http://CnnExposed.com/ CnnExposed.com, where readers judge CNN's slant en-us Copyright 2006-2007 CnnExposed.com. This content is made available to you under a creative commons license that permits free reuse, but no commercial use or resale. Visit http://www.CnnExposed.com/ for more information. Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:10:19 -0400 720 http://cnnexposed.com/story.php?story=39 Two Shiite leaders met in Tehran on Sunday (June 8, 2008): President Nuri al-Maliki of Iraq and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. But CNN.com's story on the meeting provided more space for quotes from a Sunni member of Iraq's parliament than for the words of the two Shiite Presidents combined. Sun, 08 Jun 2008 17:42:00 -0400 http://cnnexposed.com/story.php?story=38 White House Press Secretary Dana Perino admitted that she did not know what the Cuban Missile Crisis was until very recently. She was unable to respond effectively to a reporter's question that cited Russian President Vladimir Putin's comparison of the Cuban crisis to present day Russia-US relations. Putin blames deteriorating relations on US plans to station interceptor missiles in Eastern Europe. Sat, 08 Dec 2007 15:42:00 -0500 http://cnnexposed.com/story.php?story=37 Former National Transportation Safety Board member Dr. Vernon Grose joined an independent group's call to stop CNN from airing its controversial show on the 1996 crash of TWA Flight 800. Dr. Grose called the CNN Presents show "a travesty for objective truth" when signing a petition sponsored by the Flight 800 Independent Researchers Organization (FIRO). Thu, 12 Jul 2007 18:42:00 -0400 http://cnnexposed.com/story.php?story=36 CNN.com's US military reporting is once again (recall their pre-Iraq war reporting) looking like summaries of Pentagon press releases. On Wednesday (April 11, 2007), the US military's claim that Iran is supplying weapons to insurgents in Iraq has been reproduced in CNN.com's top story "Iraqi insurgents being trained in Iran, U.S. says." No alternative or critical viewpoints were presented. Wed, 11 Apr 2007 15:28:00 -0400 http://cnnexposed.com/story.php?story=35 CNN's reporting on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's planned visit to Syria was heavily slanted in favor of the Bush Administration and against against Pelosi. Instead of properly reporting on Pelosi's trip, CNN went out of its way to spin the trip from the Bush Administration's perspective. The article contained several quotations from Administration officials critical of the trip and only one, near the end, from Pelosi's office. Fri, 30 Mar 2007 20:28:00 -0400 http://cnnexposed.com/story.php?story=34 Washington Post reporter Ernesto Londono suggested that Iran may have indirectly armed Sunni militias who downed several US helicopters. Londono made the claim without referencing any source and prior to US Joint Chiefs Chairman Peter Pace downplaying Iranian involvement arming Iraqi insurgents. Sat, 17 Feb 2007 15:06:30 -0500 http://cnnexposed.com/story.php?story=33 Sunni insurgents may have used U.S. Stinger missiles to shoot down four helicopters over Iraq, the most recent being an Apache helicopter near Taji on February 2nd, 2007. Taliban fighters, suspected of having Stinger missiles left over from Afghanistan's conflict with Russia, are reportedly cooperating with the Sunni insurgency in Iraq. Sun, 04 Feb 2007 15:06:30 -0500 http://cnnexposed.com/story.php?story=32 Discovery Channel’s recent program examining the cause of the TWA 800 disaster not only scoops CNN’s previously aired ”No Survivors” program on the same subject, but is a far superior investigative report. Discovery’s ”Best Evidence” takes a critical look at the available hard evidence and the government’s conclusions pertaining to the jetliner’s demise. By contrast, CNN’s ”No Survivors” contained a number of factual inaccuracies, the result of CNN’s producers relying too heavily on official sources and failing to verify the information those sources provided. Sat, 27 Jan 2007 02:28:00 -0500 http://cnnexposed.com/story.php?story=31 CNN re-aired its controversial show on TWA Flight 800 four times on the weekend of January 6, 2007. The 'CNN Presents: No Survivors' show has re-opened the debate as to what caused the July 1996 crash off Long Island's south shore. Some eyewitnesses say it was a missile, but CNN and the US government say it was a spark in a fuel tank. Sat, 06 Jan 2007 22:28:00 -0500 http://cnnexposed.com/story.php?story=30 CNN.com's homepage exclaimed "DEATH OF A DICTATOR" in an increased 32 point font on Saturday (12/30/06) after Saddam Hussein was hanged. The accompanying article did not contain any condemnation from world leaders or legal experts, many of whom believed that Saddam's trial was flawed. Sat, 30 Dec 2006 21:44:41 -0500 http://cnnexposed.com/story.php?story=29 Reuters' UN correspondent Evelyn Leopold defended her and other mainstream journalists' western bias by saying she and her colleagues are from the west. She also criticized some journalists that she said had different biases and an agenda. Sat, 23 Dec 2006 14:02:41 -0500 http://cnnexposed.com/story.php?story=28 UN Secretary General Kofi Annan gave what may be his last speech as UN head from the Truman Presidential Museum and Library in Independence, Missouri on Monday (12/11/06). CNN.com covered sections of his speech having to do with security and the rule of law, but did not reference or quote from the section on global accountability. Wed, 13 Dec 2006 02:02:41 -0500 http://cnnexposed.com/story.php?story=27 During a BBC interview on Monday, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said that the average Iraqi was better off under Saddam Hussein's regime than now. Under Saddam, "they had their streets, they could go out, their kids could go to school," according to Annan. Mon, 04 Dec 2006 13:23:41 -0500 http://cnnexposed.com/story.php?story=26 US Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton gave sarcastic praise to Hezbollah for using western tactics in an attempt to bring down the Lebanese government. "Well good for them," he said referring to Hezbollah's rally of nearly one quarter of the Lebanese population in Beirut. Sat, 02 Dec 2006 13:23:41 -0500 http://cnnexposed.com/story.php?story=25 CNN.com added balance to its story 'U.S. vetoes U.N. condemnation of Israel's Gaza strikes' by inserting Palestinian quotations two days after running the story. The original story did not contain the Palestinian remarks, but quoted US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton at length. Tue, 14 Nov 2006 02:23:41 -0500