CNN Anchor's False Statements

[Tom Servo]

His failure to explain, even when given a chance, shows that he intends to be misleading.

Even if that is the case, this is the network that put Piers Morgan in a prime-time slot and let him rattle off all sorts of misinformation for months on end.

We can gripe about it, or we can write their editorial board. Or we can simply not watch their network.

 

[Mike Irwin]

"There is supposed to a difference between a reporter, an anchor, and a commentator but those lines seem to have blurred somewhat in the last 20 years or so."


Actually, all three are supposed to be (at least in the Cronkite/Murrow era of TV news), at their very core, reporters.

Anchors especially have virtually always worked their way up through the reporter's ranks.

Before he forgot how to be a reporter, and effectively ended his career with his "expose" on the Killian documents, Dan Rather had a reputation as being a hard-nosed investigative reporter who didn't shy away from difficult topics or individuals.

I'm not 100% sure, but Rather MAY have been wounded while on air live while reporting on a story in Vietnam.

 

[Andy Blozinski]

Cronkite blew his reporter status for me during the Tet offensive.

 

[Madcap_Magician]

I've heard him talk about these things a few times. He doesn't know the difference between semi-auto and full-auto.

No, it's worse than that. He doesn't care that there's a difference.

 

[SPEMack618]

He's probably vaguely aware of the difference between a real life, military issued assault rifle, such as the M-4, and whatever AR-15 is on the Wal-Mart rack, but conceptually he probably doesn't understand it; nor care.

Seems like he is taking a page out the Brady Campaign playbook in regards "if they look like military weapons; then they are"

Sickening.

 

[CowTowner]

No good reason at all to allow facts or reality to throw a dark cloud on a good story.

 

[psyfly]

When it comes to lexicology, "facts" are sometimes, unfortunately, what they can be made to be.

I fear that the media is well on the way, if not already there, to redefining the meanings of terms like "automatic" and "assault weapon".

So, to give Don Lemon a break, he's linguistically, if not technically, correct even if his motivation is to mislead or re-educate.

For me, the importance of surfing news outlets of many sources is not so much to glean out the misleading bits, but to make sure I'm doing my best to catch the news that many simply are leaving out.

Often, what they're not telling us is more important that what they are.