Show t' V C4 --r The Herald Journal Logan Utahi : v" Wednesday April 14 2004 -- 7 ’ i- V SHERMANS LAGOON TWnP fslrtwfmrl Sr fCRIMOOMWtORj piProotNoutNm iiMrro9iinonie mmmkTVUKtro r 7— i ' ' r i ‘80 Minutes’ incident 't v ® - " i KNOUroaRMNCtONl issue tmtmeii CATHY 1 NEW YORK (AP) — Blindsided by 9 con-troversy over itscorporate ties to the publisher of Richard Clarke’s book “60 Minutes” hu promised that it will not happen again So when it reported Sunday cm Bob Wood- ward’s book “Plan of Attack” “60 Minutes? Mirf tlmt publisher Simon & Mmew End CBS are both owned by Viacom When dial wasn't said during the March 21 ‘ report on Simon & Schuster Subsidiary Free Press’ Clarke book a week later cotrespon- dent Lesley Stahl called it an oversight — it provided fuel for Clarke’s critics “If you're looking to deflect attention from the content of what was in the Clarke pie£e this was a good way to do it” said “60 Minutes’’ Executive Editor Josh Howard “and we walked right into the trap” Consider it a foreshadowing however of questions that TV news organizations are likely to face more often in this world of media con- solidation Plenty of news divisions and publishers are corporate cousins: Hyperion Books and ABC News Time Warner Trade Publishing and CNN HarpetCollins and the Fox News Chan‘ 'vcn wiwirJehs ses! 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BEETLE BAILEY ' nel And those are just individual strings in a larger web that ties news organizations with entertainment companies Viacom also bwns Paramount Pictures and cable channels MTV VH 1 Nickelodeon and Comedy Central for example ("60 Minutes” mentioned the Viacom connection three years ago whetf Steve Kraft profiled Jon Stewart of Comedy Central) Internet columnist Matt Drudge first raised die Viacom issue in connection with duke and some conservative critics questioned whether “60 Minutes” was helping to drive profits to another Viacom division “We thought die news was in what Clarke was saying rather than in who published his book” Howard said “We planned to interview him even before he had a publisher” There’s no special relationship between Simon & Schuster and CBS the network said Of 29 books featured on the newsmagazine since 1998 seven were S&S books “60 Min- utes” would have loved the first interview with Hillary Rodham Clinton about her Simon & Schuster book but that went to ABC's Bar- ban Walters Howard said Subsequent events made clear that what Clarke had to say was newsworthy he said Many conservatives are suspicious because within four months “60 Minutes” will feature three books that are either critical of Bush or are expected to raise tough questions about his leadership said Rich Noyes research director of the Media Research Center Besides the Clarke book and upcoming fea-ture on Woodward's account of tire administn- tion's planning for the Iraq war the newsmagazine in January interviewed former Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill about his criti- cisms of Bush in the book “The Price of Loy- - HAGAR THE HORRIBLE cMbwiftNftr 1 PEANUTS - alty” Noyes also said Stahl’s interview with Clarke didn’t match the “60 Minutes’’ standard of toughness “‘60 Minutes’ had made it a practice its whole life of telling corporate America to come clean rndtell America what is going on” Noyes said “They should be held to the same standards themselves” Howard noted that “60 Minutes” interviewed national security adviser Condoleezza Rice the week after Clarke and Mike Wallace MOTHER GOOSE AND GRIMM Richard ctarka former White House terrorism adviser lefttalks to Lesley Stahl during an interview tar 160 Minutes' in this knags from video courtesy of CBS “The idea that we have any 1 silly” he said “We want to make news That’s what our agenda is” Still the raising of corporate ownership as an issue is likely to make news organizations more sensitive to it' “The country right now is very polarized” said CBS News spokeswoman Sandra Genelius ‘To die extent that a couple of extra seconds on the air with a disclaimer will preclude some of this frenzied reaction then it’s probably worth it” ABC News owned by Walt Disney Carp discloses any corporate conflict at die top of stories spokesman JeffreySchneidersaid NBC will soon face the issue much more fre- quently with the network’s pending purchase of Universal’s assets including a movie studio several cable channels stakes in five theme parks and the Telemundo network The network will disclose the relationships in stories said NBC News President Neal Shapiro “To some viewers it will be important and to n some it won’t” Shapiro said ‘To most I But those difference to make doesn’t a t pect who really care about it you want to be upfront with them One journalism ethics expert said it’s a wise thing for networks to do “As much of an approach that they manage to accomplish the better off they are” said Aly Colon ethics leader at the Poynter Institute What’s unknown is whether the sheer vol is : sus-Se- arms-leng- th any effort to be transparent with viewers News shows are filled with interviews with people trying to sell things' — books CDs movies “The Early Show” on CBS gets big ratings j each Friday by interviewing “Survivor? 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