Violation of Ethics in the Case of Ásthildur Lóa

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The Ethics Committee of the Icelandic Journalists' Association concluded on Monday that RÚV and Sunna Karen Sigurþórsdóttir committed a reprehensible violation with their coverage of the case of Ásthildur Lóa Þórsdóttir, then Minister of Education and Children's Affairs, earlier this year. Ásthildur resigned from her ministerial position following RÚV's coverage of her having had a child with a teenage boy. Ásthildur sued the National Broadcasti…

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The Ethics Committee of the Icelandic Journalists' Association has ruled that RÚV and reporter Sunna Karen Sigurþórsdóttir violated the association's code of ethics. They did this by referring without warning to the current provisions of the General Penal Code in their coverage of the case of Ásthildur Lóa Þórsdóttir and her relationship with her child's father. Sunna Karen and RÚV were, however, acquitted on four of the five counts in Ásthildur…