Unsung heroes?
From an emailer…
Recently CNN’s Cal Perry and Karl Penhaul won the edward r murrow award for “Continuing Coverage: CNN, Coverage of the Middle East Conflict” — they won for their coverage in Tyre, Lebanon. They were the only journalists from any news network in Southern Lebanon for the first five days of the war last summer. Karl Penhaul did a lot of amazing live coverage, Cal Perry wrote four very moving articles — search “cal perry, tyre lebanon” on cnn.com, or the same for Karl Penhaul.
I think it’s really great that they won the award, but I wish more writers and bloggers would acknowledge that it was these two who won the award, and not just CNN. CNN’s coverage is always hit or miss for me, except for a few, reporting out of the middle east, who are almost always on point, and always challenging the norm that is the usual CNN reporting. Karl Penhaul, Michael Ware, Cal Perry, Ben Weideman, Christianne Amanpour are the tops. So I don’t think CNN should get all of the credit.
There are new clips promoting Amanpour’s work… very very nice clips… I will record one… perhaps she is the top female journalist on this biz…
Comment by Rodrigo — July 1, 2007 @ 8:11 am
I think the commercial that CNN put together for this “win” starts off with a clip of Anderson Cooper and also shows John Roberts. This is a bit misleading isn’t it? In all fairness, shouldn’t they put the 2 who won the award in the commercial and leave the others out?
“Most trusted name in news” is basically lying in their ads. I’ll even give you 3 guesses who determined which anchors would be in the ad, and your first 2 guesses don’t count.
If CNN is “keeping them honest” shouldn’t CNN be kept honest?
Comment by Mary Snow — July 1, 2007 @ 3:36 pm
its amazing what you find on the internet, parents are the last to know
Comment by burnel penhaul — August 17, 2007 @ 4:24 am