Commend CNN for filing suit against Administration for right to show victims of Katrina

Support them when they do something right for a change.  

http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form4.html?5

And yes, I know that you still have Kyra Phillips making dumb comments.  Baby steps, though.  This is evidence that they're seriously considering becoming a news network.  And that is something that must be nurtured and encouraged.

•  That's Anderson Cooper's feedback page

  He announced it on air, plus he's one of the good ones there, can use the positive feedback.  

  by bosdcla14 on Fri Sep 09, 2005 at 07:17:54 PM PDT

•  Laura Bush calls suit "disgusting" n/t

  by Random Excess on Fri Sep 09, 2005 at 07:20:57 PM PDT

  •  got link?

    if so, what a horrid human being.
    

    by miholo on Fri Sep 09, 2005 at 07:26:18 PM PDT

  •  So she has a problem with seeing victims

    but not with creating them?  Nice values.  

    by bosdcla14 on Fri Sep 09, 2005 at 07:27:37 PM PDT

•  Done

  I thanked him for his honest reports, and also told him as a pastor I'm opposed to sensationalizing deaths---but how important it is to expose the results of how we treated the poor.  And that it's good to see CNN again realizing that lies aren't just an "alternative vision" of facts.

  Yeah!

  by revsue on Fri Sep 09, 2005 at 07:25:11 PM PDT

•  done. <end of message>

  by j sundman on Fri Sep 09, 2005 at 07:29:13 PM PDT

•  I left a comment on this

  subject earlier on the recommended list, supporting this suit. But now that I thought about it a bit more, I DON"T think they should show the bodies on the news channels. If people really want to see the carnage, and I think for historical purposes they should, CNN/FNC/MSNBC/whoever needs to post it all over their websites for viewing. Not everyone needs to see that stuff. And some(kids) just aren't marure enough to see the bodies all over the tv like that.

  by GARDOGG21 on Fri Sep 09, 2005 at 07:39:18 PM PDT

•  CNN has won a temporary

  injunction against the government's restrictions.  Cooper announced it at the end of his show tonight.

  Until the gevernment appeals, of course.  But for now, they're good to go.

   

  by concerned4usall on Fri Sep 09, 2005 at 07:44:19 PM PDT

•  funeralgate

  let's try to get at least one of these reporters - coop would be good - to cover the funeralgate angle to the bodycount (possible) coverup.

  by zeke L on Fri Sep 09, 2005 at 08:09:09 PM PDT

•  sent an email to CNN

   commending them.  Hope more folks do the same.

  by moe99 on Fri Sep 09, 2005 at 08:48:32 PM PDT

•  Commend them?

  For doing their jobs for once?  This is the sort of stuff they should be doing on a regular basis!  I find it pathetic that the media requires so much encouragement to do it's job properly.  

  by Dave Brown on Fri Sep 09, 2005 at 09:07:28 PM PDT

•  I MIGHT if....

  Thery have been showing extracts from a video at the top of the hour. These show an elderly lady being "evacuated" by the California Highway Partol from her home in New Orleans. I posted a diary on Booman Tribune describing it in full. Unfortunately it has now slipped from Sky News' site.

  Important to note that the woman specifically invited the woman reporter to enter and forbade the police who appeared to agree that the reporter could go in alone. They then entered without permission and jumped the woman when they saw she was holding a gun. In earlier segments they quoted the NO Police as saying she had threatened them with the gun. In fact she was holding the gun and a knife in her left hand, using her right to jesticulate so that was obviously the had she uses. The hold was shown and she is holding the gun from above so it woudl have been impossible for her to fire it. This was only shown after I wrote a complaining email to them when I first heard it.

  Although the later CNN version of the video makes it a bit clearer, it still does not explqain the forced entry into the home.

  by londonbear on Fri Sep 09, 2005 at 09:35:32 PM PDT