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Topic: Letters Sent to Romenesko
Date/Time: 6/15/2009 5:29:39 PM
Title: Full disclosure, please
Posted By: Jim Romenesko
 
From ERIC ALTERMAN: Let me get this straight: Howard Kurtz, who draws a regular paycheck from CNN, but is described in this chat exclusively as a "Washington Post staff writer and columnist" offers the lamest possible defense of CNN, not once but twice, regarding Iran but nowhere in the chat does he bother to inform readers that he is in the pay of the network whose dereliction of duty he sees fit to defend.This is not "the appearance of a conflict of interest." This is an actual conflict-of-interest. This is "Conflict of Interest 101." And yet we are supposed to take seriously his admonitions--and those of his employers--with regard to journalistic ethics of bloggers and other reporters. Excuse me, but I am baffled as to why. [Permalink]

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