Cenk Slams CNN: "Do Real News!"
Appearing on Current TV’s broadcast of “The Young Turks” on Thursday night, host Cenk Uygur introduced a new segment, Establishment Media Watch, and took aim at his first target: CNN’s lax coverage of the National Defense Authorization Act.
“We have covered it many times on this show, yet we were surprised to find out that the establishment media is not covering it very much at all,” Uygur said. “In fact, in this entire process, as they considered the law, they debated the law, the president issued a veto threat, and then he did not veto it and he signed it into legislation, throughout all of that, the so-called most trusted name in news, CNN, covered this story zero times in prime-time. Not one story in prime-time.
“Overall, they do 24 hours of news, in those months they mentioned it just five times. In three of those instances, it was in under-30-second soundbites [...] and, in fact, they weren’t even clear on that.”
Link (with video): http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/01/06/cenk-slams-cnn-for-neglecting-indefinite-detention-do-real-news/
I like this new "Media Watch" segment on TYT, and am looking forward to see how it progresses. You can watch the segment from last evenings show at the link above.