CNN - Moving Toward the Middle

[xcullen]

Has any FREEPers noticed that CNN's web site is starting to tack to the middle? They have been relatively sane about the abuse "scandal" and are including some balance within their articles. MSNBC at the same time has lost its marbles.

[BykrBayb]

When I'm away from the computer or tv, the only "news" I can get is CNN on my cell phone. They seem to be getting more and more liberal. Or maybe I'm just becoming more observant.

[oceanview]

well since Fox News is moving leftwards towards the middle, maybe CNN will move to the right of them!

As it is now, I hardly watch FNC anymore. I get home too late to watch Brit Hume, I occassionaly watch an H&C segment when I like the guest, I don't like Chris Wallace on Sundays, etc.

[InterceptPoint]

I watch MSNBC

You the mean the good old 24/7 Prisoner Abuse Channel.

They are wearing me out with it and I'm sure they are either going to have to give it up or lose viewers. Based on the track record of most liberal media they will elect to lose customers in favor of pressing their agenda which is clearly anti-Bush - "Big Time".

[Victor]

Certainly not CNN International.

I was in Germany recently for a week, and the only English program on TV was CNN International. It was torture.

They must use every international Communist "journalist" they can dig up to constantly put down America and the Bush administration.Maybe they do.

[VisualizeSmallerGovernment]

I just visited the site to test your thesis. You can scour the entire front page without running into the words "Abu Grahib" or "torture" or "Rumsfeld resign".

I did learn that "Hollywood is HOT for Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 911." But that's the only headline that made me want to go Elvis on the computer screen.

On the politics page, I found that "despite" the way they are handling Iraq, Bush's Iraq team is largely intact. Rather than "because" of the way they are handling Iraq.

They also mention that the results of their new presidential preference poll are out. Since it's not blazing headlines, I assume it's not big news for Kerry.

In further news, I found out that Dennis Kucinich has no public events scheduled today. Apparently CNN thinks it's still a 4 man race, despite the fact that it's late May and Kerry has 100 TIMES as many delegates as Kucinich. In fact, Kucinich only has 23 more delegates than I do. (I'm currently tied with Carol Moseley Braun.)

[VisualizeSmallerGovernment]

I know one of the main managers of the web site... she did not seem to care one bit

To be fair, most web site managers are that way all the time about everything.

[longtermmemmory]

Desperation?

It may also be dependent on who is responsible for a particular story. I still ignore CNN.

Fox News Sunday has tanked to useless as a general rule.

[mrobison]

You're pretty new here.

Stay tuned. CNN isn't going to change its stripes.

[mewzilla]

Moving toward the middle?! Um, no. Not as of 5:30 am this morning at any rate.

[Chieftain]

Ahem... you forgot your meds this morning.

CNN is the DNC on cable!

[McGavin999]

They seem to be getting more and more liberal. Or maybe I'm just becoming more observant.

No, you're just becoming more informed. That's the death knell for the liberal media.

[eyespysomething]

I may flip on CNN in the morning from 5:30 to 6, because I just want to see if there were any overnight developments to take note of.

At 6 a.m. I flip over to Fox and Friends.

[brownsfan]

Slightly off topic, but did anyone happen to see CBS display a bit of a split personality yesterday morning?

I figured this isn't worthy of a vanity, since few here would watch CBS Sunday morning, but they had a commentary from Ben Stein. It was excellent. He blasted the media for it's fixation with Abu Ghraib, and ignoring other things, like the good being done, and the Nick Berg beheading. I wish I could find the transcript of it, it was really good.

And the next item on, after that?! Face the nation with more stuff on Abu Ghraib! It was ridiculous. As if CBS tolerated letting Mr. Stein have his time, and then moved on their merry way, making his point immediately. Wow.

[mewzilla]

Did you see the piece on so-called Lipstick Libs this morning? That was pretty bad, even for CNN.

[Rightly Biased]

Those that walk down the middle of the road have a yellow stripe up their back.

[texjan]

I had a similar experience while in Mexico. All I could get was CNN International & BBC. This was when the prisoner abuse thing was breaking. I was totally depressed until I got back home to FNC.

[eyespysomething]

I missed that. I can't imagine what it was about.

Lipstick? Libs? Lipstick libs? Hmmm...

[VisualizeSmallerGovernment]

I hope it was an audition. Andy Rooney is like 140 years old. Ben Stein is appealing to people that don't normally like Republicans. You see him on Craig Kilborne all the time and the audience loves him.

[ReignOfError]

Nope... when we found the IED with nearly a gallon of Ricin in it, the CNN website did not publish a single article about it... not one... zero... zilch.

It might help if you were looking for sarin rather than ricin.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/05/17/iraq.main/index.html

And this Free Repuplic thread: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1137210/posts Referring to the headline "Device found in Iraq with sarin gas."

It's only mention about it was deep in another article - a single sentence.

The article cited in the Free Republic thread above has ten paragraphs on the subject.

And, yes, most news outlets backed off the initial reports of sarin because field tests have high false positive rates. Consider:

My personal view is the way we ought to handle it -- although it's not for me to decide -- is to recognize that what you cited, I believe, was a field test, which is not perfect, and what we ought to do is to get the samples someplace where they can be tested very carefully before coming to a conclusion as to precisely what it was.

Then we have to be careful. We can't say something that's inaccurate. So what we have to then do is to try to track down and figure out how it might be there; what caused that to be there in this improvised explosive device, and what might it mean in terms of the risks to our forces, the risks to other people, and any other implication that one might draw. And that's going to take some time.

Who is this lefty apologist? SecDef Donald Rumsfeld, at a Pentagon briefing on May 17. http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/2004/tr20040517-secdef0782.html

[wardaddy]

MSNBC has been taken over by Richard Kaplan....Clinton's ex butt boy.