Great moments in journalism

[illinoisprogressive]

from Crooks and Liars:


OK, you can’t say that CNN and its diplomatic reporter, Richard Ross, don’t care about the humanitarian crisis in Darfur. In fact, just seconds ago “Your Trusted Name in News” just aired one of the few full-length reports I’ve seen on the situation in Darfur, or more accurately the situation on 42nd Street in Manhattan, since the story was merely an interview with a cab driver who happens to have immigrated from Darfur.

Apparently Tom Friedman, the Pulitizer Prize winner of global cabbie journalism, is advising CNN now.

I kept waiting for the twist in the story, but there was no twist. That was the entire story. CNN found a guy from Darfur who now drives a cab in New York. (Although, as I learned from the story, there are apparently 100 others like him.)

And yet, they could afford a helicopter to give us door-to-door coverage of Paris Hilton’s return to LA County Jail. I bet Ross put in a whole ten minutes trying to find a cabbie from Darfur…that’s called being committed to true journalism. (/snark)

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