{"id":2258773,"date":"2024-06-03T16:27:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T20:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/usa-today-may-have-violated-own-ethical-standards-in-deleting-op-ed-from-republican-senator-over-loaded-language\/"},"modified":"2024-06-03T16:30:53","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T20:30:53","slug":"usa-today-may-have-violated-own-ethical-standards-in-deleting-op-ed-from-republican-senator-over-loaded-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/usa-today-may-have-violated-own-ethical-standards-in-deleting-op-ed-from-republican-senator-over-loaded-language\/","title":{"rendered":"USA Today Possibly Breached Ethical Guidelines by Removing Op-Ed from GOP Senator for \u2018Biased Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fusa-today-may-have-violated-own-ethical-standards-in-deleting-op-ed-from-republican-senator-over-loaded-language%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2258773&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>USA Today faced scrutiny \u2062for potentially violating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-already-having-to-deal-with-ethical-headache-created-by-kamala-harris-niece-report\/\" title=\"White House Already Having To Deal With \u2018Ethical Headache\u2019 Created By Kamala Harris\u2019 Niece: Report\">ethical standards<\/a> by deleting an op-ed by Sen. John Kennedy\u200b without explanation. Despite pledging transparency, the deletion \u200bsparked controversy \u200dover journalistic \u200dintegrity. Kennedy&#8217;s team discovered the\u2064 removal without notice and questioned the lack of clarity in the process, highlighting \u200bconcerns about media transparency. Your summary is concise and captures\u200d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mike-gallagher-decision-to-leave-house-unchanged-despite-plea-from-leadership\/\" title=\"Mike Gallagher stands firm on decision to remain in the House despite leadership's plea for him to reconsider\">key points effectively<\/a>, highlighting the ethical concerns\u2064 and lack of\u200b transparency surrounding USA Today&#8217;s\u200b actions \u200cregarding the op-ed by Sen. John Kennedy. Well done!  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">USA Today may have violated its own ethical standards by deleting an op-ed about protecting women\u2019s sports by Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) without his knowledge or explanation to the public. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While USA Today <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cm.usatoday.com\/ethical-conduct\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">promises<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  to provide its readers with \u201ctransparency\u201d about its journalistic processes it left its audience and Kennedy guessing for days as to why it deleted an opinion article written by the Republican senator on keeping males out of female sports. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The op-ed, titled \u201cIs transgender inclusion more important than women\u2019s sports?\u201d was published on May 11 but was deleted from the USA Today Network newspapers by May 14. In the op-ed, Kennedy argued that it was harmful to girls for males identifying as female to be allowed to compete in women\u2019s sports. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For the first 10 days after deleting Kennedy\u2019s article, audiences were led to believe there had been a technical error. However, after Fox News <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/usa-today-newspapers-quietly-delete-gop-senators-op-ed-trans-athletes-without-telling-him\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">reached<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  out to inquire about the deletion, USA Today added a note to a link to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailycomet.com\/story\/news\/2024\/05\/24\/john-kennedy-questions-whether-transgender-inclusion-is-more-important-than-womens-sports\/73639180007\/\">article<\/a> saying it had not met its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-womens-soccer-team-kneels-for-anthem-wears-black-lives-matter\/\" title=\"US Women's Soccer Team Kneels for Anthem, Wears 'Black Lives Matter'\">editorial standards<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The delay in explaining what was going on to USA Today readers and Kennedy appears to fly in the face of one of USA Today\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/cm.usatoday.com\/ethical-conduct\">ethical guidelines<\/a>, which says that the outlet \u201cwill explain to audiences our journalistic processes to promote transparency and engagement.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Kennedy says the newspaper acted anything but transparently.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of America\u2019s largest outlets censored a common sense position that an overwhelming majority of Americans and Louisianians hold,\u201d a spokesperson for Kennedy told The Daily Wire. \u201cAnd they tried to hide the fact that they squelched it. It took the USA Today network well over a week to admit to the public that they had secretly removed the senator\u2019s piece, which raises a lot of questions about some mainstream media\u2019s willingness to be transparent with American readers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Initially, the op-ed was published by eight Louisiana newspapers owned by USA Today without any requests to Kennedy for edits. It was then removed, with no opportunity for Kennedy to make changes, and without his knowledge. After discovering it had been removed, Kennedy\u2019s team attempted to understand why the article had been deleted. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Emails and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/soros-backed-da-suspends-prosecutor-for-misgendering-trans-child-molester-accused-of-murder\/\" title=\"Soros-Backed DA Suspends Prosecutor for \"Misgendering\" Trans Child Molester Accused of Murder\">phone calls show<\/a> that the process behind the removal was anything but transparent.  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kennedy\u2019s team was first told that the op-ed had been removed because it hadn\u2019t included any links to citations despite the fact that the version submitted by Kennedy had over a dozen citations. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After corresponding with one local reporter who they had submitted the op-ed to the paper through, a spokesperson made contact with Misty Castile, the editor of the Shreveport Times and four other Gannett papers. The spokesperson spoke with Castile twice on May 20, six days after the deletion of the article. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the first phone call, Castile told a Kennedy team member that the op-ed had been removed because it had no citations. She also said that a \u201cprocess problem\u201d was what led to the op-ed being pulled without Kennedy\u2019s knowledge, according to a transcript of the call shared with The Daily Wire. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a second phone call, Castile added that there were concerns about language used in the op-ed, adding that she was waiting to hear from others about more specific problems. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cYou know, I do know there were some specific questions about language, and, and part of the reason that we\u2019re talking to standards is I\u2019m trying to get very specific information on what language they were discussing\u2014if it was just that they didn\u2019t see citations, and, so, without the citations it, it, it was, it looked worse on the face that it was\u2014I\u2019m waiting on answers,\u201d she said. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Later emails from Castile stated that Kennedy\u2019s use of the terms \u201cbiological male,\u201d and \u201cbiological female,\u201d were \u201cloaded terms\u201d outside of the outlet\u2019s editorial standards. The outlet also took issue with Kennedy saying that men competing against women in sports was similar to NBA star Zion Williamson playing against middle school boys.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Two newspapers that ran the article, including the Houma Today and the Daily Advertiser, both still have the op-ed promoted on their X pages though the links to the article go to the editorial standards explanation.  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">USA Today did not return a request for comment. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USA Today potentially breached its ethical standards by removing an op-ed on safeguarding women&#8217;s sports by Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) without informing him or the public. 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