CNN's Cooper says he was mistaken on Muslim zones

[inanna]

Source: Associated Press

48 minutes ago

NEW YORK (AP) — CNN has joined Fox News Channel in saying that it was mistaken to report in the wake of an attack on the French newspaper Charlie Hebdo that there were neighborhoods in Europe considered "no go" zones for non-Muslims.

Fox apologized over the weekend for on-air comments made by pundits, including one who described the English city of Birmingham as "totally Muslim." In an interview with CNN's Christiane Amanpour, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo threatened to sue Fox over comments made about her city.

On Monday, CNN's Anderson Cooper aired a story on his program about what Fox had said. But The Washington Post subsequently pointed out the supposed "no go" zones were talked about on CNN the previous week — including on Cooper's program. Cooper even used one analyst's comments about Muslim-dominated areas as the basis for a question he put to another guest.

"If you are going to point fingers at other people's mistakes, you should also acknowledge your own mistakes and we didn't do that on the program," Cooper said on the air Wednesday night.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/cnns-cooper-says-mistaken-muslim-zones-180832816.html

[Spitfire of ATJ]

1. CNN cited FOX as a source?

[Fred Sanders]

5. They often do, and then run with the lie......because honest reporting on a lie is not a lie?

The American media is full of PR specialists and hucksters with an agenda....are folks ever going to be waking up for that?

[Spitfire of ATJ]

8. Some haven't gotten the memo that people don't depend on them for the news.

[Fred Sanders]

9. News? That is not what they do, that is no longer a major part of their mission.

Noam Chomsky has it right.

If workers are more insecure, that's very 'healthy' for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won't ask for wages, they won't go on strike, they won't call for benefits; they'll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that's optimal for corporations' economic health.

Noam Chomsky

Including a media corporations economic health as they gorge on the mana of CU and the right to lie and amplify lies without fact checking.

Folks need to see that memo.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

12. Republicans LIKE it when people feel bad about the economy....

I wonder how many remember when Dubya was running he was "talking down the economy".

Pundits warned you could end up with one as a result and as soon as he took office every economic indicator went straight DOWN.

Now everything is trending up so OF COURSE the American People (as Boner calls them) will vote for the assholes that will make things worse.

[arcane1]

2. Makes you wonder what else they pull out their ass and don't get caught for n/t

[closeupready]

3. Yeah, disappointing, because I like him and trust him.

I'll give him the benefit of the doubt.

[Fred Sanders]

6. How about CN reporting that the American embassy in Yemen was under imminent threat when it never was?

CN is Fox, minus Roger Ailes.

[SansACause]

4. This is the craziest crapfest ever.

How did something that was a complete fabrication become reported as fact on two different cable networks, and spoken as fact by a Governor of a US state while he was in Europe? The right-wing lies have now gotten so bad that even the right-wing can't figure out when they're lying or not.

[Fred Sanders]

7. They are all PR reps, not journalists. Sinclair Broadcasting just gave Ben Carson millions of dollar

of free free speech airtime.

[Mika]

10. Yesterday, NPR's "The World" was working on confirming that there are indeed no go zones...

.. and that Faux is quite possibly right.

[LiberalLovinLug]

11. They should be embarrassed.

"CNN's Anderson Cooper aired a story on his program about what Fox had said"

but it doesn't seem to bother them, they've been doing it for years. It reminds me of the first Dubya "win" when just because Fox News announced a projected win for Dubya, CNN and others quickly followed suit. That helped mold the common perception early that any resistance, such as demanding that the Florida state courts should be abided by and there should be a recount in their state, was pointless because every network that was any network had already proclaimed the winner.

Forget FAUX News, all of the major networks only employ "hosts", crews that produce the shows, and a small group of executives, beholden to the owners, that decide what and how news stories are presented. Journalism is not required. These hosts wake up on Monday morning, or whenever their week starts, rub the sleep out of their eyes and battle their hangover from partying with their celebrity friends and politicians all weekend, then stumble to work, and are handed their scripts to read. They are paid handsomely for this of course, and know they can be turfed like Cenk if they are at all toooooo curious about the actual truth of the story.

[Fred Sanders]

13. They are journalists, not skilled script following actors, celebrities that viewers can trust without question....cough..

[chrisa]

14. This is stupid. Who would actually think that was real?

Journalism barely exists anymore. They're like one of those supermarket tabloid magazines now.