Posted on 11/24/2005 7:22:54 PM PST by Minus_The_Bear
The following is an update from Daily Pundit who has chronicled the UNBELIEVABLE behavior of CNN employees in the wake of the X/Cheney incident. A switch board operator who berated callers to CNN telling them "Bush and Cheney should stop lying" and that "Putting the X over Cheney's face was freedom of speach" has been fired by CNN. This has been confirmed! Visit this link to hear the tape.
I just got off the phone with Laurie Goldberg, Senior Vice President for Public Relations with CNN. Her statement confirms the authenticity of the tape recording and reveals the actions CNN took after learning of the incident:
"A Turner switchboard operator was fired today after we were alerted to a conversation the operator had with a caller in which the operator lost his temper and expressed his personal views -- behavior that was totally inappropriate. His comments did not reflect the views of CNN. We are reaching out to the caller and expressing our deep regret to her and apologizing that she did not get the courtesy entitled to her. "
#69 - Blurblogger, did you see this link??
Excellent, backhoe!
Thanks for the comments, and good with regards to influence in Germany.
I'd change it and tell the SOB that got upset about it, that you're sick and tired of having to watch anti-US anti-US Military related propanda in their waiting room!
Sorry to hear it bud. That would certainly be a downer for me.
People in this country need to be educated on what freedom of speech really means. It means not being JAILED for your speech, not that there are no consequences!!!!
I beg to differ. Revenue and influence have driven the "partnership" from the beginning. From Variety, December 18th, 1992: According to Mark Rudolph, managing director of CNN Intl. Sales Ltd., the deal provides for the sharing of news-gathering efforts and costs, as well as for transponder space on Astra 1B. CNN currently holds the satellite spot, and will eventually turn it over to N-tv....
N-tv could benefit by building a new German web from scratch. CNN's London-based VP/managing editor Eason Jordon called the deal "a natural alliance: a moneymaker and a money-saver for us both." Mark Rudolph and Eason Jordan are not known to be some half-witted deal makers.
N-tv's shares have now been reshuffled: in addition to CNN's 27.5% stake, Time-Warner now has 19.61%; the East German Investment Trust 19.48%; CEO Karl-Ulrich Kuhlo has 8.01%, the Rothschild Group's La Savoisienne division 6.77 %, three members of the Nixdorf family hold 4.28% each; investment group Com 2i, 4.14%; and small investors the remaining 1.66%.
CNN will now occupy two as-yet unfilled seats on N-tv's board. Formal approval by German media authorities is pending, but no problems with the greenlightgreenlight are anticipated.
Cost-sharing in foreign media IS a money maker. This was not small potatoes.
If I was the switchboard operator I would sue CNN. It seems to me that the on-air "talent" is allowed to express their personal political opinions on a daily basis. She was doing the same thing as any other CNN employee.
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MUST-SEE CNN information, see post #69
AWESOME work, Backhoe!
Thanks for the ping, Bitt!
CNN television's Air America.
Thanks for you pings. :o)
I am fairly certain it was not a hoax but real.
The political position and hostile/passive-aggressive tone of the anonymous male CNN representative/whatever is exactly what we might reasonably expect from CNN, trying to invoke First Amendment rights as the Fourth Estate... a complex argument, if deliberate.
I consider CNN guilty until proven innocent on this.
If it is NOT a hoax:
Do we really KNOW anybody was fired?
Do we really KNOW it was a a switchboard operator on that call?
CNN SAYS an anonymous head rolled. Riiiiiiiiight.
Of course we don't know if they fired anybody. It's that they ADMITTED the tape is legit!!!
Don't watch; of course lots of people are doing just that (check the ratings).
Suppose (shudder) Hillary is elected in '08, and Barack
Obama is her veep. Would Fox News put an X over his face
during a speech?
That is a thing that must never be allowed to happen. Think about it. The Clintons in the White House for a combined 16 years. Imagine the damage to this country. It must never happen.
>>One day cnn may become a creditable news source
CNN calls itself "the most trusted name in news". That's about as true as the "fake, but accurate!" Rather-gate memos!
Invest in Reynolds. It's more lucrative, given your predeliction for tin foil.
Just damn.
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I'm assuming it was a hoax.
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