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...schools in the northeastwhere students don't have opportunity to be fullyeducated because of cable. We have no access toC-SPAN or CNN," he said
Newspapers -- remember them? They're where people used to get their infotainment before CNN, Hard Copy and the Letterman Top 10 list. Kids don't read them much anymore; newspapers are nostalgia items for the geriatric Gutenberg generation. And even more anachronistic are newspaper movies, which were nearly always about rapacious reporters chiseling bereaved losers out of their private dignity. Five Star Final, The Front Page (His Girl Friday in the Cary Grant edition) and Ace in the Hole were papers in nutshell, tabloid on celluloid. They gave you the headlines, the editorial and the funnies too. The subject...
...people can manipulate the media and why journalists must do their own homework before giving extended airtime to uncorroborated allegations. According to a source familiar with the case, the plaintiff's lawyer had rushed to file the suit in hopes of having it included in an imminent CNN special on priests and sex. Indeed, plaintiff Steven Cook, 35, had been made available for an exclusive CNN interview. Sure enough, when the suit was filed the next day, Nov. 12, CNN aired the interview with Cook, who said he had repressed the memory that the Cardinal had had sex with...
That Sunday, Nov. 14, CNN aired its hourlong special, which had been in the works for months. Cook's charges were added to the program and used to promote it. The show carried this introduction: "Charges that a prince of the church, a man eligible to become Pope, a Cardinal on the forefront of reforming how the church deals with clergy's sexual abuse, has himself fallen from grace...
...CNN was not alone in giving Cook the oxygen of publicity. But when the only hook for a story is a lawsuit -- which takes only one person convincing one lawyer to go forward -- the media are under some obligation to check out the accusation. In this case, a modest amount of reporting would have shown the charges to be suspect. Repressed memory is controversial to begin with, and the hypnotist who jogged Cook's memory is in the graphic-arts business and is not a licensed psychologist. The evidence was flimsy. There was no telltale inscription in a book Bernardin...