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==Bias==

==Bias==

[[Conservative media]] critics, amongst other groups, rightly accuse CNN of promoting the [[Liberalism | liberal agenda]] with slanted reporting. <ref>http://newsbusters.org/taxonomy/term/13</ref> CNN has mocked and insulted members of the [[Tea Party Movement]]. <ref>[http://www.breitbart.tv/update-chicago-tea-party-crowd-confronts-cnn-reporter-after-hostile-interview/ UPDATE: CHICAGO TEA PARTY CROWD CONFRONTS CNN REPORTER AFTER HOSTILE INTERVIEW, Breitbart.tv, April 15, 2009]</ref> Their coverage of the US Election of 2012 has also made alarm bells ring in the minds of true journalists. CNN has supported the far-left [[Occupy Wall Street]] movement.<ref>http://edition.cnn.com/2012/11/14/opinion/rushkoff-occupy-debt/index.html</ref> [[Van Jones]] is also a contributor on CNN. On October 2013 CNN mocked veterans as "Tea Party Crazies".<ref>http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/10/13/CNN-derides-million-vet-march</ref> However, the conservative Media Research Center has stated,"CNN certainly is less biased to the left than ABC, CBS and NBC". <ref>http://www.mrc.org/biasalerts/cyberalert-08072001-dazzled-candid-clinton</ref> Also CNN has had some conservative commentators in the past. For example, Rowland Evans and Robert Novak were conservatives who hosted a show on CNN called ''Evans and Novak'', later '''Evans, Novak, Hunt, and Shields''', and Novak also co-hosted a debate program called ''Capital Gang'', and he also co-hosted ''Crossfire'', and was a political commentator on CNN's general coverage. Tucker Carlson, now at Fox News, was a CNN political analyst at one point. Another conservative on CNN was Kate O'Beirne. Barry Goldwater was a commentator for CNN at one point.<ref> CNN is a 24 hour video newspapers by Tony Seideman The Telegraphy May 16, 1981 http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2209&dat=19810516&id=P6krAAAAIBAJ&sjid=IP0FAAAAIBAJ&pg=4291,3826132</ref> CNN is more left-wing than it was in the past now. Jeff Zucker, its new leader, openly despises Fox News and the Republican Party<ref>http://www.mediaite.com/tv/jeff-zucker-at-tca-fox-news-is-republican-party-masquerading-as-a-cable-news-channel/</ref><ref>http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2014/01/11/zucker-gop-cnn/</ref>, in contrast to his predecessor Walter Isaacson who tried to have balanced coverage<ref>http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2014/01/11/zucker-gop-cnn/</ref>, and another predecessor Tom Johnson, who was friends with Roger Ailes, the leader of Fox News.<ref>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/ronn-torossian/what-obama-can-learn-from-roger-ailes/</ref>

 

In 2001, the [[Media Research Center]] stated, "CNN certainly is less biased to the left than ABC, CBS and NBC". <ref>http://www.mrc.org/biasalerts/cyberalert-08072001-dazzled-candid-clinton</ref> But more recently, [[Conservative media]] critics, amongst other groups, rightly accuse CNN of promoting the [[Liberalism | liberal agenda]] with slanted reporting. <ref>http://newsbusters.org/taxonomy/term/13</ref> CNN has mocked and insulted members of the [[Tea Party Movement]]. <ref>[http://www.breitbart.tv/update-chicago-tea-party-crowd-confronts-cnn-reporter-after-hostile-interview/ UPDATE: CHICAGO TEA PARTY CROWD CONFRONTS CNN REPORTER AFTER HOSTILE INTERVIEW, Breitbart.tv, April 15, 2009]</ref> Their coverage of the US Election of 2012 has also made alarm bells ring in the minds of true journalists. CNN has supported the far-left [[Occupy Wall Street]] movement.<ref>http://edition.cnn.com/2012/11/14/opinion/rushkoff-occupy-debt/index.html</ref> [[Van Jones]] is also a contributor on CNN. On October 2013 CNN mocked veterans as "Tea Party Crazies".<ref>http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/10/13/CNN-derides-million-vet-march</ref>

 

But CNN has had some conservative commentators in the past. For example, Rowland Evans and Robert Novak were conservatives who hosted a show on CNN called ''Evans and Novak'', later ''Evans, Novak, Hunt, and Shields'', and Novak also co-hosted a debate program called ''Capital Gang'', and he also co-hosted ''Crossfire'', and was a political commentator on CNN's general coverage. [[Tucker Carlson]], now at Fox News, was a CNN political analyst at one point. Another conservative on CNN was Kate O'Beirne. [[Barry Goldwater]] was a commentator for CNN at one point.<ref> CNN is a 24 hour video newspapers by Tony Seideman The Telegraphy May 16, 1981 http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2209&dat=19810516&id=P6krAAAAIBAJ&sjid=IP0FAAAAIBAJ&pg=4291,3826132</ref>

 

Today, Jeff Zucker, its new leader, openly despises Fox News and the Republican Party<ref>http://www.mediaite.com/tv/jeff-zucker-at-tca-fox-news-is-republican-party-masquerading-as-a-cable-news-channel/</ref><ref>http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2014/01/11/zucker-gop-cnn/</ref>, in contrast to his predecessor Walter Isaacson, who tried to have balanced coverage<ref>http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2014/01/11/zucker-gop-cnn/</ref>, and another predecessor Tom Johnson, who was friends with Roger Ailes, the leader of Fox News.<ref>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/ronn-torossian/what-obama-can-learn-from-roger-ailes/</ref>

==News Anchors==

==News Anchors==