Why do people claim that CNN is not left bias?

Question

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/television/2002643642_cheney24.html

kylec.... if you know anything about computers, you CAN NOT have a computer glitch that produces a quick flashing "x" over someone as such. Well, maybe if CNN defined glitch as intentional, i would believe them

Answer 1

Because it isn't

Answer 2

All Network Media in America is controlled by billionaires.

Look at the historic involvement of the Skull&Bones in media They were publishing both commie and anti commie news. It's all about control; just like with seriel killers

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Luce

Go big Red Go

Answer 3

What's so "liberal" about reporters like Lou Dobbs? He's tried for years to show how the Fed Gov't is failing in protecting our borders. What else do you think is so "liberal" about CNN? Maybe you should give some more specifics, or maybe you're just confusing the general "anti-Bush" sentiment of the nation for "liberal" media.

Answer 4

I guess a computer glitch makes you left bias. Who knew?

Answer 5

If a technical glitch causing an "x" to appear on Cheney's face during a speech is the best evidence you have of bias on the part of CNN, then your case is quite weak.

Now if you want a clear case of media bias, look no further than FOX News.

http://www.oreilly-sucks.com/specificbias.htm

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1072

"Perhaps the most reliable method of gauging an outlet's perspective is to study its sources. If Fox News Channel is the bastion of balance that it claims to be, then its pool of guests should reflect a full spectrum of debate, from left to right, and neither major party should dominate over the other.

To test Fox's guest list, FAIR studied 19 weeks of Special Report with Brit Hume (1/1/01-5/11/01), which Fox calls its signature political news show looking specifically at the show's daily one-on-one newsmaker interviews conducted by the show's anchor. The interview segment is a central part of the newscast; Hume often uses his high-profile guests' comments as subject matter for the show's wrap-up panel discussion...

...The numbers show an overwhelming slant on Fox towards both Republicans and conservatives. Of the 56 partisan guests on Special Report between January and May, 50 were Republicans and six were Democrats -- a greater than 8 to 1 imbalance. In other words, 89 percent of guests with a party affiliation were Republicans.

On Special Report, 65 of the 92 guests (71 percent) were avowed conservatives--that is, conservatives outnumbered representatives of all other points of view, including non-political guests, by a factor of more than 2 to 1. While FAIR did not break down the non-conservative guests by ideology, there were few avowed liberals or progressives among the small non-conservative minority; instead, there was a heavy emphasis on centrist and center-right pundits (David Gergen, Norman Ornstein, Lou Dobbs) and politicians (Sen. John Breaux, Sen. Bob Graham, Rep. Christopher Shays).

As a comparison, FAIR also studied the one-on-one newsmaker interviews on CNN's Wolf Blitzer Reports over the same time period, and found a modest but significant tilt towards Republicans, and a disproportionate minority of guests who were conservatives--but in both cases, there was far more balance than was found on Special Report.

Of Blitzer's 67 partisan guests, 38 were Republicans and 29 were Democrats -- a 57 percent to 43 percent split in favor of Republicans. Thirty-five out of 109 guests (32 percent) were avowed conservatives, with the remaining 68 percent divided up among the rest of the political spectrum, from center-right to left."

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1067

"Former CBS producer Don Dahler resigned from Fox after executive John Moody ordered him to change a story to play down statistics showing a lack of social progress among blacks. (Moody says the change was journalistically justified--New York, 11/17/97.) According to the Columbia Journalism Review (3-4/98), "several" former Fox employees "complained of 'management sticking their fingers' in the writing and editing of stories to cook the facts to make a story more palatable to right-of-center tastes." Said one: "I've worked at a lot of news organizations and never found that kind of manipulation."

Jed Duvall, a former veteran ABC reporter who left Fox after a year, told New York (11/17/97): "I'll never forget the morning that one producer came up to me, and, rubbing her hands like Uriah Heep, said, 'Let's have something on Whitewater today.' That sort of thing doesn't happen at a professional news organization." Indeed, Fox's signature political news show, Special Report with Brit Hume, was originally created as a daily one-hour update devoted to the 1998 Clinton sex scandal. "

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/steinreich8.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News_Channel_controversies_and_allegations_of_bias


Does CNN have a left-leaning bias? Perhaps, but they are FAR from the worst offenders.

Answer 6

What is Cheney's approval at now? 12% or something? Odds are against him, but go ahead and play the left/right game.

Answer 7

Was CNN biased when they caught Clinton cursing out an aid years ago?

Grow up!

Answer 8

They don't know what they are talking about. All news outlets have some bias. CNN happens to have a slightly liberal bias. MSNBC happens to have a strongly liberal bias and FOX happens to have a fairly conservative bias.

Answer 9

not argueing with yea, because it is. Just the same as Fox is bias to the right

Answer 10

theyre blind. CNN is biased towards the left. Ever since the war with lebanon i haven't watched them as much as I used to. Esp. Wolf B.

Answer 11

CNN is a moderate news source versus say FoxNews (right-wing) or Air America (leftWing), see, a "fair and balanced" answer.