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Topic: Letters Sent to Romenesko
Date/Time: 10/9/2007 10:43:22 AM
Title: Shame on CBS News!
Posted By: Jim Romenesko
 
From DAVID FLUHRER: I didn't see any posting re the fawning Rita Braver interview with Lynne Cheney on "CBS Sunday Morning." Coming on the heels of the "60 Minutes" puff piece on Clarence Thomas (after which Steve Croft essentially said a rebuttal by Anita Hill wasn't relevant to the story), one gets about two-thirds of the way through the Cheney interview before Braver reveals that her husband derives some of his income from his legal work on Cheney’s books. Here's the (pretty weak) disclosure on the Sunday Morning web site: "Her new book is largely a celebration of the joys of growing up in the West in the '40s and '50, which Braver's husband helped publish along with several others of Lynne Cheney's books."

What has happened to journalism as we knew it? No one else at CBS was available to do the Cheney story? Were the Cheneys allowed to "select" Braver as the reporter on the piece in return for the access? We're reached the point now where it's apparently OK for a journalist to interview a subject from whom she derives some of her family income. If we look at these two recent episodes, the firing of Dan Rather and God knows what other ethical breaches still to be discovered, it's clear that the golden years of CBS News are long gone. [Permalink]

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