Insana: No on editorializing. (Through the Wire).(Ron Insana, Consumer News and Business Channel Partnership)(Brief Article)

Multichannel News, April, 2002 by Forkan, Jim

Andersen also was an auditor for Dobbs's company, Space Holdings Inc., and sponsored a show Dobbs hosted several years ago. The Wire wasn't the only outlet last week to notice the eyebrows raised at Lou Dobbs's pro-Arthur Andersen commentaries on Cable News Network's Lou Dobbs Moneyilne.

Stereo coverage in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal last Tuesday -- after Dobbs denounced the government for indicting the embattled accounting firm -- reported that the anchor had received speaking fees from Andersen. "I'm not a traditional network anchor," Dobbs responded on Moneyline. "I don't simply report the news and I haven't for many years." That approach doesn't sit well with rival Ron Insana, who anchors CNBC's Business Center. He told The...

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