After a reporter in Iowa dug into the Twitter history of a subject of a feel-good story, others dug up some of the journalist’s own bad tweets from years past. The incident sparked conversations about so-called ‘cancel culture’ and how newsrooms make decisions about what is relevant about a subject’s past.
On this week’s edition of Beat The Press, Emily Rooney was joined by Joanna Weiss of Experience Magazine; Roy Harris, formerly of the Wall Street Journal and The Economist Group; Dan Kennedy of Northeastern University; and Callie Crossley of WGBH News.
