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[Symix]

>Take CNN off NOW!!!!!

Well - take off MSNBC too - today in the morning they called for anyone with an idea on how to stop Arnold to call in, with a promise to immediately broadcast it.

[FreeAtlanta]

Add Hospitals to your list. Nothing worse than being laid up in a hospital with CNN as your only news source. Also, stinks for your visitors.

[Lexington Green]

Spin me - Spin me
Twist the news
And CNN me

[jmaroneps37]

Just think how small cnn's numbers really are, when you take out "institutional subscriptions" post office airports cruise ships airplanes et al. Its like Ford "sells" Taurus cars to rental fleets for next to nothing so they can advertise them as "the biggest selling car in America or the world (whatever?)" Whenever people are given a choice they pick FOX. Sorry Larry.

[Vets_Husband_and_Wife]

Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 11:46 AM
Subject: The Kinzey Report (on CNN)


Bert Kinzey is a former Army officer who became an expert in military aviation and has authored literally dozens* of books, principally aimed at the aviation enthusiast and scale modeler, and that are definitely apolitical. However, with his research efforts on military subjects he has gained a wealth of contacts within the U.S. military, and is one of the premier authorities on military subjects in this country.

Please read what Bert has to say about CNN.

(* If you don't believe the "dozens of books", check for his titles among the authors at just about any book seller. For example, Amazon.com currently lists him as author of 95 available titles.
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Subject: The Kinzey Report

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Hello, Everyone,

As many of you know, although some do not, I wrote a book about the Gulf War shortly after it ended in 1991. It was published by McGraw Hill, and was titled, "The Fury of Desert Storm, the Air Campaign." While that book's primary focus was on the air war, much of it also addressed the news coverage of the war. I pointed out how there were two big losers during that war; Iraq and the news media.

Both the news media and Iraq had many things in common, one of which was that they brought their problems on themselves. I explained how the news media, particularly CNN, inaccurately reported the war, misstating the facts, and in many cases deliberately telling outright lies. I dedicated an entire chapter to a dishonest CNN report about the B-1 bomber and evaluated its inaccuracies line by line. I illustrated that the report was full of lies, and these were about clearly established facts and not about someone's opinion. I spoke in person to the people in the Pentagon that CNN had been interviewed and filmed for that report, and they told me how CNN edited what they said to make it seem like they were saying exactly the opposite of what they actually said. I spoke with CNN's people here in Atlanta and at the Pentagon, including Wolf Blitzer, and he admitted he knew nothing about the military. A CNN employee in Atlanta admitted to me that they did not care if they got their reporting accurate. They only wanted to get it on the air first and in the most dramatic manner possible. Their primary purpose was to make money by selling ad space, not reporting the news. The story goes on and on.

Unfortunately, twelve years later, the situation has not improved at CNN. I have watched them as well as other news sources recently, and their lies and inaccuracies are even more common than they were in 1991. Their bias is also beyond belief. They are showing almost exclusively an anti-war stance by people who are so delusional that they believe that peace is merely the absence of war. While everyone, including news organizations, has their own bias, it is neither professional nor honest to concentrate almost exclusively on one side of an issue, particularly one so important as this. To do so presents an inaccurate and dishonest view of what is actually happening, and this does not allow viewers to form informed and valid opinions.

For example, CNN concentrates almost exclusively on those few nations that are against us in this effort and makes almost no mention of the many more that are supporting us. They ignore and do not report on our success in Afghanistan where we have returned women to classrooms and professional occupations and where people are returning to that country with expectations for a bring future free of terror, all thanks to America. Before we drove out the Taliban, people were fleeing Afghanistan.

CNN also makes the viewer believe that those who protest the war are in far greater numbers than those who are supporting it. This is clearly not the case, and even CNN's own surveys show that 66-percent of Americans support military action to disarm Iraq. (ABC and FOX surveys place that percent in the upper 70’s.) For example, this past Saturday, over 3,000 people turned out in Atlanta, the home of CNN, to support the war on a dreary and rainy day. At the same time, there was an anti-war rally in Atlanta that was attended by twenty-two, that's right TWENTY-TWO protesters. Anyone care to guess how CNN covered it? I recently heard the percentage of students that protested the war at universities across America, and in almost every case, it was less than one percent. That means that ninety-nine percent did not protest against the war, and in many cases the number gathering to support President Bush and our troops far exceed the number who protested against it. But who does CNN report? Clearly, all sides need to be presented in a balanced manner, and CNN skews their coverage extremely in one direction. In my view, their coverage with its inaccuracies, lies, distortions, and blame America first bias is nothing short of criminal.

