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| CNN Paying for "Scoops" |
| 2006-06-16 |
| Current Drudge Flash (link will die eventually) PITT/JOLIE/TIMEWARNER CHECKBOOK JOURNALISM EXTENDS TO CNN? Fri Jun 16 2006 16:21:17 ET There's loud chatter among industry insiders that the $4 million deal PEOPLE Mag's editor Larry Hackett cut with Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt for their baby pictures extended to CNN, also part of the TIME WARNER family. Insiders say this was a "package deal" done in conjunction with CNN, which is how Anderson Cooper "secured" the first interview with Jolie [set to air next week.] News executives are scratching their heads over CNN practicing checkbook journalism. Developing... Doesn't seem so mysterious. Rather just a continuation of the sort of deals CNN made with Saddam (and probably is or will be making with Iran). |
| Posted by:Grons Pheresing8872 |
| #1 Does CNN report from Iran the way they used to report from Iraq? (I don't watch their news, so I have no idea what they do anymore.) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-06-16 22:39 |