CNN’s Problem With The Facts (Cathryn Crawford)

Washington Dispatch ^ | September 23, 2003 | Cathryn Crawford

[StatesEnemy]

De nada... I had a somewhat fun time weeding out the chaff.

It still amazes me that CC is a 20year old (no offense but your contemporaries are mostly idiots)

[Cathryn Crawford]

Hey, I just turned twenty and I think history is cool.

[Cathryn Crawford]

I know it. I go to college with mostly idiots. Well, some idiots.

[hocndoc]

""I tried to work the phrase "Crappy News Network" into it - really, I did - but I couldn't get it. Dang.""

And that marks the difference between you and the CNN.

[teeman8r]

happy belated birthday...

[StatesEnemy]

You should give us a play by play of college life - I was there in the late 80's early 90's and it was nothing like what I've gathered of today's 'indoctrination'

[Fester Chugabrew]

". . . Tina Brown, the editor of Vanity Fair magazine."

Who TH are these people? Must be some kind of power brokers for liberal swill.

[hocndoc]

But,...
My latest ambition is to write for the Texas Monthly. If I can't, maybe you could!

[Cathryn Crawford]

It was in June.

[Cathryn Crawford]

Yeah...it seems boring on this end. I have liberal professors.

[Cathryn Crawford]

I want to get a master's in international relations.

[peteram]

CNN told lie after lie after lie.....about Saddam Hussein’s regime so that they could keep access to the country, despite the fact that their access did no good since they didn’t report the facts.

BINGO!

Perhaps what poor, persecuted Christiane and CNN are so upset about is that it is so much harder nowadays to make up facts and report them as truth, since there is decent competition in the cable news business, both from Fox News and MSNBC. Fact checking is no longer an afterthought; it’s a must unless you want to get called on it and then taken to the woodshed by your competitors.

DOUBLE-BINGO!

[Rocky]

My favorite line is:

"All of the entire body politic in my view, whether it's the administration, the intelligence, the journalists, whoever, did not ask enough questions, for instance, about weapons of mass destruction."

Yeah, we didn't hear hardly enough questions about WMD, did we?

[Fred Mertz]

Cat rocks! Nice essay about that leftist joke called CNN.

[GOPJ]

Thanks for the ping. This stuff's great:

Christiane forgot about the 12 years that Eason Jordan admitted that CNN was “self-censored” in Iraq. And, interestingly enough, Bill Clinton was the President during most of the time. Did Clinton intimidate CNN into not reporting what was really going on in Iraq during those years? Did Clinton tell them not to report about the raping, torturing, and pillaging that Saddam was doing daily?

[JacksonCalhoun]

bump

[hocndoc]

""I want to get a master's in international relations.""

Oh, yeah, take the easy way out.;)

You are one of the ones that really can do anything you want to do. Go for it!

[Sparta]

Is CNN the same network that had psycho boy General Strangelove Clark pontificating about how it would take six months to capture Baghdad?

[Robert A Cook PE]

They ARE trying to shutdown the "real news" reporting that is going on...

FR and talk radio and Fox are hate-speech don't ya know.

[Robert A Cook PE]

"Christiane is not unusual really. Most so-called "journalists" find it difficult to distinguish fantasy from reality.

Hah.

Most LIBERALS find it difficult to distinguish fantasy from reality.

Thenational press corpse (and the print/TV media are firmly rooted inirrationality in NY/LA/WDC where they live, eat, sleep, breed , shop and talk and party with their own kind.

To the "intellectual elitist crowd" that IS reality.