According to the NYT CNN has issued a statement that it will, from this point on, disclose Alex Castellanos’s close ties to the health insurance industry when he appears as a pundit for the cable channel. Castellanos's consulting firm, National Media, recently placed over $1 million of TV advertising that attacks the health care plan as a threat to Medicare.
This is a conflict of interests if ever there was one and Alex needs to be dropped like a hot potato from CNN. He can no longer be objective in panel discussions, not that he ever was anyway, but someone who doesn't have ties to the health care industry is far more suitable.
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