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Old 10-20-2009, 03:53 PM   #5
pitoufsd

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They're all biased. CNN pisses me off regularly, so I tend to watch that network the most. I hated him at first, but I've become a big fan of Rick Sanchez of late (on each day at 3 p.m., EST). He seems to be an equal opportunity hater, like when he took on Whoopi Goldburg over the rapist filmaker (for which he later apologized for his coverage of that because it was unfair to Whoopi) and the way he's been taking on the Arizona sheriff who is currently at war with the Department of Homeland Security for his illegal immigration enforcement (which basically consists of "If it looks or sounds like a Mexican, arrest it").

I also like The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer because they routinely have panels that consists of liberals (Donna Brazile, Paul Begala, James Carville, etc.) and conservatives (Alex Castellanos, Bill Bennett) and middle-of-the-road analysts (David Gergen). The panels tend to result in very intelligent and thoughtful conversation from both sides; I appreciate that. And Jack Cafferty absolutely cracks me up.

But like everything else, nothing is perfect.
I do like The Situation Room. Wolf Blitzer's reports do try to be unbiased. I also watch Don Lemon (a different kind of wolf wolf) on the weekends on CNN.

I have to wonder if it's not a foregone conclusion that 24/7 news programming is going to show it's true colors no matter how "fair" they try and report. It's not like the newscasts of yesteryear when all the news of the day had to be reported in 30 minutes.
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