re: Who else has lost respect for CNN with their Ferguson coverage?

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Our starting point in news from our youth was always WAY LEFT LEANING

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Oh you mean the channel 1 that we require them to watch in schools?

When the police officer is cleared of this, these idiots won't have a damn thing to say about it.

They'll move on to another excuse for the thug that robbed a liquor store and tried to take this cops weapon and kill him. It'll be, well if the cop didn't stop the two black males, profiling, he wouldn't have been attacked in the first place...

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Oh, I'm conservative, but even I can see the slant Fox gives things, which is okay because I will mostly agree with them. Doesn't mean I don't see the slant. I will typically go back and forth between Fox and CNN when events like this happen, hoping I find the truth somewhere in there.

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No disrespect, buddy...but the very idea that "slant" is a bad thing...is ludicrous. As though in Hamas v Israel, Hamas/Islamists should be given a fair shake.

Or that a rogue individual - caught on tape committing a felony mere minutes from when he resisted LE and was shot - is somehow deserving of a 'non-slanted' reportage.

I could go 'deep', and posit the philosophical idea that the choice to serve Self (Evil, Devil, Polar Opposite, et al) as an Absolute Value...is *equal* to that of subservience/acquiescence to the Whole/God/Singularity/Allah, et al. And an individual's choice and sovereignty would be equal. But the consequences of the *equal* choices therein damn sure wouldn't be equal.

CNN is in the tank for Authoritarian Statism. And ironically...so am I. Just that we differ on the Power at the core of Authority. I'm down for Jesus...they go with Man.

I watched their "international news team" coverage last night on CNN (2 Australians) and it was very hackish. They essentially tried to equate the whole ordeal to murdering innocent protesters in the street. They even brought in a 40 year vet of the LAPD to find out why they were cracking down on protesters because of "a few bad eggs". His response was that there's no way to surgically segregate the ones in the crowd that are shooting at the cops, so their methods were the most appropriate to protect the general public as well as the police. They didn't expect that answer.

The little respect that i had for CNN is now gone. Out of all the networks, in my mind they were at least somewhere close to center/left, but after this joke of a news story coverage, im done with them. The blatant race baiting is beyond obvious. All of these networks need to look in the mirror. Is Al Jazeera any good? I cant even believe im asking that in America.

It is not just CNN. It is all major national news outlets. CNN isn't hyping the race angle because they are liberal, they are hyping it because that is the most salacious angle. They, like everyone else, want viewers/clicks/eyeballs.

If that means tarting up someone's death so be it. Riots and looting are just lagniappe.

It is fricking disgusting, but hardly unique to CNN.

We all saw it with Katrina. Tragic event with over 1000 dead; let's put a racial/political spin on it and blame Bush! That makes it more interesting to a national audience!

fricking vultures picking over corpses.

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Lost would imply that I had any respect for CNN in the first place.


Erin Burnett and Brooke Baldwin are both fine as hell though!

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Anybody who watches or reads any media outlet for unbiased, straight down the middle truth is going to be disappointed.

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FIFY.

It's important to have a healthy distrust of the media and their marriage to politics. This case has turned into a media frenzy. Who stands to gain from something like that?

I haven't lost respect for CNN because I never had any to begin with.