Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Faces Ethics Questions Over Award-Winning BPA Reporting.
In an era of partisan journalism, there has been a presumption that at least one area of reporting, science, was insulated from blatant bias. After all, there are facts, and it’s presumably easy to identify when data is being cooked. But that’s naive, and a brewing ethical brouhaha at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel underscores how the public can be short-changed when ideology, ambition, or hubris takes precedence over a news organization’s public responsibility to report controversies in context.
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