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CNN: Not as bad as you might think
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Yeah, yeah, I know.
It's easy to bash CNN, but how many of us have actually sat down and watched it? I will admit that I *rarely* watch CNN, partly because (a) I rarely watch TV at all! and (b) the general image of CNN being a propaganda machine.
And yet, today in a rare moment of bored channel-surfing, I landed on CNN and watched a few minutes of it. There was an interview of sorts, actually one of those "ask 2 experts for their opinions at the same time on a controversial topic and let them eat each other's heads off." The 'controversial topic' was, you guessed it, Iraq.
Basically there was a pro- side and an against- side. The pro- side was from some woman in Washington, forgot her name or what she does. The against- side was from some talk show host, forgot his name, but probably a somewhat well-known figure otherwise why would he be on CNN?
Anyway, this guy was going completely nuts. He was openly saying stuff like, "My opinion of the Bush administration's stance on Iraq? Actually I don't have much of an opinion of Bush ever since he stole the election," and spewing out most of the bigger anti-Bush ideas. He openly denied the existence of any WMD's in Iraq, called the "proof" of WMD's "utter bull", and just generally caused a ruckus. It was great fun! And the best part was that the interviewer was completely neutral and did not participate at all. He addressed both sides with equal gravity and respect - I was impressed. At one point I was rubbing my eyes and looking in the corner of the screen to see if it really said "CNN" there or if I was watching some weirdo conspiracy theory channel I had somehow found myself in. :haha:
Anyway I just want to say that prior to those 10 minutes, all I thought of CNN was that it just consisted of stories fed to it by Washington, "the hawks," and the Pentagon. Although that may or may not be true to some extent, at least I saw that there is some semblance of journalism in CNN and it might not be so bad as I had originally thought.
Funny, while the talk show host was presenting his views, I was half expecting to see men in black suits come in and haul him away, or for "technical difficulties" to arise, or something of the sort. Thankfully there were no disruptions. :toothless
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| Dmatrox |
i like cnn
rudi bahkari is hot, shes the one thats on weekday evenings/nights
wow that was off topic |
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| LiquidX |
| Whenever I come across watching some of this channels, I pick CNN.. just, any channel but FOXnews.. anyways, CNN has its ups and downs. |
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| MisterOpus1 |
Haven't watched Faux News for some 3 months now, and boy is it refreshing!
CNN is somewhat more balanced, but it definitely has its ups and downs. It definitely kisses the booty of whoever is in power. And ATM it's the Repubs. I have a different view of Ted Turner since he spoke out against the FCC's deregulatory measures. That was a nice gesture, and now I watch CNN a little more often (which was probably what he was after in the first place, but oh well).
Aside from that, I tend to get most of my news and commentary from a handful of websites. |
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| DaveSaenz |
Ted Turner also oppossed the war in Iraq.
Obviously anything is better than Fox. That's GOP news. :nervous: |
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| Project T |
all news channels are biased, and although cnn doesn't really apply to me, they did cover quite a chunk of stuff sky and the bbc weren't in the iraq war.
however bbc news had tank vision which was well cool |
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| rizen |
| cnn crossfire! james carville is just awsome :D |
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| Galapidate |
| I pick CNN for several reasons. Primarily because they have constant news about important issues and don't interrupt with something that nobody cares about (i.e. cat gets rescued from tree). |
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| occrider |
I too don't see why everybody knocks cnn so much ... of course it's going to have more of a focus on american news because (duh) it's an american news agency. Everybody automatically discounts it as being biased right wing news agency. Personally I use it as one of my few major news sources ...
Anyway here's a front page article that basically criticizes bush's latest tax cut (albeit stolen from the NYTimes)
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/06/11/ny...dman/index.html |
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| joeh152 |
Fox news is totally awful! - i flicked on the other night - and this newscaster is saying to someone 'Liberals like you would sit around and watch people die' it were like :eyes: :haha: .
CNN is nowhere near as bad but its still e and biased compared to BBC etc. |
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