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CNN has been the subject of some controversies. These refer to both the domestic version of CNN and CNN International. The network has come under criticism by liberals claiming it has a conservative bias, as well as by conservatives claiming it has a liberal bias. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1022x497, 97 KB) Licensing This is a logo of an organization, item, or event, and is protected by copyright and/or trademark. ...
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Accusations of bias
Some conservative observers have claimed that CNN has liberal bias. Critics, such as Accuracy in Media and MRC, have claimed that CNN's reporting contains liberal editorializing within news stories. Former Republican House Majority Leader Tom DeLay has referred to CNN as the "Clinton News Network" and the "Communist News Network";[1] others have referred to CNN as "Chicken Noodle News".[2] American conservatism is a constellation of political ideologies within the United States under the blanket heading of conservative. ...
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Some liberal observers have claimed that CNN has a conservative bias. For example, media watchdog Media Matters for America has documented several hundred separate instances of what it sees as conservative editorializing during CNN broadcasts.[3] Look up liberal on Wiktionary, the free dictionary Liberal may refer to: Politics: Liberalism American liberalism, a political trend in the USA Political progressivism, a political ideology that is for change, often associated with liberal movements Liberty, the condition of being free from control or restrictions Liberal Party, members of...
Conservative bias is the mirror image of liberal bias, a belief that the media is biased in favor of conservative views. ...
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Operation Tailwind In 1998, CNN, in partnership with corporate sister Time magazine, ran a report that Operation Tailwind in 1970 in Indochina included use of Sarin gas to kill a group of defectors from the United States military. The Pentagon denied the story. Skeptics deemed it improbable that such an extraordinary and risky atrocity could have gone unnoticed at the height of the Vietnam War's unpopularity. CNN, after a two-week inquiry, issued a retraction. [1]. The story's producers, April Oliver and Jack Smith, were summarily fired. April Oliver has been highly critical of CNN's handling of the story saying that CNN bowed to pressure from high-ranking officials to kill the story. Ms. Oliver describes the ordeal in Kristina Borjesson's book 'Into the Buzzsaw: Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press (2002)'. 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean [1]. // Coated in ice, power and telephone lines sag and often break, resulting in power outages. ...
Time (whose trademark is capitalized TIME) is a weekly American newsmagazine, similar to Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report. ...
Operation Tailwind was a covert incursion into southeastern Laos by a company-size element (Hatchet Force) of the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam Studies and Observations Group (MACSOG or SOG) on 11 September 1970, during the Vietnam Conflict. ...
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Lou Dobbs In 2000, conservative business news reporter Lou Dobbs left CNN, reportedly due to heated clashes with then-president Rick Kaplan over programming priorities and questions about Kaplan's political objectivity. [2] Dobbs returned the following year at the behest of CNN founder Ted Turner. Lou Dobbs (born September 24, 1945) is the anchor and managing editor of CNNs Lou Dobbs Tonight, an editorial columnist, and host of a syndicated radio show. ...
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Allegations of Leniency towards the Bush administration
After 9/11 Amongst the criticisms levied against CNN, as well as the other major US news channels, is the charge that CNN took a lenient approach to the Bush administration, particularly after the terrorists attacks of September 11th 2001. At the 2002 Newsworld Asia conference held in Singapore, Rena Golden, the executive vice-president and general manager of CNN International, was quoted as saying: "Anyone who claims the US media didn’t censor itself is kidding you. It wasn’t a matter of government pressure but a reluctance to criticize anything in a war that was obviously supported by the vast majority of the people. And this isn’t just a CNN issue — every journalist who was in any way involved in 9/11 is partly responsible." [3] A sequential look at United Flight 175 crashing into the south tower of the World Trade Center The September 11, 2001 attacks (often referred to as 9/11—pronounced nine eleven or nine one one) consisted of a series of coordinated terrorist[1] suicide attacks upon the United States, predominantly...
Invasion of Iraq
Lead-up to war Critics take particularly strong exception to the handling of the Bush administrations rhetoric leading up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003. CNN’s own veteran reporter Christiane Amanpour characterized the behavior of the news media as "self-muzzling" and as "cheerleaders for the Bush war drive against Iraq". CNN coverage of the Iraq war has been criticized by international journalists for much the same reason. An editorial in the German publication Süddeutsche Zeitung compared CNN war coverage to "live coverage of the Super Bowl", and the Qatar based Al Jazeera has long criticized CNN for selectively portraying US soldiers as heroes. It should be noted that the bulk of the criticism is directed towards the version of CNN broadcasted within the United States; CNN International is considered more 'sober'. [4][5][6] Combatants Coalition Forces: United States United Kingdom South Korea Australia Poland Romania others. ...
