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ABC's Payment to Casey Anthony Raises Questions about Ethics, Checkbook Journalism
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ABC News has admitted that it paid accused murderer Casey Anthony $200,000 in exchange for exclusive rights to video and photos. The network denies that the payments also included agreements for interviews.
The revelation came Thursday in an Orlando court hearing aimed at trying to determine if Anthony is broke and needs financial help to mount a defense.
The ABC News payments were made in August 2008 while Casey Anthony was under investigation but not yet charged with the first-degree murder of her toddler, Caylee Anthony. A grand jury indicted the mother in October 2008.
ABC stations have repeatedly aired the images and video but have not, until now, revealed the long-rumored financial arrangement behind them. Anthony's lawyers told the judge about the ABC payment in a closed door hearing last fall. Thursday, the judge ordered the information be made public in open court.
Read on to hear what Poynter's Kelly McBride and Jill Geisler think about ABC's payment.
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Survey Finds Americans Rank Polluted Drinking Water as Top Environmental Concern
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There is not as much red-hot interest in global warming as you might think.
When it comes to the environment,
Americans are most concerned about water
, according to a new Gallup survey. But it is also interesting that Americans are generally less worried about all environmental issues than they were a year ago. Gallup said that for some environmental issues, the percentage of Americans who "worry a great deal" has dropped to a 20-year low. You can
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Of the eight environmental issues mentioned, water-related issues were the top three; global warming was at the bottom. Gallup said it could be that economic issues have squeezed environmental issues out of our list of things to worry about for now.
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Education Secretary Proposes Restrictions for NCAA Teams with Low Graduation Rates
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U.S. Education Secretary
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This would mean that 12 teams in the NCAA tournament would not be on the court.
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"The schools that have men's basketball teams with graduation rates of less than 40% are Arkansas-Pine Bluff (29%), Baylor (36%), California (20%), Clemson (37%), Georgia Tech (38%), Kentucky (31%), Louisville (38%), Maryland (8%), Missouri (36%), New Mexico State (36%), Tennessee (30%) and Washington (29%)."
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" 'Copy machines today are just like computers,' explained Boston security expert Robert Siciliano. 'They have hard drives and can store data that can be extracted.' "
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I can imagine that at this morning's editorial meeting there might not be a lot of folks clamoring to cover the
FCC's new broadband plan
to be released today. But maybe they should.
Years from now, we might remember this as the day we finally got moving to make the United States a world leader in online, especially wireless connnectivity.
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