Zahn: Write-ups…
The New York Times’ Jacques Steinberg writes about the soon-to-be-departing-CNN Paula Zahn…
In a telephone interview shortly after breaking the news of her departure to her staff, Ms. Zahn said the decision was a mutual one between her and CNN management. Her contract, she said, is up at year’s end.
“We worked so hard to maintain a high quality of objective reporting on the air,” she said of her show, which recently featured a series of special reports about intolerance, including racial bias. “Yet what has become clear when you look at the landscape, particularly in the 8 o’clock hour, it seems pretty obvious the audience is drawn to opinion-driven shows. That is not what I do.”
Zahn doesn’t think that her program qualifies as “opinion driven”? Nearly every single show she put on the air included some sort of story about racism and intolerance, and guess what? The stories were all fashioned and presented in a way that shows white men and conservatives as evil bigots. Her agenda was quite apparent. So, in my opinion, her show was all about opinion-her opinion.
Comment by california dreamin — July 24, 2007 @ 7:35 pm