Christiane Amanpour, CNN Publicity Photo Christiane Amanpour (born January 12, 1958) (name in Persian: ‎) is the chief international correspondent for CNN. // Shortly after her birth in London, her British mother Patricia, and her father Mohammed, an Iranian airline executive, moved the family to Tehran. ...
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Emphasis on human interest over atrocities CNN had also been criticized for excessively pushing 'human interest' stories and avoiding depictions of the violent images of events during the Iraq war; the result of all this being an alleged 'propagandistic' presentation of news. [7] A human interest story is a type of news story that is concerned with the activities of a few named people. ...
Indians' petition on pro-Pakistani bias On January 11, 2002, Rajiv Malhotra, announced a petition to CNN on Sulekha, a networking hub for Indians worldwide. Malhotra, an Indian entrepreneur and founder in 1994 of the Infinity Foundation, solicited signatures on petitiononline.com. He concluded, "Good reporting is not about deciding what is right or about taking sides, but about representing the major perspectives of a situation. I do not demand that CNN agree with India. But CNN must stop ignoring, subverting, and trivializing the positions taken by one-sixth of humanity." [8] January 11 is the 11th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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The site issued a press release on February 1, indicating that the petition had garnered over 55,000 signatures and that its initiators had met with CNN officials in Atlanta. The News India-Times reported on the January 30 meeting in its March 1 issue in the story "Concerns conveyed to CNN on coverage" by Prita Malhotra. [9] February 1 is the 32nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
Jon Stewart accuses Crossfire of "partisan hackery" On Friday October 15, 2004, Comedy Central's The Daily Show host and comedian Jon Stewart created controversy when he berated hosts Tucker Carlson and Paul Begala on CNN's political debate show Crossfire. He accused both commentators of 'partisan hackery' and claimed that their style of discourse had been 'hurting America'. The Daily Show (currently The Daily Show with Jon Stewart) is a Peabody and Emmy Award-winning half-hour American satiric news television program produced by and run on the Comedy Central cable television network. ...
Jon Stewart (born Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz on November 28, 1962) is a nine-time Emmy-winning American comedian, satirist, actor, author, and producer. ...
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In early 2005 CNN cancelled Crossfire; the legitimacy behind Jon Stewart's argument was cited by CNN president Jonathan Klein as one of the reasons behind the cancellation. [10][11]
Eason Jordan
Admits lobbying and minimizing atrocities In April 2003, Eason Jordan wrote an article for the New York Times stating that he lobbied the Iraqi government for 12 years in order to maintain a CNN presence in Iraq. He also admitted to withholding what would be considered newsworthy information of the government's atrocities, citing fears that releasing news would potentially endanger the lives of Iraqis working for CNN in Baghdad, some of whom had already been subject to beatings and torture. [12] Eason Jordan was Chief News Executive for CNN, and had been with the news network from 1982 until his resignation in 2005. ...
Resignation after accusations by blogger In February 2005, Eason Jordan resigned from CNN. The resignation came in response to controversy sparked after allegations arose on a blog that he had accused the U.S. Military of purposely killing journalists. While Jordan acknowledged his remarks were not sufficiently clear, he denies he ever meant to imply that the US government was intentionally targeting journalists. [13]
Large "X" over Cheney's face On Monday November 21, 2005, CNN flashed a large "X" over Vice President Dick Cheney's face during a speech that aired live on CNN. CNN apologized and said the X appeared due to a technical glitch and no human error was involved. CNN later allegedly fired one of its switchboard operators over a phone call where the operator asked "Was it not freedom of speech? Yes or no?" to a caller.[4] Conservative writer Michelle Malkin, in response to mail from readers with broadcasting experience, has written she is convinced it was just a mistake.[14] Richard Bruce Dick Cheney (born January 30, 1941) is the 46th and current Vice President of the United States, serving under President George W. Bush. ...
Michelle Malkin Michelle Malkin (née Maglalang) (born October 20, 1970) is an American columnist, blogger, author and political commentator. ...
Temporary ban from Iran for mistranslation In January 2006, CNN was banned in Iran as an expression of condemnation when CNN mistranslated a live broadcast of President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad. In the translation, CNN quoted Ahmedinejad as saying "the use of nuclear weapons is Iran's right." According to a release from the Iranian government, the president said "Iran has the right to nuclear energy." and went on to say "a nation that has civilization does not need nuclear weapons and our nation does not need them." The ban was lifted a day later after CNN issued an official apology for the mistranslation. [15] Order: Sixth President of Iran First Vice President: Parviz Dawoodi Term of office: August 3, 2005 – present Preceded by: Mohammad Khatami Succeeded by: Date of birth: October 28, 1956 Place of birth: Aradan, Iran Political party: Islamic Society of Engineers Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (Ù…Øمود اØمدی‌نژاد; born October 28, 1956), also written Ahmadinezhad, is...
