CNN fades in prime-time picture (Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™)

Politico.com ^ | May 30, 2009 | Michael Calderone

[Milhous]

Thanks for the bias research reminder. ;) Here's one such study.

A Measure of Media Bias (research shows Drudge/Fox centrist, NYT far liberal)

Academia released other similar studies over the years. One study ranked Fox as the most Christian hostile network despite its perceived conservative bias.

[carmody]

He wrote a lot of words and yet barely mentioned Fox. CNN apparently only aspires to beat MSNBC. Catching up with FOX is not even on the radar screen. Because to do that they’d have to drop the pretense of being fair and offer programs American’s want to see. But they don’t because they are too in love with their own ideology. And what’s it to Politico if CNN goes down the drain? Why would non-partisan journalists care which cable networks are winning the ratings games?

[abb]

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124363359881267523.html
On the Street and On Facebook: The Homeless Stay Wired
Mr. Pitts Lacks a Mailing Address But He’s Got a Computer and a Web Forum

http://www.borrellassociates.com:8080/wordpress/2009/05/29/are-we-nuts/
Are we NUTS?

http://www.thepomoblog.com/archive/the-naas-secret-meeting/
The NAA’s secret meeting

[Nuc1]

Thank you so much for the VERY ENLIGHTING LINK. All FReepers should read this. Indeed all Americans should.

NUC 1

[cajungirl]

You could also say conservatives park themselves in front of tv an libs read or something similar.

I don’t think this answers the qkuestions. And fox is now a tabloid but it is right leaning from the news.

We lose because, In my opinion, we don’t make our case and we don’t own the education system which churns out indoctrinated kids. ANd I see alot of single issue people on FR,,I don’t know if that wins elections.

But still, fox is way above everything else,,it just stuns me. Perhaps the population is more conservative but for some reason doesn’t vote for republicans.

[abb]

http://www.search-marketing-answers.com/blog/2009/05/30/why-newspapers-need-to-fail/
Why Newspapers Need To Fail

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Olbermann makes Cooper look like Cronkite.

Not to burst your bubble or anything - but have you read anything by Cronkite since he retired?

[Milhous]

CiC, perhaps the spirit will move you to entertain carmody's rhetorical question:

And what’s it to Politico if CNN goes down the drain? Why would non-partisan journalists care which cable networks are winning the ratings games?

(A nebulous notion conflating baseball with football in the name of sports dances in milhous' mind.)

[abb]

I do have this one in my “to read” pile.

http://books.google.com/books?id=xN41yrOmXtIC
A reporter’s life
By Walter Cronkite

Currently, about halfway through this one.

http://books.google.com/books?id=uq3Emo7DDcMC&dq=deadline:+a+memoir
Deadline: a memoir
By James Reston

[abb]

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3ic0507728e66c92e3139a9270887596c2
May gloom for most showbiz stock prices

[Yardstick]

Oh yeah, Cronkite has outed himself as a big time lib. I’m referring more to his straight-shooter reputation.

[Tolsti2]

Has anyone seen those awful ads on cnn.com now? Flash ads that block the entire page. I hope they got paid well for them (not really) cause they’ll lose a lot of their audience if they keep that crap up.

[abb]

I can’t recall the last time I’ve clicked on cnn.com. I used to look at their financial site every once in a while, but they have nothing that I can’t find on yahoo biz or marketwatch.com

[Milhous]

A reporter’s life
By Walter Cronkite

Published by the Random House division of Bertelsmann, the biggest single producer of Nazi propaganda who substantially contributed to creating the phenomenon that has come to be known as "Obamamania".

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

And what’s it to Politico if CNN goes down the drain? Why would non-partisan journalists care which cable networks are winning the ratings games?

CiC, perhaps the spirit will move you to entertain carmody's rhetorical question?

Well, of course it is arrogant of anyone to claim that they are above being labeled. If you would be objective, the battle you must fight first is with your own self interest, which so easily can convince you that what is convenient for you is what is right for everyone else. The instant a journalist claims to be objective or non-partisan, he has at that moment surrendered to his own self interest without firing a shot and is entirely subjective.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

I must say that you have an impressive reading list, books in addition to all the articles you read and comment on here.

[BigSkyFreeper]

CNN middle of the road??? While CNN didn’t descend into the orgiastic Obama love fest exhibited by MSNBC, they were biased as hell in the 2008 elections.

They're still biased as hell whether CNN wants to admit it or not.  Their anchors don't report the news, they're pushing an agenda, just like they claim FNC and MSNBC are doing.

[wardaddy]

it’s about folks who watch news

blacks and latinos who vote dem don’t watch as much news and urban white libs are then split on CNN lite left and MSNBC hard left

and Fox being only sorta righty outlet has the whole righty audience

they all have babes now...but Fox has more...unbelievable...Diane Sawyer and Jessica Savage would be unemployed in today’s world

[BigSkyFreeper]

Oh yeah, Cronkite has outed himself as a big time lib. I’m referring more to his straight-shooter reputation.

He's never been a straight-shooter, even when he was doing those nightly anti-American anti-war rants of his during the Vietnam War.  He "reported" that the war had been lost and that our guys were murderers and killers of innocent men, women and children.  He held a nation hostage to his left-winged diatribes on a nightly basis because he was all there was for television news when he was anchoring the CBS Evening News.

[abb]

He's never been a straight-shooter, even when he was doing those nightly anti-American anti-war rants of his during the Vietnam War. He "reported" that the war had been lost and that our guys were murderers and killers of innocent men, women and children. He held a nation hostage to his left-winged diatribes on a nightly basis because he was all there was for television news when he was anchoring the CBS Evening News.

I believe you are right. The reason the Drive-By Media seems so lefty oriented today compared to forty years ago is that there was no alternative information source like talk radio or the internet back then. In other words, "And that's the way it is..." never really was.