Walk-on Story, Runaway Coverage

On the Media | May 5, 2011
You don't have to be an obsessive TV watcher to have noticed recent runaway coverage of a certain would-be bride. When Jennifer Wilbanks got cold feet, she made tabloid headlines and left tracks all over the cable news channels, including CNN. But when Jonathan Klein took over as president of that network last year, he promised more "roll up your sleeves" style journalism. Klein butts heads with Brooke over what constitutes news, and whether stories need justification.

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