The financial entanglements between MSNBC host Al Sharpton and the Kamala Harris campaign, revealed this week by the Washington Free Beacon , are a "black eye" for the liberal network and media industry, according to a journalism group considered the "gold standard" of media ethics. "This kind of entanglement harms the credibility of the journalist, the news organization, and journalism overall, and credibility is difficult to restore," Rod Hicks, the director of ethics and diversity at the