Where's the Blatent Bias in CNN?

[nageov3t]

I'm talking about their news coverage, not the pundits/talk shows that they put on.

I can turn on Fox News and see a pretty strong right-wing bias within a couple reports -- take a recent "report" on social security for example. the newscaster announced that the democratic party was gearing up for a fight over new social security changes, and then the rest of the segment was Dick Cheney speaking to the press about the SS crisis and how great the new Bush plan will be. no commentary from or about the democratic party's view whatsoever.

I watch CNN, and I'm just not seeing that kind of biased news coverage. Am I just to close to the left that I'm not seeing it?

I'd like some serious answers... I've never understood why certain people refer to it as the "communist" news network, and I'd really like to see the other side of this issue.

edit: spelling

 

[raildogg]

It is the Clinton News Network, though

 

[glugglug]

CNN has a strong right wing bias as well. Just not as ludicrous as Faux.

 

[Steeplerot]

Fox isn't just blatent they could care less about trying to seem even remotely unbiased.
The other MSM are biased but it's more subtle as other companies need to at least try to hold up the front in the name of fair journalism.
American MSM are all useless except for parroting white houses daily talking points.
Anything else is too complicated for the current viewers......they think

 

[Yo Ma Ma]

I have to confess I watch a scant amount of television, but sometimes it's not so much how a story is slanted as what type of story is covered most often or focused on, that sort of thing.

 

[gopunk]

i've heard people complain it's left-wing, but i think it's because they've been brainwashed by fox

 

[Steeplerot]

yomama, I think it is a growing trend: lefties are turning off the tv and radio in disgust and finding alternative ways like the net to get real news.
I don't even know anyone with a tv set in years.
This is why I think the right thinks everyone feels the way their MSM does.
They are stuck watching old-school tv, Where "entertainment" trumps actual content.
I don't think they realize that a lot of people have moved on and think of tv programming as useful as the advertising billboard hanging over the freeways.

 

[KidViciou$]

i don't trust ANY news network these days, but at least when watching cnn, you don't hear quips from the anchorperson where they colorize the news report by adding their own opinions of issues by using outlandish adjectives among other things

 

[ntdz]

Originally posted by: loki8481
I'm talking about their news coverage, not the pundits/talk shows that they put on.

I can turn on Fox News and see a pretty strong right-wing bias within a couple reports -- take a recent "report" on social security for example. the newscaster announced that the democratic party was gearing up for a fight over new social security changes, and then the rest of the segment was Dick Cheney speaking to the press about the SS crisis and how great the new Bush plan will be. no commentary from or about the democratic party's view whatsoever.

I watch CNN, and I'm just not seeing that kind of biased news coverage. Am I just to close to the left that I'm not seeing it?

I'd like some serious answers... I've never understood why certain people refer to it as the "communist" news network, and I'd really like to see the other side of this issue.

edit: spelling

Watch aaron brown...notice the little comments he makes after one of the stories runs. He's an obvious liberal.

Originally posted by: glugglug
CNN has a strong right wing bias as well. Just not as ludicrous as Faux.

CNN doesn't have a right wing bias. It's a little bit left. Anything not the new york times is "right wing to you". Can you name a cables news network more liberal than CNN? Ok then...its the most liberal...

 

[Steeplerot]

It may be moderate right-wing but to call it liberal in any way is a joke.

 

[Excelsior]

Originally posted by: Steeplerot
yomama, I think it is a growing trend: lefties are turning off the tv and radio in disgust and finding alternative ways like the net to get real news.
I don't even know anyone with a tv set in years.
This is why I think the right thinks everyone feels the way their MSM does.
They are stuck watching old-school tv, Where "entertainment" trumps actual content.
I don't think they realize that a lot of people have moved on and think of tv programming as useful as the advertising billboard hanging over the freeways.

Yeah, I mean, why not get your news on the net? Hell, then you could get news that fit your political views perfectly. As long as it slanted towards the left, you are happy, right? :roll:

 

[Steeplerot]

Lot more options for unbiased coverage then anything on the heroin box.
The reason you don't get the "right wing slant" anywhere but pundits and MSM is becasue any credible news agency sees through it and knows it's total BS geared toward low-attention span suburban cable watchers or commuters.

 

[Aimster]

Can you see any of the people on CNN living in the south?
Can you see any of the people on Fox living in the north?

