CNN’s Tea Party partnership: ‘odd’ at best, ‘unethical’ at worst

[mfcorey1]

Handicapping how presidential candidates perform in debates is a tricky proposition. But in this case, the pundits agree: The co-hosts of Monday night's Republican debate--CNN and the Tea Party Express--made for "one of the oddest political matches in recent memory," "strange political bedfellows" not unlike "James Carville and Mary Matalin."

"After the 2010 elections, it was undeniable that the Tea Party movement within the Republican Party was a force, and that it was likely to help determine the outcome of the nomination," Sam Feist, CNN's Washington bureau chief, told the New York Times. "We decided that it makes sense for one of the debates to have a Tea Party connection, and that we were the right network to do it."

That decision put CNN on shaky ethical ground, author Scott Martelle argued:

A major cable network is teaming up with a political splinter group as an (apparent) equal partner in a televised event. CNN didn't team up with political progressives, who helped shape the 2008 presidential campaign, during that election cycle. Yet here it is proudly teaming up with the Tea Partiers (who, they keep telling us, aren't even an identifiable group, but a shared mindset). My guess is CNN is more interested in wresting viewers from Fox than in maintaining its own credibility.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/cutline/cnn-tea-party-partnership-odd-best-unethical-worst-165205711.html

[KharmaTrain]

1. Ethics? Cable News? Corporate Media?

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Never had 'em, never will...

It's all about the ratings and the folding green. Politics is just a means to make the money.

How far Chicken Noodle Nuze has fallen. From being the trailblazer to now cleaning up the elephant turds.