The Cable News Network ( CNN ), America's cable and satellite TV channels, has been subject to some controversy. This article relates various controversies and allegations related to CNN's domestic version, and its sister channels CNN International and CNN-News18.
Video CNN controversies
Tuduhan bias
CNN is often the subject of alleged party bias. In a study by the Shorenstein Center in Media, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University and Projects for Excellence in Journalism, the authors found different treatment by three major cables of Republican and Democratic candidates during the initial five months of presidential elections. 2007: "Learning CNN programming tends to give negative light to Republican candidates - with a margin of three to one.The four-in-ten stories (41%) are clearly negative while only 14% are positive and 46% are neutral. of the three main candidates with the worst phrase McCain (63% negative) and Romney fared slightly better than others just because the majority of his coverage was neutral.On the exception of Obama, Democrats tend not to be good either Almost half of Illinois Senator's stories are positive (46%), vs. only 8% are negative, but Clinton and Edwards end up with more negatives than assuming overall ive coverage.While the average Democrat tends to have more positive coverage, the trend is influenced by Obama's positive coverage. "
A conservative-leaning group Accuracy at the Media Center and Media Research (MRC) has claimed that the CNN report contains a liberal editorial in the news as well as the omission of important facts. Former Republican Representative Majority Tom DeLay, and MRC founder Brent Bozell, among others, called CNN the "Clinton News Network". DeLay also called it the "Communist News Network". In the early days, CNN was sometimes referred to as "Chicken Noodle News". In September 2009, a Pew Research Poll showed that Democrats were far more likely than Republican to value networks profitably, and Republicans were much more likely than Democrats to see CNN unfavorable.
Octavia Nasr shoot
In 2010, Middle East Middle East correspondent Octavia Nasr was fired after a tweet saying he was "deeply saddened by the death of Sayyid Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah... One of the Hezbollah giants that I respect [many]." Parisa Khosravi, CNN International's senior vice president, said he spoke with Nasr and "we have decided that he will leave the company." The reason for his removal is given as "As you know, his tweets over the weekend created a widespread reaction, as he stated on his blog on CNN.com, he fully accepts that he should not make too simple a comment without any context. However, at this point, we believe that his credibility in his position as senior editor for Middle Eastern affairs has been compromised in the future. "
The pro-Israel media watchdog group, Honest Reporting, one of the first organizations to respond to its tweets, noted Fadlallah's controversial accusations of the massacre of Mercaz HaRav, the 1983 Beirut barrack bombing, the Iranian hostage crisis and Iran's efforts to build long-range ballistic missiles.
Robert Fisk criticized CNN for saying, "Poor old CNN continues to be more cowardly from hour to hour, which is why no one cares about it anymore."
Semi-automatic weapons
CNN apologized for a story of May 15, 2003, in which CNN's John Zarella and Broward County, Sheriff Ken Jenne showed the rapid firing of automatic firearms while covering the Assault Weapons Ban, which will end the following year. Assault Weapons Ban deals only with semi-automatic firearms, not automatic weapons, which have been outlawed by the National Firearms Act of 1934, and the Weeders Protection Act of 1986.
Coverage of US presidential election
Occupy CNN protest
On April 3, 2016, hundreds of supporters of Bernie Sanders protested outside CNN Los Angeles. Sanders supporters protested against CNN's coverage of the 2016 US presidential election, in particular in light of Sanders's lack of broadcasting time. Known as the CNN Occupy, protesters claimed that the mainstream media network had deliberately blacked Sanders presidential campaign in favor of granting more broadcast time to candidates such as Hillary Clinton.
Donna Brazile and Roland Martin
In October 2016, WikiLeaks published an email from John Podesta showing CNN contributors Donna Brazile asked a question for CNN-sponsored debate to the Clinton campaign. In the email, Brazile discussed his concern about Clinton's ability to ask questions about the death penalty. The next day, Clinton will receive questions about the death penalty, word for word from an audience at CNN's City Hall event. According to a CNN investigation, Roland Martin's debate moderator from TV One "does not deny sharing information with Brazile." CNN broke with Brazile on October 14, 2016.
WikiLeaks email
During live coverage of the 2016 election, CNN anchor, Chris Cuomo said that downloading Podesta's hacked and stolen email from the WikiLeaks website is against the law and only the media can legally do so. The statement invites criticism to the network for being wrong.
Trump administration coverage
On January 10, 2017, CNN reported the existence of a secret document that said Russia had sacrificed personal and financial information about Trump's elected Trump President. CNN does not publish the file, or any specific details of the file. Later that day, BuzzFeed published an entire 35-page dossier with the disclaimer that it was not verified and "included some obvious errors". The document has been widely read by political and media figures in Washington, and has been sent to several other journalists who refuse to publish it because it is not proven. At a press conference the following day, Trump called CNN false news and refused to take questions from CNN reporter Jim Acosta.
