I recently subscribed to SlingTV which has CNN as the news channel.
It has been probably 7-8 years since I have watched the channel regularly.
Now that I have - holy cow. They are terrible. The only difference between MSNBC and CNN is that CNN is less obvious about their liberal bias.
Take this morning. They are reporting on the Iran situation. They bring in an "expert" I had never seen in my life. He served under Colin Powel, and a professor somewhere.
Anyway - he goes on to say how the talks are going well - AND - that the deal is a good one.
So he and the anchor goes on about how good the deal is without giving any specifics. Or specifying just where does he get his information.
Then during a discussion about "The 47" - the anchor asked "are you able to talk to any of your fellow Republicans and try to change their minds? --- He answers not only YES, but goes on to say how he has been "aggressively talking to them". And gives his opinion on the chance of any changing their minds. Then she asked "which members of the 47 have you talked to" -- Get ready for it -- here it comes --- "well I have not been able to talk to any of the 47 but I would love to".......
The guy just lied on national television. He just allowed the insinuation that he has been talking to the 47, but when pressed for what actual members - "uh..uh.."
So what does the anchor do? Quickly changes the subject.
Secondly, in another setting 3 panel members are talking about the letter , and asking why are they going against the American people on this - "even 67% of Republicans agree with the Obama deal" and go on about how they can't believe they are doing this. Blah Blah...and then at the end of the segment they post up the poll that shows how Americans agree "overwhelmingly" with Obama's deal....but wait...
The poll question - "Do you support direct talks with Iran to come to a deal over nuclear weapons"....WTF? They just spent 5 minutes spinning this poll to frame a narrative that the "47" are going against even their own parties wishes.
I had no idea they were this bad.
It has been probably 7-8 years since I have watched the channel regularly.
Now that I have - holy cow. They are terrible. The only difference between MSNBC and CNN is that CNN is less obvious about their liberal bias.
Take this morning. They are reporting on the Iran situation. They bring in an "expert" I had never seen in my life. He served under Colin Powel, and a professor somewhere.
Anyway - he goes on to say how the talks are going well - AND - that the deal is a good one.
So he and the anchor goes on about how good the deal is without giving any specifics. Or specifying just where does he get his information.
Then during a discussion about "The 47" - the anchor asked "are you able to talk to any of your fellow Republicans and try to change their minds? --- He answers not only YES, but goes on to say how he has been "aggressively talking to them". And gives his opinion on the chance of any changing their minds. Then she asked "which members of the 47 have you talked to" -- Get ready for it -- here it comes --- "well I have not been able to talk to any of the 47 but I would love to".......
The guy just lied on national television. He just allowed the insinuation that he has been talking to the 47, but when pressed for what actual members - "uh..uh.."
So what does the anchor do? Quickly changes the subject.
Secondly, in another setting 3 panel members are talking about the letter , and asking why are they going against the American people on this - "even 67% of Republicans agree with the Obama deal" and go on about how they can't believe they are doing this. Blah Blah...and then at the end of the segment they post up the poll that shows how Americans agree "overwhelmingly" with Obama's deal....but wait...
The poll question - "Do you support direct talks with Iran to come to a deal over nuclear weapons"....WTF? They just spent 5 minutes spinning this poll to frame a narrative that the "47" are going against even their own parties wishes.
I had no idea they were this bad.