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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-01-04 02:14 PM
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CNN email highly critical of how they are reporting the news.
My husband told me Howard Kurtz of Reliable Sources reported that CNN is getting a lot of email stating this. I didn't see it myself. I know I write them almost daily about something that they misreported although I was almost sure no one read it. So apparently they are reading these negative comments. I'll bet a lot of DU'ers are responsible too.

KEEP IT UP! We may change the corporate whore's spots after all.

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CatWoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-01-04 02:21 PM
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1. from the transcript
KURTZ: Just ahead, your e-mail on the media and the 2004 campaign.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

KURTZ: Time now for your feedback on the media's coverage of the presidential campaign.

Carol Anne in California asks, "Can you please just concentrate on the issues so we can make good decisions? Is that too much to ask from a responsible news service? Don't tell me how some groups think or what I should think or dazzle me with your predictions."

Michael in Ontario, Canada, writes: "Maybe the media should stick to reporting the facts and lay off making predictions. They are barely competent in making unbiased news reports. What makes them think they have the intellectual capacity of making predictions?"

Good question.

And Dan in West Virginia says, "CNN failed as a reliable media source on the Dean scream story because it didn't report the news. It made the news by calling the scream outrageous and out of control and other similar adjectives than overplaying it constantly."

Well, that's it for this edition of RELIABLE SOURCES. I'm Howard Kurtz. Join us again next Sunday morning at 11:30 Eastern.

http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0402/01/rs.00.html
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-01-04 02:51 PM
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4. Thanks for posting that CatWoman.
They didn't have the transcript up when I looked.:hi:
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CatWoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-01-04 02:51 PM
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5. anytime!!!!!!!!!
:hi:
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Terwilliger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-01-04 03:07 PM
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6. Join us again next Sunday as we gloss over media bias yet again!
No thanks.

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Nite Owl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-01-04 02:22 PM
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2. Thanks for that bit
of info. I write them a lot but have turned off the box for the weekend to help keep my sanity. What's left of it anyway. I'll tune in and keep writing.
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grasswire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-01-04 02:35 PM
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3. Kurtz is in a helluva lot of trouble himself
He's under internal investigation at Washington Post for using his influence to send business to his wife's consulting firm.
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fujiyama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-01-04 04:49 PM
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7. HAHA..
howie kurtz is a good little media whore!
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