For four months beginning in May 2001, major U.S. media outlets, including all three cable news channels, took the American public for a ride -- perpetrating a hoax that a married congressman was somehow involved in the disappearance of a female intern.
As I witnessed the farce from inside cable news, I could see it was all about ratings and had nothing to do with journalism.This week -- with these same outlets reporting a "break" in the 8-year-old murder case -- would be a good time for TV news executives to look back and give the public a big, fat apology.
Will TV News Ever Apologize for Condit Hoax?
ABC News on Sunday suspended senior national correspondent Terry Moran after he sharply criticized President Trump...
The man accused of being responsible for holding the missing American journalist Austin Tice has claimed...
NPR and three Colorado public radio stations filed suit Tuesday morning in federal court against the...
