121.45.245.232 (talk) Attributed, but not reliable - without any independent verification, a lobby group and "bias watch" discussing "extremists" doesn't offer a reference of sufficient quality, even as a quote. |
Breein1007 (talk | contribs) RV - the CAMERA website is a reliable source for something that CAMERA said. it's quoted and attributed. therefore, by wiki standards, we trust that CAMERA in fact said this. stop censoring things plz |
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[[Christiane Amanpour]], a CNN reporter since 1983, has been accused of "advocacy journalism", or injecting opinion into what should be straight reporting, in her reports from various war zones. During the [[War in Bosnia and Herzegovina]], a group of veterans calling themselves [[Americans from World War II]] placed an advertisement in ''[[The Washington Times]]'' which accused Amanpour of heavily pro-[[Bosnia and Herzegovina|Bosnian]] reporting, including incorrectly describing a photo of Serbs mutilated by [[Croatia]]n forces as having been of the victims of Serbs.<ref>[http://www.aim.org/media_monitor/A3540_0_2_0_C/ More Criticism of CNN], Reed Irvine and Cliff Kincaid, [[Accuracy in Media]], August 12, 1998</ref> |
[[Christiane Amanpour]], a CNN reporter since 1983, has been accused of "advocacy journalism", or injecting opinion into what should be straight reporting, in her reports from various war zones. During the [[War in Bosnia and Herzegovina]], a group of veterans calling themselves [[Americans from World War II]] placed an advertisement in ''[[The Washington Times]]'' which accused Amanpour of heavily pro-[[Bosnia and Herzegovina|Bosnian]] reporting, including incorrectly describing a photo of Serbs mutilated by [[Croatia]]n forces as having been of the victims of Serbs.<ref>[http://www.aim.org/media_monitor/A3540_0_2_0_C/ More Criticism of CNN], Reed Irvine and Cliff Kincaid, [[Accuracy in Media]], August 12, 1998</ref> |
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In May 2006, Amanpour said, in an interview on ''[[Larry King Live]]'', "the war in Iraq has basically turned out to be a disaster." [[Fox News]] commentator [[Bill O'Reilly (commentator)|Bill O'Reilly]] criticized this statement, saying "reporters are supposed to report, analysts are supposed to analyze."<ref>[http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,183441,00.html ''The O'Reilly Factor'' transcript, February 1, 2006]</ref> In August 2007, CNN ran a documentary, ''[[God's Warriors]]'', that Amanpour hosted and produced; the documentary was criticized by some for treating fundamentalist [[Jew]]s and [[Christian]]s much more harshly than fundamentalist [[Muslim]]s. Its president wrote that the documentary's chapter on fundamentalist and [[Zionist]] Jews was "the most poisonously biased and factually shoddy feature to air on mainstream American television in recent memory."<ref>[http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1188392492676&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull "Poisonously biased"], Andrea Levin, ''[[The Jerusalem Post]]'', August 29, 2007</ref> |
In May 2006, Amanpour said, in an interview on ''[[Larry King Live]]'', "the war in Iraq has basically turned out to be a disaster." [[Fox News]] commentator [[Bill O'Reilly (commentator)|Bill O'Reilly]] criticized this statement, saying "reporters are supposed to report, analysts are supposed to analyze."<ref>[http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,183441,00.html ''The O'Reilly Factor'' transcript, February 1, 2006]</ref> In August 2007, CNN ran a documentary, ''[[God's Warriors]]'', that Amanpour hosted and produced; the documentary was criticized by some for treating fundamentalist [[Jew]]s and [[Christian]]s much more harshly than fundamentalist [[Muslim]]s. The [[Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America]] (CAMERA) stated that "there was a noticeably gentler and more cordial tone toward Muslim extremists in contrast to the often snide and hectoring tone displayed toward pro-Israel Americans and Israeli settlers."<ref>[http://camera.org/index.asp?x_context=3&x_outlet=14&x_article=1358 "God's Muslim Warriors — CNN's Double Standard"], ''CAMERA'', August 24, 2007</ref> Its president wrote that the documentary's chapter on fundamentalist and [[Zionist]] Jews was "the most poisonously biased and factually shoddy feature to air on mainstream American television in recent memory."<ref>[http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1188392492676&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull "Poisonously biased"], Andrea Levin, ''[[The Jerusalem Post]]'', August 29, 2007</ref> |
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Revision as of 16:18, 5 June 2010
CNN has been the subject of several controversies. These refer to both the domestic version of CNN and CNN International. CNN has been accused of both a liberal and conservative bias.
