Comments on: CNN Responds http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2006/03/27/cnn-responds/ Rory O'Connor's blog Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:11:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Jim H http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2006/03/27/cnn-responds/#comment-1758 Sun, 02 Apr 2006 21:00:12 +0000 http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2006/03/27/cnn-responds/#comment-1758 Isn't the point about misleading or innacurate coverage of the war that viewers are being mislead and cannot formulate objective opinions based on facts? If the reason "a vast majority of our Americans do not feel the way your readers do" is because they are largely uninformed, isn't that an indictment rather than an excuse to keep prolonging a false narrative? Balance is not marginalizing diametrically opposed points of view. In the run up to the war and beyond, the skeptical "left" was marginalized for not believing Saddam was a threat to us, definitively had WMD's, or had any links to Al-Qaeda or 911. The far right was never marginalized or accused of "drinking Saddam's cool-aid" as Scott Ritter was. Even after the administration's claims have been found to be completely without merit, and their motives and lies completely fraudulent and transparent, each new denial and claim is given the illusion of credibility by CNN and mainstream media. Instead of coming out and calling them liars and frauds, they remain on the same platform as before. Is that balance, or just laziness and irresponsibility? I think it's more than that, it's complicity. Isn’t the point about misleading or innacurate coverage of the war that viewers are being mislead and cannot formulate objective opinions based on facts?

If the reason “a vast majority of our Americans do not feel the way your readers do” is because they are largely uninformed, isn’t that an indictment rather than an excuse to keep prolonging a false narrative?

Balance is not marginalizing diametrically opposed points of view. In the run up to the war and beyond, the skeptical “left” was marginalized for not believing Saddam was a threat to us, definitively had WMD’s, or had any links to Al-Qaeda or 911. The far right was never marginalized or accused of “drinking Saddam’s cool-aid” as Scott Ritter was.

Even after the administration’s claims have been found to be completely without merit, and their motives and lies completely fraudulent and transparent, each new denial and claim is given the illusion of credibility by CNN and mainstream media. Instead of coming out and calling them liars and frauds, they remain on the same platform as before. Is that balance, or just laziness and irresponsibility? I think it’s more than that, it’s complicity.

]]> by: Mike http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2006/03/27/cnn-responds/#comment-1651 Tue, 28 Mar 2006 15:32:31 +0000 http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2006/03/27/cnn-responds/#comment-1651 I enjoyed your article, but I think that before 2008 comes we must find a way to get people in the slave states to understand how mainstream media's only purpose is to support the politico-corporate establshment. This will not be done by confronting CNN. This will require an ardent effort to bring a unifying message to these people that even though they hate gays and minorities and, in many cases, have invested all their belief in an irrefutable irrationality, the ideal of tax-free living for the rich at the expense of health care and other social support for the labor force of which they are part, massive middle-class-tax-funded corporate subsidies, and a pro-longed war to support the military-industrial complex is not in their best interest. We must somehow get our message to these people that they are being ideologically conditioned by mainstram media to accept these conditions as beneficial. The mainstream media is not going to change. They will not turn away from their mutual money/power exchange with the corporate establishment that runs our government. We need an alternative way to get another message to voters in the so-called red states. I enjoyed your article, but I think that before 2008 comes we must find a way to get people in the slave states to understand how mainstream media’s only purpose is to support the politico-corporate establshment. This will not be done by confronting CNN. This will require an ardent effort to bring a unifying message to these people that even though they hate gays and minorities and, in many cases, have invested all their belief in an irrefutable irrationality, the ideal of tax-free living for the rich at the expense of health care and other social support for the labor force of which they are part, massive middle-class-tax-funded corporate subsidies, and a pro-longed war to support the military-industrial complex is not in their best interest. We must somehow get our message to these people that they are being ideologically conditioned by mainstram media to accept these conditions as beneficial. The mainstream media is not going to change. They will not turn away from their mutual money/power exchange with the corporate establishment that runs our government. We need an alternative way to get another message to voters in the so-called red states.

]]> by: Druthers http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2006/03/27/cnn-responds/#comment-1649 Tue, 28 Mar 2006 12:45:44 +0000 http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2006/03/27/cnn-responds/#comment-1649 I am delighted to be on the fringe, glad not to be a part of the mushy moldy middle to whom the MSM feed their diluted bevrage. While our brains dwindle, our minds shrink, and our sprits go dim, the days and the years pass and the possibilites of a generation are turned into empty talk, brazen lies and mental swagger. "Tell me Mr. President, or Mrs. Secretaty," followed by 30 mintues of another Sunday of dreary spin. Enough! How wonderful to be on the fringe. I am delighted to be on the fringe, glad not to be a part of the mushy moldy middle to whom the MSM feed their diluted bevrage. While our brains dwindle, our minds shrink, and our sprits go dim, the days and the years pass and the possibilites of a generation are turned into empty talk, brazen lies and mental swagger.
“Tell me Mr. President, or Mrs. Secretaty,” followed by 30 mintues of another Sunday of dreary spin.
Enough! How wonderful to be on the fringe.

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