CNN's Sanjay Gupta is an assIn my books, you don't accuse someone of 'fudging the facts' on national television without having clear factual basis yourself
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Our news media here has turned into a right wing horror show. I can't stand listening or watching the news any more. It's either slanted hit pieces or feel-good pablum. There's rarely any mention of any place other than the US, except when there's some sort of strife that will make us feel lucky to live here.
Michael Moore is either adored or reviled. Here, in Leftyland, he's a hero; over the hills an hour or so east of here, he's an irritant.
this is an example of how the shock jocks, stern, imus, then the ideological ones (lumbaugh et al) have corrupted broadcast news. if it makes great video, and picking a fight with somebody is thought so to do, then we'll give it air time, and if it increases viewership of the so-called "news", then that's what we'll call news. it's not. it's baiting people, which i suppose is okay, but i don't want to watch it. now that i think about it, it's not ok, it's that michael vick bread and circus sadistic dog-fighting ethos. ugh.
p.s. the bbc world news is better. i promise. interestingly, it is the only news broadcast you can find here in d.c. on WHUT, the howard university public access station.
Hey, I saw you had linked to my blog through my blog stat widgets. I'm glad you found my content helpful, and thanks for the refence.
But basic professional ethics demand that public pronouncements made by health correspondents for major news networks should be based on evidence rather than on biased emotion.
That sums it up right there. Also I didn't note in my piece that Michael Moore was contacted about the report before it aired by Gupta's producer, and he sent her documentation of all his sources for all the facts in question ahead of time; and they still went with their misrepresentation of the facts in Sicko.
This all calls CNN into question all the way around.
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Michael Moore is either adored or reviled. Here, in Leftyland, he's a hero; over the hills an hour or so east of here, he's an irritant.
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now that i think about it, it's not ok, it's that michael vick bread and circus sadistic dog-fighting ethos. ugh.
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But basic professional ethics demand that public pronouncements made by health correspondents for major news networks should be based on evidence rather than on biased emotion.
That sums it up right there. Also I didn't note in my piece that Michael Moore was contacted about the report before it aired by Gupta's producer, and he sent her documentation of all his sources for all the facts in question ahead of time; and they still went with their misrepresentation of the facts in Sicko.
This all calls CNN into question all the way around.
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