FWIW, I'd be more inclined to think that CNN is biased...

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Post #261,570 by ben_tilly 7/13/06 1:36:00 PM Reply	FWIW, I'd be more inclined to think that CNN is biased... than al-Jazeera. But that's entirely cynicism about the current state of news misreporting. Cheers, Ben a very rich person should leave his kids enough to do anything but not enough to do nothing. -- Warren Buffett
Post #261,579 by admin 7/13/06 2:10:00 PM Reply	That's not what I asked. Regards, -scott anderson "Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
Post #261,632 by ben_tilly 7/13/06 5:16:09 PM Reply	Then adjust what I said I also am inclined to believe that CNN is more biased than al-Jazeera. Again, this is an inclination only. Cheers, Ben a very rich person should leave his kids enough to do anything but not enough to do nothing. -- Warren Buffett
Post #261,639 by hnick 7/13/06 6:09:45 PM Reply	Not to be cynical... but both "news" agencies are trying to get different audiences to watch them. If they tell them things they REALLY don't like, the average mouth breather will stop watching. It's my opinion that they both slant the news to accomodate their viewers mindset. It may not be entirely intentional. Tne ones selecting and often reporting the news are usually from the culture they are broadcasting to. Today Diogenes would be looking for an impartial newscaster. My 0.02
Post #261,641 by Another Scott 7/13/06 6:25:42 PM Reply	ICLRPD. (new thread) Created as new thread #261640 titled [link\|/forums/render/content/show?contentid=261640\|ICLRPD.]
Post #261,642 by ben_tilly 7/13/06 6:40:22 PM Reply	I agree with that I just happen to also believe that US-influenced media has pretty much stopped even bothering to try for objectivity. Cheers, Ben a very rich person should leave his kids enough to do anything but not enough to do nothing. -- Warren Buffett
Post #261,647 by broomberg 7/13/06 8:34:17 PM Reply	Even NPR?
Post #261,651 by ben_tilly 7/13/06 8:58:02 PM Reply	Pick up Armed Madhouse Ask yourself how many of those stories ever appeared on NPR. Yes, NPR is better than the rest. But it still isn't nearly as good as I want. Cheers, Ben a very rich person should leave his kids enough to do anything but not enough to do nothing. -- Warren Buffett
Post #261,653 by Another Scott 7/13/06 9:08:22 PM Reply	Find a Pacifica radio station.
Post #261,660 by ben_tilly 7/13/06 9:52:27 PM Reply	Point a very rich person should leave his kids enough to do anything but not enough to do nothing. -- Warren Buffett
Post #261,701 by andread 7/14/06 11:24:06 AM Reply	CNN says Israel is fighting a 2 front war war? only one side has a military A Play I Some Music w/ Papa Andy Saturday 8 PM - 11 PM ET All Night Rewind 11 PM - 5 PM Reggae, African and Caribbean Music [link\|http://wxxe.org\|Tune In]
Post #261,708 by boxley 7/14/06 12:24:46 PM Reply	you mean they are shooting rockets at themselves? how odd. thanx, bill Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free american and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 50 years. meep
Post #261,740 by Arkadiy 7/14/06 2:29:22 PM Reply	Really? Hesbollah has no military? That's a surprise. ------ 179. I will not outsource core functions. -- [link\|http://omega.med.yale.edu/~pcy5/misc/overlord2.htm\|.]

Isreal forces move into Lebanon - (JayMehaffey) - (84) - July 12, 2006, 09:09:53 AM EDT

this action was predicted a week ago - (boxley) - July 12, 2006, 09:33:33 AM EDT

Re: Isreal forces move into Lebanon - (systems) - (81) - July 13, 2006, 03:50:55 AM EDT

And how does this make al-Jazeera less biased? - (admin) - (20) - July 13, 2006, 09:00:23 AM EDT

Umm, Lives in Egypt, is a Sunni, has shown incredible - (broomberg) - July 13, 2006, 09:12:56 AM EDT

Does this really matter? - (systems) - (5) - July 13, 2006, 10:53:04 AM EDT

CNN is not the most popular news channel in the US. - (Another Scott) - (1) - July 13, 2006, 11:12:11 AM EDT

