Re: BIAS: CNN commits fraud, rewrites history, WAS: RE: "liberal media"

From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun May 18 2003 - 13:59:50 MDT

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    --- gts <gts_2000@yahoo.com> wrote:
    >
    > >Well, today I went looking at CNN.com for a transcript of that show.
    > >They have the transcript for every OTHER show broadcast that day, as
    > >well as all the shows broadcast so far TODAY, BUT there is no
    > >transcript of the LaPierre interview. It is like it never happened.
    > CNN
    > >is trying to rewrite history by selecting what broadcasts become
    > part
    > >of the permanent record online, and selecting what broadcasts the
    > >public has access to after the fact.
    >
    > Possibly. On the hand if the broadcast is truly full of factual
    > errors as
    > claimed then CNN would be acting responsibly by not publishing the
    > same bad
    > information on the internet while it considers a public retraction.

    You are misunderstanding. They published the erroneous and falsehood
    filled broadcast of the previous day (Thursday) on their transcripts
    site, without editing. What they are omitting is the interview with
    LaPierre (Friday) who accused them of fraud. This omission would only
    occur if they were seeking to rewrite history.

    >
    > Network news websites are not "permanent public records" in any legal
    > sense. If the NRA wants to sue CNN then they certainly won't need
    > evidence from the website to do so. The websites are merely
    > additional publications of the network, no different from
    > magazines. The networks are perfectly free to decide which
    > broadcast news segments will appear on their websites.

    Horse pucky. How many debates have we gotten into here where one side
    or the other takes the opinion that if it isn't documented online or
    other print form then it never happened and/or the person claiming so
    is wrong/lying/bsing??? LOTS.

    Internet publication (and the omission of such when all other facts ARE
    published online) is increasingly seen as establishing some sort of
    legitimate history. If CNN never publishes a transcript of the LaPierre
    interview anywhere, does not offer it on video to anyone, and does not
    acknowledge that it was ever broadcast, they are effectively rewriting
    history in a very Orwellian sense which we should all be quite wary of.

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    Mike Lorrey
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