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CNN president defends network as 'nonpartisan'
Forbes.com ^ | 04-14-2010 | DAVID BAUDER

Posted on 04/14/2010 4:59:09 AM PDT by HogsBreath

CNN said that it's in a "category of one" among television news networks in how it delivers non-biased news, and promised to continue emphasizing its journalism despite a ratings free-fall on its flagship network.

The network's sales pitch to advertisers on Tuesday came two weeks after the Nielsen Co. revealed that CNN's weekday prime-time viewership during the first three months of the year was down 42 percent from 2009.

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Dino-media alet. They really, really don't get it.
1 posted on 04/14/2010 4:59:09 AM PDT by HogsBreath
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To: HogsBreath

Ironic that it considers itself a “category of one” when it’s viewership is on an asymptotic curve towards an “audience of one”.


2 posted on 04/14/2010 5:00:32 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: HogsBreath

CNN may be “non-partisan” in this clown’s eyes, but it’s also “non-factual”.


3 posted on 04/14/2010 5:01:21 AM PDT by MortMan (It's unconstitutional, it's wrong, and it's evil. But that's Obama in a nutshell.)
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To: HogsBreath

So . . . .

CNN has forsaken leaders with any brains at all? Or do they get lobotomies upon acceptance of their positions?

Or are they just terminal liars?


4 posted on 04/14/2010 5:01:21 AM PDT by Quix (BLOKES who got us where we R: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: HogsBreath

CNN is biased garbage.


5 posted on 04/14/2010 5:01:57 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (Just say NO to RINOs. (FUBO))
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To: HogsBreath

They, like all leftists, can lie with a straight face and without compunction.


6 posted on 04/14/2010 5:03:40 AM PDT by mike-zed
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To: HogsBreath

ROTFL! Those jokers at CNN are some funny guys. “Nonpartisan”. Now that’s funny.


7 posted on 04/14/2010 5:04:27 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Dude! Where's my Constitution!)
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To: HogsBreath

CNN is in the ‘category for the one’.


8 posted on 04/14/2010 5:05:25 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: HogsBreath

Oh, on CNN everyone is treated the same and without any bias, as long as you fit one of their templates:
Marxist, Socialist, Fascist, Communist, or American Democrat.


9 posted on 04/14/2010 5:07:12 AM PDT by AlexW (Now in the Philippines . Happy not to be back in the USA for now.)
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To: HogsBreath

CNN has become unwatchable.


10 posted on 04/14/2010 5:07:56 AM PDT by screaminsunshine (i)
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Here is MA I know a number of people who embrace mainstream, middle-of-the-road positions. You know -- the positions that everyone agrees on, like:

abortion on demand, homosexual marriage, legalized drugs, amnesty for illegal aliens, single payer health insurance, higher taxes, and banning of all fossil fuels.

Just traditional American values, like those promoted by CNN.

11 posted on 04/14/2010 5:09:21 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Here are just two of the fair minded cnn pundits.


12 posted on 04/14/2010 5:09:32 AM PDT by USS Alaska (Nuke the terrorist savages - In Honor of Standing Wolf)
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CNN said that it's in a "category of one" among television news networks in how it delivers non-biased news

You know, I was going to simply reply with "Bwaa ha ha" but... This is such an outrageous lie it has passed through insulting and funny to just plain sad.

Sad? Yes, sad. It is a sorry state of affairs that this business is apparently so out of touch with its market that it doesn't even see how it is regarded in that market.

I'm sure they see the writing on the wall - declining business (in this case viewership) - yet the controlling powers that be at CNN apparently refuse to acknowledge the causes for the decline. By not addressing them CNN, like any other business, is bound to fail. Maybe it is because they are so left-biased. That is, they are so anti-capitalist that their political bent has finally bled over into the running of their business, not just the "stuff" they shovel at the public. If that is the case, then they are doomed. Personal likes and dislikes are one thing, but as they say "business is business." Apparently CNN is going to ignore this time-tested adage at their own peril.

However, given their worthless, actually harmfully socialist bias, their fading away is a good thing for the Country and the industry.

13 posted on 04/14/2010 5:10:04 AM PDT by ThunderSleeps (obama out now! I'll keep my money, my guns, and my freedom - you can keep the change.)
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To: HogsBreath

He represents the insight and perspective that have made CNN the loser it is today.


14 posted on 04/14/2010 5:13:24 AM PDT by madinmadtown
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You know, what’s really unsettling about this is- he’s sincere. He honestly doesn’t GET how biased is CNN’s point of view. It’s becoming clear many educated people have lost the ability- or never had the ability, to T H I N K.


15 posted on 04/14/2010 5:14:01 AM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: samtheman

Amen, to “viewer of one”. That is what he means: the one viewer they have says they are non-partisan so in their survey, 100% of their viewers say they are non-partisan.


16 posted on 04/14/2010 5:14:32 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard
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To: HogsBreath

I agree that CNN still does not get it. This is the best news I have read this morning.

Keep doing what you are doing CNN!!!!!!


17 posted on 04/14/2010 5:14:43 AM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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One...Two...Three...HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!


18 posted on 04/14/2010 5:22:41 AM PDT by ontap
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Well, they probably are...compared to MSNBC.


19 posted on 04/14/2010 5:23:01 AM PDT by Marathoner ("Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force" -George Washington)
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(CNN president defends network as ‘nonpartisan’)

The Clinton News Network unbiased?
How soon they forget!


20 posted on 04/14/2010 5:25:37 AM PDT by SECURE AMERICA
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