Fox bias is much worse! -NT - (ChrisR) - July 13, 2006, 11:32:25 AM EDT

No, you are biased. - (admin) - July 13, 2006, 11:28:39 AM EDT

I enjoy your posts although I may disagree with you - (boxley) - (1) - July 13, 2006, 02:46:30 PM EDT

Sure there can - (jake123) - July 13, 2006, 02:48:29 PM EDT

FWIW, I'd be more inclined to think that CNN is biased... - (ben_tilly) - (12) - July 13, 2006, 01:36:00 PM EDT

That's not what I asked. -NT - (admin) - (8) - July 13, 2006, 02:10:00 PM EDT

Then adjust what I said - (ben_tilly) - (7) - July 13, 2006, 05:16:09 PM EDT

Not to be cynical... - (hnick) - (6) - July 13, 2006, 06:09:45 PM EDT

ICLRPD. (new thread) - (Another Scott) - July 13, 2006, 06:25:42 PM EDT

I agree with that - (ben_tilly) - (4) - July 13, 2006, 06:40:22 PM EDT

Even NPR? -NT - (broomberg) - (3) - July 13, 2006, 08:34:17 PM EDT

Pick up Armed Madhouse - (ben_tilly) - (2) - July 13, 2006, 08:58:02 PM EDT

Find a Pacifica radio station. -NT - (Another Scott) - (1) - July 13, 2006, 09:08:22 PM EDT

Point -NT - (ben_tilly) - July 13, 2006, 09:52:27 PM EDT

CNN says Israel is fighting a 2 front war - (andread) - (2) - July 14, 2006, 11:24:06 AM EDT

you mean they are shooting rockets at themselves? - (boxley) - July 14, 2006, 12:24:46 PM EDT

Really? - (Arkadiy) - July 14, 2006, 02:29:22 PM EDT

I know some Israelis who... - (andread) - July 13, 2006, 09:45:01 AM EDT

Hezbollah was hitting Israel with rockets starting Wed - (Arkadiy) - (55) - July 14, 2006, 02:28:39 PM EDT

Problems with that - (drewk) - (2) - July 14, 2006, 02:44:55 PM EDT

Real chem/bio weapons are really bad - (Arkadiy) - (1) - July 14, 2006, 10:22:10 PM EDT

They are as deadly as nukes - (ben_tilly) - July 14, 2006, 10:53:15 PM EDT

How would Israel know when they won? - (Another Scott) - (3) - July 14, 2006, 03:31:31 PM EDT

Re: How would Israel know when they won? - (Arkadiy) - (2) - July 14, 2006, 10:14:40 PM EDT

War on Hesbollah - (ChrisR) - (1) - July 15, 2006, 09:42:45 AM EDT

Now that I had a few days to - (Arkadiy) - July 16, 2006, 08:22:56 PM EDT

If there can be no winner? - (ChrisR) - (45) - July 14, 2006, 03:37:04 PM EDT

Israel's aim is the following - (bluke) - (2) - July 16, 2006, 06:10:00 AM EDT

Messages via force are rather hard to control - (ChrisR) - July 16, 2006, 11:02:21 AM EDT

Won't work - (broomberg) - July 16, 2006, 11:28:42 AM EDT

This is exactly why standard approach is misguided - (bluke) - (41) - July 16, 2006, 06:33:14 AM EDT

I agree with the assessment of the problem. - (ChrisR) - (38) - July 16, 2006, 11:17:02 AM EDT

What would you suggest? - (bluke) - (29) - July 17, 2006, 04:33:24 AM EDT

Disagree. - (Another Scott) - (28) - July 17, 2006, 07:53:39 AM EDT

You have to understand the reasons here - (bluke) - (27) - July 17, 2006, 09:50:38 AM EDT

They're hardly comparable situations. - (Another Scott) - (26) - July 17, 2006, 10:17:43 AM EDT

In addition, - (bepatient) - (2) - July 17, 2006, 10:27:13 AM EDT

Re: In addition, - (bluke) - July 18, 2006, 09:19:22 AM EDT

No thats not the fact - (bepatient) - July 18, 2006, 12:18:03 PM EDT

That is easy for you to say - (bluke) - (22) - July 18, 2006, 09:21:24 AM EDT

Where are people actually dying from this? - (jake123) - (21) - July 18, 2006, 01:01:55 PM EDT

so no deaths in Israel, whatju smokin? -NT - (boxley) - (10) - July 18, 2006, 01:33:57 PM EDT

