Dear CNN: Please act like professional journalists
Dear CNN:
When you started the “Breaking News” e-mail campaign, it was in response to 9/11, when there was plenty of breaking news that people wanted to know immediately. By sending e-mails such as this as “Breaking News”:
– A source involved in returning John Mark Karr to the United States
says the man accused of killing JonBenet Ramsey made unsolicited
statements to law enforcement officers while being taken to L.A. County Jail.
You do every human who as ever worked at any level of journalism a disservice. Anonymous heresay, on a week-old story, about a 10-year-old murder case is not breaking news. In fact, it’s nothing but another step in CNN’s transformation into the National Enquirer.
You have informed no one of anything. And you have been doing that at an obscene pace.
–WKW