CNN - do they merely make mistakes or do they intentionally report news in a way to mislead their viewers? If you watch CNN do you want to be lied to or do you want to switch?
“The CNN programming studied tended to cast a negative light on Republican candidates—by a margin of three-to-one. Four-in-ten stories (41%) were clearly negative while just 14% were positive and 46% were neutral. The network provided negative coverage of all three main candidates with McCain fairing the worst (63% negative) and Romney fairing a little better than the others only because a majority of his coverage was neutral. It’s not that Democrats, other than Obama, fared well on CNN either. Nearly half of the Illinois Senator’s stories were positive (46%), vs. just 8% that were negative. But both Clinton and Edwards ended up with more negative than positive coverage overall. So while coverage for Democrats overall was a bit more positive than negative, that was almost all due to extremely favorable coverage for Obama.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNN_controversies
Let's see what should I post?
CNN's putting a large X over Cheney's face in a NEWS broadcast?
CNN"S playing propaganda footage from insurgents at war with the US?
Reporter Octavia Nasr's "respect" (his words) for Hezbolah?
Cropping of images to make them appear to show the opposite of what they demonstrate?
Let's stick with the consistent anti-Jewish bias in which CNN intentionally tries to make Israel look like terrorists and make terrorists look like children with rock.
"It is 9 a.m. in Israel on October 23, 2000 and I just watched a five minute segment on CNN covering "The Crises in the Middle East." In the coverage, Rula Amin interviews Arafat, a Hamas leader, and two Palestinian leaders. No Israelis or Jews were interviewed for this segment. In this segment, the Palestinians are portrayed as stone throwing children, and the Israelis as well-trained, uniformed soldiers with sophisticated weapons. No armed Palestinians are shown, and no pained Israeli civilians - those whose cars have been hit by stones on the highway, whose apartments have been sprayed with gunfire, or whose loved ones have been beaten, kidnapped, lynched or murdered - are shown.
CNN put a great deal of work into producing this segment. First, camera crews had to obtain footage of events - both the violence and interviews with people about the violence. Then, a narrative had to be written that transformed the footage into a comprehensible (familiar), appealing and exciting story which the network could sell to its consumers/viewers. Finally, the tape had to be edited. Different editing of the same set of pictures can produce an entirely different views of the news.
In editing this segment, CNN chose to include the following points: 1) Sharon's visit was the source of the violence 2) Barak called a "time-out" from the peace process despite the moderate Arab Summit, and 3) more than 120 Arabs have been killed by Israeli troops.
CNN chose to NOT to include these points in this segment. Arafat's lack of a counteroffer to the serious compromises made by Barak at Camp David. Arafat's call for the violence (knowing the deaths of children would win him back international sympathy) as a way to gain the moral high-ground after Camp David. Arafat failure to call for an end to the violence despite the Sharm E-Sheikh agreement. Arafat's decision to free terrorists from prison knowing this increases the chance of terrorist attacks against Israelis. Barak's many unanswered requests for Arafat to show himself as a "peace partner" before calling for the "time-out" from the peace talks. The 120+ deaths as the direct result of the Israeli army trying to defend themselves and Israeli citizens against Palestinians throwing stones, igniting home-made bombs, and firing live ammunition at Israeli targets. Orders given by the Israeli government to the Israeli army to avoid causalities and only to shoot to kill if fired upon.
It is now 9:30 a.m., and CNN shows a flash which reads, "Israeli helicopter gunships attack Palestinian area near Jerusalem." In this case, CNN decided to exclude the fact that this "attack," in which there were no causalities because Beit Jala residents were warned to leave their homes, was a response to Palestinian aggression. The night before, Palestinian gunmen in Beit Jala fired shots into five streets, hitting 16 buildings, of the Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo. The Palestinian gunmen did not warn Gilo residents to leave their homes. Two Gilo women were treated for shock."
This was a story that was filmed and edited over a long period of time. There were no mistakes in it because they had ample time to produce exactly what they wanted to produce.
Do you want me to start a Liberal News Bias/mistake Thread of the Day picking on one liberal news outlet each and every day? I have no doubt that I can find a story each and every day to start a new thread from. I have no doubt that Fox news cannot be found to make a mistake/bias like these each and every day.
Should I call you steve? It seems funny to call you steveox. Why is that your screen name? Does it come from your last name in real life? Anyway, HI.