12 Quotes by Joan Konner

  • Author Joan Konner
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    That's the least they could do. This is the most egregious kind of error that a news organization can make: unreliable sources for a story damaging to all concerned parties. It severely tarnishes CNN, which has a very good record, and Time magazine as well.

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  • Author Joan Konner
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    That's the least they could do, ... This is the most egregious kind of error that a news organization can make: unreliable sources for a story damaging to all concerned parties. It severely tarnishes CNN, which has a very good record, and Time magazine as well.

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    I don't like blurring lines between news and editorial. If Cooper and the others are working out their search for meaning in life on the air, that is not the role of a journalist.

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  • Author Joan Konner
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    Journalism has always existed in two different realities . . . the economic marketplace and [the] special institution to serve the public interest. The traditional balance between those two has become destabilized. Economic reality has taken over.

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  • Author Joan Konner
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    And journalism itself has changed. News organizations and some journalists have transformed from their traditional role as watchdogs of power into institutions of power themselves with an ability, indeed, a susceptibility, to abuse that power.

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