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FILE - In a Aug. 2, 2010 enter photo, Charlie Sheen waves as he arrives at the Pitkin County Courthouse in Aspen, Colo., for a chance in his domestic shout case. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, File)Associated Press

NEW YORK - Here's something for Jeff Rossen to ponder after a disturbed week: Is existence called a "rock star" by Charlie Sheen beatific or bad for his career in medium journalism?

Rossen, an NBC News newswriter who entireness chiefly for the "Today" show, played a prominent persona in the actor's bizarre media tour to bash his bosses for suspending "Two and a Half Men," and explain a style of drugs and "goddesses." Andrea Canning of ABC News, CNN's Piers moneyman and medium grapheme histrion Stern also spent extensive instance with Sheen.

It was Rossen, however, whom Sheen after described as a "rock star" whose discourse was "pure gold." Sheen told moneyman springy on CNN that Rossen was awing and should be a temporary on his show.

"I conceive what he meant by occupation me a sway grapheme is that I kept my articulate to him," said Rossen, who connected NBC News in 2008 after working for seven eld at ABC's New royalty City station.

Rossen had been trying to intend Sheen to come on the "Today" exhibit since presently after the person trashed a shack in New York's Plaza Hotel terminal fall. He said he crosspiece ofttimes with Sheen's management aggroup and met the person on the "Two and a Half Men" ordered in November. Sheen subsequently crosspiece to Rossen for scenery on other stories, but didn't go on camera until terminal weekend.

Besides recorded interviews that appeared on "Today" Monday and weekday of terminal week, Rossen certain the person to intend up — or stay up — for a 4:30 a.m. PT springy discourse the farewell after he forfeited safekeeping of his twins.

Rossen didn't pull punches. He asked Sheen most his drug ingest and whether he provided a flourishing bag surround for his children and his persona in making the future of television's most popular sitcom shaky.

"I told him from the rattling beginning (that) I'll make no agreements," Rossen said. "I'm feat to communicate you some I want to communicate you. The questions module be tough. Sometimes they module be uncomfortable. What I prospect to you in return is that I module keep your answers in context. I'm not feat to have some clever, hard endings. I'm feat to permit you explain."

Rossen's boss, "Today" exhibit chief shaper Jim Bell, called him a versatile and continual reporter.

"Literal and figurative doors were slammed in his face along the artefact but he only wouldn't verify 'no' for an answer," discoverer said. "His impact on this programme is conformable with the many stories he covers for 'Today,' from comprehensive investigative pieces to breaking news."

Sheen's interviews were a brilliant piece of action prowess or grounds he's soured his rocker, or some combination of the two. He probably ordered a record for inserting more catchphrases into the open noesis in the direct turn of time. The more he talked, the sadder it became.

Rossen said Sheen told him that he wanted to upstage the Academy Awards.

Is he nuts? "It's tough to tell," Rossen said.

"I've been given a rattling restricted snapshot of Charlie Sheen," Rossen said. "I've spent most 10 hours with him over the instruction of individual days, sometimes with cameras and sometimes without cameras. You can't determine a person full on the basis of 10 hours. I would hope nobody would determine me that way."

Clearly, Sheen is at a crossroads in his life and struggling with that, he said.

How much the "rock star" line sticks with Rossen is an engrossing question. Journalists commonly look with distrustfulness at approval from discourse subjects, perhaps seeing it as grounds that not sufficiency tough questions were asked.

"It makes me uncomfortable," said Suzanne Lysak, a academic of medium at Rossen's alma mater, Syracuse University. "But this full status is meet so crazy."

The more important issue is the media's persona in gift Sheen a platform. James Rainey of The Los Angeles Times wrote that programme outlets are Sheen enablers and, in the housing of ABC and NBC, "aiding and abetting the poem overheating of a honor who happens to be the large grapheme on the large comedy impact at rival CBS."

Networks have swiftly responded to the market. Morgan's discourse with Sheen did so substantially in the ratings CNN reran it Friday. After Canning's "20/20" discourse proved a big draw, Rossen place together a "Dateline NBC" primary Friday. Celebrity center shout expert Dr. Drew Pinsky is doing a VH1 primary on Sheen and modify Spike TV can't resist, ordering a countdown of Sheen's most outlandish moments illustrated with Asiatic animation.

"I don't undergo how you don't counterbalance it," said Richard Wald, a Columbia University academic and former chief at ABC and NBC News.

"It's a taste same (O.J. Simpson's) White Bronco," Wald said. "It has little or no meaning, but it's fascinating: Are you taking advantage of Sheen? Are you helping him or hurting him? These are engrossing questions, but I don't undergo if they are questions for journalists. I don't undergo how as a medium shaper you crapper ignore this. It's the human equivalent of a condition collision."

Rossen also disagrees with critics who say the media should have overturned its back on Charlie Sheen.

"This is a open figure," he said. "He's in the throes of a life crisis. As we would for a politician, as we would with a celebrity, as we would with some open amount that the open is fascinated in chance from, we are informing their story. What better artefact to verify someone's programme than with that person?

"If that person is making himself accessible to you," he said, "I would debate that it would be irresponsible not to talk to him."

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