Fox News journalists: Don’t stay silent amid Bill O’Reilly controversy by Kyle Pope.
From the post:
WHAT DOES IT TELL US WHEN advertisers get ahead of reporters in matters of newsroom ethics? It tells us something is seriously wrong at Fox News, and it’s time for the real journalists at the network (and beyond) to make themselves heard.
On Tuesday, more companies moved to distance themselves from the network and its host, Bill O’Reilly, in response to a April 1 piece in The New York Times detailing sexual harassment allegations against Fox’s top-rated host and cash cow. The alleged behavior ranges the gamut of smut, from unwanted advances to phone calls in which O’Reilly—he of an $18 million-a-year salary from Rupert Murdoch et al—sounds as if he is masturbating.
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Pope’s call for legitimate journalists at Fox to step forward is understandable, but too little too late.
From campus rape at UT Austin to the conviction of former Penn State President Graham Spanier’s conviction for failing to report alleged child abuse, it is always that case that somebody knew what was going on and remained silent.
What did the “legitimate journalists” at Fox News and when?
Will the journalism community toss 0’Reilly to the wolves and give his colleagues a free pass?
That’s seems like an odd sense of ethics for journalists.
Yes?