Awol story on cnn wolf blitzer bad story for *

[Nashyra]

I know, I know we boycott cnn, but there is a poll on
www.cnn.com/wolf and there is the AWOL story

[FloridaPat]

1. I love doing their polls. And I like Lou Dobbs Exporting of America.

For news I go here, Buzzflash, and whatreallyhappened plus other sites on the web.

[Toots]

2. Ifollowed your link and got a different poll

Do Conventions affect you vote or some such . Over ninty percent said no they don't.

[22181]

3. My Letter to Wolf Blitzer

I just read your article on cnn.com regarding Bush's Vietnam record and I wanted to commend you for it. It is refreshing to see CNN address such a glaring controversy that surrounds our President. I feel that Bush's evasion of Vietnam is a far more crucial issue than whether or not John Kerry was wounded "enough" in his service to our country.

I moved up here to Washington, D.C. about thirteen years ago, a recent graduate from UGA's Grady school of Journalism. I am certain you don't remember this, but the first week that I lived here I met you in a parking garage in a theater in Bethesda after seeing "Groundhog Day". My then-boyfriend forced me to get up the courage to say 'Hi' to you, so I did and shook your hand and I was on air for weeks after that. I watched CNN around the clock during the Gulf war, and not just because my Journalism classes took a sudden and quick turn when the war started and began focusing almost exclusively on CNN's groundbreaking coverage. I kid you not, one of the questions on one of my final exams was, "Where was Bernard Shaw hiding when they were bombing Baghdad?"

At any rate, I've really admired you through the years and recently I have been extremely disappointed by CNN's parroting Karl Rove's talking points and sensationalizing every anti-Kerry story possible. I am a Kerry supporter, I will confess, but I also learned enough in my Journalism classes to know when I see truly balanced reporting. Fox doesn't give us that, and many times CNN glosses over the illnesses surrounding the Bush administration in much the same way that Fox does. I was surprised and impressed to see something, ANYTHING, said about Bush's evasion of Vietnam during that time of crisis, and in the midst of the Swift Boat Veterans' smears, I think it's long overdue. I'm not saying that I think you should put a pro-Kerry slant to your news, I'm just saying that the Anti-Kerry/Pro-Bush slant as of late is doing our country a disservice.

Please keep up the good work. In order to make informed choices the electorate needs the media, and we don't just need you to proclaim that your coverage is fair and balanced - we really and truly need it to be so.

Thank you,

[buycitgo]

4. you don't really mean that stuff about admiring him, do you?

at least for the last several years

good letter, though

honey vs. vitriol and all that

[Nashyra]

6. I know the poll was different but it is the article

it seemd to break from the traditional wolfie shill for *

[22181]

7. I admired him early on and then stopped noticing him as much...

I thought he did a great job reporting during the 1st Gulf War and thought he walked on water when I first moved up here. I did not recognize the media's bias until about 18 months ago - at which point I stopped admiring him, definitely.

[KharmaTrain]

9. THAT Could Get His Eyes...

Sadly most emails here never get to the folks who they're sent to...they're filtered through secretaries and PR mavens.

That was a marvelous letter that mixes the velvet and sledgehammers.

Alas, it's just one little tidbit in an ocean of smears and distortions. I blame CNNservative more than Faux for a lot of the disinformation this campaign season as RoveCo. has used it's stealth "objective" image to his advantage.

Many were concerned with the bias on Faux, but with it totally un-masked it no longer served Rove's functions, but CNNservative does it very nicely. Sexy looking newsbabes who smile when they give the lies...stories with pre-determined opinions built in (subtly) and a strong GOOP bias on interviews and special programs...(Gillespie following up Kerry uncontested...the endless BFEE specials).

Sorry, one little bit from Woof is not impressive. And not sure why you ever found him to be anything more than a clown. He talks like he's addressing two year olds and never hesitates to sensationalize the trivial and downplay the significant.

Cheers!

[mzmolly]

5. Wolfie aired a story on this the other day ... I was shocked.

:hi:

[Catshrink]

8. DESERTER is the appropriate term.

Yeah, I know I sound like a broken record on this. But, after 30 days missing, a soldier is no longer AWOL but a DESERTER.