Breaking: CNN's Stunning One-Sided Coverage of Health Care Summit

By mediapolitic
Daily Kos
Thu Feb 25, 2010 at 10:30:21 AM PST

In a stunning display of one-sided coverage, during the first three hours of coverage of the Health Care Summit televised so far, CNN only interrupted, whether for commercial or comment, Democratic speakers.

mediapolitic's diary :: ::
Yes, I could have watched the first three hours on C-SPAN, but I was interested in the balance of coverage.

I was stunned.

In the first three hours televised so far, CNN interrupted:

Pres. Obama (D) for a Chantax / Pfizer commercial
Rep. Steny Hoyer (D) (entire speech) for a Liberator medical device ad as well as an ad by American Future Fund featuring a lipstick-wearing pig which advocated "Tell Congress Start Over and Get Health Care Right."
Pres. Obama (D) for ads (including an ad by the Oil and Gas Industry)
Sen. Max Baucus (D-sorta) for ads
Rep. Robert Andrews (D) (entire speech) for comment
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D) for ads
Pres. Obama (D) for ads including another one by Pfizer
At this point, they did cut into the very tail end (couple seconds) of Rep. Charles Boustany's (R) comments but only to go to Rep. Anh Cao (R) for comment while not showing a couple moments of Pres. Obama (D) and several minutes of another Dem (didn't even see who he was!)
But oh, they came back straight away for Sen. McCain (R)!

Then they cut away from Kathleen Sibilieus (D) for commentary which they then interrupted their own commentary in order to catch all of Eric Cantor's (R) comments.
Then they cut away for the entire Rep. Louise Slaughter (D) comments.
I could understand a slight imbalance, but a total, complete one-sided coverage needs to be called out.

A question I have: is this one-sided coverage 1) on purpose; 2) unintentional, an act of the subconscious. And if so, what does that say about their producer / director? It's an either/or proposition.

Not to mention that their "commentators" include Rep. Anh Cao (R), David Gergen (R), Dana Bash (R) and Ben Stein (R-asshat).

This is what America is watching. The Most Trusted Name in News?? Actually, at this rate, they should change their entire name from CNN to Fox Lite.

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Editing to add contact info for complaints to CNN, MSNBC. Thanks to user dmhlt 66 for the bulk of the CNN contact info.

MSNBC: Phone: (212) 664-4444

CNN MAIN # 404-827-1500

CNN
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CNN NEWS CHIEF: Eason Jordan
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CNN NEWS DIRECTOR: Kim Bondy
Phone: 404.827-1500
FAX: 404.827-1099 And here is the rest of it.