 

[Steeplerot]

I don't see anyone watching tv period. Why would you want to? It totally kills a mood when I go out of town and someone has one you can feel the mentality lower in the room when it comes on. 24/7 commerical for some product or another, I'd rather watch the dryer spin.
TV is for the older generation who remembers programming not geared soley for ratings, or the terminally bored and uncreative. IMO

 

[slyedog]

if you cannot see cnn as leaning towards the left is because you have probably slipped off the left side of the earth. and the same goes for fox towards the right. best to keep an eye on both of them and do a little thinking of your own. beats watching a spinning dryer.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Originally posted by: slyedog
if you cannot see cnn as leaning towards the left is because you have probably slipped off the left side of the earth. and the same goes for fox towards the right. best to keep an eye on both of them and do a little thinking of your own. beats watching a spinning dryer.

I think he is looking for specific examples.

 

[His Lord Uberdude]

watch any of their post-debate criticisms, and relize the truth...........

 

[Spencer278]

Originally posted by: His Lord Uberdude
watch any of their post-debate criticisms, and relize the truth...........

lol. Bush can't talk of courses the post debate criticism is going to be harder on him because he did worse.

 

[mwtgg]

Originally posted by: Aimster
Can you see any of the people on CNN living in the south?
Can you see any of the people on Fox living in the north?

Uhh, isn't CNN's headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia?
And isn't FoxNews headquartered in New York, New York.

 

[Steeplerot]

Originally posted by: slyedog
if you cannot see cnn as leaning towards the left is because you have probably slipped off the left side of the earth. and the same goes for fox towards the right. best to keep an eye on both of them and do a little thinking of your own. beats watching a spinning dryer.

No actually I do not see a left bias nor have I actually seen a good in-depth coverage with different views, excuse me while I laugh a bit at this idea a bit at your expense, lay off the right wing pundits ok?
News networks have been crap since the start.
You can not cover an issue in the scant few minutes they take without generalizing things,
real news sometimes does not get great ratings, and US news has a underlying bias of ignoring the rest of the world.
There is nothing substantial in MSM news.
The bell tolls for these outdated and biased facades of news-past.
give it a few years....people are already sick of them and technology moves on.

 

[Infohawk]

Originally posted by: ntdz
Watch aaron brown...notice the little comments he makes after one of the stories runs. He's an obvious liberal.

Examples?

 

[Steeplerot]

Example: Someone makes a comment that france is beautiful in the spring.
Then some blowhard on the radio/fox/cnn/whatever jumps on it in MSM...... next thing you know the evil liberals are ready to begin their huge communist conspiracy to overthrow their trailerpark/mcmansion.

Or make their kids worship Mao or something...it's funny though, I am glad I don't have a tv -What I see some people in here come up it really makes me laugh how twisted things get once they hit tv zombies.
It's like the whisper into your friends ear and tell next person what you heard. except the right wing people unabashedly twist what they hear into really spiteful things and gleefully pass it on.

 

[Gaard]

Originally posted by: ntdz
Can you name a cables news network more liberal than CNN? Ok then...its the most liberal...

This argument is about as stupid as the one you gave in the "sh!t*eating cockroach from outerspace" thread.

You have two cars...a white one and a black one. Is the black one more red than the white one? No? Then the white one is the most red. See how dumb that is?

DO YOU GET THAT?

 

[Sysbuilder05]

I watch CNN, and I'm just not seeing that kind of biased news coverage. Am I just to close to the left that I'm not seeing it?

No,its not as a 2 X 4 in the face, blantly RW like FOX is but its still nothing like when Ted Turner owned it. Back then they reported the news,all the news and let the chips fall where they may.

Now they report most of the news and then quickly switch to Leslie "wolf" Blitzer or Judy Woodruff for their RW take on that story.

CNN--aka "Chicken Noodle News" was one of the biggest news whores EVER when the invasion of Iraq took place. Never questioned SH*T about Bush,never questioned report after report that their were NO WMD. Nah...way to many advertising $$$$ to be had when "shock and awe" was going down,never mind our kids were getting killed for this profit building scheme.

 

[imported_Condor]

CNN's bias varies from administration. They seem to be aware of the direction of the wind and modify programming based on that. They were very biased before the election and have moved toward neutrality since. The bias is still there, but you see different bylines now. My issue with CNN is that it takes all day to watch a simple newscast. With all the commercials and the fragmentation of the news. They will drop hints at a story, and then cover some of it, with the rest to be later in the day. The ticker at the bottom of the screen is dumb. Why don't they spend less time repeating a few stories and spend more time doing all the news. Fox does the same thing, by the way. Actually, in it's rebirthed state, I think CNN is slightly less biased.