THE OFFICIAL BLITZ CNN VIRTUAL PROTEST MONDAY 8-16-04!

[vetwife]

THE OFFICIAL BLITZ CNN VIRTUAL PROTEST ! MONDAY 8-16

Edited on Fri Aug-13-04 01:18 PM by vetwife
Please call, fax, email, the following to voice your concerns over CNN's unfair slant to the right ! You may comment and use your own letter or use the talking points listed below of the form letter. It is past time to make this virtual protest march on CNN and their unfair reporting tactics. Please do this to help Take Back the Media. This virtual protest is set for Monday, August 16, 2004 between the hours of 9AM ET and 4ETPM.
Please do this and make contacts on this Aug 16th date ! We will set up other virtual protests with other news organizations but the one Monday is for CNN. THE CNN VIRTUAL BLITZ !
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TO: CNN

I want to begin telling you that I am an American and have turned to the Cable News Media for news regarding the upcoming election. The people who have used their positions to slant the reporting and specials are very obvious about their conservative
Slant on documentaries and interviews. I find that the old days of
Fair journalism has faded to the far right. There are so many examples, I could not begin to name them all. The “Born to Run” was a smear on the Kerry campaign. Even the
Title may have just as well been called “Born to Run Away”. This is disgraceful !
The Fair title should have been “Born to Compete”.

You have never missed an opportunity to use sound bytes that distorts the real message of the democratic candidate. You will never report any and there are many shortcomings or misspoken words of George W. Bush. You have not given updates on the state of health of the fine Admiral who recently had a stroke, but you have chosen to replace his news for John O’Neill from the Swift Boat Vets and to help promote his book
“Unfit to Command”.

Candy Crowley is very clearly choosing to campaign for George Bush on CNN and call it reporting the news. There is too much opinion and commentary and not enough news reporting. You assume that people cannot think without your input.

I long for the days of real reporting of the news without any input from paid pundits.
We the People are tired of this Fox approach that CNN has chosen to take in reporting the news. We are tuning out CNN and its sponsors as you clearly do not represent overall, all of the people.

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Or use this lettter and talking points: Best not to cut and paste but get ideas from this letter or the others...

Why is it that your news organization do not provide your audience with a more balanced view of Senator Kerry’s military experience in Vietnam? (EXPAND ARGUMENT) It would certainly seem that all of the “wires” which stream into your news organization would certainly have privy to such “news worthy” events such as the following:
"Ten Senior Military Officials Respond to Cheney's Latest Attacks"
See http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph ...
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More Talking points:

"talking points" -- here's Sheila Samples...


from her recent "open letter":

....And the bewildered "what does all this mean?" Judy Woodruff, whose questions are generally preceeded with vague non-attribution. "According to those who know," Woodruff recently asked a Kerry aide, "John Kerry has a problem. People don't know him, and those who do don't agree with him. What does this mean for Kerry? Is Kerry in trouble? How are you addressing this?"

Your recent overdosing on unsubstantiated character assassinations fed to CNN by oil-soaked creeps who call themselves "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth" is disheartening. To be perfectly fair, Aaron Brown refused to cover the story. Brown did an editorial before his show after a day of blanket CNN coverage and, without mentioning the subject, said he didn't think that a rumor should be put out there to be "judged," even if both sides were represented. "For that reason," Brown said, "I will not be covering a certain story -- and YOU can be the judge of whether I am right or wrong." Oh, that there were more Aaron Browns at CNN...

However, for the rest of you to take a destructive right-wing "advertisement" smearing Senator John Kerry and give it massive "Scott Peterson" coverage goes beyond the pale. Was there not even one CNN operative who would take the time and effort to investigate these shameless allegations before running to the camera, throwing vicious rumors out there, and asking partisan pundits -- "What is the truth? Is Kerry really unfit to be president?"

If that is your idea of objectivity and "bias" for the truth, why not toss some rumors about George Bush out there for the idealogues to gnaw on? Since you have no problem going back to the 60's to dig up trash about Senator Kerry, let's see some "coverage" of Bush's cocaine habit, 40 years of being nothing but a falling-down-drunk, abandoning his duty station in time of war, his fraudulent stock dealings. Let's take a look at Bush's refusal to fund his signature Leave No Child Behind program. Let's talk about 37,000 Iraqi civilians splattered across the landscape; nearly 1,100 coalition troops slaughtered -- tell us about the investigation you are working feverishly on to discover who is responsible for the war crimes at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo prisons....

(Lots more.)

http://news.neilrogers.com/news/articles/2004081013.htm ...

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Email and Contact info:


CNN
404 827 0234

TIME
212 522 1212

CNN- (404) 827 – 1500
CNN TV: http://www.cnn.com/feedback/cnntv /
CNN.com: http://www.cnn.com/feedback/dotcom /
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CNN News - Charles Bierbauer, Senior Washington Correspondent [e-mail] Phone: [phone]; Fax: [phone]; Address: 820 1st St NE, Washington, DC 20002
CNN News - John King, Senior White House Correspondent (no e-mail given) Phone: [phone]; Fax: [phone]; Address: 820 1st St NE, Washington, DC 20002
CNN News - Suzanne Malveaux, White House Correspondent (no e-mail given) Phone: [phone]; Fax: [phone]; Address: 820 1st St NE, Washington, DC 20002
CNN Radio - Dick Uliano, Washington Correspondent [e-mail] Phone: [phone]; Address: 820 1st St NE, Washington, DC 20002

http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form1.html?35

http://www.timewarner.com

404 827 4215

and this e-mail

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Thanks to bigannie for including this site in a post yesterday. Folks, I believe this is the ultimate source for not only media contacts, but government official contacts, both federal and state.

Here is the link to CNN's page. Just click on anchor, reporter, producer, etc. -- and the info pops up!

http://capwiz.com/congressorg/dbq/media/?command=org_pa...


Click "media guide" at the top, and you'll go to the page where you can find other media, national and local. Look to the left, and you can click on pages for contact info for government officials

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