The LA Times: CNN = C_orrupt N_ews N_etwork

here's a major media news outlet taking a strong stand against our generally pathetic media's performance in what should be their solemn duty to help prepare u.s. citizens to be able to thoughtfully elect our next president and the abject failure to do so...

Tim Rutten:

Regarding Media

CNN: Corrupt News Network

A self-serving agenda was set for the Republican presidential debates.

December 1, 2007

THE United States is at war in the Middle East and Central Asia, the economy is writhing like a snake with a broken back, oil prices are relentlessly climbing toward $100 a barrel and an increasing number of Americans just can't afford to be sick with anything that won't be treated with aspirin and bed rest.

So, when CNN brought the Republican presidential candidates together this week for what is loosely termed a "debate," what did the country get but a discussion of immigration, Biblical inerrancy and the propriety of flying the Confederate flag?

In fact, this most recent debacle masquerading as a presidential debate raises serious questions about whether CNN is ethically or professionally suitable to play the political role the Democratic and Republican parties recently have conceded it.

Selecting a president is, more than ever, a life and death business, and a news organization that consciously injects itself into the process, as CNN did by hosting Wednesday's debate, incurs a special responsibility to conduct itself in a dispassionate and, most of all, disinterested fashion. When one considers CNN's performance, however, the adjectives that leap to mind are corrupt and incompetent.

toldja... fairly strong stuff but not at all out of line...

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