Allegations of Bias
In a joint study by the Joan Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University and the Project for Excellence in Journalism, the authors found disparate treatment by the three major cable networks of Republican and Democratic candidates during the earliest five months of presidential primaries in 2007: “The CNN programming studied tended to cast a negative light on Republican candidates—by a margin of three-to-one. Four-in-ten stories (41%) were clearly negative while just 14% were positive and 46% were neutral. The network provided negative coverage of all three main candidates with McCain fairing the worst (63% negative) and Romney fairing a little better than the others only because a majority of his coverage was neutral. It’s not that Democrats, other than Obama, fared well on CNN either. Nearly half of the Illinois Senator’s stories were positive (46%), vs. just 8% that were negative. But both Clinton and Edwards ended up with more negative than positive coverage overall. So while coverage for Democrats overall was a bit more positive than negative, that was almost all due to extremely favorable coverage for Obama.” [1]
Accuracy in Media and Media Research Center (MRC) have claimed that CNN's reporting contains liberal editorializing within news stories as well as omission of important facts.[citation needed] Former Republican House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, and MRC founder Brent Bozell, among others, have referred to CNN as the "Clinton News Network".[2] DeLay has also called it the "Communist News Network".[3] In its early days, CNN was sometimes referred to as "Chicken Noodle News".[4] In September 2009, a Pew Research Poll showed that Democrats were much more likely than Republicans to rate the network favorably, and Republicans were much more likely than Democrats to see CNN unfavorably.[5]
Some liberal observers[weasel words] have claimed that CNN has a conservative bias. Writer Eric Alterman has noted that many critics[weasel words] on the left view CNN as no more or less biased than most other corporate-run journalism, supporting business interests of its parent company and sponsors, and refusing to question official sources or present perspectives of leftist critics.[6][need quotation to verify]
Persian Gulf War
During the Persian Gulf War, CNN was criticized for excessively pushing 'human interest' stories and avoiding depictions of violent images; the result of all this being an alleged 'propagandistic' presentation of news. [6] A report by FAIR quotes an unnamed CNN reporter as describing "the 'sweet beautiful sight' of bombers taking off from Saudi Arabia."[7]
Operation Tailwind
In 1998, CNN, in partnership with corporate sister Time magazine, ran a report that Operation Tailwind in 1970 in Vietnam 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.[8]. The story's producers were summarily fired, and one of them 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.[9]
2008 unrest in Tibet
During the 2008 unrest in Tibet, the China Daily newspaper reported that there has been bias in Western media's coverage of the rioting in Tibet, especially in the captioning and cropping of images, and mis-referencing photos from unrelated instances or other countries. The article stated that Chinese netizens were angered by what they saw biased and sometimes dishonest reporting by Western media.[10] CNN's John Vause, who reported this story, responded the criticism as "...technically it was impossible to include the crashed car on the left..." [11]
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 September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States. At the 2002 Newsworld Asia conference held in Singapore, 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." [7][full citation needed]
Invasion of Iraq
Critics take particularly strong exception to the handling of the Bush administration's rhetoric leading up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. 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".[12] 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 news network has criticized CNN for portraying U.S. soldiers as heroes.[13]
Paula Zahn "sexy" promo
On the weekend before the premiere of American Morning with Paula Zahn in January 2002, CNN aired an advertisement for American Morning which called Zahn "sexy" and paired the adjective with a "needle pulled off record" sound effect which some interpreted to be a zipper opening. The ad was quickly pulled after the network received significant criticism for what was considered an undignified and sexist portrayal of a serious journalist. CNN attributed the ad's content to a lack of oversight and apologized to Zahn.[14][failed verification]
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'.
Stewart made a number of points, major among these include the theater and absurdity of cable news, dishonest 'debate' where eloquence and persuasion are more important than finding the truth, and the use of the media as part of politicians' strategy.
In early 2005, CNN cancelled Crossfire.
Robert Novak curses and walks off set
On August 4, 2005, CNN contributor and conservative commentator 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 Florida 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 that people should not be certain that she will lose and mention that while the Republican party's establishment is against, anti-establishment candidates like her, they do well. He mentioned President Ronald Reagan and U.S. Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma 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."
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."
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 did not happen. He announced his retirement from CNN a week later saying his tenure at CNN lasted longer than "most marriages." He later became a Fox News contributor.
