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Related: About this forumCNN's Hard-hitting Soledad O'Brien Gets Bumped Out
CNN can't handle a real, hard-hitting journalist on their staff (who actually challenges the PTB) so they're ousting her.
leftyohiolib
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that's the lesson here -
sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)I would think that loose guests better belong on Maury receiving paternity tests.
leftyohiolib
(5,917 posts)frylock
(34,825 posts)if all those people are going to do is turn it into an infomercial? that's why I don't watch any of those shows anymore. i'd rather watch the Cartoon Network.
Botany
(70,516 posts)samsingh
(17,599 posts)Botany
(70,516 posts).... what she knows are the sources of her wealth. Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, and
Lehmann Brothers are all in her pedigree in one form or an another she also has
spent time in front of TV camera's pushing "wealth management" and protecting
the very rich way of life.
I never knew who she was until her awful "occupy wall street" segment on CNN
when I saw her act making fun of some young man and then trying to say that the
occupy movement was just the result of smoking dope.
samsingh
(17,599 posts)Botany
(70,516 posts)...... on the Occupy Movement I refuse to watch her. She is a whore for the rich and
powerful. Nothing more and nothing less.
Sekhmets Daughter
(7,515 posts)she didn't across as an extreme right winger...although that may have been due to her co-host...the late Mark Haines.
CherokeeDem
(3,709 posts)CNN has no backbone...and no journalistic credibility. What a shame....she is intelligent and highly talented...can't have that in an on-air personality, can they?
RKP5637
(67,111 posts)like Soledad O'Brien in the way of the party line propaganda and corporate America ... USA, Inc.
ProfessionalLeftist
(4,982 posts)Bainbridge Bear
(155 posts)so-called Liberal Media. This just confirms that CNN stands for Conservative News Network. I remember how MSNBC got rid of Phil Donahue when he opposed Bush's illegal invasion of Iraq in 2003 despite the fact that Donahue's ratings were going up at the time.
rtracey
(2,062 posts)You would have made a great host for Meet the Press.....That jerk Gregory sucks at that job..
Bainbridge Bear
(155 posts)overpaid lapdog. Soledad O'Brien is fired and Gregory's contract was just renewed. Says a lot about "journalism" in the Corporate States of America.
frylock
(34,825 posts)because all it is anymore is an outlet for grampy McFivePlanes and his little southern belle to shout at clouds and grouse about BENGHAZI!!1
Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)Cleita
(75,480 posts)Apparently, there have been 12,000 applicants for 104 jobs and among those have been seasoned and experienced journalists. Soledad would do well to look into them.
http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/al-jazeera-america-journalism-producer-jobs/Content?oid=8831619
I myself tune into Al Jazeera once a day on FSTV or Link TV. They put CNN to shame for journalism. As much as I don't always like foreigners running things in the USA, since we haven't a decent TV media outlet here anymore, I look forward to them shaming our media by showing them what a 24 hour news station with journalistic standards looks like.
samsingh
(17,599 posts)this is another reason not to watch cnn.
Berlum
(7,044 posts)again.
With this they have lost one of their few real journalists, and done a great disservice to America.
corkhead
(6,119 posts)It's ok to dream isn't it?
ProfessionalLeftist
(4,982 posts)Primetime M$NBC. They'd kick ass.
drynberg
(1,648 posts)So the Big Shots at CNN are gonna replace you with Erin (yuck!)...Time for you to shine. Where? Cable. You can do it and then those Big Shots at CNN will be stuck with Erin and you'll be great, maybe even back on a popular slot on a popular network. But, you'll be able to smile when you look at the mirror and when you close your eyes at night. Good on ya!
AndyA
(16,993 posts)People are tired of the propaganda. Soledad was one of the very few on that network that actually knew what she was talking about, and refused to let guests get away with lies.
I rarely watch CNN any more, but have caught her morning show a few times while traveling. Couldn't stand it when she was with Miles O'Brien a few years back on CNN, he used to let right wingers get away with whatever lie they wanted to tell. I figured Soledad was a right winger as well, but was pleasantly surprised to see she actually had some integrity.
JohnyCanuck
(9,922 posts)A former CNN correspondent defies threats from her former employer to speak out about self-censorship at the network
By the time the CNN crew arrived, many of the sources who had agreed to speak to them were either in hiding or had disappeared. Regime opponents whom they interviewed suffered recriminations, as did ordinary citizens who worked with them as fixers. Leading human rights activist Nabeel Rajab was charged with crimes shortly after speaking to the CNN team. A doctor who gave the crew a tour of his village and arranged meetings with government opponents, Saeed Ayyad, had his house burned to the ground shortly after. Their local fixer was fired ten days after working with them.
The CNN crew itself was violently detained by regime agents in front of Rajab's house. As they described it after returning to the US, "20 heavily-armed men", whose faces were "covered with black ski masks", "jumped from military vehicles", and then "pointed machine guns at" the journalists, forcing them to the ground. The regime's security forces seized their cameras and deleted their photos and video footage, and then detained and interrogated them for the next six hours.
Lyon's experience both shocked and emboldened her. The morning after her detention, newspapers in Bahrain prominently featured articles about the incident containing what she said were "outright fabrications" from the government. "It made clear just how willing the regime is to lie," she told me in a phone interview last week.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/sep/04/cnn-international-documentary-bahrain-arab-spring-repression
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