Glenn Beck In January 2006, Ken Jautz, president of CNN Headline News hired right-wing talk radio host Glenn Beck, giving him a primetime show which premiered May 8, 2006. Jautz stated that Beck was "cordial," and that his radio show was "conversational, not confrontational." [16] However, according to Media Matters for America and FAIR, Beck has a history of controversial statements made on his radio show [17][18][19][20]. January 2006 : ↠- January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accuses European nations of trying to complete the Holocaust by creating a Jewish camp Israel in the Middle East. ...
CNN Headline News is a spin-off network from the original Cable News Network (CNN) television news network in the United States and Canada. ...
Glenn Beck (born February 10, 1964) is a non-Republican conservative American talk-radio and television host. ...
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Robert Novak curses and walks off set On August 4, 2005, CNN contributor Robert Novak walked off the set during a live broadcast of the CNN show Inside Politics, on which he appeared along with Democratic strategist and analyst James Carville and moderator Ed Henry.
During a discussion of Republican representative Katherine Harris's just-announced 2006 campaign for the U.S. Senate and her claim that newspapers tried to tarnish her image by manipulating photos of her, Novak claimed he had experienced the same thing leading to a skeptical response from Carville. Novak responded by saying "don't be too sure she's going to lose...all the establishment's against her and I've seen these Republican – anti-establishment candidates who do pretty well." Novak mentioned Ronald Reagan and Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) before seeing Carville preparing to talk. Novak cut into his comments and said "Just let me finish what I'm going to say, James. Please, I know you hate to hear me, but you have..." Carville cut in and said that Novak has "got to show these right-wingers that he's got backbone, you know. It's why The Wall Street Journal editorial page is watching you. Show 'em you're tough." A senate is a deliberative body, often the upper house or chamber of a legislature. ...
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Novak responded "Well, I think that's bullshit. And I hate that. Just let it go." Novak then removed his microphone and walked off the set.
After the segment ended, Henry apologized to viewers for Novak's leaving the set "a little early,". "I had told him in advance that we were going to ask him about the CIA leak case. He was not here for me to be able to ask him about that. Hopefully, we'll be able to ask him about that in the future."
They were never able to ask Novak about the CIA leak case. This was the last time he would be seen on CNN as he was suspended indefinitely after the incident. In a statement and an apology to viewers, CNN called the outburst "inexcusable and unacceptable,". Novak was the last surviving person to have appeared on the network since its debut weekend back in 1980. 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ...
On December 16, 2005, CNN's main competitor, Fox News Channel announced that Novak had signed a deal to do undisclosed work for the network. Novak stated that he would have left CNN even if his August incident didn't happen. He announced his retirement from CNN a week later saying his tenure at CNN lasted longer than most marriages. He now contributes to Fox News. The Fox News Channel (FNC) is a United States-based cable and satellite news channel. ...
Allegation of propaganda outlet for insurgents In October 2006, Press Secretary Tony Snow accused CNN of "propagandizing" the American public. Insurgents located in Iraq had filmed some of their attacks on American soldiers. CNN obtained the tapes from the insurgents and rebroadcast them in America weeks before national elections were to occur.[5] Snow said during a press conference, "your network has shown pictures of snipers hitting Americans, which was used as a propaganda tool, so the fact is that -- it shows real sophistication on the part of these guys, because it creates the impression that Americans are sitting ducks, and that these guys are capable, when, in fact, while you have a capable enemy, they're dying in much greater numbers and suffering much greater damage."[6] As a result of CNN's news reports, Representative Duncan Hunter asked The Pentagon to remove embedded CNN reporters, claiming that "C-N-N has now served as the publicist for an enemy propaganda film featuring the killing of an American soldier."[7] Tony Snow Robert Anthony Tony Snow, (born June 1, 1955) is the current White House Press Secretary for George W. Bush. ...
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Obama/Osama name slip On January 1, 2007, CNN used the name of US Senator Barack Obama as a caption on a story about Osama Bin Laden. During Wolf Blitzer's The Situation Room program, an advertisement for an upcoming news feature on the whereabouts of Bin Laden carried the caption "Where's Obama?" over images of the al-Qaeda leader. CNN later apologized for what they described as "a very bad typographical error." Blitzer himself apologised on the air for the slip. "I'm going to be making a call to him later this morning to offer my personal apology," he said.[8] “Obama†redirects here. ...
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Wolf Blitzer calls Katrina victims "so black" On September 1st, 2005, during a report on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Wolf Blitzer said "You simply get chills every time you see these poor individuals, as Jack Cafferty just pointed out, so tragically, so many of these people, almost all of them that we see, are so poor and they are so black, and this is going to raise lots of questions for people who are watching this story unfold." Blitzer was later critized for being racist[citation needed]. Lowest pressure 902 mbar (hPa; 26. ...
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