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Cable News Slapfight!

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J.S.9/18/2009 4:05:03 pm PDT

I watched Sanchez this afternoon, and I’m in agreement with his assessment. Glad I don’t have Fox “news”cable …have never watched it. (On a slightly different note — about that business with Acorn and the people who went there under false pretences and got the video…Sanchez stated that that would never have been allowed at CNN — I wondering, why, exactly? Is it because the filmmakers refused to release the entire video and just clipped/edited portions? If they had released the whole thing, would that have made it “ok”? I know that the CBC allows surreptitious video/filming on occasion (a Marketplace film crew does this all the time — to expose people operating “puppy mills”, etc.), it is tolerated under certain strict circumstances — and there was a “sting” operation by French CBC, released today (about “immigration consultants/lawyers”)…I’m wondering about the journalistic ethics of these sorts of things.