CNN’s Susan Roesgen is still taking heat for her behavior at the Chicago Tea Party last week. At the Politics Online Conference, former CNN reporter and bureau chief Eileen O’Connor said that Roesgen needs to apologize because she crossed the line by being rude to the people that she was interviewing.
Here is the video :
O’Connor made an interesting comparison between the way that CNN has handled this, and the way CNBC handled Cramer and The Daily Show. O’Connor said that Roesgen and CNN need to apologize because she was rude to the people she was interviewing. She said that the media companies all adopt the same behavior when they cross the line, they duck and cover. O’Connor pointed out that Jim Cramer first tried to mock Jon Stewart and The Daily Show, but eventually he got around to saying that he screwed up.
CNN has taken the opposite course. They have been trying to get the video pulled off of the Internet, and Roesgen has been unavailable because she is on vacation. Before anyone reads anything too partisan into this, O’Connor also expressed the opinion that Rick Santelli’s rant of the exchange floor that aired on CNBC was also unprofessional. O’Connor is an old school journalist, who makes some great points, but old school journalism doesn’t sell. The news business is now about profit. Fox News makes a huge profit by throwing journalism out the window, as does MSNBC. Cable news is now about personalities, not journalism.
I am not a journalist, nor have I ever been in the situation that Roesgen was in, but I think everyone can agree that she was unprofessional, especially in the way she ended her segment. I disagree with those who try to inject partisan politics into the discussion, because I don’t believe that this was about politics. Roesgen was trying to sensationalize and sell a story. This was about generating headlines and ratings. As far as an apology is concerned, there aren’t enough people in the tea party movement to put any pressure on CNN, so there probably won’t be an apology coming.
For the sake of her own career, Susan Roesgen should apologize. It appears that CNN has decided to let this story blow over. CNN used to be the gold standard of cable news networks, but now they are just another channel trying to make a buck. If anyone wants to watch a real newscast, watch The News Hour on PBS. It is one of the few newscasts left in America where journalism is still practiced. BBC World News America is also good. Those are the few exceptions to what has become the newscast norm.
(h/t: tvnewser)
JoeWo,
Have you actually watched the video? Or were you possibly there? After I watched the video, because I was not there, I found her to be completely unprofessional and, more to the point, unbiased, as a reporter should be. She never let the man get to his point but appears to have tried to accomplish that for herself for her own interests. Oh, and by the way, the man never claimed that Obama is fascist, just held a sign depicting Obama as Hitler. There is a difference. JoeWo, go back to school. Learn to comprehend.
Kudos to all of those who attended these events. You are true patriots!
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She was NOT rude.
The man that said Obama was a Fascist she was trying to get an answer out of him but he produced no further definition or description of Obama being a Fascist other than “he’s a Fascist.”.
The man who wanted a soap box…. she cut off a bit but he would have talked for minutes and not said anything and then she gave him some facts to which he failed to respond. She pressed him with the truth to which he caved.
Well if trying to get an answer out of someone who says “Well he is”
And if trying to give facts to someone as a question is rude….
then those thinking she was rude better get another occupation because being faced with the truth of cold hard numbers and pressing for a clarification of the interviewees definition of a word is called JOURNALISM. You QUESTION people in Journalism and they respond. these people had no response so she tried harder to get one clarifying their point.
The people surrounding her were swearing and threatening her.
The group was there because FOX News said to be there….she raised those points. Again….FACTS.
Susan Rosgen did NOTHING wrong. I think she should have been more aggressive and could have been loaded with more facts and confronted those people with more reality as I have written in my blog. She was shaken understandably….her only fault….what came out of her mouth were facts. The people she was talking to had a problem with facts in that they had no answer to her when presented with the fact.
Susan Rosgen rocks!
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Joewo look like you suck Obama C**k also, did you actually watching the same video? Dumbasssssssss……
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Yes indeed kudos to all who attended as you make it easier for us to mock you when all placed in one location. Distance tires out the logical….proximity allows for more convenient mocking.
What part of what Rosgen said was not true?
joewo
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