“If they’re deciding the merits of a book’s newsworthiness on the basis of whether or not it might offend one of their corporate partners, it’s an abdication of the primacy of letting the news value dictate the news,” says David Folkenflik, NPR’s media correspondent.
Folkenflik says such a decision would be both troubling and a sign of how interconnected many of the modern media are. He says Winfrey’s stature has made her untouchable to many in the broadcast media.
