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To: combjelly who wrote (542540)	1/9/2010 10:49:14 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573994

>> Your claim is that he slanted his reporting of the news. This isn't the way standard "ethics" works. Codes of professional ethics require that one avoid even the appearance of impropriety. As you have admitted, there is at least an APPEARANCE of impropriety. Anyone who is careful about their consumption of news knows that the ABC program has leaned hard left since Brinkley left, and MTP has moved hard left since Russert died (Russert was hard left, but took extraordinary measures to avoid bias). You simply cannot pretend to have unbiased news reporting while the reporter/interviewer is essentially engaged in the business of supporting one party or the other. You cannot legitimately do it. The one reporter who I consider to be a friend -- a well-known newspaper reporter, I've known for a number of years. And I haven't the slightest idea what his political leaning is. At every turn he is very careful, even in casual discussions, to avoid any appearance of political leaning. That ABC never once disclosed his close relationship with major Democrats is shameful.