CNN: The Most Trusted Name in Waffling

TMZ’s Harvey Levin says CNN ‘has no moral compass’

Celebrity blog site TMZ was the first media outlet to report the name of former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s mistress. He appeared on CNN to talk about the story and new developments, and was told at the time to avoid mentioning the woman’s name. When he was invited back, CNN had changed that position, but was giving the New York Times credit for the breaking the name.

Levin, understandably, was pissed:

I just did a crazy interview with @CNN. The anchor at the end said CNN was giving credit to the @nytimes for naming the baby mama… It’s hilarious. They said yesterday–after we named the woman–they weren’t doing it. But they’re now hiding behind the NY Times.

In other words rather than having a point of view and sticking with it, @CNN wanted to change it’s moral position and used @nytimes.

Ridiculous. If they want to take a moral position, stick with it. Don’t be a lemming …that’s the problem with traditional media.

Forgot to mention… when I did @CNN yesterday, the producer told me do NOT mention #Arnold ‘s baby mama’s name. So what changed, @CNN ? We don’t take it personally. It’s really a statement about @CNN having no moral compass — it was so transparent.

I stopped liking CNN years ago because they were bad, but in retrospect, maybe it was because they were being weasels and refused to report real news.