On February 24, 2017, CNN and other media organizations such as The New York Times were blocked from the White House press conference. The network responded in a statement: "Apparently this is the way they retaliate when you report a fact they do not like.We'll keep reporting it."
On June 26, 2017, three network investigation reporters; Thomas Frank, Eric Lichtblau and Lex Haris, resigned from CNN for a fake story, then withdrawn, linking Anthony Scaramucci with a $ 10 billion Russian investment fund. The network apologizes to Scaramucci and states that the online story does not meet their editorial standards.
The Washington Post again checks CNN's report on Trump on December 8, 2017: CNN loads a story claiming two sources told the network that the Trump campaign received an email that gave Trump and his son Don Jr early access to the WikiLeaks document on September 4, 2016. CNN has not received its fourth September email as it should. The sender is "Michael J. Erickson", who can not be contacted by CNN. The Washington Post , however, got an email, indicating that the email was actually sent the day after the hacked document was released by WikiLeaks on September 14, 2016. CNN issued a correction of their story.
The network also imposed new Russian rules regarding stories published to social, video, editorial, or MoneyStream without going through the chain of command on CNN.
Maps CNN controversies
Coverage on international incident
Persian Gulf War
During the Persian Gulf War, CNN was criticized for pushing too many humanitarian stories and avoiding depictions of violent images; the result of all this being a "propaganda" news presentation. A report by Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) quotes an unnamed CNN reporter as describing "the 'beautiful scenic beauty' of the bombers taking off from Saudi Arabia."
Iranian protest coverage
In 2014, the network was criticized for the lack of live coverage of a large number of protests following the 2014 election in Iran.
Margaret Thatcher's death scope
CNN was criticized for using photos of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher with BBC presenter Jimmy Savile who has been humiliated four times during his death coverage on April 8, 2013. Sexual harassment charges against Savile published in 2012, a year after his death, led British police to believe that Savile is probably one of the most prolific sex offenders in the UK. A Thatcher image with Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was also run during the broadcast, leading some commentators to accuse CNN of bias.
Conflict with Venezuelan government
On February 8, 2017, a joint investigation of CNN and CNN en Espaà ± a - based on information provided by an exiled fact-findinger in Spain and subsequent investigations, reported that Venezuelan embassy employees in Baghdad, Iraq had sold passports and visas to people from Middle Eastern countries with a dubious background for profit, including to members of the Lebanese group Hezbollah. The Venezuelan immigration department, SAIME, affirms the authenticity of the passport being sold because each passport has a national identification number assigned, although the names of these people are changed when examining the national database. At least one birthplace also changed from Iraq to Venezuela. Venezuelan foreign minister Delcy Rodriguez denied government involvement when questioned by journalists during the first Seventy sessions of the UN General Assembly and accused the network of doing what it described as "imperialistic media operations" against Venezuela to air fraud investigations for a year. On February 14, 2017, Venezuelan authorities banned CNN en Espaà ± o from the broadcast two days after Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro ordered CNN to "[go] far from here".
Following the decision, CNN responded by providing live-streaming services on YouTube and the CNN en Espaà ± ón website free of charge to Venezuelan viewers. The English-language CNN International channel is still broadcast in Venezuela.
Operation Tailwind
In 1998, CNN, in partnership with sister Time , ran a report that Operation Tailwind in 1970 in Vietnam involved the use of Sarin gas to kill a group of defectors from the US military. The Pentagon denies the story. Skeptics find it impossible that such extraordinary and risky atrocities could escape the unpopularity of the Vietnam War. CNN, after a two-week investigation, issued a retraction. the manufacturer of his short story was dismissed, and one of them has been very critical of CNN handling of the story, saying that the network bowed the pressure of high officials to kill the story.
Suppression protests Bahrain, and Iran and Syria reporting
In October 2011, correspondent Amber Lyon met with Tony Maddox, president of CNN International, twice about a documentary about the progress of democracy in the Middle East where he was featured, and which aired in the US but never by CNN International - an English language news channel the most watched in the Middle East - despite high production costs, recognition and international awards. He claimed that during the second meeting he was threatened and intimidated to stop talking about the issue. According to a CNN employee, officials from the Bahraini regime called CNN continue to complain about Lyon's participation in the network. He was then laid off.
Executive
Eason Jordan's resignation
In February 2005, Jordan withdrew from CNN. The resignation was in response to the controversy triggered after the blogger wrote that, at the recent World Economic Forum, Jordan appeared to accuse the US military of deliberately killing journalists. While Jordan acknowledges that his statement is not clear enough, he denies that this is what he means, saying he "greatly admired and respected men and women of the US armed forces."
