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Campbell Brown has done a good job covering Palin's lack of experience. This isn't the only clip of when she's really given the McCain camp a hard time. The thing I like about her coverage has been that she doesn't say that Palin isn't qualified to be VP (reporters are supposed to be neutral after all) but she does focus on how this takes away a lot of McCain's argument against Obama.

I don't watch much tv news anymore -- too painful. But on the few occasions I have (primary results nights, etc.), I've been fairly impressed by Brown -- she's got potential to bring some sanity back to CNN's political news coverage. She's still a little hesitant to fully buck the pundit CW, but I've seen her often call out straight up bullshit and see through the nonsense.

I hope she succeeds and continues down this path. God knows Wolf Blitzer needs to be put out to pasture.  

this begs the question.  And that is whether a woman whose husband has been part of the Bush administration.  From wikipedia:

Daniel Samuel Senor (born November 6, 1971), is a founding parter of Rosemont Capital LLC, and Rosemont Solebury Capital Management. He is also a contributor to Fox News, frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal, and author of an upcoming book about the economy of Israel and globalization in the Middle East. He is most noted for his former position as chief spokesperson for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq; some criticized him in that role because of his inability to speak Arabic [1] [2]. He is married to television news personality Campbell Brown.

He is a Bush administration Iraq war apologist.  That fact means that she had a huge conflict of interest when given the anchor position.  No one with a spouse inside the Bush administration, either now or previously, should be an anchor at CNN.

PS Did you see her tight-lipped reaction to Obama's speech last Thu?  Hardly fair or "balanced."

I really do not think you have seen enough of brown to make a sweeping suggestion that she is even-handed.  The fact is she should not even be there.  

First sentence should have read, "And that is whether a person who is married to one who has been a member of the Bush administration should be an anchor.  When Senor had his Bush admin responsibilities Brown was anchor at the Today Show.

But it's worse than that.  Also quoting from wikipedia:

From 2001 to 2003, he was an investment professional at the Carlyle Group.[4]

[edit] Iraq

In early 2003, Senor joined the Administration of George W. Bush, as deputy to White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan.[4]. In the lead-up to the Iraq war and during the war, he was a Pentagon and White House adviser based in Doha, Qatar at U.S. Central Command Forward; he was subsequently based in Kuwait working with General Jay Garner during the final days of the war and in southern Iraq when the Iraqi regime fell; and formally re-located to Baghdad on April 20, 2003, when he traveled with General Garner's team in the first post-war civilian convoy. Senor remained in Iraq until the summer of 2004.

While in Kuwait and Iraq, Senor was an adviser to both the Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance and later the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), for which he was Chief Spokesman and Senior Adviser. Senor was one of the longest serving civilians in Iraq. For his service, he was awarded the Department of Defense Distinguished Civilian Service Award, one of the Pentagon's highest civilian honors.

How can she honestly report or comment on anything related to Iraq when she has such conflicts of interest within her family?  And his participation with the Carlyle group?  Come on!  Honestly, it is beyond comprehension that CNN did this.  It can only be throwing a bone to the Republicans.  

I wasn't making a statement about Brown at all. I was just trying to point to this specific interview.

I didn't want to get into Brown's head, but what I think is happening is that with the Palin pick, the GOP has finally run into the media's limit when it comes to accepting spin uncritically.

This says a lot more about the Palin pick, and the McCain/GOP lack of respect for the intelligence of the media and the American people, thinking we would just accept their BS on this.

As for Brown, she shows she is actually capable of real journalism. The question is why doesn't she practice it more regularly. It could be her bias, though I more suspect it is her marching orders from CNN muckety-mucks, who confuse objectivity and accuracy with being non-judgmental.

As for whether she can be an achor while married to a former Bush Admin official, I do think people need to be judged on what they actually do, not on their associations. I don't believe that her personal feelings necessarily present a conflict that would prevent her from acting professionally.

This is the kind of argument we hear all the time from the Right -- that since most reporters vote Democratic, it is evidence that their reporting is biased.  I say judge the reporting on its own merits. In this case, all I'm saying is she did a good job.

They said this interview went "over the line."

Interesting to see how the media* in general, and CNN in particular, react, if at all.

* Media does not include Fox, which I consider a propaganda arm of the Republican Party.