Monday, December 3, 2007

CNN: Corrupt News Network

Tim Rutten:
Regarding Media-LA Times.

A self-serving agenda was set for the Republican presidential debates.
December 1, 2007.

THE United States is at war in the Middle East and Central Asia, the economy is writhing like a snake with a broken back, oil prices are relentlessly climbing toward $100 a barrel and an increasing number of Americans just can't afford to be sick with anything that won't be treated with aspirin and bed rest.

So, when CNN brought the Republican presidential candidates together this week for what is loosely termed a "debate," what did the country get but a discussion of immigration, Biblical inerrancy and the propriety of flying the Confederate flag?

In fact, this most recent debacle masquerading as a presidential debate raises serious questions about whether CNN is ethically or professionally suitable to play the political role the Democratic and Republican parties recently have conceded it.

Selecting a president is, more than ever, a life and death business, and a news organization that consciously injects itself into the process, as CNN did by hosting Wednesday's debate, incurs a special responsibility to conduct itself in a dispassionate and, most of all, disinterested fashion. When one considers CNN's performance, however, the adjectives that leap to mind are corrupt and incompetent.
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1 comment:

  1. Press Conference by the President
    James S. Brady Press Briefing Room
    10:01 A.M. EST
    http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/12/20071204-4.html
    http://tinyurl.com/2nfshx
    THE PRESIDENT: David, I don't want to contradict an august reporter such as yourself, but I was made aware of the NIE last week. In August, I think it was (Mitch) (sic)[aka Senate Minority Leader] Mike

    McConnell [Director of National Intelligence} came in and said, we have some new in-for-ma-tion(sic). He didn't tell me what the information was.....


    An opportunity for the judicary committee (pick your branch;) get Mike and or Mitch to testify and see if He didn't tell me what the information was. If this

    is a lie, inform Nancy Pelosi that the investigation has been completed.....

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