CNN doesn't even try to pretend to be objective in criticism of MoveOn's Ad

[Exiled in America]

I'm sitting here watching that worthless program "The Situation Room" and the guy on now is not even pretending to take a remotely objective look at MoveOn and its ad about Petraeus.

I'm not stating whether move on got it right or got it wrong. I'm just saying, he starts out his entire report not explaining both sides of the issue, but simply making an affirmative claim that move on was being fast and loose with its facts.

Every time he quoted from the ad, he slowed down on key words and emphasized them to underscore the "sinisterness" of what was being read. And he never explained what he was "rebutting" in the first place, or ever let us see the ad. He also, never explained the context of sentence-snippets he would quote and then "rebut" (without citing any sources himself) and at no point in the report was MoveOn ever presented with a chance to respond. The rebuttals to moveon's claims were weak at best. And the entire time the segment played the tag line read "Liberal Group in Hot Water"

I thought I was watching FOX News.

[defendandprotect]

1. Why are you watching CNN/Wolf Blitzer -- ????

Turn it off -- !!!

[Exiled in America]

3. lol I was flipping channels and got caught by my shock

[AX10]

2. CNNFOXMSNBC have been whoring all day long for Bush&Co.

It is just vile. This is what the run-up to the war in 2002 was like. :mad:

[Junkdrawer]

8. I'm sure ABCNBCCBSNPRPBS are and will continue to be right behind...

It's September and the New Product is being rolled out...

Any buyers? :shrug:

[Selatius]

4. When they own the outlets, they can bend the information any way they want.

It's more subtle than taking over the state and nationalizing all the news outlets, but it can be just as effective.

[riverdeep]

19. More effective, even

People don't even attempt to fight back if they think they're getting unbiased info.

[iamthebandfanman]

5. yeah i saw that

dismissing the violence as NOT being a form of ethnic cleansing....

"alanbar was already mostly sunni so thats not true"


uh, what ?
lol
what about baghdad ?
ope didnt talk about that.
didnt talk about how its like 70% shiite now when it was like 50-60 sunni before the war.

[Skidmore]

6. Blogs and websites are now considered serious competition for cable channels

and they are actively trying to undermine them.

[AX10]

7. Exactly! The media is right wing shit!

We can fight them on a relatively equal footing.

[KaptBunnyPants]

21. Undermine blogs by behaving in the way that led to the empowerment of blogs in the first place.

Sounds like a good plan to me. I guess they are all still fighting over that conservative viewer.

[cruadin]

9. "I thought I was watching FOX News" you might as well have been....

there's not a nickel's worth of difference between them.

[depakid]

10. Might as well be watching Fox noise

because CNN is just a poor imitation. Kinda like the AOL of TV land.

[Swamp Rat]

11. That was Glen Beck 2

Glen Beck 1 works the other CNN channel.

[OHdem10]

12. Write Cnn and point out that they are enabling the GOP

to maintain Occupation in Iraq for years.

[in_cog_ni_to]

14. CNN already knows they're enabling the GOP...it's what they do for their RW Corporate owners.

Funny....I didn't see all this OUTRAGE when the Swift Boaters ran THEIR ads.

It's Propaganda! PURE PROPAGANDA!

[KansDem]

16. That's true...they "discussed" the Swift Boat ads for several weeks/months...

Thereby, it was in the forefront of "news" for several weeks/months.

Karl Rove a genius? I hardly think so; When you have a complacent media, electronic "vote-flipping" machines, and five toadies on the Supreme Court, anyone can work wonders...

[in_cog_ni_to]

13. Lets see what KO's take on the MoveOn ad is. I REALLY doubt he'll be as partisan in his

take on it.

Rat Bastards. What do you expect from the corporate owned Propaganda networks?:grr:

[burythehatchet]

18. as you know, truth has a liberal bias. n/t

[Breeze54]

15. CNN = Faux Suxs!

[HowHasItComeToThis]

17. FORCE MEDIA TALKING HEADS TO GO TO MILITARY FUNERALS

THEY JUST THINK CURRENT EVENTS ARE ENTERTAINMENT.

[Imagevision]

20. CNN/Blitzer = FOXnews lite... little substance and less in content

[riverdeep]

22. Did you send an email?

Just to let them know someone's watching over their shoulder. I'd love to see their response. My guess-a business version of FU.

[GeorgeGist]

23. That was the same clown ...

who was an expert at divining the truth about Katrina from his Super Duper Deluxe Edition of Google Earth.