CNN Mocks Texas Town For Backing Father Who Killed

[DipStick]

Originally Posted by JoeRider

I am not up to speed on this yet, but Breitbart does not get it wrong. Stay tune for my comments.

In this case, they did.

[PsyOps (Premo)]

Originally Posted by DipStick

Nobody knows that they didn't add commentary. Nobody on here knows if it aired on CNN Newsroom or not. All we have to that effect is the word of two websites that said that it was CNN's report.

And the CNN.com report doesn't include any of the "mocking" language the KHOU report doesn't.

You guys are grasping at straws to get outraged over something, and then getting outraged at the wrong people.

Is it really that hard for everyone to admit Daily Caller and Breitbart.com got it wrong?

First of all, I’m not outraged over anything. It is what it is.

In this report, I can see how CNN through some little subtle jabs at this local community that you don’t realize until it gets pointed out. It comes off as if they are trying to conjure up the stereotype of some backwoods, hicktown, vigilante mentality; where they believe most people will come away with a negative image of this community rather than rather a clear outrage that this guy was molesting a child. So, in the report, you don’t hear FIRST out of their mouths about the molestation of a child; you hear about a beer-making, redneck, vigilante-mentality community.

I’m giving a point-of-view. After watching plenty of CNN over the years I am comfortable feeling they have a slightly-left-of-center bias. So everything I see from that network will be viewed from a certain level of skepticism. The same is the case with Fox. They have a right-of-center bias. So I watch them with that already in my mind.

All of them, in my opinion, have a tabloid mentality in their reporting. They want to report things in a way that gets peoples’ emotions elevated. They want to elicit anger and outrage. And they want to entertain. I’m okay with being entertained on some things. They’re not much interested in reporting just the news; the raw facts. When it comes to ‘NEWS’ I want the facts; the truth. Not some spin to get me to think one way or the other.

[FromTexas]

Really? Where did CNN say any implication that the father is unjustified in either report?

As for people talking like that from Shiner, you would be hard pressed to find someone who doesn't talk yokel there. It was a one stop light town till Shiner started being brewed there.

I don't see any advocation by CNN that this is unfair. You let someone's slant paint CNN where there wasn't any implied.

As far as the way its portrayed, that is the way it would be portrayed on a local station in Texas... We would all have agreed no judge or jury was necessary with what the father caught.

The fact that you all take people talking that way as trying to paint people as stupid, shows how little you think of people that talk that way. It doesn't say they aren't smart.

[DipStick]

Originally Posted by FromTexas

Really? Where did CNN say any implication that the father is unjustified in either report?

As for people talking like that from Shiner, you would be hard pressed to find someone who doesn't talk yokel there. It was a one stop light town till Shiner started being brewed there.

I don't see any advocation by CNN that this is unfair. You let someone's slant paint CNN where there wasn't any implied.

As far as the way its portrayed, that is the way it would be portrayed on a local station in Texas... We would all have agreed no judge or jury was necessary with what the father caught.

The fact that you all take people talking that way as trying to paint people as stupid, shows how little you think of people that talk that way. It doesn't say they aren't smart.

There isn't a person in the world who disagrees with what the father did. The KHOU-TV report hit that. Hell, if I had a daughter and seen what this dude saw, they wouldn't have to worry about a thing because I'd take care of the conviction, execution and burial process.

[JoeRider]

Originally Posted by DipStick

It's still a CNN affiliate's report.

This is the same flawed logic Media Matters uses when criticizing FOX, when some guest (who is not a FOX employee) says something stupid on FOX so they say FOX is stupid. Would it be fair for me to say FOX is stupid everytime Kirsten Powers makes an idiotic remark (which is everytime she's on the air or everytime she logs on her twitter account)?

It's flawed logic. Bite the bullet on this one, Brietbart.com and Daily Caller screwed up.

Big difference between guest and affiliate. Affiliate - That is like McDonald in Georgia is the same in Maryland. The fact the HQ is hosting it connects the dots. Brietbrat rules.

[DipStick]

Originally Posted by JoeRider

Big difference between guest and affiliate. Affiliate - That is like McDonald in Georgia is the same in Maryland. The fact the HQ is hosting it connects the dots. Brietbrat rules.

CNN has no more control over its affiliates than FOX has over its guests.

[PsyOps (Premo)]

Originally Posted by DipStick

CNN has no more control over its affiliates than FOX has over its guests.

Yes they do... they can choose not to air them.

[DipStick]

Originally Posted by PsyOps

Yes they do... they can choose not to air them.

And FOX can choose not to book Kirsten Powers.