CNN’s Jake Tapper lashed out at the media on Twitter for the lack of accountability in reporting on the Harvey Weinstein sex scandal.
2/ … we've also seen direct/indirect examples of how members of the media helped cover up his alleged crimes. Publishing dirt on victims..
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) October 14, 2017
3/…plus killing excellent and solid journalism that would have exposed his crimes earlier thus stopping his victimizing new women
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) October 14, 2017
4/ There is no functioning body that oversees journalism that can demand an accounting for how this happened. It's up to each organization
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) October 14, 2017
5/ and unless the star reporters and editors and EPs or a board of directors demands it, it will be swept under the rug. No question.
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) October 14, 2017
6/ the very same incentives that hampered @Isikoff's Bill Clinton investigations in the 90s hampered @kimmasters on Amazon scandal.
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) October 14, 2017
7/ If media reporters don't push from the outside and powerful people from the inside, nothing will change. This week we all saw lies…
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) October 14, 2017
8/ from news organizations tasked with telling us the truth, except when discussing their own internal corrupt behaviors. Demand better. ###
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) October 14, 2017
Last week Tapper singled out NBC for its complicity in the scandal.
Speaking of media complicity ask yourself why NBC reporter @RonanFarrow wrote this for The New Yorker.
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) October 10, 2017
Tapper exposed one of the fundamental problems in journalism with his tweet: There is no functioning body that can hold the media accountable, unlike doctors and lawyers, meaning that each news organization is essentially self-policing, and is, therefore, more likely to protect their interests than demand accountability.
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