My coworker said CNN is librul.

[gWbush is Mabus]

How do I convince him that it is not?

Thanks for the help.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

1. Check the political page

Conservative columnist and cartoonist.

Edit: I'll note the cartoonist is a real jackass too.

[Stevendsmith]

2. Ask What Specifically Is Liberal About CNN?

[Redleg]

3. You can't.

You could ask your friend if CNN is so liberal, why doesn't it have a nightly labor report as it has a business report. You can ask him why CNN didn't have any real anti-Iraq war commentators during the build-up to the Iraq war. There are numerous other examples but I doubt conservatives will buy them.

[ComerPerro]

14. They belive what they want

And they are too stupid to change

[theorist]

4. All commercial media is inherently conservative.

CNN is more concerned with making money than reporting the news. This is the same with FOX, MSNBC, etc. That's why you go online for your news, right?

Just look at the way all of the TV news stations covered the war. The reporters were acting more as if they were covering a football game than an invasion.

addition:
I use "conservative" above as a synonym for pro-corporations, pro-Republican, etc. Other examples of the homogeneity are the coverage of the "War on Drugs", labor (lack of coverage here), and the tendency to just repeat White House press releases nearly verbatim.

[jmags]

5. He should explain why it is first.

Once he does that, it will be easier to explain why it is not. Don't do the work for him.

[ixion]

6. riiiiight... and fox is

fair and balanced. :eyes:

[GOPisEvil]

7. He is making the assertion...make him prove his point.

[mouse7]

8. Show them what "librul" really is

Take them to some far left websites. REAL far left web sites like Infoshop.org and indymedia.org. Let them notice that CNN has never covered a single one of the stories mentioned on those sites. Show them some video of the police attacks on protesters in Miami. Ask him how "librul" CNN never gleefully jumped at putting that video on.

[proud patriot]

9. Use the Pre war debate

Hypothetically

let's say 60% of the people were for the war
that would mean every fourth story on CNN prior
to the war should of been anti-war .

This was not the case , every show had a pro-war
slant with the prowar side out numbering antiwar
side .

CNN did not interview our side every fourth story .

[Claire Beth]

10. don't waste your time cuz you probably won't and..

it just goes to show how ignorant people are about the news media and how the right is controlling more and more.

[LondonReign2]

11. Agree with him

...then suggest he must support reinstating the Fairness Doctrine.

Sit back and watch the conflict bounce about in his head until it explodes.

[BillZBubb]

16. Great suggestion!

I hadn't thought of that one. If the media is truly librull, then the fairness doctrine will only help the conswervatives! They'd have to support it, or be shown for the clueless ninnies they are.

[spanone]

12. tell him to watch CNN for a few minutes.

[sunnynair]

13. Not surprised

I have a friend who has never read The NY Times, saying it was liberal. That's how people at Faux and talk radio program their listeners "The Liberal Media.... is to blame."

[morgan2]

15. cnn is about level with

joe lieberman.

[Gothic Sponge]

17. To convince him......

I would use a large rubber mallet. ;)

[Sperk]

18. Ask him if he knows who Gov. Davis is, then as him if he knows

who GOv. Rowlands is.

Ask him which pres. had a lawsuit filed against him for a sexual attack. (not clinton)

Ask him who Ellen Mariani is.

Ask him the name of the Congressman who's aid was missing and found dead many months later.

Ask him the name of the Congressman whos aid was found dead in his office.

then ask him how he thinks the media would have reacted if Clinton entered a school KNOWING that 4 planes were off course, one had hit and then stayed in the classroom for 10-20 minutes after the second one hit.
and on, and on, and on....