Comments on: Big Brother CNN

By: Lorenz Gude

Lorenz Gude — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 09:18:46 +0000

@Jan of MN I’d say that it is a bit of both with CNN letting AC dis DWS. Big institutions play both sides of the fence. My dad first made me aware of it in relation to the Catholic church which can point to Worker priests or Opus Dei if accused of bing right or left wing. Local property developers contribute to both parties to keep the zoning board sweet – as does Wall St to keep Congress sweet. So the media put out counter narrative stories to maintain the UNSTATED ‘fair and balanced’ claim. Every time I see FOX news use the OVERT ‘fair and balanced’ claim a shiver of delight goes through me (Take that Chris Mathews) because I sure do know they ain’t takin’ the piss out of the Sacramento Bee. Speaking of the gray courtesan i noticed that way back near the beginning of the presidential campaign they did a puff piece on Romney lauding him for doing simultaneous Harvard MBA and Law degrees and excelling. Who would guess he was a vulture capitalist who runs around in magic underwear pushing cripples over a cliff?

By: Jan of MN

Jan of MN — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 22:27:33 +0000

CNN’s coverage of the Thomas-Hill hearings (which provided my first nudge rightward) included a panel of a diverse dozen or so of Thomas’s previous female workplace associates who testified favorably on his character and workplace behavior. Although the panel appeared in front of the committee during normal daytime hours, the video was broadcast at 1:00 am Central and contradicted the testimony I had witnessed during the day. I’ve met only one other person who saw it. These days, Fox would show such a video repeatedly during a 24 hour period.

It may be an illusion, but is CNN trying to appear more “fair and balanced”? I saw Anderson Cooper recently holding DebbieWS’s feet to the fire on one her obvious lies.

By: DirtyJobsGuy

DirtyJobsGuy — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 15:36:56 +0000

CNN always offered deals (like Muzak) to pay for TV’s etc. in airports and public places. So you got TV monitors in airport lounges in exchange for carrying CNN. It’s different in bars and restaurants with commercial satellite and cable. I’ve seen them change to Fox on request. Now the CNN International has always sold out to the local dictator and is a huge moneymaker.

In airports they are annoying now that you have wireless internet so I’d push your local airport authority to pull the screens or feed them weather updates.

By: Barry

Barry — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 15:26:04 +0000

Jack’s Fine Hamburgers in our area always has Fox news on, the manager is Indo-Chinese or Vietnamese.

By: IGotBupkis -- "Faecies Evenio", Mr. Holder?

IGotBupkis -- "Faecies Evenio", Mr. Holder? — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 10:20:04 +0000

}}}} But it began tilting further and further left.

Not really surprising, is it?

1) Atlanta (CNN’s Home base) is (I’ve heard) the only city in the USA where a white person can actually register as a minority, and the Atlanta Constitution is one of the nation’s most overtly liberal rags — on par with The Grey Whore, the WaPo, and The Parrot Target (LATimes). In other words, while Georgia is a “Southern” state and conservative in some ways (it’s still Democrats locally. mind you, as is most of the “Old South”), Atlanta is a very liberal city.

2) Equally critical, CNN is one of Ted Turner’s babies. He is liberal enough to get married to and stay married for a long time to Jane Fonda. Does anything more need be said?

3) CNN has probably always had a strong leftward lean, it just didn’t become obvious until the alternative voices came out with Talk Radio and the internets… in the 1990s.

By: Maggie's Farm

Maggie's Farm — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 08:31:17 +0000

Tuesday morning links…

Video: The Italian Carpool Lane Pope Benedict’s Gutsy Prayer Insty in USA Today: Oh, to be young and unemployed Should there be required labeling of GMOs? Three Things Colleges Don’t Want Us to Know Biofuels causing hunger in Third World The Magn…

By: Lorenz Gude

Lorenz Gude — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 06:01:07 +0000

I disagree with MOMO that the two explanations presented are divergent. I think they are complementary. CNN became the default news channel in the First Gulf War AND it is the least likely to cause the public to complain or otherwise be bad for business. Otherwise MOMO is spot on. I would add the obvious point that CNN is in the middle between Fox and MSNBC thus making it the default choice to offend the least number of people. If you remember back to Major Hassan having his little tantrum at Ft. Hood, Fox was first with the Islamist angle. MSNBC and CNN both took the ‘workplace violence’ and second hand pre PTSD PTSD approach. But then CNN got to work and paid the convenience store owner the big bucks for pictures of the Major is his white dress the morning he went postal and used its fleet of DC reporters to scoop Fox on the pre deployment to Ft. Hood story from colleagues at Walter Reed. Meanwhile MSNBC, may God bless their cotton socks, stuck to its guns and carried on about the excruciating stress the Major was under as the only reasonable explanation for his ‘tragic’ action. I happened to be visiting my son in Florida at the time and found myself armed with a remote and my own TV and spent a few days flicking between the three channels. The most humorous thing that happened was there was a case of genuine workplace violence in Orlando. MSNBC stuck to their guns and began to wring their hands about yet another tragic shooting in the workplace. FOX and CNN initially threw wall to wall coverage at it but soon backed off when the perp was quickly caught and the body count failed to become Ft Hood class. As a result of these experiences I tend to think that CNN will show some balance if forced to do so. I’m not in the US right now and it sounds like CNN is not being forced to do anything about the campaign other than cheerlead for Obama. I would predict though that if Romney gets ahead in the polls they may change their tune, while MSNBC will heroically go down fighting.

By: rickl

rickl — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 05:26:57 +0000

My dentist’s office has TVs everywhere. They’re usually tuned to the Today show or The View or some such crap. But they’re good dentists and I don’t have any complaints with their work, so I put up with it.

No TVs in my vet’s office.

I usually try to schedule doctor and dentist appointments for early in the morning, figuring that schedule slippage tends to be cumulative over the course of the day. It seems to work with the dentist; not so much with the doctor.

I’ve been thinking about offering to pay the vet in cash to become my primary physician after Obamacare kicks in. Why not? Physiologically, humans aren’t that different from dogs and cats.

By: Artfldgr

Artfldgr — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 03:49:02 +0000

CNN gets the least complaints and requests to turn the channel…

By: Milan

Milan — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 03:43:20 +0000

I’m a conservative and I detest any TV in professional offices, gyms and gas stations. It’s all babble and idiotic. Can’t people be OK with their own selves anymore.