CNN's Stephanie Cutter criticized by FAIR...

[kentuck]

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A TV pundit is paid to say what she thinks. A political spin doctor is paid to say whatever line is most likely to promote her client's agenda. It's a glaring conflict between two very different responsibilities. A conflict of interest like that might not bother Cutter. But such conflicts are supposed to matter to CNN.

If Stephanie Cutter is consulting with the White House, and then going on TV to discuss the very same issues, she's not representing the left--or her viewers. She's representing the White House.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/24/stephanie-cutter-cnn-fair-campaign_n_3981099.html

[NuclearDem]

1. FAIR never loved them!

[grasswire]

2. the same might be said of other talking heads

Joy Reid, for example, worked for Obama.

And there certainly are plenty of pundits who worked for Bush, getting face time.

Why single out Cutter?

[whathehell]

4. Good point. n/t

[MisterP]

5. it's in the FAIR alert's very title--that the MSM redefines "left" as just "pro-Dem/WH"

they constantly rip the personalism that's inherent in a system where campaign staffers and bosom buddies are turned into pundits--because what they see as important is not "achieving X" but "making Y look good"; this then only furthers the idea that "a good liberal is an obedient Democrat who can change their viewpoints on a dime depending on how the Beltway winds blow"--an attitude that's been the central problem for Dems since Clinton (and, for that matter, the GOP since Reagone)

http://fair.org/take-action/action-alerts/cnns-conflicted-leftist/

[PoliticAverse]

3. "A TV pundit is paid to say what she thinks." - that claim just isn't true. n/t