For DUers who love to bash CNN as "pro Bush"

[question everything]

Ed Henry's report yesterday on Blitzer was excellent:

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0705/23/sitroom.01.html

ED HENRY, CNN CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Those are not really new, Wolf. it's just some new intelligence about some Al Qaeda officials. But those plots -- the president has previously touted stopping those plots. So this is really all about the president scrambling to find justification to keep U.S. troops in Iraq.

HENRY: Trying to bolster his case Al Qaeda is the chief enemy in Baghdad, the president declassified intelligence showing in 2005 Osama bin Laden was trying to set up a unit in Iraq to launch terror attacks against America.

HENRY: But detailing al Qaeda activity in Iraq in 2005, long after the war started, is fuel for Democratic presidential candidates, who charge, the war actually increased the terror threat.

JOHN EDWARDS (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: The worst thing about the global-war-on-terror approach is that it's backfired. Our military has been strained to the breaking point, and the threat from terrorism has grown, not lessened. We need a post-Bush, post-9/11, post-Iraq American military.

HENRY: With weak public support for the Iraq war, declassifying intelligence about terror plots enabled the president to fall back on a strategy that worked in the 2004 and 2006 campaigns: the fear card. BUSH: Here in America, we're living in the eye of a storm. All around us, dangerous winds are swirling, and these winds could reach our shores at any moment.

HENRY: But the president's decision to highlight bin Laden's ability to communicate with his top lieutenants raises questions about Mr. Bush's previous claims that the U.S. has disrupted the al Qaeda leader's activities.

[DS1]

1. You think one report balances out 23 hours and 50 minutes of Bush fellating?

[Sticky]

2. re: CNN - I'm not back in the fold, but...

The series on "Broken Government" last fall was a turning point for the American public. I think it influenced the 06 election.

[David__77]

19. I agree.

I was shocked at the "Broken Government" series. If I was a Republican, I would have been pissed. It was perfect for promoting the Demcratic Party. However, so long as that Beck character isn't eliminated or balanced, I could care less.

[JNelson6563]

3. I think Ed Henry has been duly noted here

as a pretty fair reporter. Notice the first blurb of his you quote though, he's correcting the ever faithful GOP water carrier, Leslie Blitzer, that this is not new information. Of course Blitzer likes playing golf with Pappa Bush so he's always gonna do his best to be a good little German.....

Let's hope Ed Henry doesn't start getting invites to play gold with the family.

Julie

[zbdent]

16. If it's not "new information", that means that someone leaked

classified information ...

[KurtNYC]

4. CNN - the network that Swiftboated Kerry??

by turning a $40,000 ad buy into weeks of slander?

CNN - the network that still runs that Anderson Cooper ad where they say he will let us know "how much progress is being made in Iraq" ?

[bamacrat]

5. The only thing I watch on CNN is Lou Dobbs....

I like when he gets pissed at the administration, especially when he voices his opinion about the separation of church and state.

[question everything]

11. Yes, I think that Dobbs is the only answer to Orally and the rest

on Fox. A host who freely expresses his opinions - whether you like them or not.

And then there is the practical aspect. If everyone will defect from CNN, then Fox will be the only game in town.

Almost like keep on voting for Democrats even while holding our noses, since the alternative is bad.

For all the bad things that Bill Clinton may have done, he did give us Ginsburg and Breyer on the Supreme Court.

No matter how much of a dislike we may have for the next Democratic president and the Democratic majority in the Senate, we know that a Scalia or a Thomas will not be appointed.

[bamacrat]

20. The Daily Show is the most credible source of news these days.

[magellan]

6. They aren't pro-Bush**, they're pro-business

Whatever the parent companies who are deeply embedded in our government thinks will help them, that's what we get. And there are plenty of Dems who'll answer their siren's call as readily as Repugs.

[wiggs]

17. That's right. People who think the major media outlets are just in it

for the ratings are badly mistaken. It has to do with much larger parent companies and how much they have at stake in the global corporatism racket.

[AX10]

7. You fogot about the other 49 out of 50 reports in which...

the Democrats are smeared. CNN also swiftboated Kerry in 2004.

[blm]

18. Yeah - Let's applaud CNN for that 2% of fairness and ignore 98% spin and lies.

.

[Enrique]

8. so does that prove CNN is anti-Bush?

criticism of CNN is well-founded, and it's not based on anecdotal evidence, it's based on overall analysis of their bias.

You could find other such examples, and on the other hand you could also find counter-examples that show CNN often favors republicans.

For example:

http://mediamatters.org/issues_topics/outlets/cnn

[npincus]

9. FUX and CNN used to be indistinguishable in Chimpy's heyday

CNN has gotten MUCH better, and Michael Ware's reports from Baghdad are the best MSM reporting on the war I've seen.

[Donnachaidh]

10. so they toss out the occasional report that we like and everything's OKAY?

Uhhh, I don't think so.

They still look like Fox-lite 99.98% of the time. They've got a LONG way to go for the years of being propaganda poodles for the WH.

[npincus]

14. I didn't say they were "okay" I said they've gotten "better"

[Colobo]

12. CNN is neither good or bad

I like it.

[Omphaloskepsis]

13. Shouldn't we be bitching that CNN is anti-news.

I don't want any source of news to have any political bias. I want facts. I don't want spin. I don't want pundits. I want facts. I can make up my own mind based on facts. They just need to give them to me and they are failing.

Well, the BBC still works.

[porphyrian]

15. Fuck all corporate media.

They don't give a shit about anything other than delivering profits to their stockholders. They ceased to be relevant the day they made this their primary objective. You're actually better informed NOT paying attention to them at all. Fuck them.