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CBS had some nerve apologizing for its lack of attention to the major stories of the week. "The news cycle was seized and then saturated by the sudden death of Michael Jackson," was Jeff Glor's explanation. He admitted that his network's newscast had skipped Barack Obama's trip to Moscow , the ethnic rioting in China and the debate over global warming. It was the late pop star, he insisted, "turning events that might normally make headlines into footnotes."
No, it was not. It was the warped editorial priorities of CBS and its anchor Katie Couric. Couric was the anchor who jetted out to the Staples Center in Los Angeles on Monday ahead of Jackson's memorial there. Her two rivals offered regular hard news instead. On the five weekdays (Wednesday 1st through Tuesday 7th) leading up to the Staples Center event, CBS (45 min v ABC 25, NBC 26) spent almost as much time on Jackson as its two rivals combined. It is bad enough that CBS blames its own misjudgment on the dead singer. It also inspired PBS' Jeffrey Brown to conduct a media analysis interview on Newshour, erroneously based on the premise that Glor's special pleading had been justified.
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