Is CNN a "left wing" station?

[undeterred]

A relative told me she coudn't stand that left wing garbage. I don't have cable television so I don't watch it, but I was quite surprised to hear this.

[Quantess]

1. Only a FOX watcher would say something like that.

She's obviously a FOX fan.

[undeterred]

3. A Sarah Palin fan, in fact.

Someone who paid full price for her book.

[think]

9. Tell her you know who is funding the ground zero mosque

It's the 2nd largest investor in FoxNews Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal:

News Corp’s number-two shareholder funded ‘terror mosque’ planner

The opponents of the proposed Cordoba Initiative Islamic center planned for Lower Manhattan are fond of suggesting, by way of lengthy and often confusing chains of causation and association, that its principal planner, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, is connected to terrorism. "The imam has been tied to some shady characters," Fox Business Channel's Eric Bolling recently said, "so should we worry that terror dollars could be funding the project?" Blogger Pamela Geller, who has become a regular talking head on cable-news channels to denounce the mosque, has noted Rauf's involvement with a Malaysian peace group that funded the group that organized the Gaza flotilla under the headline, "Ground Zero Imam Rauf's 'Charity' Funded Genocide Mission."

full article:
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/upshot/news-corp-number-two-shareholder.html

[southernyankeebelle]

41. She wouldn't believe him. No matter what you say. CNN is Fox lite. I stopped watching it a long

time ago.

[IamK]

8. its left of FOX and right of MSNBC...... n/t

[Quantess]

10. Really? I disagree that CNN is to the left of MSNBC.

CNN "Headline News" featured 2 hours of Glenn Beck every weeknight, just a few years ago.

The USA simply doesn't have any major liberal media outlets.

Edit to add: Whoops! I misread your post.

[baldguy]

2. All news except the Holy Writ from the annointed Faux News is made up of left-wing lies.

You should have told her that studies prove that after viewing Fox News, people are actually stupider & less well informed.

[musicblind]

12. That wouldn't work

Science and studies are made up left-wing lies, don't ya know.

[TroglodyteScholar]

4. Only as left wing as Fox News is centrist. n/t

[yourout]

5. Yah right....

Not a chance.

Fox Lite.

[Xipe Totec]

6. More of a floppy dorsal fin - what passes for leftist in our present police state.

[JoePhilly]

7. Next chance you get, tell her Fox News is the best Comedy channel you've every seen.

And when her head explodes ...

[krucial]

11. No way

Your relative must be really,really way extreme right wing, for her to even think that CNN or any American media is near anything that is liberal or leftist.the closet thing to that i only two outlets WSW( www.wsws.org )or Counterpunch http://www.counterpunch.org/
Nothing else come even close.
For Liberal news, and anything near the truth or facts,one has to look outside of the US

[undeterred]

13. I don't watch it at all, but I remember somebody on DU saying CNN stood for

Certainly Not News. I don't have cable television, so I never get to see MSNBC either. I avoid Fox.

Living in liberal Madison, WI our local affiliates are all pretty good, including the Fox affiliate. So that leaves me with mainstream media or BBC news which I watch occasionally and some progressive radio that is carried on our local radio stations.

Its funny how news consumption has become a flavor like ice cream that people can limit themselves to.

[AmandaMae]

14. definitely not

Your relative must watch a lot of Fox News, because only in the alternate world of Fox are all the other media stations liberal.

[Skittles]

15. let me guess

she only watches "Fox News"

[nadinbrzezinski]

17. IF we were talking of CNN International you could make the case

that SOME programing is balanced... for the FOX viewer that means left wing... otherwise, no, not really.

That is the power of propaganda. The American CNN meant for the home market is slightly, depends on the day truly, more balanced than FOX. Both are Establishment media. MSNBC goes for the more progressive market, they are still establishment corporate media. CURRENT, now that is more to the left. Don't get me started on RT.

[undeterred]

20. I think her church probably tells her anything but FOX is left wing.

And they probably think the MSM is left wing too, which is a hoot. They are all corporate owned and interview only Republicans on the Sunday morning shows... makes no sense at all that liberals would do that.

[freshwest]

18. No.

[RainDog]

19. no. Democracy Now is left wing. CNN is corporate media

this is the problem in the U.S.

people don't actually hear left wing media for the most part. they think anything to the left of John Birch is left. Anything to the left of John Birch is merely moving toward sanity.

[Hulk]

21. Can't stomach CNN

Here in Mexico the cable company is throwing in fox propaganda network and CNN; and to be honest, I prefer fox. It is so ridiculous at least I can laugh at it. CNN is a network of worthless shills with no balls.

