Brian Ross, P.J. Crowley appear on Reliable Sources
Highlighted excerpts of CNN’s Reliable Sources, hosted by Howard Kurtz, are after the jump. A full transcript of the program can be found here. Reliable Sources airs Sundays, 11 a.m. to noon (ET).
ABC’s Brian Ross on the media’s coverage of terror warnings in the years after 9/11:
“I’m more cynical or skeptical about those kind of reports…We had threat fatigue.”
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Peter Baker of the New York Times on the media’s rush to report details of Osama bin Laden’s death that turned out to be untrue:
“We were…so eager to grab every detail…We want to slow down. Slowing down doesn’t work today.”
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Washington Post’s Dana Milbank on media arguments over whether Obama or Bush deserved more credit for the killing of bin Laden:
“Here we have this epical moment that, we got the bad guy, and all we can do is fight about politics. And it’s tragic.”
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Former State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley on the media focus on mistakes in the initial White House accounts:
“It is nitpicking, but…when you’re dealing with military operations, first reports frequently include factual errors.”