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Former PiPresser Jim Romanesko notes today that CBS News did a "fawning story" on Lynn Cheney the other day.
Rita Braver's husband, apparently, derives some income from his legal work on Lynn Cheney's books.
What has happened to journalism as we knew it? No one else at CBS was available to do the Cheney story? Were the Cheneys allowed to "select" Braver as the reporter on the piece in return for the access? We're reached the point now where it's apparently OK for a journalist to interview a subject from whom she derives some of her family income. If we look at these two recent episodes, the firing of Dan Rather and God knows what other ethical breaches still to be discovered, it's clear that the golden years of CBS News are long gone.
Update The exec of CBS Sunday Morning says Braver asked a couple of tough questions. Apparently that's a feather in the cap of CBS News these days.
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