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CNN Pays For Cell Phone Image, Plane “Hero” Wants Payment For Interviews

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Here is a lesson in how journalism (and really, life) works in 2009: the passenger on Northwest Flight 253 being billed as a hero for helping subdue Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab will tell you his story – but only if you pay him money. But Jasper Schuringa was already on CNN, you say? Well, CNN paid up. And Mediaite has the full story inside!

Checkbook Journalism? National Enquirer Editor Challenged Over Tiger Woods Report

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Subbing for Geraldo Rivera last night, Kim Guilfoyle interviewed Barry Levine, Executive Editor of the National Enquirer. The notorious tabloid is now at the center of the Tiger Woods scandal for its exclusive report of the “other woman” Rachel Uchitel. Guilfoyle challenged Levine for paying for their exclusive source and Levine admitted that Uchitel’s story has changed since its first report.

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