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Originally Posted by eweissenbach
It seems to me that CNN has no general agenda or bias. I am sure some of the individual commentators have their personal biases that from time to time creep into their analysis, and their political panels are definitely made up of partisans, but on the whole I think their analysis and particularly their reporting, are very balanced. I think the same can be said of most of the network news shows on the whole - journalists out to get a story and let the chips fall where they may. Just my opinion and I am SURE there are many who will disagree. As for posting of links, it is true that one can learn by reading well researched and balanced articles, however many many links I see posted are from blogs that are overwhelmingly biased and poorly researched. To me, and maybe only to me, this type forum is best used to post opinions and provable facts to argue positions. I don't for a moment think that I am likely to sway anyone from their fervent beliefs, but try to bring up things that may make someone go hmmmmmmmmmmm.
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Great response. Really don't want to go to the CNN, as that could very well be MY issue rather than theirs.
Not sure I agree with you on the network shows. AND to me, the media, in general, is lacking totally in how they report and ESPECIALLY in WHAT they report. I will stay away from specifics so that it remains a bit neutral on here and not open to the various jabs that invariably come from leaning one way or another. I will also add that investigative reporting is now used as a political tool for the most part instead of being unbiased. All in all, I am very very disappointed in our media and I think it gets worse each week that goes by.
You are correct, or at least I agree with you, on using this kind of forum. What takes over and has here...is the politics of ridicule of individual people. I am not going to sway anyone but love to swap opinions and provide some of the links that swayed me, and especially read links that swayed others thinkings. Fact is, that most on here do not even use links to validate what they say.