Look at the numbers - (jake123) - (9) - July 18, 2006, 03:01:13 PM EDT

Parallels - (drewk) - July 18, 2006, 03:17:50 PM EDT

not saying they are doing the right thing but ignoring the - (boxley) - July 18, 2006, 03:22:03 PM EDT

The answer is very simple - (bluke) - (6) - July 19, 2006, 06:06:15 AM EDT

Re: The answer is very simple - (jake123) - (5) - July 19, 2006, 10:25:16 AM EDT

Are you prepared to commit suicide? - (bluke) - (4) - July 20, 2006, 03:22:39 AM EDT

No, when did I say that? - (jake123) - (3) - July 20, 2006, 02:00:56 PM EDT

When they did not exist? - (bluke) - (2) - July 21, 2006, 04:28:53 AM EDT

A whole bunch of people in Lebanon that didn't care before - (jake123) - (1) - July 21, 2006, 10:01:01 AM EDT

Jake...relax. - (Simon_Jester) - July 21, 2006, 12:08:41 PM EDT

Are you blind deaf and dumb? - (bluke) - (9) - July 19, 2006, 06:02:51 AM EDT

How many civilians has Israel killed in the last fifty years - (jake123) - (8) - July 19, 2006, 10:24:10 AM EDT

how many civilians has Canada killed in the last 50 years - (boxley) - (3) - July 19, 2006, 10:35:00 AM EDT

Nice red herring box - (jake123) - (2) - July 19, 2006, 11:29:36 AM EDT

April 28th 2006 is HISTORY? WTF - (boxley) - (1) - July 19, 2006, 12:14:10 PM EDT

Not resolving here - (jake123) - July 19, 2006, 02:09:23 PM EDT

What does that have to do with anything? - (bluke) - (2) - July 20, 2006, 03:19:46 AM EDT

You severely underestimate Hezbollah's goals. - (Another Scott) - (1) - July 20, 2006, 07:50:29 AM EDT

You are right about Hezbollah goals - (bluke) - July 20, 2006, 08:32:43 AM EDT

Proportion and number of civilian deaths - (bluke) - July 20, 2006, 03:37:40 AM EDT

Israel must be allowed to defend itself.... - (Simon_Jester) - (7) - July 17, 2006, 10:01:29 AM EDT

What are you trying to say? - (bluke) - (6) - July 18, 2006, 09:29:58 AM EDT

Please do not define - (Simon_Jester) - (2) - July 18, 2006, 10:21:35 AM EDT

You can say that about half the countries in the world - (bluke) - (1) - July 18, 2006, 11:40:17 AM EDT

Great, we're in agreement. -NT - (Simon_Jester) - July 18, 2006, 01:47:22 PM EDT

Here's a theory for you - (ben_tilly) - (2) - July 18, 2006, 02:28:47 PM EDT

you been reading harryharrison again? Pyrrus comes to mind -NT - (boxley) - (1) - July 18, 2006, 02:33:06 PM EDT

Nope, Greg Palast's Armed Madhouse. Recommended. - (ben_tilly) - July 18, 2006, 02:45:32 PM EDT

Step 1 would be to stop undermining them - (JayMehaffey) - (1) - July 16, 2006, 05:04:33 PM EDT

Not really - (bluke) - July 17, 2006, 04:37:31 AM EDT

Re: Hezbollah was hitting Israel with rockets starting Wed - (systems) - (1) - July 16, 2006, 02:11:15 AM EDT

Hard to say where the detailed truth lies. - (hnick) - July 16, 2006, 10:07:15 AM EDT

Note that CNN is currently showing... - (admin) - (2) - July 19, 2006, 02:19:47 PM EDT

not with a favorable caption, I wot. -NT - (bepatient) - (1) - July 19, 2006, 02:21:04 PM EDT

Favorable to whom? - (admin) - July 19, 2006, 03:49:13 PM EDT

Victory process, not peace process, needed in Middle East - (bluke) - July 16, 2006, 07:53:43 AM EDT

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