Prof: “60 Minutes”-Jackson deal makes your stomach sink

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Media law and ethics professor Jane Kirtley says of the New York Times report that CBS News in effect paid Michael Jackson to sit for a “60 Minutes” interview: “It’s the kind of thing that makes your stomach sink. CBS once was the gold standard among network news divisions and ’60 Minutes’ was the gold standard among television news programs. I am stunned that they’ve done this.” J-school dean Orville Schell adds: “To lose your reputation, as CBS now has done, to get more Michael Jackson? That’s really sad.”