CNN is obviously the least biased news organization out there. A simple game will help demonstrate that. The game is called “Name the Party of the Criminal!” We’ll look at two recent cases and the coverage on CNN’s website. Namely:
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Governor Blagojevich’s arrest.
For Senator Stevens, we see the second paragraph (which is really the second sentence in the article) tells us: “The Alaska Republican was charged Tuesday with scheming to conceal thousands of dollars worth of gifts from a major employer in his state, a company on whose behalf he sometimes intervened in Washington.” In fact, the word “Republican” appears five times in the article.
For Governor Blagojevich we see that he’s…um…well…um…from…
Okay, he’s not from a party. He’s just the governor of Illinois is all. There are only two references to a party at all, and both of those are in reference to Obama: “The Obama transition team is aware that Blagojevich is in federal custody, but has no comment, according to a senior Democratic source” and “Several Illinois Democrats — including Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. and Iraq war veteran Tammy Duckworth, a former congressional candidate who now serves in Blagojevich’s administration — have been mentioned as possible Senate replacements for Obama.”
But this in no way diminishes the non-biased nature of CNN. After all, everyone who reads CNN knows that “Democrat” is “the Party which shall not be named in scandals.” And therefore, their lack of putting a party on Governor Blagojevich’s name is proof positive that Blagojevich is a Democrat. So CNN is still unbiased.
Isn’t it nice that the media is there to ensure the proper spin on every news story for us? I mean, just think of what would have happened without the media. Why, Republicans might have nominated a real candidate and the Chosen Lightbringer would never have been elected!