[unionworks]

22. Sheep Blitzer

...is left wing? HAHAHAHAHA! I still remember the time he asked Cheney about his daughters sexual orientation during an interview. Snarlys fangs came out, and Sheep crapped his pants and fell over backwards apologizing...

[jberryhill]

32. Blitzer started on Pat Robertson's network

[unionworks]

35. Thanks for the insight n/t

[Angleae]

23. It all depends on how far left or right you are.

Those on the right view it as left wing, those on the left view it as right wing. I view it as a tabloid.

[calimary]

24. HARDLY!!!

They're about as left-wing as I am a teabagger.

[seabeyond]

25. cnn works so hard at not being left, it leaves them allowing rightwing bullshit lies. nt

[center rising]

26. No, CNN is not left wing.

I would hardly call CNN anything at all. However, MSNBC is left wing.

[unionworks]

29. Msnbc is left wing?

Ed Shultz is good old FRD democrat. That is now considered left wing by repubs.

[unionworks]

30. Oops!

I meant "FDR" democrat.

[Kalidurga]

27. I rarely watch MSM...

went they go back to reporting the news instead of providing news lite/entertainment or infotainment as I call it, I might start watching again.

[Initech]

28. In the corporate media, the "left wing station" doesn't exist.

It's a typical stupid Fux/Limbaugh/Teabagger talking point that they just made up.

[jberryhill]

31. Oh, yeah, it is broadcast from Cuba

[dipsydoodle]

36. Its broadcast IN Cuba

They get the World Pacific Edition which is about as useful there as a chocolate teapot.

[ErikJ]

33. Its the news they dont report that's important

Their corporate advertisers hold a dagger over them if anything they dont like is exposed.

[Politicalboi]

34. Some Repukes (My brother)

Called it Clinton News Network back in the day in 2000. LOL!

[Douglas Carpenter]

37. "The election of Barack Obama in NO WAY WHATOEVER indicates a shift to the left in public opinion"

"The last thing he will want to do is alienate voters by pushing a left-wing agenda."I remember John King on the morning Barack Obama was elected - over and over again he kept stressing this point as he equally stressed the point that when Scott Brown won the Senate race from Massachusetts this represented a seismic change in political attitudes even in liberal Massachusetts. I also remember how CNN ran with the White Water story from earliest days of the Clinton Administration and did everything they could try take Clinton down – relentlessly from day one without ever taking a break. Then during the 2000 election season how they did everything they could to berate Al Gore and portray him as a liar and an out of touch elitist. Then immediately as soon as Fox New “called” Florida and the election for Bush – there was CNN faithfully doing their duty and pushing the Fox News line and knowingly and intentionally representing the scene created in Dade County by GOP operatives as if it was ordinary people standing up for a fair election. We all remember how CNN refused to even cover absolutely pertinent information about the registration fraud and election fraud in Florida. Then in 2004 they played the same game all over again with John Kerry. In fact Kerry couldn't even finish a sentence without some right-wing ding-bat trying to spin everything he said. And of course no one can possibly deny the absolutely crucial role CNN played in intententionally tricking the American public into supporting the invasion of Iraq. All of this goes without even having to mention how CNN represents any challenge to neoliberal economics and "war on terror" assumptions aa crank opinions that are way beyond the pale. I suppose if Fox News sets the standard - CNN may sound left-wing. I guess that's what counts for "left-wing."

[deutsey]

38. No way...and although MSNBC may "lean forward" it's not left wing either.

MSNBC's evening talk shows are definitely liberal, but the station itself can hardly be considered left.

Your relative's head would probably explode if she ever saw something that was genuinely left wing (like Pacifica's Democracy Now!).

[barbtries]

39. i don't think so.

i read on a blog thread today someone actually believes that fox tells both sides of a story. the ignorance is astounding.

[TheKentuckian]

40. A few notches to the left of Faux, on a good day. There is no "left" MSM, not even MSNBC.

[JHB]

42. Not in the least. We're lucky when they aren't just trying to imitate Fox

Listen to Pacifica Radio sometime. You don't have to agree with them, but it's tremendous immunization against claims that any of the mainstream media are "left wing" or "liberal".

[Jamaal510]

43. Fox News is far-right, while CNN is center-right IMO.

While they don't blatantly smear liberals and Democrats as much as Fox News does, there are numerous cases where they fail to call out Republicans on any lies they tell or ask the hardball questions. They treat both sides the same, even though their side tends to be the chief culprits in our country's woes.