Accidently clicked to CNN this morning, confirming

[annabanana]

that they are TOTAL GOP whores. Really blatant.. Totally shameless.

I used to call CNN "FOX with it's pants on". . This morning they are naked.

[FarPoint]

1. All media appear to be on that GOP train.

I blame our spineless Democratic Party House/ Senate members for much of the lackluster momentum. Of course, more is at fault but I expect and need leadership from my Party. Yes, the battles are hard...but geesze...they have no fire in the belly as a whole.

[annabanana]

2. You don't think that the fact that ALL our mass media

is owned by about 6 corporate entities has anything to do with it?

[zentrum]

30. Media Consolidation.

Brought to us by Bill Clinton.
Then they turned to (try to) destroy him.

[tridim]

4. The media IS the GOP train.

Or blame the Democrats!!!11

[Cha]

12. The media loves it when we blamen their whoredom on the Democrats.. that's what they're going for.

[LawDeeDah]

15. I wonder how many Democrats CNN, and all, invite to their panels

that DO have that fire in the belly. Please give us all a count because I am certain they aren't on the popular invite list.

We all know the answer! Because saying none of them do, is a big fat falsehood. There are tons of democrats working their asses off for months with plenty of fire but they don't have the venues that the Republicans do. Didn't we learn this tons of years ago? Prime example was Bush's Iraq war, please recall that doozy, where the military and opinionators that were pro war were given a free stage to mouth off their false stories and Phil Donahue got fired.

[still_one]

3. I stopped watching CNN over 10 years ago. In fact, I don't watch any cable/satellite pseudo news.

Tell me what knowledge or information do you really get from these whores that you cannot get from reading, and other avenues. I will argue that if ones only source is cable or satellite news, you are more uninformed than those who get their news from the printed media, or other sources, including the internet, where even though the internet can push garbage, with a little effort that garbage can be debunked with very little effort.

There are sources outside of the U.S. MSM television media where you can get a much more balanced look. These include BBC, Bloomberg, and a few others, but the major cable and satellite national news channels are not in the business to inform, but to entertain, which I do not find entertaining

[annabanana]

5. Congratulations. However,

Millions of people, people who pay less attention than us, DO. What they see shapes their understanding of the world, influences their votes and screws everyone.

Think of it as "oppo" research.

[still_one]

8. Can't control other people. After all labor was so "upset" with Carter deregulating the airline

industry, they thought they would show everyone how upset they were by voting for Reagan. That didn't work out too well for them I would venture to say, and labor and unions are probably at one of the most vulnerable points in history in the last 50 years because of that.

At least to me it looks like many people don't learn easily. There were no WMDs in Iraq, and we wasted trillions of dollars, and over a million people were killed based on a lie perpetuated by our illustrious media.

In the last 100 years it was the Democrats who gave us social security, medicare, labor laws, OSHA, and so many other protections that many it appears take for granted.

What can you do for people who vote against their own interests?

[Fumesucker]

10. In my experience a lot of "labor" tends to be very right wing, them voting for Reagan was natural

Like Abbie Hoffman said, those guys (labor) were the ones wanting to kick my ass.

[still_one]

21. Maybe, but they felt definitely felt betrayed when the airline industry was deregulated.

[annabanana]

17. education is key.. Media done right IS education. . . . .n/t

[still_one]

22. It should be

[randr]

6. As I have pointed out in many previous elections

It is the media that reaps the rewards of obscene campaign spending. The money goes to these networks and they have millions of reasons to turn our political process into the spectacle we are witnessing.

[annabanana]

7. Not just about ad money and ratings.

Our media is not independent in any sense of the word. If GE owns all of NBC, and repubs always do their bidding legislatively, why would they NOT bring all their influence to bear?

[randr]

9. The issue comes back to the control

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the MIC has over every aspect of our lives.

[adirondacker]

28. I'm into the beginning of season 2 of Mad Men on netflix.

It's a pretty good look at the psychology and beliefs of what goes on in TV advertising to enrich their clients.

[Cha]

11. Already knew that.. and i don't even have a tv. But, thanks for confirming once again, annabanana!

[samsingh]

13. i've stopped watching cnn for the most part

[HoosierCowboy]

14. Comic Relief..

...thinking about all that Koch Brother money being Fast Forwarded. They might as well put that money in the bag and burn it.

[iandhr]

16. GOTMFV and shut them up.

[Fred Sanders]

18. Wipe the swarmy, arrogant grins off their smug mugs, Vote. Bring a friend.

[Reter]

19. CNN has really changed

15 years ago, Republicans hated it and called it Clinton News Network.

[Fred Sanders]

20. Jane Fonda's husband once owning it was of course the main reason it was more factual. Now it

turns every thing over to the political hacks who see everything with a political lens and it is all one big game.

[still_one]

23. Turner was manuvered during the AOL Time Warner merger with CNN, and it was one of his biggest

regrets

[KansDem]

24. I stay clear of the Whoreth Estate

Can't trust a word they say

[Iliyah]

25. Lets see GOTV

These corporate media whores are ignoring them.

Been done with CNN for many years and so have countless others.

[Helen Borg]

26. They did the same with Cantor...

And see what happened...

[spanone]

27. m$nbc...same shit

[staggerleem]

29. A conservative acquaintance of mine ...

... once told me that CNN stood for "Clinton News Network". That was about 8 years ago, and I told him then that I didn't think the quip was either funny or true. Today, it's even less true, and further than ever from funny.