremost American magazines.

Dan Rather's George W. Bush coverage in 2004 after CBS failed to authenticate documents in an attempt to influence the election.

Paula Broadwell boning General David Patraeus while writing his biography.

The Duke Lacrosse case, which ruined lives and ended up being a case of a false accusation.

Coverage of Notre Dame linebacker Manti Teo in the 2010s, who claimed to have a deceased girlfriend named Lennay Kekua which supposedly ended up being a dude catfishing him that the media bought wholeheartedly.

The general denial and suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story, as well as the false authentication of the Trump peepee dossier that was revealed to be false.

Pretty much anything post-2000 from any major publication can probably be included on this list.
 
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That time CNN tracked down a kid who posted a meme and forced him to post an islamic state style apology video, rittenhouse, blm in general, sandman, basically anything that has to do with the economy, and those are just within the last ten years
 
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That time CNN tracked down a kid who posted a meme and forced him to post an islamic state style apology video, rittenhouse, blm in general, sandman, basically anything that has to do with the economy, and those are just within the last ten years
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I am shocked that so much terrible journalism has occured this past decade.
 
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Every media coverage of the summer of love. When America was turned into Somalia.
 
Durante being a communist mouth piece covering up the holomdor, winning a Pulitzer for it. Then never having it rescended. New York Times is trash.
 
The grauniad has had some bad ones.
When franz Ferdinand got shot they ran a headline saying ‘nothing will come of this.’
They had a Russian KGB guy as an editor for a bit
They’ve had some awful headlines appeasing Muslim terrorists too. After the 7/7 bombings they ran a load of awful op-eds excusing Muslims. Really bad stuff, all ‘oh poor disenfranchised boys it’s your fault!’ One of the guys writing this did an article entitled ‘we rock the boat’ and he turned out to be a hardcore Hizb-ut-tahrir member, which caused some egg on faces
I’m sure you could have an entire thread about the Guardian, they’re only fit to line the kitty litter tray with these days which is a shame because they have had a couple of decent scoops in the past
 
Rolling Stone reported a story about a girl who was gang-raped in a fraternity hazing ritual. As a result, all fraternities were suspended, and the alleged fraternity that participated in the rape was vandalized. The only problem was that the entire story was a work of fiction by a feminist writer.

When the truth was finally revealed, the author and the magazine were later successfully sued for defamation.
 
Watergate. This was one of the key moments in the history of journalism that journalists invoke as proof that they are serious, investigative, and analytical rather than yellow book muckrakers. What no one ever points out is that, prior to Watergate, Bob Woodward had zero journalistic experience. He was a naval intelligence officer and started working for The Washington Post in 1971. Then, in 1972, Woodward (and Carl Bernstein, who was a longtime investigative journalist) was given the Watergate story and is hailed as the journalist's journalist. No journalist ever asked a basic question: why was this complete rookie assigned one of the biggest stories in US political history?

Journalists are still yellow book muckrakers, but they all hold up Watergate like it's a unit citation whenever they have egg on their face.
 
The Saigon Execution photo
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The person being executed isn't a civilian, it's an enemy soldier that killed innocents and then put on civilian clothes to get away with it. The faggot who captured the image didn't give the context because being against the war was the media position, and even after the story came out the guy never lost his awards.

Journalists on a battlefield should be as valid targets as the enemy soldiers.
 
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