Jeff Zucker
CNN was criticized for his coverage of the Boston Marathon bombing, after mistakenly reporting that a "dark-skinned man" had been arrested in connection with the attack. In the aftermath of the broadcast, Jeff Zucker - who became president of CNN in 2013 - hailed coverage, claimed that "CNN shines this week", and boasted the success of CNN's ratings during coverage, adding that "viewers respect network accountability when admitting to mistakes". Jon Stewart criticized Zucker's comments after mentioning CNN coverage of the Washington Navy Yard shooting "unspeakable mistakes", claiming that "The lesson they take from this is - no matter how much they betray our trust."
Individual commentator
Reza Aslan
In 2017, CNN started a documentary series entitled Believer on various religious traditions in the world. The first episode was criticized by American Indians and American Hindus after presenter Reza Aslan ate the human brain with members of the Aghori sect of Hinduism. It is criticized in India for misinterpreting Indian religious traditions, and has the potential to trigger racism and xenophobia against Americans of Indian origin.
Among those who spoke was Chairman of the Indian Political Action Committee Sanjay Puri: "In a charged environment, events like this can create perceptions of Indian Americans that can make them more vulnerable to further attacks." The Hindi American Foundation also states they are: "deeply concerned that although they are not Aslan's intentions, misrepresentation, misleading imagery, and the provocative first half of the program could aggravate Hinduphobia in the face of the widespread religious blindness of Hinduism."
After the June London Bridge attack in 2017, Aslan took Twitter to call President Trump "a piece of shit" and "baby boy" for his response to the attack. Responding to his remarks, CNN announced on June 9 that they have broken ties with Aslan and said they will not move forward with the second season of the Buyever series. Aslan said of the cancellation, "I'm not a journalist, I'm a social commentator and scholar, so I agree with CNN that we should split up."
Brooke Baldwin
During the Baltimore unrest of 2015, Brooke Baldwin stated that the veterans were responsible for the unrest, saying troops who became police "would return from war, they do not know the community, and they are ready to fight." Baldwin initially pushed back the criticism, claiming that he was just repeating something that a city official told him. He later apologized via Twitter and broadcast.
Glenn Beck
In January 2006, CNN Headline News President Ken Jautz hired conservative radio talks firm Glenn Beck to host the primetime network comments and interviews, which aired on May 8, 2006. Jautz stated that Beck was "friendly", and that his radio show is "conversation, not confrontational." However, Media Matters for America and FAIR have reported that Beck has a history of making controversial remarks on his radio program, including summoning former President Jimmy Carter as "skin wasting", hoping for the deaths of Dennis Kucinich and Michael Moore, and saying a caller who claims to have tortured (Beck left CNN on October 16, 2008 to join Fox News Channel, where he hosted a similar comment/interview program that lasts until 2011).
Carol Costello
On October 22, 2014, CNN Newsroom host Carol Costello reported on the Bristol Palin audio release being attacked by a man at a gathering in Alaska. Costello laughed and called it "quite possibly the best minute and half audio we've ever encountered." He was immediately criticized for mocking a woman physically abused by a man she did not know, and for being hypocritical after recently calling on ESPN to suspend Stephen A. Smith after comments she made about women during Ray Rice's Controversy. Costello finally apologized in a statement to Politico, stating: "Over the past few days, I have been criticized for joking about a fight involving the Palin family.In retrospect, I deserve such criticism and want to apologize."
Don Lemon
On June 22, 2015, Lemon attempted to spark a debate by lifting Confederate flags and marks with the letter N in big letters while asking, "does this offend you?" He received direct criticism for the action. It also started a series of memes on the internet, featuring the original image of the Lemon screen holding the mark, the title "Does this offend you?" and pictures or greeting different photo-shopped top marks.
Fredricka Whitfield
On June 13, 2015, when discussing the 2015 attack at Dallas police headquarters, host Fredricka Whitfield referred to the gunman, James Boulware, as "brave and courageous, if not insane". The comment received a direct reaction and called him to apologize. The next day, Whitfield declared in the air that he was wrong to speak and did not believe that the gunman was brave or brave. After the reaction continued, he issued an apology in the air on June 15, saying that he was abusing the words, now understood how offensive he was and sincerely regretted.
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Appearance of Jon Stewart Crossfire
Comedian Jon Stewart appeared on Crossfire on October 15, 2004 and criticized the format and style of the arguments presented on the show. He calls the hosts Tucker Carlson and Paul Begala "partisan hacks", and asks them "stop hurting America". Begala argued that the purpose of the show was that it was meant to be a debate, in which Stewart replied "Debating would be great, but it's like saying Pro Wrestling is a show about athletic competition" and is called the Carlson bow-tie signature of the "theater" example. At one point Carlson told Stewart, "I think you'd rather be at your show," Stewart answered by saying: "You know what's interesting? You're so big in your show because you're on any show." Carlson then told Stewart that "You have to get a job at journalism school, I think" that Stewart shouted "You have to go to one."
