The conviction this week of Ghislaine Maxwell for her complicity in the sexual misconduct of her longtime friend and employer, the late Jeffrey Epstein, spawned a plethora of articles and interviews with legal analysts. For example, yesterday the BBC interviewed law professor Alan Dershowitz to talk about the verdict. The Washington Post reports that Professor Dershowitz used his time on the BBC World News "to slam [witness Virginia] Giuffre for supposedly not being a credible witness," and (again in the Post's words) "claimed the case from Giuffre against him and Britain's Prince Andrew *** was somehow weakened after Maxwell's guilty verdict."
Professor Dershowitz also appeared on Fox News to talk about the case. Fox News disclosed, as the BBC did not, that Dershowitz had once been Epstein's lawyer (he helped defend Epstein in his 2008 sex-crime trial), and that Dershowitz had also been accused of having had sex with Ms. Giuffre when she was 16. (Dershowitz has denied that allegation, and in fact claimed this week that Ms. Giuffre herself could be charged with sex crimes.)
It's odd to read about Fox News surpassing the BBC on journalistic ethics, but then it's been a crazy year.