I think we are many decades past the time where a poem star having sex with a man who later became POTUS would not be considered news. Add in what now seems a fact - that the man paid her to keep quiet about it in the heart of a presidential campaign (even without the possibility of violating campaign finance laws, or connection to Russian scandal through possible blackmail, and I don’t think there is any question that we have a legitimate news story. But yes it got grotesquely disproportionate profile. Of course 60 Min also does celebrity and pop culture features (the best story in the show Sunday was about a Greek NBA player). My beef is not that they ran the interview, but that they allowed and seemingly cooperated with her attorney to hype it for 2 weeks as a major news story, when it was not
On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 7:01 AM Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 6:28 AM > >> There is nothing journalistically ethical about interviewing her at all >> unless she was able to produce proof of crimes Trump committed regarding >> the payoff. It was grossly irresponsible for 60 Minutes to televise her >> claims of being threatened. Holding the interview as long as they did >> without producing an interview of substance is pure, crass sensationalism. >> > > I am the first person who would like to see Trump’s pelt nailed to the > wall, but details of his sexual relationship with this woman won’t make > that happen, and they distract from what’s really out there. Had she > produced evidence in the interview of the specifics of her payoff coming > from campaign funds or from some other agent or group that points to > criminal behavior, that’s news. That she willingly had sex with a dirty old > man is not news. I realize Anderson Cooper isn’t enough of a journalist to > recognize the distinction, but I wish somebody at 60 Minutes could have > recognized it and pulled the interview completely. > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
