What's the proper protocol to complain to CNN re poor reporting?

[maui9002]

I know the level of respect for CNN these days rivals Bush's approval ratings, but this morning a segment made me stop the treadmill and start searching the CNN website to voice my disapproval of a question posed by John Roberts, host of American Morning, to Jim Webb regarding Barack Obama's plan to raise taxes. Essentially, the question posed to Senator Webb, which Senator Webb did not handle very well in my opinion, was how do you respond to Senator Obama's plan to raise taxes, which FactCheck.org indicates would be the fifth largest tax increase in history. Given that I've heard this same charge from BO's opponents on the right, I knew that this charge was misleading, because it fails to disclose that the lion's share of the "increase" is due to BO's position against making the Bush tax cuts permanent instead of letting them expire. Here's how FactCheck.org addresses the question, the point of which was to refute a claim made by John McCain that HC and BO were proposing the largest tax increases in history:

"By the measure most economists prefer, McCain is wrong in his claim that Sens. Clinton and Obama want to implement "the single largest tax increase since the Second World War;" it would be the fifth largest. At a more basic level, it's misleading to tag Clinton and Obama for something that was scheduled during the Bush administration – the expiration of the 2001 and 2003 Bush tax cuts, which by law will occur at the end of 2010."

Is it too much to ask the self proscribed best political team on television to ask a question that is not so misleading?

And is it too much to ask that a Democratic Senator being considered as a legitimate VP candidate understand tax policy a little better so as to be able to respond to these types of questions?

[shraby]

1. You get the address and wade in with both fists

flying. Give them no quarter and hit them hard. They've earned it. Protocol be damned.

[Echo In Light]

2. I'm guessing it would likely fall on deaf ears since they're in the business of indoctrinating...

Not "reporting."

[ThomWV]

3. I've used various gradations between simple anger and rage

[FrenchieCat]

4. Well, you see....I want to start a writing group, where would be communicating

to the various news medias daily......hundreds of letters at a time. They are McCain's base, and they have the power to make McCain our President unless we keep our foot up in their asses now till November 4th.....and then some.

Here's a contact page that provides links to email to every "personality" at CNN.

http://www.cnn.com/feedback/cnntv/
(lower portion of page has each personalities' individual contact page.

Like here's John Robert's individual contact page: http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form4.html?97

[maui9002]

8. Thanks for the reference (eom)

[SoCalDem]

5. Scream at your TV..

It's about as effective as anything else.. You will just get a "Hey, thanks for watching" response to anything you write to them about..

[sinkingfeeling]

6. Here you go....

http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form5.am.html

[ProdigalJunkMail]

7. place a pillow over your mouth

and scream until you are a little more relaxed. they could give two shits about your opinion...or anyone's for that matter...

sP

[wellst0nev0ter]

9. Stop Watching Corporate News

Turn off that teevee and get your news elsewhere, like the foreign press. The only thing these clowns respond to is money, and if people aren't watching, they might start changing things.

[lpbk2713]

10. Seems to me ....

a good way to complain would be to take note of who their frequent advertisers are.

Then send your complaints to them. The power of money gets results every time.

Send it to CNN and you'll get the attention of a clerk or an intern and that's it.