[Peacerose]

Citizens Coalition for Responsible Media (CCRM) is the Free Republic Network media bias chapter. You are invited to visit our web site at www.fairpress.org.

[Peacerose]

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[Paul Atreides]

Sounds like a graduate of the Bill Clinton school of narcicissm. Fitting that he should work for the Clinton News Network.

[TheGrimReaper]

What a self-absorbed sack of donkey droppings.
But... I bet his boss, Teddy Turner, loves him to death.

[zip]

Interesting. I love checking these out.So far you've been right on target. Keep it up..

[elbucko]

"An American citizen, Abdullah al Muhajir,..

Abdullah may not be a citizen any longer, Aaron. READ your passport. It does mention activities that may revoke ones US citizenship. Joining the al Quida is one. Aaron Brown does his research about as well as Robert Scheer.

[elbucko]

"But I'm also not especially interested in seeing the government deny citizens their most basic protection against governmental abuse."

Oh really, Aaron Brown! Did you FEEL the same way about Vicki Weaver at Ruby Ridge? Or was that just an FBI operation to prevent WHITE CHRISTIAN TERRORISTS from taking over the country as distinct from BROWN MUSLIM TERRORISTS that killed 3000 innocent people. What do the words contradictory and hypocrite mean to you, Brown?

[nd76]

When Aaron Brown worked for ABC News, it was he who broke into regularly scheduled ABC programming to give out the news that Deng Xiao Ping, Chicom dictator, had gone to the great people's republic in the sky. Brown's eyes glazed over with tears as he read the terrible news.

It seems appropriate that a low level commie munchkin like Aaron Brown now works for a low class atheistic commie, Ted Turner.

[brat]

BTTT

[The Raven]

Alan Keyes has a similar view

[RAT Patrol]

Peacerose, you are doing an outstanding job, as usual!

[rwfromkansas]

Anybody see the CBS Evening News last night? Reporter Bob Shieffer gave a one-sided story on parties raising soft money before CFR goes into effect. Shieffer showed stats of how much drug companies give to Republicans. He did not bother to show what Democrats are doing to raise soft money and did not care to show stats of groups that heavily support Democrats. This was disgusting.

[Deb]

Watching Aaron Brown is like watching a man have a nervous breakdown in slow motion.

It's also like watching re-runs of the Jack Paar Show on TV Land. I guess that's the same thing.

[Once-Ler]

I guess I'm not outraged.
I thought Browns points had already been discussed a lot, but they were less than inflamitory.
If this was the most egregious example of media bias this week then we did pretty good.

[Criminal Number 18F]

Citizens Coalition for Responsible Media is the Free Republic Network media bias chapter

Out-bloody-standing!! I didn't know we had such a beastie!

Now, on the subject of Mr Brown, of whom I have never heard (no cable, no TV, happy camper here). He makes a common error in discussing the "presumption of innocence." That is a judicial presumption. It doesn't mean that reasonable men and women have to pretend the creep is innocent. It means that when he gets his day in court -- and he will, although it might not be Mr Brown's idea of a perfect court -- the jurors or judges or tribunal members (the finders of fact) must start from a "clean slate" presumption of innocence. The prosecution is required to prove its case -- they must prove each element of each charge. If that is not done, Padilla or Al-Mujahir or Geraldo or whatever he wants to call himself by then, goes free.

So the presumption of innocence is something the courts work on. It is not what the police use in investigating cases -- hell, no. They presume the suspect is guilty as they work to find enough data to let the lawyers prove it. But one's entitlement to the presumption of innocence only goes as far as the courthouse door and the public media's expressions of fact.

Compare and contrast CNN's take on the guilt of various terrorist suspects, and CNN's take on the guilt of similarly accused gay priests. In this farm some of the animals are more equal than others.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[dennisw]

No wonder the Izzies dumped that loser CNN... the so called all news all the time station. Which freeper watches ego tripping hang dog interviewer LarryKing anymore? Talk about irrelevant and old and in the way. CNN has run out of gas.

[E.G.C.]

Here are some additional thoughts from me on Aaron Brown.

Someone on another thread gave the impression that Aaron brown is a reputable journalist and that he liked what he was doing. Well, good for him but the reality is not a whole lot of freepers share his admiration of Brown or think very highly of him.

I think it's obvious by what Peacerose and the MRC have researched on this subject and how Brown covered this issue. Progressive viewpoints are not neutral. Clearly Aaron brown has a major credibility problem just like all the other journalists at CNN.

Always check your sources before you believe anything they say.
Regards.