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Fundamentally ethical and reliable? Wow. It says a lot that Fox and OAN are your basis of comparison. Search CNN.com for Donziger and see how many results you
by mandmandam 5y ago
Fundamentally ethical and reliable? Wow. It says a lot that Fox and OAN are your basis of comparison.
Search CNN.com for Donziger and see how many results you get. I'll save you the effort; it's ZERO.
Here's a CNN page full of facts on the kids in border camps - https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2021/04/politics/biden-administration-border-crisis/ https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2021/04/politics/biden-a...
People will read that, and think to themselves, oh what an even handed tone. What a large number of facts, and nice graphic breakdowns. But the crucial context is missing - who is running those camps, and what are their contracts like? Those people are making money hand over fist, on the back of the misery of children in tin-foil blankets drinking water out of toilets.
Same with their "fast facts" section on Assange - an exercise in misinformation. The information might be "factual", but it's carefully selected to give a particular impression. Crucial information isn't there, such as the US' key witness admitting he gave false evidence, or Nils Melzer's observations.
Yes, a search for Nils Melzer yields TWO articles - compare to a search for 'Kardashian', which yields 1,700 hits. There are more stories about the Kardashian's shoe line than the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture.
A search for 'Chomsky' yields 7 result; none seem to be about him or his observations. Yes, SEVEN, the single digit number. 'Zizek' yields ONE (and 'Žižek 'yields zero).
'Snooki' yields 116.
That's not News bud; not any more than Fox. That's entertainment. If you want to learn about a fire in California there are hundreds of ways to do it, and they're probably mostly better than CNN.
- tootie 5y agoThat's basically all your personal biases on display. Chomsky is certainly not news. Nor do I expect them to cover absolutely everything. Like I said, I use multiple sources but even still my head can only hold so much and CNN only has a finite number of reporters. Like I also said they certainly have editorial bias because they have to choose what to cover given finite resources. The fact they miss some of these tiny stories is expected. That doesn't make them unethical or inaccurate.
- mandmandam 5y agoCNN is "fundamentally ethical and reliable", but I have my "personal biases" on display ... "Chomsky certainly isn't news"... "Tiny stories", like Donziger and Melzer. ... Wow. Well, enjoy following the news CNN choose to tell you, I guess. Those Kardashian shoe lines are much more news than anything Chomsky has to say for some people, and I guess you're one of them. lol