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People should be free to choose what is best for themselves as long as they do not infringe on the rights of others to do the same. I created this blog to discuss issues I have with big government, liberal media,and to talk about my support for capitalism and the Iraq War.
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I'm not sure what you're saying here. You're in favor of lies being reported as fact and never corrected?
Diatribe you are mistaken. Remember when 60 Minutes reported on those fake documents written by George Bush's commander regarding his performance while at the National Guard. CNN broke that story and they gave it significant coverage by placing it as a top headline for several days. Okay well CNN didn’t actually break the story, in fact it was conservative bloggers, but since it placed Bush in an unflattering light I’m positive the editorial staff felt compelled to verify the veracity of those documents. Also, now that I’m thinking about it, when that story did break it was never a front page story at CNN. Nevertheless, the debunking of a questionable story about a republican presidential candidate two months before the election receiving scant coverage from CNN is practically the same thing as front page Headlines for the debunking of a questionable story of a hopeful democratic presidential candidate two years before the election.
I suspect Diatribe was simply noting the parity in CNN’s coverage of the two stories.
Darwin - I cannot remember seeing CNN doing investigative journalism to clear the reputation of a political candidate. Usually stories are said as fact and if it ever is found out by some other media source as wrong it either does not get mentioned or there is slight blip on the screen.
I.E. Anderson Cooper reporting on all the deaths and rapes inside the Superdome - that was top story FOREVER. If he did retract it - I never saw it. I am guessing he did but he did not make a big deal out of it. But Obama - hell this is a top story that they found THE TRUTH about the candidate.
Can you not see the discrepancy, the bias?
I see what you're trying to say, but the media has been reporting lies about democratic candidates for ever (re: John McCain's illegitimate black child, Al Gore claiming to have invented the internet, John Kerry's flip-flopping vote record etc) and have never made a point of correcting them before. Since this is the first time I've seen ANYTHING fact-checked in a serious, front-page way, there's no pattern of bias to point at.
Check out this story in the NY Times that talks about the sparring between Fox and CNN in regards to this story.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/24/us/politics/24obama.html
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