Bulldog Reporter announces that Fox News is pulling head of CNN again after the latter had a brief respite from a six year slump in the popularity of its news content. MSNBC continues at a sad and distant third.

Now, I don't know that Fox news coverage, integrity, blah, blah, blah is all that much better in quality that CNN's. But it certainly is different in terms of its bias. All news is biased because all news is reported by humans and all humans are biased.

Furthermore, we tend to associate with those who most share our interests and worldviews, so it follows that a network that is built of reporters who associate on conservative worldviews is going to be conservative. Likewise for a liberal network.

And that's okay. That's what the First Amendment was meant to protect. On the dark side of things, with Obama a serious contender for the presidency and a Democrat-controlled congress, the Fairness Doctrine looms on the horizon. For a peek at how scary the Left is becoming in their fanatical thinking about reinstating this outdated and poorly conceived idea, see here.

Labels: censorship, cnn, democrats, Fairness Doctrine, Fox News, Liberals, Obama, ratings

Can I take a moment to complain about CNN again.

Jim G at the Campaign Spot noted last week how silly it was for CNN failing to "Google" the YouTube video questioners who later turned out to be Democrat volunteers. Well, it looks like they lost the URL again.

I am getting loads of calls and emails from my Mormons friends praising the speech but furious at CNN for the sidebar shenanigans they threw up there during Romney's talk.

Why? Because they botched it again! On several counts.

• Sidebar: "About 3 million Mormons world wide about 6 million in the US" Yikes, what is this 1995?! There are almost 13 million members of the church. For goodness sake all they needed to do was call an 801 area code number randomly. My 10 year old knows this!
• Sidebar: "Accept the Bible as scripture but not as final authority." What?! Where do they get this from? I don't even know what they're trying to imply. Anyone familiar with Mormon doctrine understands that the LDS church is led by a living prophet and relies on revelation. Ugh.
  
• Sidebar: "Smith published writings in the Book of Mormon" Ummm. Wrong again. Smith's writings were published in a tome called "Doctrine and Covenants". Regardless of your theory of the origin of the Book of Mormon its not right to call them "writings".

I understand there are other points as well but I was avoiding CNN at the time.

Labels: cnn, mitt romney, the mormon speech, the speech