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DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)
Thu Nov 16, 2017, 10:42 AM Nov 2017

I notice a difference between CNN and MSNBC

When a right wing flack appears on CNN they question him or her but rarely challenge their answers. I assume that is because they want them to come back. It makes a kind of sense but leaves their lies and obscurantism unchallenged. When a right wing flack comes on MSNBC and tries to mislead or obscure he or she is strenuously challenged.

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I notice a difference between CNN and MSNBC (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Nov 2017 OP
Cuomo challenges as does Lemon. moda253 Nov 2017 #1
Cuomo and Lemon yes, Wolf and Tapper, not so much... DemocratSinceBirth Nov 2017 #4
Tapper also. brush Nov 2017 #7
CNN lost me years ago... completely unwatchable!! InAbLuEsTaTe Nov 2017 #2
stephanie ruhle is a pitbull spanone Nov 2017 #3
Same with CNBC. HughBeaumont Nov 2017 #5
As said by the editor of the small-town paper where I used to work... JaneQPublic Nov 2017 #6
I think you are way off base - Don Lemon challenges rw spin all the time, Sephanie Ruhle DrDan Nov 2017 #8
Next to MSNBC, I think CNN does a better job than anyone else. kentuck Nov 2017 #9

HughBeaumont

(24,461 posts)
5. Same with CNBC.
Thu Nov 16, 2017, 10:46 AM
Nov 2017

The Fascists are allowed carte blanche with their idiotic economics while anyone to the left of Claire McCaskill is roasted like a turkey and carved just the same.

JaneQPublic

(7,113 posts)
6. As said by the editor of the small-town paper where I used to work...
Thu Nov 16, 2017, 10:49 AM
Nov 2017

"We don't print lies."

That same principle should apply to TV news.

So when their guests unload a pile of inaccurate BS on the listener, CNN hosts are derelict in their duty as journalists to sit there and quietly listen to the lies, giving their tacit approval.

Real TV journalists do like the best MSNBC hosts: Real-time fact-check those lying MoFos.

DrDan

(20,411 posts)
8. I think you are way off base - Don Lemon challenges rw spin all the time, Sephanie Ruhle
Thu Nov 16, 2017, 10:56 AM
Nov 2017

and several others do also.

Wolf . . . not so much.

kentuck

(111,097 posts)
9. Next to MSNBC, I think CNN does a better job than anyone else.
Thu Nov 16, 2017, 10:58 AM
Nov 2017

I am hesitant to criticize them for the job they are doing. Cuomo and Camerota do a great job in the morning, in my opinion.

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