Sesno Bashes Fox’s Tea Party Coverage, Defends Olbermann and Roesgen | NewsBusters.org.
Let’s start with the scolding of Fox News:
It’s fine from a First Amendment point of view. They’ve got that right. It’s not fine from a journalistic point of view…Because that’s not our job. Our job is not to use our podium and our platform and our television camera to tell people what they should be thinking and doing. Our job should be to tell them what’s happening out there and then they decide what to do.
I see, now tell us your reaction to Susan Roesgen:
She was debating him, which is a problem. On the other hand — and I’ve been there, OK? You’re on live television, you have somebody who’s throwing, you know, firebombs at the camera, and you cannot just let that go unchallenged.
Words like “fascist” are very serious words. And your responsibility as a journalist, it seems to me, to be out there, is to challenge that and draw that person out. It doesn’t mean getting into a debating contest with him. And maybe she stepped over the line with that, but that’s an important thing to call people out on.
Anything else:
Should be challenged. I mean, again — but it depends what the show is. All right? I mean, Keith Olbermann is Keith Olbermann. I mean, he’s going to approach this the way he should.
I wonder what his thoughts are on NBC’s Green Week? I guess no one let him know that WaPo Business Columnist Tells David Gregory Taxes Are Going Up
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