The Former CNN anchor tells Salon about the "tremendous pressure" in the "inherently conservative" net's newsroom.
WEDNESDAY, APR 17, 2013 06:31 PM EDT
Brown, who is now a professor at Arizona State University, (click here) told Salon that his students had asked about the King reporting throughout the day. “I told them it never would have happened this badly on my watch,” he joked, before turning serious. “The role of the anchor is to say: This is true. And these things are very chaotic. [CNN should have indicated] ‘What we can say for sure is that the case moved significantly today.” Brown suggested that King and NBC News’ Pete Williams were using sources from entirely different spheres, with Williams operating with federal sources in Washington, while “my guess is that [King] was getting stuff from local or law enforcement or courthouse people; his sources were state people.”...
Sorry, if this is impolite, but, it seemed more than obvious to me what occurred yesterday.
The circus that occurred at two of the cable networks yesterday was a planned assault on the conscience of the audience. The management thought any apparent evidence of movement in solving the bomber case was their's to exploit. So, the management vied for 'being the Breaking News' of the day which meant they hoped and wished they were correct rather than VALIDATING TWO SOURCES. That is after all the ETHICAL STANDARD, isn't it? Tabloid journalism. Even the tabloids aren't that wrong all the time.
