CNN Spotlights How CDC Chief 'Dodged Even Basic Questions' on Ebola

Matthew Balan | October 17, 2014
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[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.]

On the 16 October 2014 edition of Erin Burnett OutFront, CNN's Tom Foreman zeroed in on representatives on "both sides of the aisle...[who] are also clearly frustrated by what they see as a lack of answers and accountability from the CDC." Foreman highlighted that "CDC Director Tom Frieden dodged even basic questions – like how did two hospital workers get the disease" at a congressional hearing on the federal government's response to Ebola entering the U.S.

The correspondent spent most of his report playing clips from the hearing, where Frieden was grilled on the controversial handling of the deadly virus.

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