CNN Reporter Shames Colleagues

CNN MEDIA REPORTER SHAMES COLLEAGUES FOR NOT GIVING SARAH PALIN BENEFIT OF DOUBT

CNN’s media reporter shamed his colleagues this week for rushing to judgment before all of the facts were in about a brawl involving the Palin family. The “sketchy” details of the fight in which the Palin family reportedly came to the defense of their eldest son were first spread by an anti-Palin blogger who admitted she neither had the time nor wanted to track down the facts.

No need to bother, of course, when the “story” is salacious and the anti-Palin mainstream press will more than participate in the feeding frenzy if they think it will make Palin look bad.

On the most recent Reliable Sources, host Brian Stelter asked, “Doesn’t Sarah Palin deserve the benefit of the doubt?” After running a segment in which MSNBC host Joe Scarborough, ever the Southern gentleman, mocked Palin and ridiculed and picked on her young daughter Bristol, Stelter told his audience that, “a couple of weeks ago, there was apparently some Palin family drama up in Wasilla, Alaska.”

“I say apparently because some of the details are in dispute… But there’s still no photo or video evidence of what happened,” he continued. “And I think some media types were too quick to jump to conclusions about this.”

He mentioned that his network, CNN, was all over it and participated in the “feeding frenzy.” Stelter also wondered whether Fox News, the network Americans view as the most trusted source for news, “simply decided that the famous family’s possible feud was not really newsworthy.” Perhaps that is why Americans trust Fox News’s judgment more than CNN’s, according to Gallup. MORE

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