Reply #39: I ask nothing more of HIM [View All]

[marions ghost]

but I ask a LOT more of the media, and of CNN.

The problem is that this does not send a strong enough message about the perils of this kind of blatant slander, when you paint it as a little oopsie. The problem I have is with the response by the network, which is implied here. A lot of my family is or has been in journalism/media and I've had my own minor flings with it. There used to be the kind of integrity in media that made a public apology a big deal. These days, if you required apologies from the media for serious wrongs to progressives, there would be nothing but apologies all day. As long as the corporate media can get away with this abuse, they will continue it. There have to be stronger controls so the networks will not LET it happen. That means more serious repercussions. I think we need to be tougher, fair but tougher on TV media slander. This is a good example--"Al Qaeda candidate" is not a minor transgression.

Do we get to hear announcers on CNN call George Bush the "Saudi Royal Family candidate?" Same diff.

Maybe you are worried about erosions of freedom of speech or something? I don't see why you'd consider this such a challenge to your core principles or whatever. Your reaction indicates a strong defense --of progressive activists? Will they be turned off by my opinion here? I don't see it. :shrug: