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Is CNN left-wing biased?

Is CNN left-wing biased?

  • Yes... CNN is a left-wing propaganda machine

    Votes: 19 33.9%

  • There may be a slight bias, but no big deal

    Votes: 27 48.2%

  • CNN's reporting is slightly to the right of center

    Votes: 8 14.3%

  • CNN are capitalist pigs, the government should nationalize it

    Votes: 2 3.6%
  • Total voters
    56
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Check out the following interview from this morning with Mayor Giuliani, and make your own determination. In particular, listen to Soledad Obrien as they start to discuss Libya, and take a look at the other reporters chiming in.

They simply can't help themselves, as their left-wing ideology just bubbles over.

The mayor actually has to call her out on it.

 
Peter Grimm said:
Check out the following interview from this morning with Mayor Giuliani, and make your own determination. In particular, listen to Soledad Obrien as they start to discuss Libya, and take a look at the other reporters chiming in.

They simply can't help themselves, as their left-wing ideology just bubbles over.

The mayor actually has to call her out on it.

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O'Brien is the only one I have a huge problem with, as this type of thing happens regularly. I think most of the others on the network are liberals, but don't let it affect their reporting very much.
 
Anderson Cooper and Piers Morgan clearly tilt to the left, but on balance, I do not find the network as a whole that biased in the stories they cover the way MSNBC or Fox are.
 
As I've said before, in terms of personalities, presentation, and focus...

Fox News revels in their general staunch right leaning slant

MSNBC revels in their general staunch left leaning slant

CNN attempts to temper and moderate their left leaning slant.

Essentially....

If a 50 was a purely neutral entity, 0 a purely liberal, and 100 a purely conservative....

Fox would be a 75. MSNBC would be a 25. CNN would likely be a 35 to 40 by and large.
 
I like Soledad Obrien though, even though she's way out of line here. Her special reports are usually pretty good.

American TV journalism, on the whole, has gone down the tubes.

This interview certainly isn't "unbiased reporting." That's self-evident.
 
I only access CNN.com and CNNMoney. I don't have cable TV so I can't speak to that. I don't notice terribly much of a bias, except the usual bias toward attention-grabbing material. This means they won't talk about a lot of complex issues. Just stuff that will capture the attention span of the most viewers/readers.
 
There may be a bit of a bias but it's nothing that gets in the way of their journalism and news-delivery. The same cannot be said for the other two cable "news" networks.
 
I hear various people say it is, but since I never watch TV I have no idea.
 
CNN has a pretty good mix of pundits. Their partisans are for the most part fairly reasonable (or at least good-natured and upfront about it), and their hosts do a good job of being balanced.

Sometimes, the result is that their coverage is very hokey and not very deep, though.

CNN is the only network I watch, because I can't stand MSNBC or FOXNews.
 
CNN does lean left. This close to an election is when you really notice it. I remember in 2008 about this time, I was deployed overseas and I had limited choices of news channels, and I watched a lot of CNN’s coverage of that election…and it was horrible. I was so frustrated from that I blocked CNN channels on my TV when I got home. However, I know CNN can be ok at times, but again, when it gets so close to a Presidential election their journalism standards seem to go out the window.

As far as Fox News Channel, as I often say, when they are reporting the news like they do most of the day, they are truly fair and balanced. Some people seem to confuse the opinion shows for the actual news reporting, and they think Fox is some sort of MSNBC type place where it is 24/7 opinion shows. Watch Fox most of the day, it is showing a fair assessment of what is going on. Now, if you are watching Hannity that is clearly a conservative leaning opinion type show, don’t judge the whole channel because of that. Hannity is the most right leaning there. As for the others: O’Reilly is an independent and it shows; The Five is a mixed bag; Greta Van Susteren is a moderate (I remember when she was on CNN). The only reason Fox is so incredibly successful, is because one, there apparently was a market for fair and balance reporting that wasn’t being filled. Two, those opinion shows weren’t being showed anywhere else.
 
Zyphlin said:
As I've said before, in terms of personalities, presentation, and focus...

Fox News revels in their general staunch right leaning slant

MSNBC revels in their general staunch left leaning slant

CNN attempts to temper and moderate their left leaning slant.

Essentially....

If a 50 was a purely neutral entity, 0 a purely liberal, and 100 a purely conservative....

Fox would be a 75. MSNBC would be a 25. CNN would likely be a 35 to 40 by and large.
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That seems about right. CNN does tilt a bit left, but not as much as MSNBC
 
i usually watch both Cnn and Cnn turk and can claim " no" :mrgreen:
 
I don't know. I do not watch enough American news to know this. So I voted that they are capitalist pigs and need to be nationalised.
 