CNN has seldom reported much about the continuing atrocities committed by Saddam Hussein throughout his time in power. Here is a man who has attacked his neighbor to the east and his neighbor to the southeast. Here is a man who has fired missiles at his neighbors to the southwest and the west. Hussein has gassed his own people and habitually tortures those that disagree with him. He has had the wives and children of dissidents brought in and tortured, raped, and killed those family members before their very eyes. Here is a man who would destroy oil wells and dams to create ecological disasters and kill the Iraqi people. On the other side of the coin are the Americans who will bring freedom from this oppression to the Iraqis, who will bring food and medicine to them, who will protect Iraq's infrastructure, and who will treat Iraqi prisoners who surrender in a humane way. But CNN makes America out to be the bad guy! How does that work?

If you are like me and believe that the freedom of the press carries with it an obligation to be accurate, fair, balanced, and honest, I ask you to do two things. First, please pass this e-mail on to everyone you know so that they may realize what CNN is doing. Second, I ask you to stop the lies, turn off CNN, and send them an e-mail that you are doing so. I ask you to look elsewhere for your news coverage. I find the FOX News Network, The News Hour on PBS, and MSNBC to be far more fair. Sure, there is some bias anywhere, but it is not so extreme nor calculated. On these networks I hear both sides about equally. I hear about France like I do on CNN, but I also hear about Japan and Australia as well as the many other countries that are backing us in so many ways. As of today, three countries in Europe are against us, and twenty-two have come out in support of us. Most of the twenty-two have never been mentioned on CNN, but representatives of France and Germany are on CNN almost hourly. So please take a look at several news choices and find one that is accurate, fair, and balanced. It is only that way that you will get an honest view of what is going on. I am not telling you which one to choose, I'm only asking you to turn off CNN.

It is not in my present plans to write another book for the general public on this war. But that may change. I am so sickened by the reporting of CNN that I may just do so. If I do, I will not focus on the air war this time. Instead I will simply state the facts that clearly prove that CNN is lying and distorting the news about our country, our leaders, and our military.

Finally, I would like to remind you to do a third thing. As most of you know, I have a son who is a Navy pilot and who has been flying missions in the Middle East since last November. So, as the father of one of our deployed military personnel, and as a former Army officer myself, I ask all of you to remember our troops, support them, and pray for them even more than you usually do in these critical days ahead. I know many of you also have family members or friends who are over there ready to do their jobs in support of our country. It is those troops who keep us free, and who are ready to lay down their lives to protect our country. It is not the movie stars nor the news reporters that have ever protected us.

For those of you who pass this on to your friends, I thank you for your help in spreading the word about CNN.

God bless America,

Bert Kinzey Charles

Editor's note: If you haven't discovered the Fox News Network, you're missing the boat. They earn their "fair and balanced" motto.

[July 4th]

With regards to CNN being played in airports, those TVs are or were part of the CNN Airport Network. Some just play regular CNN, because as air travelers know, CNN Airport Network is a real piece of crap. Anyhow, I think there would be an issue changing those TVs to another station as CNN paid for them to be installed in the airports. The only way you're going to get FOX on is if you have an airport where they installed their own system, and an airport director who like FOX News.

[Redbob]

Or you could have gotten up and walked away.

Could there be any more telling commentary on CNN than a screen with no watchers?

[beckett]

I had a similar experience in a hospital waiting room recently. The TV was blaring CNN so loudly I was unable to read, and literally every newsbite I heard was egregiously biased leftward. I finally couldn't take it anymore and found a chair in a hall where I could sit and read in peace.

But as I left the waiting room I looked around at some two dozen people just sitting there, placidly letting those biased words wash over them, oblivious, apparently, to the way the days events were being spun by the political activists at CNN. It was one of those despair-for-humanity moments.

[The South Texan]

CNN is to American Liberals to what Pravda was to the Soviets.

[YaYa123]

I will never make hotel reservations without asking if they have FOXNews. But getting airports to give up CNN before there is a replacement? I don't think so.

I found this:

"CNN Airport Network is the only live, satellite-delivered television service that provides up-to-the-minute news, information and entertainment to the traveling public. Launched in 1992, our service is now offered in 39 of the nation's busiest airports, covering more than 1,775 gates and other viewing areas. Our success is based on our excellence in programming, our technical expertise, our response to passenger, airport and airline needs and our familiarity to travelers in the airport environment. "

[Copernicus]

Posted to *CCRM

[talleyman]

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[sauropod]

You know, I have wondered about this for some time. Also consider that USAToday is the newspaper found all over the country in airports and hotels.

I was thinking about putting up a vanity about this, where conservatives need to get TV and print media all over the place the same way that Gannett and the Commie News Network does.

Glad to see you have done so already.

[GOPJ]

Thanks.