Not that it's really a surprise, but during this election season, CNN is really accelerating their long slow decline into Faux News journalistic ethics. Headlines on the front page of CNN.com are consistently misleading or just patently biased. What got my boxer-briefs in a bunch was this headline "Ticker: Obama plan called 'economic disaster'". Worried that some panel of economic experts had concluded that Barack's plan isn't up to snuff, I read the article only to find out that the source of the quote was the McCain campaign. Would it really have been so hard to use the Headline "McCain: Obama plan is an 'economic disaster'"? It makes me wonder if the requirements for their editor positions is just attending journalism school for two weeks before flunking out.
After scrolling down their front page I noticed that the headline "Sanchez: Russian crisis an Obama risk" is still one of their top two stories. Who is Sanchez? An ex-State Department official? A professor of international relations at some prestigious university? Oh that's right, she's a Republican strategist! It's good to know that Republican talking points now qualify as headlines. Got to hammer home that point about Obama being somehow risky. Is CNN going to leave this as one of its top two political headlines until Russian tanks leave Georgia? Would it kill them to use the correct headline, "Opinion: Russian crisis an Obama risk". And where's the week-long counter headline that should accompany it? Something like "Opinion: McCain interfering with US foreign policy and pretending he's the President to score political points off of a humanitarian crisis"? Ok, that may be a bit wordy for a headline.
I decided to craft my own Strongly Worded Letter (TM) to CNN. And now I eagerly await my automatically generated form letter telling me that CNN received my letter and the warm fuzzy feeling I get realizing that no human being at CNN will ever read my letter or care in the slightest about how much CNN is turning into Fox News.