NPR‘s Brooke Gladstone (On the Media, 6/11/10) interviewed CNN‘s Ed Henry about the squirt-gun party at the vice president’s mansion that Henry giddily tweeted about:
BROOKE GLADSTONE: If these events don’t influence coverage, why do you think the White House throws them? Do they just want to shoot you with a super-soaker?
ED HENRY: Maybe they wanna actually get to know us as people sometimes.
And Glenn Greenwald (Salon, 2/15/10) comments:
Marc Ambinder disclosed that it was the DNC that paid for the party. But Ed Henry thinks that they do that because Rahm Emanuel and Joe Biden and the other White House officials just decided they wanted an opportunity to get to know Ed and Wolf and the other members of the media just a little bit better as people. They want to get behind the facade of the grizzly, ornery reporter and get in touch with the Real Ed, the Human Being. That’s how CNN‘s senior White House correspondent thinks.
We need a “5th Estate” now to inform the terribly sad depth of delusion that has become the “4th Estate”.
Isn’t FAIR the 5th Estate?
I heard that Ed Henry was sort of worried about his weight, mainly, as far as his tv job went. So maybe any chance at exercise sounds good to him. But of course he is a part of the corporation-media-government thing. Thanks for keeping us notified, FAIR folk.