CNN’s biased reporting

Wednesday, March 26th, 2003

I bought a wireless lan access point so that I would be able to watch tv in the living room while I work. I love the wireless lan, but am less enamored with CNN, the only English news available to me here all day long.

I’ve been particularly outraged today to here CNN report that there is mounting evidence of possible chemical weapon use by Iraq. As an argument, they cite the fact that several chemical and biological attack defense measures have been found. Including Atropine (sic?) injections, and chemical protection suits. It should be obvious to anyone that defensive measures do not mean that you have offensive chemical weapons or that you plan to use them. The things mentioned above are standard parts of any U.S. servicemans gear. The U.S. military wouldn’t be caught without these things.

To be fair, CNN’s Aaron Brown seems to have always been willing to play devils advocate to these kind of claims, and just brought up the question to retired major from the U.S. military who dodged the question. At any rate, I am on the lookout for some good independent media sources. Anyone know of any?

By UltraBob at 03:35 AM Link to this post here!
9 comment s


  • on March 26th, 2003 04:48 AM Rachna said:

    http://www.indymedia.org

  • on March 26th, 2003 05:56 AM Brian said:

    Just remember. Independent doesn’t mean unbiased.

  • on March 26th, 2003 07:47 AM UltraBob said:

    Brian,

    Good point, and I’m very aware of it.  As you can read in the post, I am exposed to primarily corporate media which is very much in Bush’s camp.  I want independent media, not because I feel it is unbiased (guess my post title was wrong), but for two other reasons:

    <ol><li>To provide a balance to the corporate media that I am deluged with</li>
    <li>Because I feel that independent media is much more to be biased in the same way that I am since they are not the possessions of major oil-related companies</li></ol>

    Hope that makes my position and my post clearer.

    UltraBob

  • on March 26th, 2003 07:48 AM UltraBob said:

    Rachna,

    Thanks for the link, but I’m sure that I’m the one who told you about that one, whether you admit it or not. wink

    UltraBob

  • on March 27th, 2003 11:06 AM Kevin said:

    Everyone knows NPR is quite lefty = biased of course, but at least it is a different bias than righty, and there are really great informative programs available online.  My favorite are
    The Connection
    And
    Talk Of The Nation
    both of which have 2 hours every day of “expert” guests and call-ins from regular folk in the US (of course those regular folk have to pass by the program screeners)

  • on March 27th, 2003 11:29 PM UltraBob said:

    Kevin,

    I had forgotten about NPR.  I’ll take a listen today.

    UltraBob

  • on March 28th, 2003 01:42 PM Keith said:

    You are an idiot....and next time the towel heads attack us it might be you...you dumbass

  • on April 1st, 2003 04:13 AM UltraBob said:

    Hi Keith,

    I didn’t want your brilliance confined to the comments page, so I moved it up to the main page. Please see my response to your comment here.

    UltraBob

  • on August 19th, 2003 02:40 PM Georgette said:

    With over 250 members and still rising fast, The NewsNighters Club was formed for the best news anchor and man in general, Mr. Aaron Brown of CNN’s NewsNight With Aaron Brown. It’s the 1st ever online club for him. And the best. Aaron appreciates that we have the club in his honor.

    GO TO THE NEWSNIGHTERS
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aaronbrown/