“They are biased from the get go.”
Of course they have an agenda, that doesn’t change the fact CNN’s reporting of Iraq has been far better then most news networks like NBC or CBS.
“They are biased from the get go.”.... DWCOf course they have an agenda, that doesn’t change the fact CNN’s reporting of Iraq has been far better then most news networks like NBC or CBS. .... ASC2006
You mean CNN is now "better" as in: CNN is no longer telling it's Baghdad correpondents to read Saddam Hussein's talking points verbatim on live CNN coverage in order to be rewarded with favors from Saddam Hussein's regime?
Some of the most damning evidence against CNN comes from a Washington Times op-ed by Peter Collins ("Corruption at CNN - April 15, 2003 - http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20030415-91009640.htm). Collins briefly worked for the network in Baghdad and sat in on talks involving executives Eason Jordan and Tom Johnson, who were trying to negotiate an exclusive interview with Saddam Hussein: ..... "The day after one such meeting, I was on the roof of the Ministry of Information, preparing for my first 'live shot' on CNN. A producer came up and handed me a sheet of paper with handwritten notes. 'Tom Johnson wants you to read this on camera,' he said. I glanced at the paper. It was an item-by-item summary of points made by Information Minister Latif Jassim in an interview that morning with Mr. Johnson and Mr. Jordan. ..... "The list was so long that there was no time during the live shot to provide context. I read the information minister's points verbatim. Moments later, I was downstairs in the newsroom on the first floor of the Information Ministry. Mr. Johnson approached, having seen my performance on a TV monitor. 'You were a bit flat there, Peter,' he said. Again, I was astonished. The president of CNN was telling me I seemed less-than-enthusiastic reading Saddam Hussein's propaganda."
Maybe the U.S. Government has learned that CNN is and always has been for sale like a cheap whore and is now paying the whore like Saddam Hussein once paid the whore.
Maybe NBC or CBS have an anti-American political agenda that is not for sale.
So which is "better"?
The traitors or the whore?