![]() ![]() But OAN correspondent Chanel Rion told viewers why her team took Trump’s attorney along to Ukraine and Budapest. Herring did not respond directly to a question about about OAN’s independence with regard to Giuliani’s involvement in the project. “The role typically played by an investigative journalist is played by Rudy Giuliani,” he said. Mark Lukasiewicz, dean of the Lawrence Herbert School of Communication at Hofstra University, said “the advocate is in the driver’s seat” in the OAN series, with Giuliani bringing forth documents on screen and helping conduct interviews. ![]() “By making Giuliani a central figure in the gathering of information,” she added, “I think they’ve moved out of the realm of journalism and into the realm of advocacy.” It is taking a source and bringing that source into the actual information gathering,” she said. “I would define one of the central characteristics of journalism as independence and here there is no independence. “I think this completely crosses a line,” said professor Kathleen Culver, director for journalism ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication. But while the series features many of the storytelling attributes of a news documentary, media experts say it departs from traditional journalism in giving such a prominent role to the president’s personal attorney. Trump has displayed no similar frustrations with OAN, which promised in the three-hour series to dismantle House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff’s impeachment case, and, like the president, framed the proceedings as a hoax. That’s come as he continues to carp at Fox News over its polling and bookings and suggested that only its “pro Trump Fox shows do well.” Trump has celebrated OAN’s willingness to take his largely unfiltered line, retweeting several clips from the three-part OAN series this week in making his public case against impeachment. Where once opinion shows began supplanting traditional news, now openly partisan content - presented largely unfiltered by the president’s personal attorney - is seeking to supplant content that’s opinionated but still independent. But for much of the media world, OAN’s decision to give Giuliani a direct role in preparing its Ukraine report presents a troubling ethical development in the media landscape. ![]()
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