I don't think they're as bad as MSNBC or Fox in terms of bias. I don't really watch much of any of them, though. After the debates I flip between them to see how the pundits spin them, but I don't take any of it very seriously.
 
Yes, but I did not previously know what OBrien has done. There have been countless occasions where there were subtle comments or guided questions that had been rather biased in favor of the American liberal viewpoints.
 


She's comical in her John Sununu interview.
 
Fisher said:
Anderson Cooper and Piers Morgan clearly tilt to the left, but on balance, I do not find the network as a whole that biased in the stories they cover the way MSNBC or Fox are.
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I don't know how true it is but I read some place Anderson Cooper isn't nearly as liberal as he comes off and fights with CNN repeatedly over his content. Overall I think CNN is more biased then Fox but less than MSNBC.
 
CNN is by far closer to the center than any other network. is it completely unbiased? no, my guess is that most of the on air personalities lean left. is it hopelessly ruined by bias like Fox or MSNBC? not even close.

i will say that it's the only one of the three that i can still stand to watch. fox is a sensationalized commercial for the right, and MSNBC is almost a left wing parody of fox, splitting its time between confirmation bias and celebrity prison sex part five. i find both unwatchable.
 
Zyphlin said:
As I've said before, in terms of personalities, presentation, and focus...

Fox News revels in their general staunch right leaning slant

MSNBC revels in their general staunch left leaning slant

CNN attempts to temper and moderate their left leaning slant.

Essentially....

If a 50 was a purely neutral entity, 0 a purely liberal, and 100 a purely conservative....

Fox would be a 75. MSNBC would be a 25. CNN would likely be a 35 to 40 by and large.
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I pretty much agree with this with different numbers but the premis is the same.


0 nuetral
-10 Left
+ 10 Right

Fox 11
Msnbc -9.5
Cnn -3
 
Objective-J said:
I pretty much agree with this with different numbers but the premis is the same.


0 nuetral
-10 Left
+ 10 Right

Fox 11
Msnbc -9.5
Cnn -3
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I don't watch TV, but I had the impression that Fox was at worst in the 7-9 range...Why 11?
 
Donahue said:
I don't know how true it is but I read some place Anderson Cooper isn't nearly as liberal as he comes off and fights with CNN repeatedly over his content. Overall I think CNN is more biased then Fox but less than MSNBC.
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I don't know how you can say that.
 
Peter Grimm said:
Check out the following interview from this morning with Mayor Giuliani, and make your own determination. In particular, listen to Soledad Obrien as they start to discuss Libya, and take a look at the other reporters chiming in.

They simply can't help themselves, as their left-wing ideology just bubbles over.

The mayor actually has to call her out on it.

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I don't really think one can consider the entirety of a news network based on a single interview.
 
samsmart said:
I don't really think one can consider the entirety of a news network based on a single interview.
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Well, that interview was demonstrative of unique situations where the anchors could gang-up on a guest and provide group-think. The biases carry over through the network, but not usually like that.
 
I'm not sure about bias, and I am not sure this question makes much sense. It suggests that there are always two equally valid viewpoints on a story.

But that's not true. Often, one side simply tells lies, falsehoods and propaganda, and the other is right. There are not always two equally valid viewpoints. Sometimes, there is just one true and one wrong viewpoint.

When a news station does not investigate and check the facts, it's simply bad journalism. The media and public sphere is supposed to check the government. When it simply takes sides, that's bad journalism.

When, for example, Bush claimed Iraq had WMD (an obvious lie everybody who did the slightest bit of investigation would have known), and a news station did not call him on it, that means bad journalism. When it calls Bush on it, that doesn't mean "left bias", but good journalism. Likewise, when the Obama government tells factually wrong propaganda about Obamacare, and the news station does not call Obama on it, that's bad journalism. When it does, that does not mean "right bias".

When a news station replaces analysis of a topic with cheap talking points and simplifying propaganda either for or against it, that's simply bad journalism.

I get CNN Europe, MSNBC Europe and BBC over here. From what I can tell, CNN and MSNBC are mostly crap, while BBC is much better.
 
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Peter Grimm said:
Check out the following interview from this morning with Mayor Giuliani, and make your own determination. In particular, listen to Soledad Obrien as they start to discuss Libya, and take a look at the other reporters chiming in.

They simply can't help themselves, as their left-wing ideology just bubbles over.

The mayor actually has to call her out on it.

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CNN is well known to be a Democratic Party mouthpiece. 15 years ago or so it was nicknamed the Clinton News Network

Ted Turner is a big lefty
 
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