An Open Letter to CNN
By Sheila Samples
Lips fixed to ear. Yo!
Is anybody IN there?
Hear sounds of Truth. Damn. Dear CNN,
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CNN has finally "outfoxed" Fox. It is no longer "America's Campaign Headquarters." It has worked hard and has earned the right to be called "Bush Campaign Headquarters." Congratulations.
George Orwell wrote in his 1946 essay, Politics and the English Language, "Political language -- and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists -- is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind".
It's time for the rain and the hail and the wind of administration lies to stop. It's time for CNN to salvage its reputation as "the most trusted name in news" and tell the truth. In an interview
http://www.mediachannel.org/views/dissector/affalert242.shtml with mediachannel.org's Rory O'Connor last week, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman said a "showdown" in the media is long overdue. "Can we break the machine that is imposing right-wing radicalism on the United States?" Krugman asked. "The scariest part is that the media is part of that machine. There will have to be some kind of reckoning soon, a possible Watergate moment to come...Things aren't all the way unraveled yet...and alternative scenarios still exist."
It is atrocious that CNN -- through laziness, idealogy or sheer incompetence is withholding the truth from the people who have a right to know -- families of those who were incinerated on 9-11, as well as families of all those who have died on Afghanistani and Iraqi battlefields. Atrocious. No other word describes the damage your lack of objective reporting is inflicting upon the people in this country. And the greatest atrocity of all is -- you don't care. Not at all.
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