Snyderman of NBC is credibility problems

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By David Bauder

NEW YORK (AP) - The quarantine against possible Ebola exposure ends this week by Dr. Nancy Snyderman, but the problems are obviously not in the medical editor of NBC News.

Taken over a period of about forty, with a vague explanation curiosity, provoked an angry reaction. NBC now has to decide whether the credibility of the Snyderman is too damaged for them to continue to report on the Ebola virus or other medical problems, and if so, for how long. Not comment on the network.

Snyderman, a surgeon who for 17 years worked as a correspondent for ABC News health and was on NBC since 2006, focusing on the Ebola outbreak in West Africa and worked briefly with Ashoka Mukpo camera man contracted the virus and is now in Nebraska. After returning to the United States, agreed Snyderman and his team voluntarily for 21 days, provided the longest incubation period of the disease under quarantine. They showed no symptoms.

But health authorities in New Jersey ruled that the quarantine should be mandatory after Snyderman and his crew were seen getting food in a restaurant in New Jersey instead.

NBC did not give details about the actual was in the restaurant, or even how many employees are quarantined. "The members of our group" violated its commitment: Snyderman has issued a statement.

More than 1,100 people have written to the Snyderman Facebook page many expressed anger. It has been suggested, should be fired or lose his medical license, and some viewers said that they did not trust him again. Failure of the Snyderman to be more specific concerning the withdrawal or the greater responsibility is another flashpoint.

Snyderman of "arrogance and contempt" to create great PR and credibility problem for NBC, said Kelly McBride, an expert in journalism ethics for the Poynter Institute reflection.

"The people are so frightened by the Ebola NBC problem now is that, if put in the air, some news consumers see the woman who put others at risk, rather than the journalist and professional with great experience," McBride said.

Take McBride proposed Snyderman "Lay Low" or vacation. Sure, it's no longer in the Ebola virus present network said.

Susan Dentzer, health reporter and commentator for the long-term National Public Radio and PBS "NewsHour" said the people should not forget that endangered Snyderman reaching Africa and tell the story. The public responds to Ebola fear rather than science, said.

"She and her team should have clearly observed the conditions of their quarantine, and they made it clear that they made a mistake," Dentzer said. "But we will put in a broader perspective."

To make the trip to Snyderman, ABC News medical expert has probably had big problems. Editor Dr. Richard Besser of ABC's health was in Africa, while Snyderman not to ask and quarantined upon their return. This led to ABC News President James Goldston send the employee to explain a note that the network according to consult and doctor.

But the invitation Better dressed in a speech at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, wrote last week in the Washington Post. Some colleagues shunned him.

"I was greeted by the number of companions across the room and quickly surprised by an Exit" Better wrote. "Others do not go to my office."

NBC was a competitive disadvantage compared when Snyderman retirement medical records. Robert Bazell, correspondent chain lifelong health and science to teach left last year at Yale University.

An important first step Snyderman tell viewers what exactly happened, maybe a place like the "Today" show, said Bill Wheatley, veteran NBC executive who now teaches journalism at the University of Columbia.

"If they and the network are more open about the whole thing, I think his credibility can be maintained," Wheatley said.