CNN's secret (LUV) emails to Right Wing Bloggers revealed

[kpete]

CNN Takes Aim At ‘The Left’ In Email To Conservative Website – Updated
by Tommy Christopher | 5:33 pm, April 8th, 2010

A few days ago, I took a look at a Crooks and Liars http://crooksandliars.com/logan-murphy/cnns-fox-envy-details-behind-their-fa post that suggested CNN was “pimping” the Great American “Tea Party Express PR and Propaganda Tour.” While I agreed with much of the post, I didn’t think CNN’s motivation was to promote the Tea Party tour, but rather, to be in the right place at the right time when something juicy happens.

As it turns out, reporting by conservative Newsbusters seems to confirm elements of liberal Crooks and Liars‘ thesis, or at the very least, that CNN is trying to have it both ways. Let’s all sing “Kumbaya” for a minute.

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Newsbusters credits CNN for what it considers to be “one of the first to offer fair coverage of the Tea Party movement outside of Fox News,” while bringing up the infamous Susan Roesgen report from a Tea Party last year.

http://www.mediaite.com/online/cnn-takes-aim-at-the-left-in-email-to-conservative-website/

Update: Reading the comments, I noted that Newsbusters removed the key email to Brent Bozell from its post. Luckily, I saved the page. Here is a screengrab of the passage in question, as it appeared when this story was published. I will try to find out why it was remove



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This one was reportedly sent to Michelle Malkin:

***** “Hi there, I thought this might be an interesting post for you- a behind-the-scenes piece about the Tea Party and how the stereotypes don’t tell the full story. Let me know if you need anything else!”

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/4/9/855615/-CNNs-secret-emails-to-Right-Wing-Bloggers-revealed

[xchrom]

1. Hello CNN? The obvious phone is ringing.

Pick up please.

[Lost4words]

2. Head exploding!

[Supersedeas]

3. CNN showed its true colors during the 2000 Florida Election--and hasn't back away from

pushing, promoting, and assisting the Right Wing agenda since.

[dem mba]

4. what's the story here

that CNN PR was buttering up conservative bloggers to "get" a story or to get CNN-favorable coverage?

No fuckings shit. Of course they do that. And I'm sure they butter up liberal bloggers in exactly the same way too.

Non-story.