Posted on 07/19/2006 9:13:01 AM PDT by auzerais
Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?
By the way, it ain't sarcasm..
Some of us WENT to Sunday School. :o)
Now this is admitted a flawed sample, (holy city does not necessarily appear next to the city in question) but it still is a good start...
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Awww.cnn.com+%22holy+city%22+mecca
Results 1 - 10 of about 101 from www.cnn.com for "holy city" mecca. (0.28 seconds)
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=site%3Awww.cnn.com+%22holy+city%22+nazareth
Results 1 - 6 of about 8 from www.cnn.com for "holy city" nazareth. (0.29 seconds)
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=site%3Awww.cnn.com+%22holy+city%22+Bethlehem&btnG=Search
Results 1 - 6 of about 8 from www.cnn.com for "holy city" Bethlehem.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=site%3Awww.cnn.com+%22holy+city%22+jerusalem
Results 1 - 10 of about 70 from www.cnn.com for "holy city" jerusalem
On the other hand, I was just THRILLED the other day to hear FNC's Jennifer Griffin refer to a site as the place where "Jesus performed miracles". She didn't say "where it is believed" that He performed them, or that "it is said" that that's where, but she came right out and said "where Jesus performed miracles".
It was just such a wonderful change from the way most of the media refers to Him and His works. Go Jennifer!
Time Magazine has had a reporter embedded with Saddam's troops (he was with them when Saddam was captured) and that same reporter communicates with Al Qaeda.
PBS did a Frontline episode on The Insurgency (and it can be viewed online). This reporter was heavily consulted onscreen during that.
"On the other hand, I was just THRILLED the other day to hear FNC's Jennifer Griffin refer to a site as the place where "Jesus performed miracles".
I heard her say that, too, and it really struck me. I appreciated it.
Jennifer Grifin and Amy Kellogg are the best. They have paid their dues in filing directly from the Middle East with comprehensive and accurate reporting.
Christiane Amanpour on the other hand....hmmmm.
BTW Martin Fletcher (MSNBC?) seems to be very balanced so far in his reporting.
Communists are atheists, so how could CNN be different?
No one should be required to mouth prescribed adjectives to describe geographic places like Nazareth.
It really ought to be optional and never required...lest we fall into dogma and enforced worship.
As dreadful and callous as the MSM can be, we have no corresponding authority to force them to observe our biased and preferential descriptive terms and applelations.
Freedom of choice applies to speech as it surely does for religious preference.
"Can any good thing come out of CNN?"
That is because CNN is "The Crescent Network News"!
Their "holy" list starts with Havana....
Fair enough. That standard should be applied across the board. Instead, it is used when muslim "holy sites" are involved because it incites people.
Fertilizer?
Good Point.
God Bless her.
I lock out inappropriate content on my DISH receiver.
CNN is a repackaging outlet.
Their videos are dumbed down to the lowest common denominator for their global customers.
by keeping CNN stories "stupid" they can send teh same video and comentary to all the various CNN brands.
CNN is not an american news service. In fact, CNN could disappear and the leftist BBC could do the same job without skipping a beat.
Yeah, I heard that too, I was shocked, but pleased.
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