CNN's Yellin failed to identify jailed lobbyist, disgraced members of Congress as Republicans

Published: August 9, 2007, 6:25 pm

Tags: jessica yellin, cnn, the situation room, abramoff scandal, ethics, government elections

On the August 8 edition of CNN's The Situation Room, congressional correspondent Jessica Yellin reported that the recently passed congressional ethics bill "was pushed by Democratic leadership in response to scandals involving Jack Abramoff and Congressmen Duke Cunningham and Bob Ney." Yellin, however, failed to identify either of the two former members of Congress as Republicans, nor did she identify Abramoff as a Republican lobbyist. As Media Matters has noted, on the July 30 edition of CNN's The Situation Room, host Wolf Blitzer identified Rep. William Jefferson (LA) as a Democrat when discussing a FBI and Internal Revenue Service raid on the home of Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK), but did not identify Cunningham, whom he had also mentioned, as a Republican. In 2006, Ney pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy and making false statements in connection with the Justice Department investigation into Abramoff and was sentenced to 30 months in prison. In 2005, Cunningham pleaded

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