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Posted on 03/04/2002 8:26:54 AM PST by crazyj

Edited on 05/26/2004 5:04:36 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

AFTER suffering another ratings plunge, CNN is desperately - and ridiculously - trying to blame a drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average on the rival Fox News Channel. On Wednesday, Fox reported exclusively that Special Operations units were on the ground in Iraq. A "crawl" below the screen reported the story and anchor John Scott talked about it. Unfortunately, Scott made a minor mistake when he initially said "Special Forces" were on the ground. (Special Operations are affiliated with the CIA, while Special Forces are under the command of the Pentagon.) But Scott immediately corrected his verbal error. Several minutes before Scott's slip-up, a report was released that stated consumer confidence was slipping - causing the DJIA to plunge. By the end of the day, it had dropped 140 points. But CNN's "Moneyline" show reported that the Dow had slipped on the Iraq news. And on Thursday morning - the day FNC posted higher ratings than CNN for the second month in a row - CNN anchors started crowing about the Fox "error," which they mistakenly claimed had sent the stock market reeling. Jack Cafferty, Paula Zahn's co-host on CNN's morning show, quipped: "I understand [Fox] may change the slogan from

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I feel somewhat bad for cnn that this is what they are resulting to. It is quite sad.
1 posted on 03/04/2002 8:26:54 AM PST by crazyj
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To: crazyj
Laughable.

(CNN must be following the same Liberal playbook that thought it was a good idea to blame a drop in the Yen on statements which Bush made. Utterly pathetic.)

2 posted on 03/04/2002 8:31:36 AM PST by PBRSTREETGANG
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I also heard that letterman might replace nightline. I am feeling for nbc. It seems as though all news departments are bleeding money except for fox that is
3 posted on 03/04/2002 8:31:55 AM PST by crazyj
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AFTER suffering another ratings plunge, CNN is desperately - and ridiculously - trying to blame a drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average on the rival Fox News Channel.

On Wednesday, Fox reported exclusively that Special Operations units were on the ground in Iraq. A "crawl" below the screen reported the story and anchor John Scott talked about it. Unfortunately, Scott made a minor mistake when he initially said "Special Forces" were on the ground. (Special Operations are affiliated with the CIA, while Special Forces are under the command of the Pentagon.) But Scott immediately corrected his verbal error.

Several minutes before Scott's slip-up, a report was released that stated consumer confidence was slipping - causing the DJIA to plunge. By the end of the day, it had dropped 140 points. But CNN's "Moneyline" show reported that the Dow had slipped on the Iraq news. And on Thursday morning - the day FNC posted higher ratings than CNN for the second month in a row - CNN anchors started crowing about the Fox "error," which they mistakenly claimed had sent the stock market reeling.

Jack Cafferty, Paula Zahn's co-host on CNN's morning show, quipped: "I understand [Fox] may change the slogan from ‘fair and balanced' to ‘fair and balanced but not necessarily very accurate.' " Later, Lou Dobbs warned: "It's always very important to get your news from the right sources." Even CNN's ad-sales department got into the act, with a memo to advertisers citing FNC's "false" report. "Tuesday morning's 150 point loss on the Dow is an example [of false reporting]," the memo stated. "It illustrates the lack of credible news gathering resources on the part of Fox News."

Fox News Channel executives were unconcerned abut CNN's attempt to discredit them. "This is just another pathetic attempt by CNN to try and cover up their flailing ratings," a rep said. Meanwhile, as CNN was decrying Fox on Thursday morning, the anchors of "Fox & Friends," E.D. Donahey and Steve Doocy, took turns gleefully announcing their higher ratings and taking some playful shots at their CNN counterparts.

When Donahey noted "Fox & Friends" had a 30 percent higher rating than Zahn's CNN show in the same time slot, Doocy quipped: "Wow! That's harsh . . . You figure when you hire ‘The Mole' [a mysterious nickname for Zahn], you ended up with ratings gold, but obviously that doesn't happen." Later, Doocy compared CNN's Aaron Brown to his dentist.

4 posted on 03/04/2002 8:31:57 AM PST by vbmoneyspender
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"I understand [Fox] may change the slogan from ‘fair and balanced' to ‘fair and balanced but not necessarily very accurate.' " Later, Lou Dobbs warned: "It's always very important to get your news from the right sources."

