Poll: Is CNN Moving in the right direction?

[Ian David]

Poll question: Poll: Is CNN Moving in the right direction?

According to a CNN Poll:
http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/02/02/sotu.poll/index.html
Bush showed almost as much improvement on Iraq, with 78 percent of respondents saying U.S. policy there is heading in the right direction, a 12 percentage point increase over pre-speech polling. Overall, 77 percent of respondents said Bush is taking the country in the right direction after the speech compared to 67 percent beforehand.

The strong positives for the president's policies may in part be a reflection of the poll's sample. Of the 485 people surveyed, 52 percent identified themselves as Republicans, 25 percent as Democrats and 22 percent as independents. The poll was done by telephone interviews and has a margin of error of plus or minus 5 percentage points.

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Now, note that the poll doesn't say how many DEMOCRATS approved of Bush's programs.

[mattclearing]

1. CNN is a joke.

Nothing they do can make me watch.

A step in the right direction: Getting sold back to Ted Turner.

[Ian David]

2. Hail Turdonia!

[KansDem]

10. The "Yawning Boy" story cemented its whore status...

Remember when David Letterman ran the video of the yawning boy behind one of Bush's campaign speeches? Letterman ran it for humor, yet:

1. CNN reported that the Letterman Show altered the video;
2. Letterman Show denied it;
3. CNN then reported it got a call from the White House saying DL altered the video;
4. WH denied it;
5. CNN finally admitted to lying about the whole thing.

CNN is a joke; a "bad joke" but a joke, nonetheless.

[riverwalker]

3. saw Solidad interview Boxer this am

how can a news anchor be so ignorant?
Solidad O'Brien: the President says SS will be bankrupt by 2052.
Barbara Boxer: Thats not true..
Solidad: (interupting) but the President said so.
Boxer: Solidad, that is not true, let me explain...
Solidad: (interupting again)But the President said...

Gawd help us all.

[dannynyc]

6. Boxer made Solidad look like the idiot she is

(I'm paraphrasing - don't have exact quotes)

Solidad - But in 1999, President Clinton said SS would fall apart
Boxer - I doubt very much President Clinton said that
Solidad - Yes, right here, he said by 2013 the fund would need money
Boxer - Yes, and we fixed it. As with all families, as time goes on, you need to adjust to actual income and expenses

***
Solidad - Look at this survey
<All items - support for SS change, Iraq situation, etc, shows 70% + in support of Bush>
Boxer - Is that a survey of people who WATCHED the speech
Solidad - Yes
Boxer - Well

*****
On SS -
Boxer - I was a stock broker. The stock market does not insure security. Many people around me lost their life's savings in Enron

****
Solidad - The pResident made a comment that people should have the same option you - meaning Congress - have regarding private accounts
Boxer - Yes, we have private accounts. But, that is on top of our defined benefit pension plan. I have no problems with allowing people to have private accounts. The problem is when those accounts replace social security

****
Boxer - comments about $2 trillion required to fund SS transision. Where will the money come from?
Solidad - NO comment

****
Boxer is great!!

[methinks2]

7. Solidad,

I have a bridge in brooklyn the President wants me to sell you. :+

[Roland99]

4. Cancel your Cable TV and Satellite!!

Show them we won't listen or watch their BS anymore!

<---- 10 weeks w/o cable TV!

[PEmboli]

9. Not in a million years!!

Sorry. I love my TV. We get 595 channels now!

[KansDem]

12. Congratulations!

However, 595 x 0 is still 0...

[Roland99]

13. I love my daughters...hence I tossed it

Having a lot more fun actually reading about the world instead of seeing it through the rose-colored glasses of our MSM.

Not to mention the better quality time I have with my girls now. :)

[liveoaktx]

14. Won't because I watch Democracy Now and LinkTV-BUT

with Dish, you can block channels. CNN is not on my channel list

[Roland99]

16. I wish one could buy channels a la carte over satellite or cable

I'd get the networks (for reception reasons), C-SPAN channels, Court TV, Discovery channels, A&E, Comedy Central (for The Daily Show) and the History channels. Oh, and maybe NASA TV.


That's it.

[Donna Zen]

5. Arundhati Roy

"It's a mistake to think that the corporate media supports the neo-liberal project. It is the neo-liberal project. It is the nexus, the confluence, the convergence, the union, the chosen medium of those who have power and money."

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[KansDem]

11. I couldn't find that statistic in the article...

Perhaps it was just one loooooong standing caused by jock itch?

[McCamy Taylor]

15. CNN is moving in the Right Wing direction.

:mad: :nuke: :mad: