CNN’s Tea Party partnership: ‘odd’ at best, ‘unethical’ at worst

[Carnage251]

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/cutline/cnn-tea-party-partnership-odd-best-unethical-worst-165205711.html

"The idea of a cable news network so reviled by the far political right coming together with its fiercest critics to host anything is completely ludicrous," Grace Wyler wrote on Business Insider. "Instead of remaking itself into a network of noble, cooperative centrists, CNN just looked like a sell-out, pandering to Tea Partiers and Tea Party haters in one fell swoop.

From http://www.scottmartelle.com/blog.htm?post=811754

A major cable network is teaming up with a political splinter group as an (apparent) equal partner in a televised event. CNN didn't team up with political progressives, who helped shape the 2008 presidential campaign, during that election cycle. Yet here it is proudly teaming up with the Tea Partiers (who, they keep telling us, aren't even an identifiable group, but a shared mindset). My guess is CNN is more interested in wresting viewers from Fox than in maintaining its own credibility.

[NNN0LHI]

1. Someone didn't want us to see the true side of these sick fuckers until after it was too late

Wonder who would want that?

Don

[orpupilofnature57]

2. Since when was CNN ,a liberal news network?

[Fumesucker]

3. Yeah, and since when has CNN had credibility to lose?

All the media was cheerleading for the Iraq invasion, CNN included.

I haven't believed a word any of them say since then.

[progressoid]

5. I remember when the RW used to call it the Clinton News Network.

I suppose in contrast to Fox, it does seem liberal.

Man, our media is fucked up.

[Blue_Tires]

6. That went out of style in 1998...

and anything to the left of the weekly standard is 'liberal bias' to those people...

[The Genealogist]

10. "Liberal" in this context means "not 24 solid hours of right wing propaganda...

broken up only by commercials and a few weather reports and sports stories."

[Glimmer of Hope]

4. The Republican party sold too! The tea party is a fringe element

and they don't deserve a place at the table much less a role in decision making that effects our country. Hopefully associating with them at Monday's debate will backfire.

[stillwaiting]

7. It seems TPTB are continuing to further shift the Overton Window right.

I have been struck by how the media has been actively building the Tea Party movement.

Re-branding Republicans with the Tea Party movement's philosophy as representative of the Repub Party allows the Dems to further entrench
where they currently are positioned (i.e. a party spouting 1980's Republican values).

The Tea Party is SUCH a divisive and hateful movement that Jay Gould might be smiling even as he burns in hell (here's hoping anyway).
The robber barons will continue to get away with what they have the past 3+ decades by ensuring we are divided and HATE each other.

They will have to amp UP the hate even more as our way of life continues to erode in order to keep the focus off themselves, and this does
frighten me sometimes.

[Supersedeas]

8. Not to worry: Howie the Corporate Apologist Kurtz will deflect all allegations of criticism

[FrenchieCat]

11. I note that he is excellent at it....

I even wrote about it once....

Howard Kurtz of CNN "Reliable Sources" is a Biased News Critic! So why Bother?
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Howard-Kurtz-of-CNN-Relia-by-FrenchieCat-090418-312.html

[Scurrilous]

9. K & R

:thumbsup: