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Originally posted by aways
If CNN et al. were interested in "ratings" rather than their liberal agenda, they'd follow FOX's lead and put on some conservatives for balance, but they don't.
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Yes, you'd think they would, but that'd only be in the case if FOX had a great sitcom and CNN was looking for a similar formula for similar ratings.
It'd also be true if CNN at all considered who won the last election and realized that for the next four years, the U.S. will be a moderate to conservative country - at least if the election results have anything to state about the political atmosphere of the U.S.
The problem with the news media is their vitriol. Turner
hates conservatives, and born-agains. He hates all things religious, actually. He also hates ex-wife Jane Fonda - which is the only position on which he and conservatives agree.
And, as a meglamaniac with a few billion dollars at his exposure, CNN was firstly set up as a cable alternative to staid "conservative" news. The 24-hour news network stuff came along a little bit later.
Now, even with Turner gone from CNN, Turner still holds legacy. His deputies - editors, managing editors, reporters and such, were carefully chosen by him. Now unless the new head of CNN has fired them all, many of those people are still there, having a hand in news policy.
Prime example of CNN's bias - Katrina and the blame game. Hell, I bought into it, too - just as Lendaddy says others have.
But then you start fact checking and patiently waiting for more information to evolve, and before you know it, what one news source reports is truly not the entire "true" story...