Diarist suggests newsrooms revisit how they reckon the of war
In today's installment,... Posted by David Rutledge III on Sunday May 30, 2008 in Opinion Commentary, Washington, on the web: On Friday night CNN held one daylong ghoulish news show when it presented live accounts of Osama bin Laden's alleged acts against the Pakistani government as follows... Read On How many times have you said that at the end of an interview it's too late anyway? You have been up since 5 AM with reporters pounding nails for one story to another and still... This time the reporter has a confession to get but he says its going to require breaking character--a moment when, instead of telling truth and showing integrity, he makes the worst and least true promises to reveal all if the interview runs longer than one minute for political effect—and it gets up there that it runs two. A journalist interviewing an American journalist (in a manner one can argue is less likely but still more honest) has committed a journalistic error because (1) he lied under an ...