Re: CNN Ethics

["A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@attorneyross.com>]

On 16 Apr 2003 at 20:05, Dan Billings wrote:

> Imus asked Tom Brokaw this morning about CNN setting on information they
> knew about Iraq.  Brokaw said that they should have figured out some way
> to report the story while protecting their employees.  He also said that
> viewers would be right to wonder what else CNN may not be reporting. 
> Brokaw obviously works for a competitor of CNN but I have never heard a
> network anchor make such pointed comments about another news outlet.  I
> think this is because CNN's conduct so clearly violated basic standards
> for journalism.
 
I wonder.  This can't be the first time a news organization has had a bureau in a totalitarian 
country.  How did the networks report the news from Moscow during the Soviet era?  Didn't 
they have bureaus there?  And wasn't their reporting subject to Soviet censorship?

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