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Originally Posted by Robbie
Well...the online version is pretty outrageous with it's "opinion" pieces.
If you notice a lot of the time they have their stories on cnn.com marked as "Analysis". And that sounds very official. But it's just Opinion pieces that you would have read in the Editorial section on the last page of the newspaper back in the day.
Plus they tend to run big headlines politically that are anti-Trump and some of the biggest news of the day is "buried" on the site.
Hell, for a while there they were putting up a pop-up with a link to "all the news you may have missed today".
And I thought to myself..."Why would I have missed all this news when I am looking at your FRONT PAGE???"
The answer is clear. They are doing something similar to their television show: Making the "news" all about themselves with opinion pieces covering the front page.
It is easier on the mind to read their opinion pieces as opposed to watching their "talk show" style format on television over and over and over again.
Today they don't have ANY mention at all on CNN.Com's front page of THE biggest story: The de-classification of the Russia probe related documents and FISA warrants.
They simply choose to ignore it because it is something that will tear down the "Russia" narrative.
They VERY briefly spoke about it this morning on John King's show on television (about a 10 second mention of it by King, but no "discussion" follow up at all)...but show a very, very strong LACK of any journalistic curiosity about potential abuse of power by the Obama administration using intelligence resources to spy on an opposing party's campaign.
I mean damn...Nixon didn't even have the balls to do that. Watergate hit the fan from G. Gordon Liddy and his crew breaking into a room and taking some files.
The Democrat administration used the full "crushing" resources of the Dept. Of Justice and FBI to actually SPY on the other campaign and kept it secret.
Remember when Trump accused them of doing exactly that in 2016? And the Obama Admin DENIED it, the FBI DENIED it, and the media (CNN, MSNBC, WAPO, NY TIMES) all LAUGHED at Trump and said he was paranoid.
That was when they THOUGHT Trump was going to lose of course.
If CNN had any journalistic integrity left in them at all...they would be doing investigative reporting on this.
Instead they ignore it and deny it.
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I understand most all that. That's why I mentioned I use active reading. I don't think anyone in these threads can claim I'm uninformed. Sure, I have an opinion, but I don't make uninformed opinions or I wouldn't waste time yapping an opinion not based on anything close to reality. I use cnn and many other news outlets to do that.
Sure, cnn isn't perfect, media in it's entirety has real problems right now, I get that. I check out drudge too, heck, I read the gateway pundit and outlets like that. I tend to stay away from Infowars type outfits. Trying to understand both sides by reading both sides versions of reality helps me sort out mine.