Bin Laden Bid Raises Hackles.(Cable News Network goes after Osama bin Laden interview)(Brief Article)(Interview)
Multichannel News, October, 2001 by DONOHUE, STEVE
Cable News Network executives grappled with some ethical issues last week after Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda group -- the alleged masterminds behind the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks -- invited the network to submit questions for an interview with bin Laden. Two basic tenets of journalism hold that reporters should not submit questions to an interview subject in advance, and should have the opportunity to ask follow-up questions, Syracuse University Professor Bob Thompson said.
CNN waived both preconditions for the chance to get a videotaped response to six questions it submitted to bin Laden, drawing criticism from its competitors and others in the media. "It's rare that we would ever do this kind of thing," CNN anchorman Wolf Blitzer said in an interview...
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