As evidenced on the panel discussion on “Outnumbered” Friday afternoon, opinion as to how reverential Fox News should be to the beleaguered Duggar clan is clearly beginning to splinter. When asked whether the media “even had the right” to report on Josh Duggar’s molestation of his sisters and babysitter, co-host Harris Faulkner invoked a non-existent “oath that we take as journalists” to “do no harm” — which is a loose translation of primum non nocere, a principle associated with the Hippocratic Oath, not a journalistic “understanding,” as Faulkner would have it.

Harris Faulkner questioned whether media “even had the right” to report on Josh Duggar’s molestation