Carlson left CNN in January 2005; the network canceled Crossfire at the same time. CNN President Jonathan Klein stated that "I agree wholeheartedly with Jon Stewart's overall premise." Carlson said that he had resigned from CNN before Stewart's appearance claimed: "I resigned from Crossfire in April months, months before Jon Stewart came to our show, because I do not like to take sides, and I think in some ways it's kind of a futile conversation... every side comes out, you know, [lifts up boxing] 'Here's my argument', and nobody's listening to anyone else [CNN] is a frustrating place to work. " Keep it up with CNN after the Crossfire ' cancellation.
Coverage of Steubenville high school rape case
Candy Crowley, Poppy Harlow and Paul Callan were criticized for portraying two rapists raped in the case of the Steubenville High School rapes sympathetically and for placing very little focus on the victims on March 17, 2013. During the delinquent verdict process, Harlow stated that it was "very difficult , even for an outsider like me, to watch what happens when these two young men have a promising future, football star players, excellent students, literally watch as they believe their lives are a mess... when that Sentence goes down, [Ma'lik] collapsed in the arms of his lawyer... He said to him, 'My life is over, no one will want me now.' "An online petition collects more than 200,000 signatures that protest coverage and demand an apology.
CNN also revealed the name of the 16-year-old victim on March 17 by broadcasting unedited records of one of the convicted post-conviction statements of rapists. This practice is contrary to the Associated Press guidelines for coverage.
Coverage of Cleveland kidnappers
On the morning of May 7, 2013, CNN interrupted the coverage of the Jodi Arias assassination trial with the release of three young women from Cleveland, Ohio who were abducted by Ariel Castro between 2002 and 2004. CNN correspondent Ashleigh Banfield appeared to interview HLN host Nancy Grace from a remote location , and apparently both were filming from the parking lot. The channel graph then alerted viewers that the two journalists were in Phoenix, Arizona. The same car was seen driving behind two anchors, first behind Banfield and then by Grace. It's clear that Grace and Banfield, in fact, sit in the same parking lot, pretending to be in a remote location when both are actually about 30 feet from each other.
Redditor Controversy
On July 2, 2017, President Donald Trump posted a video on Twitter depicting himself repeatedly scribbling and punching Vince McMahon on the ground at WrestleMania 23. The clip had been edited to place the CNN logo on top of McMahon's face. Two days later, CNN published a story titled, "How CNN found the Reddit user behind the Trump GIF wrestling", which labeled Reddit user "HanAssholeSolo" as the creator of the viral video. In the article, political journalist Andrew Kaczynski describes a process that allows organizations to discover the identity of users.
After the publication of the article, the user posts an apology to CNN, including an apology for a previous Reddit post that can be taken containing racist, and anti-Semitic, anti-Semitic and imagery language in the Reddit/r/The_Donald group. Soon after that, his apology was locked and deleted by the subreddit moderator when the user deleted his Reddit account. After confirming the identity of the Reddit user, HanAssholeSolo declared his aversion to his name to be released to the public. In response, CNN declares that they will not reveal his name, as he is "a [private] citizen who has issued a broad apology statement, expressed his regrets by saying he has removed all the offending posts, and because he said" I am not will repeat this bad behavior in social media again. In addition, he said his statement could be an example for others not to do the same. CNN reserves the right to publish its identity if there is such change. "
Leading Alt-Right users in social media later accused CNN of blackmailing users, using hashtags, #CNNBlackmail, which is strongly driven by Julian Assange, as well as right-wing online activists and conspiracy theorists. Kaczynski responded by stating that the CNN statement was "misinterpreted" and that the user said that he was not threatened before his apology. Meanwhile, Madison Malone Kircher of New York Magazine believes that CNN could have avoided Internet vigilantism if it simply publishes its identity, as usual under the same circumstances, criticizing their decision to "protect" users.
CNN's decision to restrain a user's name was also criticized by William Grueskin, a professor at Columbia University. Grueskin argues that users are not victims of harassment or secret witnesses or adolescents. Meanwhile, Indira Lakshmanan of Poynter Institute said that most likely, out of fear, the user begs CNN to keep his name secret. Kirsten Powers, a commentator on CNN, also criticized CNN's decision, asking in the article USA Today "what about people who are routinely inhuman and degrading online?" Powers also wrote on Twitter that "people have no right to remain anonymous so they can spit out racist, misogynistic, and homophobic waste."
Appearance in fiction
Some controversies were created by the use of on-air CNN staff for fictional reports and broadcasts in the science-fiction film Contact (1997).
See also
- Anti-cnn
- The BBC controversy
- The Fox News controversy
- MSNBC controversy
- Press the TV controversy
References
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