Weiner and CNN: Video In How Not To Meet The Press

From David Zurawik, Z On TV Baltimore Sun

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I have held back on the matter of U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner and the lewd underwear tweet. We still don't know the facts, and the press has been party to a lot of pain and misery when it reacts to images without the facts behind them. Can you say Shirley Sherrod, boys and girls?


This post, however, is not about the photo itself. It is about the ways in which Weiner has dug himself a deeper and deeper ditch of trouble with every utterance, wisecrack, smug smile and lecture on how he is "not going to allow" himself "to be "distracted" from doing the peoples' business by a picture of his crotch that is all over the media.


Check out these two videos from CNN. I guarantee you they will be used in college classrooms and by media consultants for years in showing how NOT to handle a situation like this. They are absolutely textbook -- in a bad way for Weiner. The first with CNN's Dana Bash is from Monday. The second with CNN's Wolf Blitzer is from Tuesday.