Both blogs of the Atlantic and AC360 have tackled the same topic. However, it is obvious that it has been done very differently. Last week, the Atlantic posted the following:
"Why is This GOP House Candidate Dressed Like a Nazi?
Joshua Green of the Atlantic
An election year already notable for its menagerie of extreme and unusual candidates can add another one: Rich Iott, the Republican nominee for Congress from Ohio's 9th District, and a Tea Party favorite, who for years donned a German Waffen SS uniform and participated in Nazi re-enactments. Iott, whose district lies in Northwest Ohio, was involved with a group that calls itself Wiking, whose members are devoted to re-enacting the exploits of an actual Nazi division, the 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking, which fought mainly on the Eastern Front during World War II. Iott's participation in the Wiking group is not mentioned on his campaign's website, and his name and photographs were removed from the Wiking website."
The blog, which you can read in its entirety here, goes on to highlight negative criticisms from a historian and politician after inserting a brief account of what the candidate had to say about the re-enactments and how they were taken out of context. Now this is a way to put bad tastes in citizens' mouths when it comes to Iott.
"Evening Buzz: Nazi Re-Enactment Controversy
Maureen Miller of AC360
"Tonight on 360°, hear from the Republican candidate for U.S. Congress who is taking heat for his former hobby - being a World War II re-enactor, on the German side, pretending to be a member of Adolf Hitler's elite killing unit, the SS.
Rich Iott says his hobby is being taken out of context. Swastikas were banned from their attire. The tea party favorite in Ohio wants to point out he's a re-enactor for all types of battles, including those from World War I and the U.S. Civil War.
Meanwhile, the Tea Party favorite in Nevada's U.S. Senate race is under fire for comments she made about Islam.
Last month, Sharron Angle was asked at a rally to give her feedback on a television report on how Muslims want to "take over the United States."
Angle responded: "We're talking about a militant terrorist situation, which I believe it isn't a widespread thing, but it is enough that we need to address, and we have been addressing it."
"My thoughts are these, first of all, Dearborn, Michigan and Frankford, Texas, are on American soil, and under constitutional law. Not Sharia law. And, I don't know how that happened in the United States," she said. "It seems there is something fundamentally wrong with allowing a foreign system of law to even take hold in any municipality or government situation in our United States."
Dearborn Mayor John O'Reilly took issue with Angle's comments. You'll hear from him tonight.
Plus, the latest on the mission to rescue 33 miners in Chile. They've been trapped for more than two months, but some could be freed in about 24 hours. Gary Tuchman has a live report from the site.
Join us for these stories and much more starting at 10 p.m. ET on CNN. See you then."
Although I may be biased because of the crush that I have on Anderson Cooper, I do believe that the stories that him and his team cover are done in the most productive of ways. Above is a news briefing the AC360 team posted on their blog. Although they're covering topics that may make or break the reputations of the two politicians, AC360 fails to show a specific bias about the topics; they just inform their followers that the issues will be covered through interviews in the next segment of the show. Now this is a fresh breath of constructive journalism in a polluted media base. It shows no nonsense, and a fair stance on the issues. I thought I would post this comment made by Cooper a few years ago. What would it be like if all journalists thought this way?
"The whole thing about being a reporter is that you're supposed to be an observer and to be able to adapt with any group you’re in, and I don’t want to do anything that threatens that."
-Anderson Cooper