Broadcast of insurgent-made video clip
In October 2006, CNN broadcast excerpts of a video filmed by Iraqi insurgents showing attacks on U.S. soldiers.[15] White House spokesman Tony Snow during a press conference commented on CNN's broadcast, describing the video as being part of insurgent propaganda and noted that "I'm sure the editors are savvy enough to know that when they get a video like this, it's designed less to give you a full and complete view of what's going on in the country than to create a sense of triumphalism for the killers of Americans. That's the intention of that. I think that's hard to dispute."[16] Representative Duncan Hunter asked the Pentagon to remove embedded CNN reporters, claiming that "CNN has now served as the publicist for an enemy propaganda film featuring the killing of an American soldier."[17]
Jeffrey Dvorkin, executive director of the Committee of Concerned Journalists called the CNN reporting an "important journalistic job", saying it is important for Americans to have a clear idea of what the military was going through in Iraq.[18]
2008 South Ossetian Conflict
During the 2008 South Ossetia War in Georgia, the state-run Russia Today accused CNN of "distorting" its coverage of the conflict by showing photos of destruction in Tskhinvali during a segment about Russian attacks on Georgian cities.[19] CNN defended its general coverage of the war against allegations of bias, but did not address the specific claim.[20]
2010 Thai Political Protests
During the 2010 Thai political protests which began with mobile protests and the seizure of the Ratchaprasong commercial area by "Red Shirt" supporters of the National United Front of Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD), reporters such as Dan Rivers were frequently criticized by members of CNN's own iReport for offering simplistic pro-protester, anti-government coverage[21]. CNN was also criticized for being pro-Thaksin Shinawatra[22] and providing less balanced coverage than other news networks such as Aljazeera[23] and the BBC [24].
Executives
Eason Jordan
Admits lobbying and minimizing atrocities
In April 2003, Eason Jordan, CNN's chief news executive, wrote an op-ed in the New York Times stating that he had 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. [8][full citation needed]
Resignation after accusations by blogger
In February 2005, Jordan resigned from CNN. The resignation came in response to controversy sparked after bloggers wrote that, at the recent World Economic Forum, Jordan had seemed to accuse the U.S. military of having purposely killed journalists. While Jordan acknowledged his remarks were not sufficiently clear, he denied that this was what he had meant to imply, saying that he had "great admiration and respect for the men and women of the U.S. armed forces."[25]
Rick Kaplan
Rick Kaplan served as president of CNN from 1997 to 2000. He is a personal friend, since 1977, of Bill Clinton, who was President of the United States during Kaplan's tenure. According to the Media Research Center, Kaplan's friendship, and political affinity, with Clinton affected the way the network covered the Monica Lewinsky scandal: "As the Lewinsky scandal broke, Kaplan leapt into action at CNN with two-hour specials attacking any and all Clinton critics. The programs included 'Media Madness,' which asked 'what the hell are you people doing' probing Bill Clinton’s sex life?; and 'Investigating the Investigator,' which described Ken Starr as 'suspect' over his 'religious and Republican roots.'"[26] Conservative commentator John Fund wrote that "During Mr. Kaplan's CNN tenure, there were no obvious examples of his coming to Mr. Clinton's aid," but that CNN's "executives create a perception problem when they hobnob with politicians."[27]
Individual commentators
Christiane Amanpour
Christiane Amanpour, a CNN reporter since 1983, has been accused of "advocacy journalism", or injecting opinion into what should be straight reporting, in her reports from various war zones. During the War in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a group of veterans calling themselves Americans from World War II placed an advertisement in The Washington Times which accused Amanpour of heavily pro-Bosnian reporting, including incorrectly describing a photo of Serbs mutilated by Croatian forces as having been of the victims of Serbs.[28]
In May 2006, Amanpour said, in an interview on Larry King Live, "the war in Iraq has basically turned out to be a disaster." Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly criticized this statement, saying "reporters are supposed to report, analysts are supposed to analyze."[29] In August 2007, CNN ran a documentary, God's Warriors, that Amanpour hosted and produced; the documentary was criticized by some for treating fundamentalist Jews and Christians much more harshly than fundamentalist Muslims. The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) stated that "there was a noticeably gentler and more cordial tone toward Muslim extremists in contrast to the often snide and hectoring tone displayed toward pro-Israel Americans and Israeli settlers."[30] Its president wrote that the documentary's chapter on fundamentalist and Zionist Jews was "the most poisonously biased and factually shoddy feature to air on mainstream American television in recent memory."[31]
Glenn Beck
In January 2006, Ken Jautz, president of CNN Headline News, hired conservative 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." [32] However, Media Matters for America and FAIR have reported that Beck had a history of controversial statements made on his radio show, including calling former President Jimmy Carter a "waste of skin",[33] hoping for the deaths of Dennis Kucinich and Michael Moore,[34] and telling a caller who claimed to have tortured foreign prisoners for the U.S. military, "I appreciate your service".[35] (Beck left CNN on October 16, 2008 to work at Fox News.)
