Chica, gagagagagagagagagaaaa…..finger to the lip. I SO GET IT! It is far more overwhelming for me to understand this case. The OJ trail…….over my head! LMAO @ the LP statement. He’s not in this for Caylee. This is advertising and exposure for him. He has no convictions. I loved his character initially. I thought he was charasmatic and I bought his theories. He just ended up making a fool of himself. I think he talks just to hear himself sometimes but I don’t see how anyone can take him seriously anymore. NG has lost it too. Blah blah blah…. BOMBSHELL! I want facts, not drama and embellished emotions.

Too lazy to spell check. Hope this makes sense….zippppppp!!!

I have never seen such antics in a courtroom
order in the court !!
the court is out of order please let’s remember why were here! for caylee. I would love to get a busload of us to orlando to sit on caylees side at least for a few days. what an impact that would make ya think.

baez is so readable when he lies he gets this cockeyed grin! I hope that he will be investigated !
that smile may be replaced with foaming at the mouth if he is disbarred!! back to selling bathing suits!!

here is Nancy whoa whoa whoa ellie jiolstead are you trying to tell me that!! blah blah blah!!

oh and dont mention the twins cuz you wont be able to turn her am fm radio off!!! geez what a circus.

ABC, Disney, Fox, Orlando — posted by halboedeker on March, 24 2010 2:33 PM

(Hal’s only got 12 comments on his blog story, maybe he can get response here, but fwiw, he’s covering the issue still, on the MSM, good for him).

Quoting above story, in complete form, as much as anything, to document the discussion he’s given over here, it won’t get lost to future refs. (hope that’s ok, Ms. B– trim down, if you prefer)

The bad reviews just keep coming in for ABC News. Critics say the Disney-owned news organization was wrong in August 2008 to pay $200,000 to Casey Anthony and her family for photos and video of toddler Caylee Anthony.

“It doesn’t make them look very family friendly, does it?” said Andrew Tyndall, who analyzes ABC, CBS and NBC evening news at his Tyndall Report Web site. “It’s not just ABC News. It’s the entire corporation.”

“The O’Reilly Factor” on Fox News seized on the Disney connection this week.

“This happened in Orlando. And Disney World is in Orlando,” author Bernard Goldberg told Bill O’Reilly. “And Disney World tells people from — from the United States, from Europe, from Asia, all over the place – bring your children, bring your children to Disney World. Well, not far from Disney World, another division of Disney, ABC News, is paying a woman $200,000 who’s accused of killing her child. There’s something ironic about that.”

After ABC’s payment, Anthony was charged with first-degree murder in the death of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee.

O’Reilly’s take on ABC’s payment: “It’s not a good thing.”

Seconding that view was the Society of Professional Journalists’ Ethics Committee. In a statement this week, committee chairman Andy Schotz said, “Paying someone while covering them breaches basic journalism ethics. ABC’s failure to disclose this business relationship as part of its coverage the last two years made the breach worse.”

ABC News spokeswoman Cathie Levine told the committee that the network should have disclosed the payment to viewers and that ABC had instituted a policy — because of the Anthony mistake — to do so in future reporting.

ABC affiliate WFTV-Channel 9, however, had reported the $200,000 payment.

Revelation of the Anthony payment comes at a bad time for ABC News. “ABC has a lot going on right now — reducing your staff by 25 percent is a cataclysmic internal event,” said Tom Rosenstiel, director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism, a research organization that studies the business.

Yet Rosenstiel said the Anthony story reflects a trend in newsmagazines in recent years. In the mainstream media, paying for an interview is taboo. But newsmagazines will hire consultants or pay fees for video and photographs to tell a story.

“By and large, the networks will argue they aren’t paying for interviews, but money is changing hands and has been for some time,” Rosenstiel said. “The principle behind the idea that mainstream news organizations don’t pay is when you pay people you’re inducing them to make their story more dramatic. A tabloid pays for a more salacious story.”

Rosenstiel attributes the payments in part to the networks’ competing with the National Enquirer, TMZ, E! and other players in television.

The Anthony payment “raised eyebrows because the amount of money is high,” Rosenstiel added. “If the disclosure is embarrassing, then the cost of doing it was much higher than the money, and it wasn’t worth doing it.”

Network insiders say the standard licensing fee is far less. CBS News, for instance, paid George and Cindy Anthony, Casey’s parents, $20,000 to license material, and they appeared on “The Early Show” and “48 Hours Mystery.”

But Al Tompkins, an instructor at the Poynter Institute, a school for journalists, scoffs at the notion that journalists need to license any material to tell stories. After all, journalists have told stories without photos and video for a long time. But the ABC-Anthony story stood out.

“The amount of money is such an unreasonably high number,” Tompkins said. “You’re paying it to someone under suspicion of murder. She wasn’t indicted at that time. But no matter how you spend it, the public perception could be that you’re paying for special access or you’re trying to curry favor.”

The problem wasn’t that ABC made the payment but that Anthony was indicted, news analyst Tyndall said. “I don’t think ordinary people get worried about the ethics inside the journalism profession,” he said. “What they do get worried about is the idea of money being paid to somebody accused of committing a terrible crime.”

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