Saturday, August 20, 2005

Journalism for dummies

Why do sportscasters have more of it than Cable-news whores?

Costas refuses to host show about Holloway

While some cable TV hosts are making their living off the Natalee Holloway case this summer, Bob Costas is having none of it.

Costas, hired by CNN as an occasional fill-in on “Larry King Live,” refused to anchor Thursday’s show because it was primarily about the Alabama teenager who went missing in Aruba. Chris Pixley filled in at the last minute.

“I didn’t think the subject matter of Thursday’s show was the kind of broadcast I should be doing,” Costas said in a statement. “I suggested some alternatives but the producers preferred the topics they had chosen. I was fine with that, and respectfully declined to participate.”


Costas, Olbermann, Lampley amazing how the sports guys don't buy into the bullshit.

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