Two interesting and fairly unusual related things happened over the last two weeks. First, CNN reporter Elizabeth Landau contacted both NDY and the National Council on Disability (NCD) for interviews in connection to a story on assisted suicide. This was surprising considering that when CNN ran a mini-media tour with Jack Kevorkian during the promotion […]
The promotional tour of Kevorkian – with his new and improved “packaging” – continues on CNN. According to the CNN site, he’ll be appearing on Larry King Live on Friday, June 18th. This should be real nausea-inducing. Why would I think that? Well, for starters, Larry is the “King” of softball interviews and it’s why […]
HBO will be airing a documentary on Kevorkian on June 28th. It will undoubtedly be a soft and positive take on Kevorkian. This morning, in what was no doubt the first in several media gigs stage-managed by CNN, Sanjay Gupta gives a stunningly shallow and fawning account of a day spent with Kevorkian. Not that […]
I don’t usually watch Anderson Cooper. His show airs past my bedtime. But I had assumed he was some kind of journalist. Maybe he is. But when I got around to watching the taped segments of his interviews with Kevorkian, they looked more like the kind of softball/cheering squad that Larry King does so well. […]
