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Jara sang Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-26-06 02:13 PM
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CNN reporting stories about itself... again.


http://www.cnn.com/

This is the 'frontpage' photo from CNN.com. What? They can't run actual photos of the violence in Iraq? They are so afraid of actually labeling this a 'civil war' that they are reporting on their parent companies coverage of this unstable situation. What are those other issues under the top TIME magazine? Do they deal with the civil war in Iraq? How could they? This was a non-story until a week ago. This is the pathetic excuse for journalism that passes at CNN. Lollipop journalism. What a joke.
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electron_blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-26-06 02:15 PM
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1. I also noticed that and thought it was weird
I think the point they're trying to make is that you should only come to CNN for headlines, read the indepth stories at Time. CNN is a distractor, primarilyl.
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-26-06 02:18 PM
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2. CNN is no more than the Today Show. Nothing more Nothing less.
Entertainment POSING as a news channel.
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Jara sang Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-26-06 02:29 PM
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3. On Headline news they report the release of DVD movies
and video games as if it were real news. On the "technology segment" they "report" on the gadgetry that just hit the markets. It's nothing but on big commercial.
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liberal43110 Donating Member (687 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-26-06 03:13 PM
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5. Newsweek does the same thing
There are regular sections about "new technologies," but they are really nothing more than advertisements.
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pretzel4gore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-26-06 02:34 PM
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4. cnn is a criminal run organization
hopefully, someday the entire board of directors and top managers at cnn dating back to the regan years will be arrested tried and lawfully executed for treason......under geebush's standards of course (flip a coin to decide say electroshock or '5 in the noggin' etc)
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