Stevens vs. the Fourth Estate

By Mary Ann Akers
Roll Call Staff

May 17, 2006

Feathers are obviously still ruffled on both sides of the spat between Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) and CNN correspondent Joe Johns. A day after the Radio-Television Correspondents Association essentially cleared Johns of wrongdoing in what Stevens called an unethical broadcast, the Senator referred to a television producer as a “smartass” after the producer taunted Stevens about his complaint against Johns.

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