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03/23/2003 Archived Entry: "Sick of CNN"

CNN is REALLY bugging me.

None of the things that I think are interesting and important going on in this current situation are showing up. The coverage is so impaired and biased that it's completely disgusting.

Things like:

• A 26 year veteran, State Department Award for Heroism winner, "Deputy Chief of Mission in our Embassies in Sierra Leone, Micronesia, Afghanistan (briefly) and Mongolia" resigns, citing "administration's policies on Iraq", "administration's lack of effort in resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict", "administration's lack of policy on North Korea", "administration's policies on Unnecessary Curtailment of Rights in America", she writes a letter of resignation to Colin Powell. Article here
  
• The Lieutenant Colonel Tim Collins speech below
  
• Fighting on the streets of Iraq's second city 'leaves 77 civilians dead'
  
• Info that the US expected a 'walkover' in a badly-planned situation that turned into a battle.

I have an idea...spread the word that the US (and other country) citizens deserve real news, and have access to it from other sources if CNN won't give it. The best way to do this is to go to CNN and search for the above items and others that you feel are important on their site. They won't be able to ignore their own records of what their visitors want.

Replies: 4 comments

Interesting... I use Google news a lot, myself. It's still listed as beta, but it gets a lot of what I'm looking for. Posted by adiplomat @ 03/24/2003 10:57 AM PST

Damn Opera anyway! Sorry, Greg. Posted by adiplomat @ 03/24/2003 11:00 AM PST

Damn Opera anyway! Sorry, Greg. Posted by adiplomat @ 03/24/2003 11:02 AM PST