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2010.03.25 - Today's Current News - ***NO DISCUSSIONS HERE PLEASE ***
Critics hammer ABC News for $200,000 fee to Anthonys
9:36 p.m. EST, March 24, 2010
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Critics say the Walt Disney-owned news organization was wrong to pay $200,000 to Casey Anthony and her family for photos and video of toddler Caylee Anthony.
"It doesn't make them look very family-friendly, does it?" said Andrew Tyndall, who analyzes ABC, CBS and NBC evening news at his Tyndall Report Web site. "It's not just ABC News. It's the entire corporation."
The Society of Professional Journalists' Ethics Committee also took the network to task. In a statement this week, committee chairman Andy Schotz said paying money to sources while reporting on them "breaches basic journalism ethics." "ABC's failure to disclose this business relationship as part of its coverage the last two years made the breach worse," he said.
ABC News was not the only news organization to pay the Anthonys. CBS News paid George and Cindy Anthony, Casey Anthony's parents, $20,000 to license material. The parents appeared on "48 Hours Mystery" last fall.
The problem wasn't that ABC made the payment but that Anthony was indicted, Tyndall said. "I don't think ordinary people get worried about the ethics inside the journalism profession," he said. "What they do get worried about is the idea of money being paid to somebody accused of committing a terrible crime."
*More at link!
Article:
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/os-abc-pays-casey-anthony-critics-20100324,0,1697161.story
Critics hammer ABC News for $200,000 fee to Anthonys
9:36 p.m. EST, March 24, 2010
<snipped>
Critics say the Walt Disney-owned news organization was wrong to pay $200,000 to Casey Anthony and her family for photos and video of toddler Caylee Anthony.
"It doesn't make them look very family-friendly, does it?" said Andrew Tyndall, who analyzes ABC, CBS and NBC evening news at his Tyndall Report Web site. "It's not just ABC News. It's the entire corporation."
The Society of Professional Journalists' Ethics Committee also took the network to task. In a statement this week, committee chairman Andy Schotz said paying money to sources while reporting on them "breaches basic journalism ethics." "ABC's failure to disclose this business relationship as part of its coverage the last two years made the breach worse," he said.
ABC News was not the only news organization to pay the Anthonys. CBS News paid George and Cindy Anthony, Casey Anthony's parents, $20,000 to license material. The parents appeared on "48 Hours Mystery" last fall.
The problem wasn't that ABC made the payment but that Anthony was indicted, Tyndall said. "I don't think ordinary people get worried about the ethics inside the journalism profession," he said. "What they do get worried about is the idea of money being paid to somebody accused of committing a terrible crime."
*More at link!
Article:
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/os-abc-pays-casey-anthony-critics-20100324,0,1697161.story
