A TVNewser reader Tweeted at us today:
@tvnewser @HowardKurtz: Did CNN really exclude Spitzer from Malveaux package on Sex Scandals & Politics? Hmm..
The answer: yes it did.
Suzanne Malveaux‘s story, which aired at 2:30pmET, made mention or showed images of politicians ranging from John F. Kennedy to John Edwards; also former Governors James McGreevey and Mark Sanford, and former Sen. Larry Craig and current Sen. David Vitter, former Pres. Bill Clinton, and 2012 presidential candidate Newt Gingrich — their private indiscretions made very public. But no mention of Eliot Spitzer …
From the Baltimore Sun:
This is the price you pay for having someone with Eliot Spitzer’s history hosting a weeknight show in the heart of prime time.
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along came word from TVNewser that CNN had run a piece on political sex scandals and a decision had been made in the editing process to not include the Spitzer saga, one of the more egregiously hypocritical examples of the very pattern the piece was trying to report. Read it here.
What a shame that CNN is willing to compromise itself this way for the least trusted man on 24/7 cable TV news. And I could understand it in a cynical sense if he had decent ratings.