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Posted on 05/11/2006 1:53:41 PM PDT by radar101
Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) is filing a formal complaint with chamber officials regarding what he considers an “unethical” broadcast of an interview with him by a CNN reporter Tuesday.
ROLL CALL reports: In an incident that could have repercussions for TV journalists’ access to the chamber, Stevens is furious with CNN correspondent Joe Johns for an interview conducted outside the weekly GOP policy luncheons, but far away from the usual bank of TV cameras set up for such interviews next to the storied Ohio Clock.
“This was not a formal interview request. This was an ambush in the hallway,” said Stevens spokeswoman Courtney Boone. “He was asked to go on camera and declined.”
Stevens is filing the complaint with the Senate Radio/TV Gallery, the office charged with overseeing broadcast reporters, and the Rules and Administration Committee, which establishes the ground rules for what access media have on the Senate side of the Capitol.
CNN officials denied Stevens’ assertion that he didn’t know he was being filmed by their employees. “It was not an ambush, the Senator knew he was on camera,” said Edie Emery, a CNN spokeswoman.
It’s unclear what steps would be taken by either the gallery or the committee, or if there would be any punitive actions against Johns or the network if his report is found to have broken chamber policy.
Developing...
If he didn't know he was being filmed...with TV cameras close by, he is either stupid or self-deluding.
the interview to nowhere
Petty. Unbecoming.
Search is your friend.
I wonder what he said in the interview that he doesn't want out?
Sounds like, OH MY GOD...CNN is breaking the rules that allows them to have access to that part of the US Senate. Guess what. THEY DO NOT have the right to access. They are a private industry marketing a product. They are give privileges that you and I do not get. They have NO right to access to anyone. No one is ever under any obligation to talk to them. Funny how the SAME people who scream about "Privacy Rights" want to deny those same supposed rights to their political foes.
In the same league:
Cynthia McKinney's — oops! — done it again.
The flap-plagued congresswoman, who has been in the media spotlight since she scuffled with a Capitol Hill police officer last month, was caught bad-mouthing a senior staffer Saturday.
Unfortunately for McKinney, a DeKalb County Democrat who is running for re-election in the 4th Congressional District, a TV microphone she was wearing picked up her indelicate grumbling.
"Crap!" an irritated McKinney is heard saying after ending an interview with CBS 46 in which reporter Renee Starzyk repeatedly asked about the fallout from the police dust-up. "You know what? They lied to Coz and Coz is a fool."
McKinney, apparently realizing her blunder, then returned to face the camera and tell the reporter that comments about her communications director, Coz Carson, were off the record.
But the TV stationed aired the footage Saturday and the story later was picked up by CNN
I wonder how quick the some of you would be if this was Tom Tancredo they did the hit peice on.
Oh poor Sen. Stevens, he might be asked why he isnt doing his job
This insinuates that his comments would have been different if he'd known it was going to be aired - or, in other words, he's a liar.......and an idiot.
Plus, I haven't seen the piece to know if it was really a hit piece or not, have you?
I'd throw a party for the CommieSocialistLyingLeftistDems at CNN....if he did.
No pity for Porky.
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