Who's in charge at CNN? Klein capitulates, allows Dobbs' birther coverage to continue

[babsbunny]

http://mediamatters.org/research/200907240045?lid=1053742&rid=32241584

July 24, 2009 8:40 pm ET

SUMMARY: Apparently contradicting a statement he reportedly made the day before pronouncing the birther story seemingly "dead," CNN president Jonathan Klein has reportedly said that CNN would allow Lou Dobbs to continue airing conspiracy theories about President Obama's birth certificate.

In a July 24 interview with Washington Post Co. blogger Greg Sargent, CNN president Jonathan Klein reportedly said that CNN would allow Lou Dobbs to continue airing conspiracy theories about President Obama's birth certificate and stated: "I think no good journalist would ever say that a particular story will never be covered again. Every day brings new facts, new pegs."

[spanone]

1. the longer cnn displays their ignorance and bias, the more they become irrelevant

keep it up cnn

the world is watching

[wundermaus]

2. Corporate owned media must keep deceptions and lies...

in place or the People will begin to think about things that matter. - And who know what might happen then?

[rocktivity]

3. But the birther story HAS no facts

Except, of course, that it has no facts--and is therefore the stuff of neither news nor editorial opinion.

:eyes:
rocktivity

[corkhead]

7. But but but... he doesn't have a "Birth Certificate", he only has a "Certificate of Birth"

:crazy:

[malaise]

4. Cheney

and family

[NewJeffCT]

5. he probably had a bunch of radio listeners call up

and whine to Klein & CNN management, and nobody can whine like a RW loon

[Faygo Kid]

6. Fox News Lite.

Cowards.

[aldo]

8. Journalism is not it's business, propadanda is, eom

nt

[TahitiNut]

9. Dobbs' contract with CNN gives him editorial control.

:shrug:

[WeDidIt]

10. There is only ONE WAY to take Dobbs down

Contact the advertisers.

That's it. There are no other ways to change this.

[WeDidIt]

11. One other thing, Klein's policy actually PUSHES the Birfer meme

By making it a dead story on CNN, there is oly one CNN pundit or reporter who can say anything about the issue, Lou Dobbs. Thus, the ridiculing of Birfers is what Klein put a stop to.

[tularetom]

12. CNN jumps backwards through its own asshole to placate the lunatic fringe

and still the wackos think CNN stands for Communist News Network.

Klein is an invertebrate. There are no "new facts" in this matter. There are not two sides to this story. The facts are Obama is a US citizen who possesses a valid US birth certificate. That is the story. You are not being "fair and balanced" to give air time to anyone who claims anything else you are capitulating to a bully.

Sad to see CNN sinking into irrelevance but they brought it on themselves.