CNN's Ed Henry gets grilled on lame-ass press corps

Enrique

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Wed Jun-16-10 11:52 AM
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CNN's Ed Henry gets grilled on lame-ass press corps

Edited on Wed Jun-16-10 11:57 AM by Enrique

the audio of the interview is here and I recommend it highly. She really grills him.

http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2010/06/11/06#

http://www.fair.org/blog/2010/06/15/the-real-ed-henry/

NPR's Brooke Gladstone (On the Media, 6/11/10) interviewed CNN's Ed Henry about the squirt-gun party at the vice president's mansion that Henry giddily tweeted about:

BROOKE GLADSTONE: If these events don't influence coverage, why do you think the White House throws them? Do they just want to shoot you with a super-soaker?

ED HENRY: Maybe they wanna actually get to know us as people sometimes.

And Glenn Greenwald (Salon, 2/15/10) comments:

Marc Ambinder disclosed that it was the DNC that paid for the party. But Ed Henry thinks that they do that because Rahm Emanuel and Joe Biden and the other White House officials just decided they wanted an opportunity to get to know Ed and Wolf and the other members of the media just a little bit better as people. They want to get behind the facade of the grizzly, ornery reporter and get in touch with the Real Ed, the Human Being. That's how CNN's senior White House correspondent thinks.

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Wed Jun-16-10 11:54 AM
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1. what "grizzley, ornery" reporter?

Washington hasn't had one of those for decades.

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Wed Jun-16-10 11:57 AM
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2. One just retired.

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Jennicut

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Wed Jun-16-10 12:11 PM
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3. Since when has the media ever treated Biden all that nice to begin with?

Think back to the 80's where they pretty much trashed him.
By the way, this was not a picnic just to have one. It was for support for breast cancer survivors.

But yeah, Ed Henry is an idiot.

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Enrique

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Wed Jun-16-10 12:16 PM
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4. it's not about Biden, or about Ed Henry

Brooke Gladstone doesn't say Ed Henry is an idiot, she makes very good points about the press corps that are true. You should listen, it's interesting and important. You can still like Biden.

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