Reliable Sources — Full transcript and embeddable video
Highlighted excerpts of CNN’s Reliable Sources, hosted by Howard Kurtz, are after the jump. A link to the full transcript of the program follows. Reliable Sources airs Sundays, 11 a.m. to noon (ET).
HIGHLIGHTS
ABC’s Andrea Canning on how Charlie Sheen almost walked out of their interview:
“He got really, really upset and said that I had disrespected his girlfriend by talking about porn stars in front of her. And he said, you know, this interview should be over.”
EMBEDDABLE VIDEO: Reporter says Sheen promised exclusive
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Politico Editor-in-Chief John Harris, responding to claims about journalistic laziness by the fired spokesman for Rep. Darrell Issa:
“As journalism becomes more competitive…and the time pressures become more and more stark, that there is that danger that journalists will just kind of take the pre-packaged story and fall for whatever sort of some press aide is putting out.”
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ABC’s Christiane Amanpour on covering Libya and other countries at war:
“Corroborating information these days has become almost like a quaint exercise, and that stuns me because I operate in fact-based reality with objective facts.”
EMBEDDABLE VIDEO: Amanpour face to face with Gadhafi
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Washington Post blogger Jennifer Rubin on Glenn Beck:
“Once you set a bar for this sort of rhetoric, you have to keep overdoing it and overdoing it…You have to be crazier the next week.”