CNN has truly gone around the bend. For years, it has positioned itself a "the place for news". Supposedly, CNN gave one the facts and not all that political commentary. Even so, CNN was reliably liberal, but in the past, it never had the truly strident leftist tone of MSNBC. It also lack many conservative voices. On top of that, its news personnel were mostly quite bland and boring. As a result, CNN's ratings were in the toilet. Something had to be done to raise ratings.
CNN seems to have chosen to be irresponsible, nutty and far left as a combination. Just look at what the network has done in the last two days. First, CNN broadcast the home address of the policeman involved in the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson. What is the news value in that? Why would CNN put the man's family at risk of attack by a mob? It was a boneheaded and indefensible thing to do. Second, CNN put forth the view today that ISIS is not a real threat to the USA, so nothing more needs to be done to stop the group. Here's how they phrased it:
Despite these dangers, however, the threat to the United States from foreign fighters in Syria and Iraq remains only a potential threat.
Are they kidding? A potential threat? All threats are "potential"; after all, the threat is that something more will happen, but it has not yet happened. Until 9-11, a terrorist hijacking a plane and flying it into a building in America was just a threat. Then it happened.
ISIS has killed thousands of people across the Middle East just because they do not follow Islam exactly in the manner required by ISIS. ISIS practices actual genocide; it is not the phony sort of genocide that populates the charges in every armed conflict. ISIS genocide consists of rounding up the Yazidi men in villages they conquer and burying them alive in mass graves. Then ISIS makes sex slaves of the women and takes the children. ISIS has made clear that it plans to wipe out all of the Yazidis. In CNN-speak, that is only potential genocide since there still are some Yazidis left. But is it not in the national interest of the USA to stop actual genocide?
ISIS has also announced that it plans to fly the flag of the prophet over the White House. Are we to consider that just a potential threat?
CNN has truly lost it.
CNN seems to have chosen to be irresponsible, nutty and far left as a combination. Just look at what the network has done in the last two days. First, CNN broadcast the home address of the policeman involved in the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson. What is the news value in that? Why would CNN put the man's family at risk of attack by a mob? It was a boneheaded and indefensible thing to do. Second, CNN put forth the view today that ISIS is not a real threat to the USA, so nothing more needs to be done to stop the group. Here's how they phrased it:
Despite these dangers, however, the threat to the United States from foreign fighters in Syria and Iraq remains only a potential threat.
Are they kidding? A potential threat? All threats are "potential"; after all, the threat is that something more will happen, but it has not yet happened. Until 9-11, a terrorist hijacking a plane and flying it into a building in America was just a threat. Then it happened.
ISIS has killed thousands of people across the Middle East just because they do not follow Islam exactly in the manner required by ISIS. ISIS practices actual genocide; it is not the phony sort of genocide that populates the charges in every armed conflict. ISIS genocide consists of rounding up the Yazidi men in villages they conquer and burying them alive in mass graves. Then ISIS makes sex slaves of the women and takes the children. ISIS has made clear that it plans to wipe out all of the Yazidis. In CNN-speak, that is only potential genocide since there still are some Yazidis left. But is it not in the national interest of the USA to stop actual genocide?
ISIS has also announced that it plans to fly the flag of the prophet over the White House. Are we to consider that just a potential threat?
CNN has truly lost it.
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