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The founder of the Cable News Network (CNN) continues to criticize the network. Although Ted Turner gave up control of CNN many years ago, he continues to speak his mind about the editorial content of the 24-hour news channel..
On the 25th anniversary of the network Wednesday, Turner spoke to employees and said CNN should cover more international news and the environment and move away from the "pervert of the day" stories.
"You know, we have a lot of perverts on today, and I know that, but is that really news? I mean, come on. I guess you've got to cover Michael Jackson, but not three stories about perversion that we do every day as well."
Turner was asked by moderator Christiane Amanpour why it was important not to follow other news channels in cover those stories.
Turner replied: "Somebody's got to be a serious news person. Somebody's got to be the most respected name in television news, and I wanted that position for CNN.
"I wanted to be The New York Times of the airwaves. Not the New York Post, but The New York Times. And that's what we set out to do, and we did it."
In other words Turner would prefer a network with a liberal slant, which CNN is, instead of a paper that goes after the sensational (which CNN also does.) CNN has fallen to second place in ratings behind Fox News Channel and string indication that the left-leaning network has lost its focus on accurate and balanced reporting.
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Sometimes it is obvious why Democrats cannot win elections. At the Take Back America conference, the woman who failed to get Al Gore into the White House told Democrats to work hard for the next 523 days.
Donna Brazile told fellow liberals to Take Back America by sending VP Dick Cheney and the rest of those "creeps" back home.
Brazile's math doesn't quite add up. As of Wednesday, there are 524 days until the November 2006 elections. No matter how hard Brazile and the Democrats work, the Bush Administration will remain in office until January 2009.
With dramatic loses in the past two presidential elections and further loses in the House and the Senate, Brazile insists "the voters are with us and they have been with us on the issues in every election." Then why do Republicans continue to win?
Brazile asserted "the problem is [voters] don't know exactly who we are and what we stand for."
Voters do not know what Democrats stand for because they use the politics of the negative. Democrats and liberals continue to bash the Bush Administration on every issue, but not one Democrat has proposed an alternative. Instead they say "no" top changes in Social Security, but will not propose a plan to change it. So, it is understandable why voters do not know what Democrats stand for, they stand for nothing.
Politics, Math, Gospel Confuse Dem Political Operative -- 06/02/2005
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The credibility of the leadership of Amnesty International has come into question. The international human rights organization recently blasted the United States for its treatment of terrorist prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. It called the camp the new "gulag", a reference to Soviet interment camps.
It now appears the motivation for the rebuke is more political than actual. The executive director of Amnesty USA, contributed $2,000 to the Kerry campaign for president and $1,000 to Sen. Ted Kennedy's (R-MA) re-election campaign for 2005.
Board chairman Joe W. Pitts also gave the Kerry campaign $2,000. Pitts is also an attorney who advises the far-left American Civil Liberties Union.
The Federal Election Commission could find no contributions to Republicans by any executive of Amnesty USA.
Amnesty leadership aided Kerry - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics - June 02, 2005
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How did Bob Woodward get scooped on his own story?
For more than 30 years Bob Woodward kept secret the identity of 'Deep Throat,' the source for the White House cover-up of the Watergate scandal. Woodward has written and unpublished manuscript about his relationship with the anonymous source.
In the wake of the Vanity Fair article revealing that former FBI official, W. Mark Felt, was the source for the Watergate stories, it became clear that Woodward had been facing pressure from the Felt family.
The family of Mr. Felt had sought in vain to receive payment for his story after failing to reach an agreement with Woodward. The family was shopping the story to Vanity Fair, as well as, People magazine, and Harper Collins books. The family is still determined to claim their share of the story.
"It's doing me good," Mr. Felt told reporters outside his home in Santa Rosa, Calif., when asked how he was reacting to the publicity. "I'll arrange to write a book or something, and collect all the money I can."
Woodward's publisher Simon & Schuster now plans to rush his own long-planned book into print this summer.
Coming soon to a bookstore and television screen, the real story of 'Deep Throat.'
In the Prelude to Publication, Intrigue Worthy of Deep Throat - New York Times
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