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NBC News standards department asks staff to lay off racist Iowa Rep. Steve King
NBC declined to comment.
Read the restNBC News standards department sent an email to staffers Tuesday telling them not to directly refer to Rep. Steve Kings recent comments about white supremacy as racist.
Be careful to avoid characterizing [Kings] remarks as racist, reads the email, which two NBC News staffers shared with HuffPost. It is ok to attribute to others as in what many are calling racist or something like that.
The email was sent to staffers by Susan Sullivan, a senior employee in the standards division at NBC News. In a news organization, the standards department offers guidance and issues rules about what is legally and ethically appropriate to report, and about how certain topics should be covered.
NBC News did not immediately respond to a request for comment for this article.
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