CNN edits 800 words of Blix transcript to remove refutation of Powell's smoking gun

[Az]

Yes, and google is watching you.

[Boris Godunov]

I've been dismayed with CNN sinking to Fox levels of infotainment for a long time, but this just makes me furious. How a news organization can purport to have high standards and then go and do this is beyond me.

Looks like BBC is going to be more and more my definitive news source.

[JohnT]

As I noted, it is highly doubtful that this was a deliberate attempt by CNN to mislead anybody. OTOH, it is highly probable that this is a deliberate attempt to stir up controversy where none exists. Same thing is done by the people at the Media Research Center (who do the same thing, but on the conservative side).

[OmniDude]

JohnT, though I am appaled by the way the "Wolfowitz Cabal" apparently is running the show in Washington at the moment, I second your view.

Though I'm sure CNN as well as the Big 3 has a editorial bias in favor of the current administration, they KNOW that their every step is being carefully scrutinized by TBTM and others. Their speedy reposting of the full speech would rather indicate, that some web editor with right wing sympathies tried to pull a fast one on his own.

[Imran Siddiqui]

JohnT:

News people can make mistakes too, guys .

[OneFootInTheGrave]

so can liberal media too! (make mistakes)

[Dis]

I have trouble believing this. Maybe CNN isn't as liberal as I thought.

[Sprayber]

Can someone tell me how CNN can be both the leader of the liberal media and pro Bush Administration. The nuts on both sides are the real threat to America. Those who invest themselves in conspiracy theories of all sorts and always mutualy exclusively. Moderation has been lost in this country and some people on this board who automaticaly see conspiracy behind every turn contribute nothing to saving it. You will believe anything as long as it makes you feel you are right. When someone like John T presents a plauseable solution, it is ignored bucause it is not cool to believe that an organization simply made a mistake.

This goes for both sides. Left or right.

[Kramerman]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
I've been dismayed with CNN sinking to Fox levels of infotainment for a long time, but this just makes me furious. How a news organization can purport to have high standards and then go and do this is beyond me.

Looks like BBC is going to be more and more my definitive news source.

good for you... join us... the BBC devotees' ranks grow, day by day

[Kramerman]

Originally posted by Sprayber
Can someone tell me how CNN can be both the leader of the liberal media and pro Bush Administration. The nuts on both sides are the real threat to America. Those who invest themselves in conspiracy theories of all sorts and always mutualy exclusively. Moderation has been lost in this country and some people on this board who automaticaly see conspiracy behind every turn contribute nothing to saving it. You will believe anything as long as it makes you feel you are right. When someone like John T presents a plauseable solution, it is ignored bucause it is not cool to believe that an organization simply made a mistake.

This goes for both sides. Left or right.

(I have 3 arms)

[Sava]

Some people mistake my dong for a third arm...

[KrazyHorse]

good for you... join us... the BBC devotees' ranks grow, day by day

I check CNN for an American slant, the CBC for national (Canadian) news...and the BBC for serious reporting.

I got sick of CNN a while ago.

[Sprayber]

Originally posted by Sava
Some people mistake my dong for a third arm...

What exactly does the currency of Vietnam have to do with this?

[mrmitchell]

I'm still shocked that people actually use CNN for a news source.

BTW, Frogger, most people in the rest of the developed world aren't the crack news-analyzers on Apolyton. They're lazy complacent losers like the rest of us.

(The trick is that only Americans are identified as lazy complacent losers. Not that Americans aren't lazy complacent losers. I'm just saying that the LCL-ratio is close. Well, maybe America has a few hundred times more LCLs. Whatever. If you rework the data with some rounding in a few key places it all works out.)

[Kramerman]

Originally posted by Sava
Some people mistake my dong for a third arm...

your dong has fingers!?