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According to the New Yorker magazine, John Ellis (son of President Bush's sister Nancy) was responsible for calling states for either candidate as soon as the numbers were made available, and was therefore responsible for calling the election when it appeared Bush had won Florida - all part of his...
And there is more. When Ellis declared Florida for his cousin, he wasn't just following ABC, CBS and the rest. His call was the first, and appeared to precipitate a television-wide announcement: Bush had won the election. Not that Fox anchor Brit Hume was totally confident as he...
Did Hume, in fact, have reason to doubt his source? Maybe not, but many experts in journalism ethics are raising red flags, arguing Ellis should never have been put on the desk in the first place. "It's beyond belief," says Carl Gottlieb, deputy director of the Project for Excellence...
This graceful admission raises an obvious question: If Ellis, who has worked as a political journalist for the better part of 25 years, understood the ethical dilemma inherent in a candidate's family member writing an opinion column, how could he not grasp the colossal unseemliness in a candidate's...
The general public, already somewhat fed up with the media, will no doubt see this as yet another example of why the fourth estate cannot be trusted (and conservatives will probably see finger-wagging from the Washington Post and others as liberal self-righteousness). Though Ellis himself denies any wrongdoing...