An email reply from Eason Jordan at CNN!!

[DancingBear]

The following came to me from Eason Jordan at CNN:


We don't pretend to be perfect -- yes, the Kerry speech should have seen more air time -- but there most certainly is no anti-Kerry bias at CNN.


I will write him back a reasoned response as to why there indeed is, but I'm leaving the house now, so it will have to wait until later this evening.


KEEP IT UP! - this proves they're listening.

[yardwork]

1. Good for you!

At least he acknowledges that the speech was underreported. How does he explain that if there is no anti-Kerry bias?

Please share the additional points you make with CNN here. I will be glad to back you up with a letter of my own.

[ronnykmarshall]

2. Way to go DancingBear!

:toast:

[ibegurpard]

3. When you write him back be sure to mention

how much coverage CNN gave to the balloon "malfunction" at the DNC.

On edit: and that we expected this kind of shit from FOX but CNN has been a huge disappointment.

[City Lights]

4. Hey, great job.

Very impressed that they responded. Please keep us posted.

[dubyaD40web]

5. Like it or not...

Props for writing you back!

[buycitgo]

6. ask him to explaint the completely unfair alottment of

commentators during the conventions, the fact that they ignored David Brock's entreaties to have the same sort of rabid leftwing dissectors on after the spewage in NY as they did wingnuts during Boston

go ahead, ask him

ask that cop in the woodpile

ask that cop in the street

ask that cop who's knockin' on your front door

[buycitgo]

7. seriously.....try to keep a dialogue open....ask him specifics, dealing

with coverage ratios, things like that; things that are quantifiable, NOT subjective

he can't argue with stuff like that

ask him how often they have wingnuts on without somebody to counter their spin, then have some nutjob on to LIE about a democrat's line

that happens all the time, IMO

[DancingBear]

9. "Feets, get movin!"

You ain't got no friends on the left, you're right...

[annabanana]

11. (he's no fun, he fell right over?) lol.......................n/t

[spooky3]

16. "for awhile there I got into bear-hating"

[DancingBear]

18. "Let's stand him on his head..."

"You see, now it's morning!"

[flordehinojos]

8. no anti-kerry bias at cnn? the man is as delusional as shrub!

[IIgnoreNobody]

10. translation

"Yes, the facts that you cited do show bias, however there is no bias"

Why should this be different from anything else put out by CNN?

[vetwife]

12. Good going Dancing Bear..now if they will get back to me !

with their sexist remark !

[AlCzervik]

13. Here is mine and his response, sound familiar?

BTW, i was too nice.

Me to him:
Dear Mr. Jordan,

        I am writing to you to express my dismay of Cnn's very limited
coverage of Senator Kerry's speech today.  I have come to rely on CNN
in the past 10 years for fair and accurate coverage on news matters and
for the past year or so CNN has seemed to have lost some of it's
objectivity.  About a week or so ago I heard Daran Kagan refer to
Senator Kerry's medals as "Medals he may have "received" and the
non-coverage of what is actually contained in the CBS memos.  CNN spent
many hours covering the Swiftboat Story but hasn't done the same for
President Bush.  All in all this is very disheartening, I would expect
the above mentioned if you were Fox "News" but you aren't.  Please Mr.
Jordan, consider what i'm saying, this election is too important to not
give fair and equal treatment to all sides.

Respectfully
His response to me, via his blackberry

Thanks very much.  I assure you CNN does not have an anti-Kerry bias.

--------------------------
Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless Handheld

My reply to him:
Sir, I appreciate your response and i will have to respectfully disagree, also i think Ms. Kagan's comment was out of line. Thank God you still have Lou Dobbs.
Respectfully

[spooky3]

17. "I assure you, I really am a size 2--just help me with this zipper..."

[senseandsensibility]

14. Don't forget to let us know

what you said when you e-mailed him back! Proof abounds of anti-Kerry bias at CNN. Your only problem will be deciding what to include and what to discard from such a mountain of evidence.:)

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

15. Concrete proof: Entire panel of RWers, no Dems commentating

on the Dem convention. Whassup wit dat?

[Darby]

19. Proof is HERE - use this clip from Media Matters

Woodruff and Gergen agree: Bush may not have a plan for Iraq, but that's Kerry's problem


http://mediamatters.org/items/200409160003


On September 15, CNN host Judy Woodruff and pundit David Gergen both suggested that, while President George W. Bush appears to lack a clear plan for Iraq, the Iraq situation is more of a problem for Senator John Kerry than it is for Bush.


Gergen is a U.S. News & World Report editor-at-large and a former adviser to Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton.


Woodruff and Gergen -- appearing on separate CNN programs -- stipulated that Bush has no clear plan for Iraq, but then both made a curious leap of logic. Apparently ignoring Bush's responsibility for the U.S. war in Iraq -- and his attendant responsibility for creating a climate in which terrorism can thrive, where civil war is a possibility, and where conditions for Iraqis and coalition troops alike are generally disastrous -- they chose to emphasize instead what they consider Kerry's "weakness" on Iraq.


On CNN's Judy Woodruff's Inside Politics, Woodruff reported that only 17 percent of persuadable voters think Bush has a "clear plan" for Iraq. She then added, "And the numbers are no better for John Kerry. But that's more of a worry for Kerry, isn't it?"


Appearing as a guest on CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight, Gergen extensively criticized Kerry's position on Iraq, saying: "is rhetoric and his votes on Iraq have struck many, many voters as being incoherent, and they don't understand what he thinks about Iraq or what he thinks ought to happen in the future, and I think the absence of a framework for a -- the war on terrorism and what to do about Iraq is coming back to plague this campaign. ... He needs a strategy for the war on terrorism, and it has to include Iraq."


When Dobbs asked if Gergen had a "clear understanding of the Bush administration's strategy on Iraq," Gergen admitted: "No. And you've got a good point there." But Gergen then claimed that Bush is "clearer about his overall strategy" and is "at least clear about what he wants to create at least as a stable Iraq and, hopefully, a Democratic Iraq." As though Kerry doesn't want a "stable Iraq" -- and as though Bush's hope counts as an "overall strategy."

[gcomeau]

20. Anybody know who they had on to critique W's speech...

...at the convention? As I recall they immediately went to Gillespie after Kerry's convention speech.

-Grant