Oh that's rich, coming from the network that reported several weeks ago that Daniel Pearl had been killed when he was actually still alive.

5 posted on 03/04/2002 8:32:19 AM PST by jpl
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Don't feel bad. They deserve whatever they get and this stuff is much like the 'Rats in the desparation. BTW, welcome aboard to FreeRepublic. Do a search under "HTML Bootcamp" and you'll get some good formatting tips. Thanks for the post...
6 posted on 03/04/2002 8:33:36 AM PST by eureka!
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7 posted on 03/04/2002 8:35:10 AM PST by WIMom
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"Later, Doocy compared CNN's Aaron Brown to his dentist.

LOL!
There they go again, trying to give dentistry a bad name!

8 posted on 03/04/2002 8:36:30 AM PST by Redbob
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Anti-dentites!
9 posted on 03/04/2002 8:38:35 AM PST by doctor noe
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Oh that's rich, coming from the network that reported several weeks ago that Daniel Pearl had been killed when he was actually still alive.

Don't forget..

Richard Jewel, the so-called Atlanta Bomber

Tailwind, where they slandered Viet Vets

Clinton, who they propped up for years

10 posted on 03/04/2002 8:41:37 AM PST by TC Rider
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If you were paying attention you would see that this article was already posted. I do however agree that cnn is too liberal and at first i questioned greta but she brings interesting perspective to fox. As far as nbc though, what of them haha. Fox is definately worth watching especially e.d.
11 posted on 03/04/2002 8:48:29 AM PST by chillinvillain
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for real i for one thank all dentists god knows this would be an uglier planet without them.
12 posted on 03/04/2002 9:07:36 AM PST by chillinvillain
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Pay no attention to chillinvillain (reply # 11). You can do a topic search to see if an article has been previously posted--this saves bandwidth and reduces clutter, yadda yadda, but searches are NOT always accurate.

I, for one, had not seen this article until you posted it. Keep 'em coming and welcome aboard!

13 posted on 03/04/2002 9:24:13 AM PST by grellis
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I agree I’ve never understood the mentality of the searchite police. I guess their reasoning goes as follows 1) everybody spends 24 hours a day on FR so of course they should have seen the article OR 2) Although the search engine seems to fail to find the article in question it nonetheless is the posters fault. From a reader’s standpoint I can’t ever recall thinking to myself, “Lets see perhaps somebody posted an article I’ve never read or even heard of so I’ll search for said article, anyway.” I’ve NEVER been annoyed by multiple posting, but reading the search police posts reminds me of the DU forum posters (that is not a compliment).
14 posted on 03/04/2002 10:36:16 AM PST by gbaker
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To: chillinvillain
crazyj ... member since February 27th, 2002.

Give the guy a break ...

15 posted on 03/04/2002 10:47:48 AM PST by BluH2o
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to everyone actually. I like the post and I am just as new, I am sorry. For what its worth could i get a litle welcome also??? :)
16 posted on 03/04/2002 11:19:09 AM PST by chillinvillain
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I don't know, you owe some cheese.
17 posted on 03/04/2002 11:25:01 AM PST by Wrigley
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To: crazyj
Welcome.

BTW, the criticism (already posted) comes from the fluctuating ranks of the "post police". Don't worry about it.

It would be good, however to take note for future reference. IMO, this looks like the McAuliffe-ization of the media wars. Clinton's hacks were the best at fighting political battles using guerrilla tactics. Everything is fair game, every statement and move is to be contested.

Naturally, we should expect them to lash out. FOX has kicked their asses without question. And by doing what they say....balancing the news.

18 posted on 03/04/2002 11:32:28 AM PST by sayfer bullets
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Anti - dentites!!!

ROFLMAO!!!!!! "....Vaaaaargussssss!".

19 posted on 03/04/2002 11:36:25 AM PST by sayfer bullets
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To: BluH2o
chillinvillian, member since exactly the same day as crazyj. Who deserves the break here? Does this forum really need another nanny?
20 posted on 03/05/2002 6:31:34 AM PST by grellis
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