Wolf Blitzer
- In November 1989 during a University panel CNN personality Wolf Blitzer declared his views on the Middle East conflict. [citation needed]
- In September 2005, during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, CNN´s Wolf Blitzer, on air, said of those remaining in New Orleans, "so many of these people, almost all of them that we see, are so poor and they are so black."[36]
Jack Cafferty
In March 2004, commentator Jack Cafferty received FAIR's "Outfoxing FOX Prize" for his comment about the soon-to-launch liberal Air America Radio network, which he referred to as a "Communist radio network".[37] In May 2006, Media Research Center's Newbusters described an "outraged" Cafferty as "ranting" that Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, in standing against government wiretapping, "might be all that’s standing between us and a full-blown dictatorship in this country."[38] In November 2006, Newsbusters reported that Cafferty referred to then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld as a "war criminal," a statement for which he apologized several hours later. According to Newsbusters, Cafferty's comment proved that he had "morphed into a complete Daily Kos/left wing clone."[39]
On the April 9, 2008 edition of CNN's "The Situation Room," Cafferty remarked that "Well, I don't know if China is any different, but our relationship with China is certainly different. We're in hock to the Chinese up to our eyeballs because of the war in Iraq, for one thing. They're holding hundreds of billions of dollars worth of our paper. We also are running hundred of billions of dollars worth of trade deficits with them, as we continue to import their junk with the lead paint on them and the poisoned pet food and export, you know, jobs to places where you can pay workers a dollar a month to turn out the stuff that we're buying from Wal-Mart.
So I think our relationship with China has certainly changed. I think they're basically the same bunch of goons and thugs they've been for the last 50 years." China's Foreign Ministry demanded an apology, and lawsuits were filed against Cafferty in Beijing.[40][41] Hundreds of Chinese-Americans held a protest on April 26, 2008 in front of CNN headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia for the anti-China comments.[42]
Lou Dobbs
In 2000, 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.[43] Dobbs returned the following year at the behest of CNN founder Ted Turner. Since returning, Dobbs has continuously railed against illegal immigration, offshoring, globalization, and free trade in his "War on the Middle Class" and "Broken Borders" segments. Journalist Kurt Andersen in an article in New York Magazine criticized CNN for allowing Dobbs' program, "Lou Dobbs Tonight", to become "an amazingly tendentious nightly CNN 'news' program that goes well beyond the line-blurring that Fox pioneered." [44] Lou Dobbs announced his resignation from CNN on November 11, 2009 on what would be his last show for that network. He didn't immdediately explain why in his exit speech, but it has been reported that CNN wanted him out and offered him $8 million to leave.[45] Later upon questioning Dobbs discussed his exit, "I tried to accommodate them as best I could, but I've said for many years now that neutrality is not part of my being."[45]
Technical issues
Obama/Osama name slip
On January 1, 2007, CNN used the name of then-US Senator, now President Barack Obama as a caption on a story about Saudi terrorist leader and al-Qaeda founder 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 it described as "a very bad typographical error." Blitzer himself apologized on the air for the slip and planned a call to Obama to offer his personal apology.[46]
Large "X" over Cheney's face
On Monday November 21, 2005, CNN flashed a large "X" over then-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. Conservative writer Michelle Malkin, in response to mail from readers with broadcasting experience, wrote that she was convinced it was just a mistake.[47] According to The New York Post, CNN later fired one of its switchboard operators over a telephone call during which the operator "lost his temper and expressed his personal views" of the incident to a caller.[48]
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 Ahmadinejad. 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.[49]
WWE
In November 2007, CNN aired Death Grip: Inside Pro Wrestling, a one-hour investigative report on professional wrestling. The report included footage from an interview with pro wrestler John Cena regarding steroids. According to World Wrestling Entertainment and Cena, CNN edited Cena's responses to make it seem as if he did not deny using steroids, while leaving room open for doubt that he did. His answer to the CNN interviewer's initial query of "Have you ever taken steroids?" was, "Absolutely not." Instead, CNN edited in a more detailed answer Cena had provided several minutes later during the same interview. Cena and the WWE demanded an apology from CNN. In response to their complaint, CNN issued this statement: "CNN felt that Mr. Cena's statement in the interview: "My answer to that question 'have you ever used steroids' is -- the only thing I can say -- I can't tell you that I haven't, but you'll never be able to prove that I have" was a more expansive and complete answer—and that's why we used it in the first run of the program. And we stand by that decision. But, we added the other quote on the Sunday replay where Mr. Cena first denied using steroids. We did this because of his complaint and the attention it received so that viewers could see how he said it both times." [50][51]
Keith Kerr
On November 28, 2007, Keith Kerr, a retired US Army Colonel and retired Brigadier General of the California State Military Reserve, was selected by CNN to ask a question at the Republican Presidential "YouTube Debate". Five months earlier, Kerr was listed on a (then Senator, now Secretary of State) Hillary Clinton press release as a member of the Steering Committee of the "LGBT [Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender] Americans For Hillary" [52] Kerr's question generated criticism of CNN for not disclosing Kerr's Clinton ties. CNN said it was unaware of the connection at the time and had paid Kerr's traveling expenses to the debate.[53] Kerr, who is gay, said that his appearance was a personal initiative and not coordinated with the Clinton campaign.[54]
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