Reply #52: My response to CNN [View All]

[Fovea]

I think that dressing down Christine Amanpour was far beyond bad management. It goes a long way to qualifying CNN as a genuine media brothel.

Maybe you were blind to how jingoist and insulting your Iraq coverage was to well informed Americans.

If so, consider this a bitch slap in lieu of a wake up call. If not, then CNN will get what it deserves, a well deserved position as the second rate house organ for PNAC it seems so eager to become.

Christine is one of my models for what a real journalist should be, when you slap her down, you slap down your raison d'etre. The first amendment protection of the free press was based on a putative value for journalism as a profession.

I don't know what you are advocating, but it does not look like a free press to me. Start defending the freedom of journalists, or watch your profession be subsumed into Ashcroft's Department of Homeland Repression.

Sadly, it is your choice to make, not that of the viewers.