No suspensions for these conflicts

[SoCalDem]

No suspensions for these conflicts
10/20/2004 7:23:23 PM

From ERIC GUMPRICHT: Jumping on the comment and sentiments below by John Royal regarding “conflicts of interest” and what reporters should or shouldn’t be allowed to do according to their employers, I offer the following direct passages from today’s New York Daily News: "NBC News star Campbell Brown is taking undercover reporting to a new level.

The sultry correspondent is dating former Bush White House adviser Dan Senor, we hear. Word is he and Brown have been dating since at least the Democratic National Convention. Brown has done several interviews with Senor. While declining to comment on Brown's personal life, an NBC rep said it sees no conflict of interest in her covering the race for the White House. Brown isn't the only newswoman who likes political pillow talk.

The Boston Globe's Washington bureau chief Nina Easton is engaged to Russ Schreifer, a Republican campaign strategist who specializes in gathering research against John Kerry. But Easton, who collaborated with other Globe reporters on "John F. Kerry," maintains she and Schreifer maintain an ethical "Chinese wall" between their personal and professional lives."



http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50230-2004Oct21.html

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• Life in these United States: Dan Senor, who spent more than a year of hard duty doing spin from Baghdad on behalf of the U.S. occupation, has been casually dating Campbell Brown, NBC's weekend "Today" co-anchor. We hear the relationship started in late summer, but neither would comment. An NBC spokeswoman told us yesterday: "She has never interviewed Mr. Senor since they have been dating." Now back in private life, Senor appears on TV regularly offering pro-administration views.


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Too bad Ifill's become a Condi apologist
10/21/2004 11:42:06 AM

From DARLA MORGAN: As an avid consumer of news, I noticed that Campbell Brown was "in bed" with the Bush Administration months before the gossip item about her dating Ron Senor. My response is to use my remote to change stations any time I see her on NBC. What is most disappointing is how Gwen Ifill has morphed from a credible journalist to a Condi apologist, how Tim Russert has become a groupy to Cheney, Judith Miller's dependence of Chalbi's "intelligence" for WMD information and Bob Schieffer slipping his golfing buddy Bush such soft-ball questions like the religion one during the latest debate. And then there's the problem of three day flood of Mary Cheney rather than any focus on Bush's denial that he wasn't that concerned about Osama Bin Laden when a video exposed his lie.

As a former journalist and retired legislative aide who has experienced both sides of the aisle, it is incredible to me how so many of our formerly respected journalists fail to understand that news consumers deserve credible reporting and balanced analysis. No wonder newspaper circulation is dropping faster than our economy and many folks have retreated to Comedy Central or the web to get their "news."