We all have much maligned CNN in the past for puff reporting (and often most deservedly so) but Rick Sanchez just opened with a piece on Ashley Todd.
CNN held back reporting the Ashley Todd mugging/mutilation incident yesterday because:
- They felt it was an isolated incident and,
- They didn't believe they had enough details.
Not only did Rick Sanchez repudiate the whole story, he named names of newswires and radio talkshows that irresponsibly ran with it.
Now for those of you that didn't catch it, Rick Sanchez did the hour-long investigative AIP piece on Sarah Palin as well. Too bad that didn't get more air time. The McCain campaign would not appear to defend ot discuss the AIP but did release a statement that likened to running a story on Obama's religion. (HUH?) Maybe the Palin environment is a little more favorable for it now.
One more thing on Sanchez, I posted an e-mail that I sent to CNN commentators en masse a couple of days back. Well, I was quite pleasantly surprised that Rick actually responded himself rather than the standard CNN autoresponse.
Rick deserves some KUDOS.