CNN "Since When is Telling the Truth News?"

[kpete]

CNN "Since When is Telling the Truth News?"
by Rusty5329

Fri May 21, 2010 at 03:23:55 PM PDT

Thank you to Scarce for grabbing a photo:



CNN has a new tagline (a far more accurate tagline, if you ask me, than "America's Most Trusted Name in News"). Rick Sanchez just literally said it to me, "Since when is telling the truth news?"

I'll tell you when, Rick.

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........I was taken aback when I asked Rich Sanchez why he did not play the opening part of Blumenthal's speech and he replied, "Since when is telling the truth news?"

But this statement is exemplary of everything that is wrong with mainstream news outlets. They are more focused on the entertaining stories than they are on the important ones. Telling the truth is not news, because it does not get the same ratings. A lie is way sexier, and gosh-darnit, we will not have the truth getting in the way.

We deserve better. We deserve a media that puts truth above everything else.

Full Disclosure: I am a reporter for Sum of Change, and we believe that telling the truth is newsworthy.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/5/21/868691/-CNN-Since-When-is-Telling-the-Truth-News

[Usrename]

1. During times of universal deceit,

... telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. - the prophet George Orwell

[Lagomorph]

2. It wasn't long ago...

...that the press controlled everything. They spun it any way that suited them. These days, all this manipulating gets fact checked and the word gets out. It's taken out people from the Left and Right, but I like it this way. A lot of "voices" who like to play on people's emotions are getting outed.

[L0oniX]

3. They don't call the USA "The Great Satan" for nothing.

Satan = the father of the lie.

[political_Dem]

4. Since the RW and the corporations took control of the media? Never.