I happened to watch a bit of cnn tonight, and was suprised to see that their slogan is “CNN the most trusted name in news”!! Personally, CNN is one of the last places i turn to for news 
I’m more likely to head to the bbc or, being canadian, the cbc.
Does anyone actually believe cnn to be the most trustworthy source for news?
I don’t.
I don’t either. If it’s really urgent, I’ll try the BBC. I totally gave up on any news on TV shortly after September 11th.
They’re the most trustworthy of the major news networks, IMHO. Of course, that’s not saying much when their biggest competition is FOX “Fair and Balanced” News. It’s pretty much just whose propaganda you find less pathetic.
they used to be great.
Now…? Feh.
I’m a BBC guy
I’m not wild about BBC but I’d take their word on something before I would CNN.
I don’t get BBC News, but sometimes I’ll listen to the World Service on my computer at work (which has a much faster connection than my dial-up at home).
Whether or not CNN is “the most trusted name in news”, I wish they’d bloody stop saying it all the time! It’s very annoying.
I wouldn’t trust any news. Most of them are only it in for the ratings
I watch but don’t trust TV news - I usually watch ABC or CBS, not because I trust them more, but because they don’t clutter the screen with crawlers.
For news I can trust, I go to the internet, and use google’s news service - go to www.google.com and click the tab on the right. It’s from a gazillion different sources and is hot off that there interweb machine.
Yeah, I also often read from the BBC, and don’t use CNN at all. So, I guess CNN is my most trusted American news source. However, I would like to know where they get off claiming that they are “The most trusted name in news”. It sounds like shamless posturing like when FOX says “We report, You decide”.
Anyone who educates themselves on current events and politics can watch network news and see bias. When is the last time you heard Dan Rather refer to a “left-wing” anything for example? I could go on, but this is an argument that is going to continue forever. If you bat from the left side of the plate, you won’t see it. Is Fox biased to the right? Some of the commentators are, but in the presentation of the news itself, I don’t think so. Some people are incapable of separating opinion from news. I am a 10 year veteran of the TV news business, by the way.
Fox news is the only American news channel that isn’t biased to the left. This of course, makes is conservative, but only in comparison to the other channels.
I don’t think that the “we report, you decide” or “most trusted name in news” taglines are that rediculous. They are battling for ratings. One must expect aggressive marketing for viewers.
I shouldn’t do this, but curiosity makes me ask- can you name me one who isn’t? Colmes doesn’t count.
On March 27, while showing footage of a die-in in New York, FOX’s crawl ran messages like
“War protester auditions here today … thanks for coming!”
“Who won your right to show up here today? Protesters or soldiers?”
“How do you keep a war protester in suspense? Ignore them.”
“Attention protesters: the Michael Moore Fan Club meets Thursday at a phone booth at Sixth Avenue and 50th Street.”
I think this might qualify as slightly biased.
CNN gets its slogan from a poll done many years ago, and whenever it gets repeated the answers are still pretty similar. I don’t know if the poll has been redone in the past year, though.
On the other hand, almost everything on American TV is right-wing compared to balanced news reporting in the rest of the world. Don’t forget that what a station covers is just as important as how it covers it.
While Fox commentators are obviously on what should be an extreme edge, their attitude does colour the actual news presentation (especially when you get crawls Marley points out).
Maybe CNN figures if they say it enough it’ll come true?
They know they’re on their way out …
American News is always biased(as is every news agency anywhere in the world that I’ve encountered). Given the American political spectrum, CNN is quite left-wing, though it probably doesn’t seem that way on a world scale. The only way to find out the truth about anything in this country is to read, watch and listen to as many sources as try to make up your own mind.
First off, I don’t have a television. I get most of my news from NPR. If I am intrigued by a story on NPR and want to learn more about it, I would go first to the New York Times (my coworker gives me the physical version of the paper every day, too) or BBC websites. (For fun, my home computer is cookied as outside the UK and my work computer is cookied as inside the UK. Lots more stuff on whatshisname Beckham and Posh Spice inside the UK than outside, BTW.) If I wanted to see other perspectives, I’d check out Google News. I also read The Economist.
I don’t think it would even occur to me to look at CNN.com. Unless, for some reason, I really really really wanted to know what color Scott Peterson dyed his hair or whatever crap they’re touting as “news” today.
Oh, I forgot. I also get a great deal of news from the SDMB. I have been exposed to literally thousands of news stories that I may not have heard of otherwise thanks to this message board. People debate about whether or not this is “just a message board” or “no, it’s a community”, but it’s also a fabulous source for keeping track and learning about worldwide current events, thanks to the international character of the board.
That’s a good point. To get a real idea of the news, you need a mosaic of sources, and I get much more perspective and analysis at this message board than I would from TV news. Print too, really.