CNN - NEWS EXECS AND GOP STEP UP FEUD

NEWS EXECS AND GOP STEP UP FEUD

Network news executives on Thursday responded to persistent attacks on the news media by speakers at the Republican National Convention, who charged the news media with bias in their coverage of vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin. CNN President Jonathan Klein responded in kind, telling Broadcasting & Cable magazine, "It's a time-honored marketing ploy and, every time they bash the media, it means they're not talking about a vision or a plan. ... But the best antidote to cynical marketing is solid reporting." Likewise NBC News President Steve Capus, responding to Palin's claim that "some in the media" have called her unqualified because she is "not a member in good standing of the Washington elite," told the trade publication "What people who are politically motivated are trying to do is take every outrageous blogger that exists online and lump them into traditional media. ... And that's not a sophisticated analysis of journalism. That's someone making a political argument. Any objective analysis of the facts would come down on a different conclusion."

05/09/2008