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Dan, you and Mark are both flaming idiots. I am so ashamed to be a BU grad of SPC right now. Zelnick should resign and you and Mark should take a class in remedial ethics.

Looks like another Rorschach test for neocons and libs. Everyone will believe what they want. I DON’T have a dog in this fight but I still think Zelnick does a better job than most at disguising his political leanings, (notwithstanding what Franken and Moore above think of him). “Uncorroborated” reports of Jennings bias? Yikes!

From a long article in Salon from 1998: (Eric Alterman)Robert Zelnick, a 21-year veteran of ABC News, is one such annoying individual. Zelnick was recently forced out of his job as a Washington correspondent because he refused to drop plans to publish a biography of Al Gore. Zelnick had been working on the book, with his boss’s permission, while on sabbatical from the network. He hired a research assistant and took a few trips to poke around Carthage, Tenn. Just as he was getting ready to finish it and return to his old job, however, Roone Arledge and David Westin, the network’s top two executives, informed him that he had to choose between being a reporter and being an author. “We cannot have a Washington correspondent writing a book about one of our national leaders whom that correspondent will undoubtedly have to cover,” they explained. Zelnick, who had already invested considerable time and expense in the project, resigned. ABC explains that it had already been planning to fire Zelnick, which was why it gave him permission in the first place. ABC did not think it fair to tell him no and then fire him anyway. But ABC executives changed their mind about the firing, and only then realized they were facing a conflict-of-interest problem. “We were trying to be nice to the man,” said Richard C. Wald, senior vice president of ABC News. But, added ABC News President David Westin, giving Zelnick permission to work on the book was a “mistake” for which the network was “genuinely sorry.” “To paraphrase (Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell) Holmes,” Westin told Zelnick, “you have a constitutional right to say whatever you like, but you don’t have a constitutional right to be an ABC News correspondent.” Zelnick quit in a huff, which was probably a big mistake. Though he insists that he has uncovered important new facts about Gore’s life, his book will be hard to take seriously, arriving as it will with the imprimatur of the Regnery publishing company (which also published an earlier Zelnick book, “Backfire: A Reporter’s Look at Affirmative Action”), whose commitment to truth is frequently at odds with its passion for right-wing sleaze. (See Gary Aldrich and R. Emmett Tyrrell.) Unfortunately, Zelnick’s defense, mounted from Stanford’s conservative Hoover Institute, has been myopic and ham-handed. In a deeply self-important op-ed piece published in the Wall Street Journal, he argued that he had been silenced by a liberal conspiracy that allows that brilliant left-winger Sam Donaldson to mouth off at will, while poor Robert is silenced because of the brave iconoclasm of his conservative views. In fact, the best argument for Donaldson is that he is a plant for the other side, designed to make liberals seem stupid, inconsequential and full of themselves — kind of a reverse version of David Horowitz.

whatever, man. you sound like you’re trying really, really hard to stay in Bob’s corner. Google him up, and that Alterman piece is innocuous compared to some other stuff. There’s a particularly scathing BusinessWeek review hanging around out there. And when all else fails, ask yourself this question: Has Regnery ever published anything other than right-wing hit jobs? If your answer is yes, and you think Michelle Malkin gets a bad rap, then we definitely know where YOU stand, and it’s not in the reality-based community.

Hidden agendas–maybe not. But if Zelnick was not a Friend of Dan, you know we’d be seeing an entry here about how his righty slant on things and his Bernie Goldberg-ian liberal bias charges post ABC giving him the shove. I think I’m getting your game, though–it’s all relative, it’s all opinion, it’s all one person’s word against another. That way, nothing is ever right or wrong, good or bad, factual or false. I know a few people down on 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. who share that same view.

**whatever, man. you sound like you’re trying really, really hard to stay in Bob’s corner.**Franly, I don’t care one way or another. I don’t have a dog in this fight.However, he seems to be rather level-headed and fair, from the times when I have seen him.You however, seem to want to beat up on him out your allegiance to ideology or some sort of political leanings.You point to a couple of online opinion peices, which are hardly a balanced look at Zelnick.His sin is that he wrote a book about Gore?

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