Example of CNN bias

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LG and others condemn Fox for being biased... which they are except for their straight news programs.

So... I was eating lunch today in a restaurant with CNN HLN on. This "straight news telecast" announced that Obama was meeting with Congressional reps again in an effort to reach a "balanced approach" to raising the debt limit. No explanation... just an attempt to leave the public with the impression that Obama was being the hero compromiser trying to pull the partisans together. They took their straight news right out of the WH talking points.

Of course it doesn't matter that Obama is the Partisan in Chief. He has demagogued GOP offerings and now the press is ready to let him get away with claiming to be the peacemaker?

It is exactly this kind of subtle language that makes MSM bias at once effective and destructive to the nation's dialogue. They should drop the pretense, acknowledge their liberal tilt, and say what they want to say... rather than dishonestly feigning objectivity.
 
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LG and others condemn Fox for being biased... which they are except for their straight news programs.

So... I was eating lunch today in a restaurant with CNN HLN on. This "straight news telecast" announced that Obama was meeting with Congressional reps again in an effort to reach a "balanced approach" to raising the debt limit. No explanation... just an attempt to leave the public with the impression that Obama was being the hero compromiser trying to pull the partisans together. They took their straight news right out of the WH talking points.

Of course it doesn't matter that Obama is the Partisan in Chief. He has demagogued GOP offerings and now the press is ready to let him get away with claiming to be the peacemaker?

It is exactly this kind of subtle language that makes MSM bias at once effective and destructive to the nation's dialogue. They should drop the pretense, acknowledge their liberal tilt, and say what they want to say... rather than dishonestly feigning objectivity.

Of the major news stations, I actually feel like CNN is the most unbiased (if that exists.) Fox is right, MSNBC is left, and CNN seems to be center-left.
 
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announced that Obama was meeting with Congressional reps again in an effort to reach a "balanced approach" to raising the debt limit.

Grammatically, that reads as though both the POTUS and the Congressional Reps (to include Republicans) are meeting in order to reach a "balanced approach" to raising the debt limit.

I fail to see the outrage.
 
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Grammatically, that reads as though both the POTUS and the Congressional Reps (to include Republicans) are meeting in order to reach a "balanced approach" to raising the debt limit.

I fail to see the outrage.

Agreed. 'Balanced approach' simply means tax hikes and spending cuts rather than a single approach. It is also the terminology the POTUS is using. That would make this simply reporting what the executive is calling it.

OP is looking to validate his preconceived opinion. One can find something to be outraged over anywhere if they look and nitpick hard enough.
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stupid pinkos...

Твоя мать, отец ваш, ваша сестра, ваш несуществующего ребенка. Я убью их всех.
 
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Твоя мать, отец ваш, ваша сестра, ваш несуществующего ребенка. Я убью их всех.

I concur...?
 
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Твоя мать, отец ваш, ваша сестра, ваш несуществующего ребенка. Я убью их всех.

Da? Nyet, maybe?
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Wait you are going to use HLN as your example? At least use the real CNN to trash CNN. HLN is more celeb news, Joy Behar, and Nancy Grace than anything of substance.
 
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Wait you are going to use HLN as your example? At least use the real CNN to trash CNN. HLN is more celeb news, Joy Behar, and Nancy Grace than anything of substance.

That's what they want you to think. It's a conspiracy. Must I add you to the commie heathen lib nazi bastage list?
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Come at me, comrade.

I bet CNN and HLN are hacking our phones, e-mails, and medical records as we speak. Oh, wait......

(Disclaimer: for those devoid of any hint of a sense of humor or appreciation for sarcasm- this was a joke. The degree of hilarity of said joke is certainly up to the reader. JayVols, LLC)
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Of the major news stations, I actually feel like CNN is the most unbiased (if that exists.) Fox is right, MSNBC is left, and CNN seems to be center-left.

You have to watch for talking point words and editing. They are far more subtle than MSNBC but not much less liberal if any. IIRC, they more than any other agency drove the daily body counts when Bush was in office... Those body counts seemed to become unnewsworthy when Obama was elected.
 
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Grammatically, that reads as though both the POTUS and the Congressional Reps (to include Republicans) are meeting in order to reach a "balanced approach" to raising the debt limit.

I fail to see the outrage.

The "outrage" is that "balanced approach" is the exact phrase the WH has been trying to use to muscle the GOP into accepting tax hikes. Their storyline might as well have been coordinated with the WH press secretary. If you use those kinds of phrases in coordination with the WH using them then you plant that phrase in the psyche of many as the "reasonable" approach. It isn't. Obama's proposal is about as left wing as everything else he's done.

The strategy is that the congressional Dems take a hard left approach, Obama takes the approach that they've actually agreed to go for, and try to make out like the GOP is at fault. They still get a liberal approach if successful that effectively runs over the GOP House... sort of like the budget agreement last year that supposedly had "real" cuts in it.
 
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Agreed. 'Balanced approach' simply means tax hikes and spending cuts rather than a single approach. It is also the terminology the POTUS is using. That would make this simply reporting what the executive is calling it.
Which is EXACTLY the problem. Any chance they would give a GOP President that kind of support? No. There isn't. They rejected Bush's language on various things out of hand.

If that is "simply" what they're doing then why didn't they also include GOP leaders' talking point language?

One time... this isn't much to talk about. As a pattern, it is the worst kind of biased reporting you can have.

OP is looking to validate his preconceived opinion. One can find something to be outraged over anywhere if they look and nitpick hard enough.
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You guys pretty easily sense that Fox is biased in the way they present and edit the news. You are very sensitive to it... Are you simply trying to validate your preconceived opinion? Why would you be surprised when a conservative/libertarian was likewise sensitive to liberal bias? We've been subjected to it for YEARS. Many of us know what it looks like and sounds like.
 
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I'm not terribly sensitive to Fox News' alleged bias. Used to listen to it all the time. The actual news portion usually led off with a somewhat conservative viewpoint, but gave an interpretation of the more liberal side of things afterward.

I think the politically entrenched are just whiny babies.
 
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I don't see it, either.

Why would you? You're a liberal. To you, "liberal" sounds normal. Of course you aren't the least bit concerned that CNN uses Obama's talking point language... you take his talking points as "truth" uncritically.

When you have increased the deficit like he has then propose $1 trillion in tax increases to begin right after his potential second term would start and $3 trillion in cuts to begin sometime around the time he would leave office or after... that hardly qualifies as "balanced". When you refuse to go after gov't payrolls and benefits... that is not a "balanced approach". When you spend the way he has then demand "balance"... you aren't going to sound credible to reasonable people.

And for that matter, they still aren't talking about real cuts. They're talking about lower increases.

There's no balance here he's simply trying to use this convenient "crisis" to get the tax increases he couldn't get before.
 

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