Rising Hegemon
Hey, CNN, let's have a paid BP Shill cloaked as one of your "contributors" come in and blame Obama instead of BP without stating he's a paid BP shill.
Just like you've done with the same asshole before.
Mmmmmm, that sounds like modern Village-based Journalism.
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No surprise. None of the networks have yet to admit their role in the Pentagon-directed military analysts program, and none of the major networks have yet to identify the myriad conflicts of interests that their military analysts have.
But, then, the networks haven't exactly renounced the principle of insulting the intelligence of their viewers. If they had, there would be no such thing as reality tv.
Having an unidentified paid corporate shill on to excuse the role of the corporation in question? Anything else would be un-american!
like a crapitalistic pravda.
Time for another blogger ethics panel.
When Karl Rove is on the tee-vee, he is listed as "political consultant" or some other innocuous term.
yadda, yadda, yadda...
CNN is even more insulting when you see the CNN International feed that plays in other countries, with way less of the stupid trivial slop and overexcited gotcha junk they feed to their domestic audience. The organization is capable of occasional journalism but they contemptuously choose to pump deliberately dumbed-down crap to Americans.
sorta like how steve mcmahon, posturing as a democratic strategist, went around dumping on the public option, fearmongering its inclusion would cost dems the house -- all without disclosing he was a paid shill for the chamber of commerce.
ugh, just googled, even mcmahon has BP ties.
As long as we're on the subject of propaganda, I intentionally subjected myself to NPR for a while today in the car when all the local classic rock stations were simultaneously playing non-hippie music. They had a wonderful light-news type story about what the Gitmo detainees like to watch on TV. Evidently they love some show about Extreme Fishermen, and are all abuzz about the World Cup. Why, it sounds just like a fun country club, except for the occasional extreme interrogations, the indefinite detention without due process, and the inability to get a fair trial. Thanks for the hard-hitting reporting, NPR!
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