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Republican_Man
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 Tue Sep 07, 2004 10:47 pm 2 CNN anchors working for Kerry yet still on (Ethical?) |
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I hope this is alright, but...
This is from tonight's O'Reilly Factor, a topic for debate.
| Quote: | The ethics of consulting
The Kerry campaign has hired James Carville and Paul Begala as unpaid advisors, yet CNN has decided to keep the two on the air. Is this ethical? |
And that is the question: Is it ethical to keep on the air two Kerry advisors? It's NOT--it's not right!
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Republican_Man
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| Tue Sep 07, 2004 10:52 pm |
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Btw, James Carville and Paul Begala are the 2 Liberals on CNN's Crossfire debate show.
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Puck
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| Wed Sep 08, 2004 7:34 am |
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I don't really know...it seems like that could cause Republican's to start to think up conspiracy theories...so I don't know why you would want to do that. Not that I really care since I never watch CNN...I always choose Fox if I can get it. 
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Republican_Man
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| Wed Sep 08, 2004 4:53 pm |
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| JanewayIsHott wrote: | | I don't really know...it seems like that could cause Republican's to start to think up conspiracy theories...so I don't know why you would want to do that. Not that I really care since I never watch CNN...I always choose Fox if I can get it. |
Same here, but I don't believe that we'll come up with conspiracy theories, but it IS TRUE that they would make their stories, etc DEFINITELY biased towards Kerry and it is unethical.
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Toad
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| Wed Sep 08, 2004 5:50 pm Re: 2 CNN anchors working for Kerry yet still on (Ethical?) |
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| Republican_Man wrote: | I hope this is alright, but...
This is from tonight's O'Reilly Factor, a topic for debate.
| Quote: | The ethics of consulting
The Kerry campaign has hired James Carville and Paul Begala as unpaid advisors, yet CNN has decided to keep the two on the air. Is this ethical? |
And that is the question: Is it ethical to keep on the air two Kerry advisors? It's NOT--it's not right! |
This just shows people that the press is SO liberal. Normal  people should be able to figure that out.
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Hitchhiker
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| Wed Sep 08, 2004 6:15 pm |
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I don't think it is unethical. Everyone has opinions, and there's no such thing as doing your job with zero amount of bias. As long as they don't give advise over the air, and keep their unpaid job completely separate from their news show, then I think it's fine.
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Republican_Man
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| Wed Sep 08, 2004 7:32 pm |
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| Lt.CmdrWorf wrote: | | Republican_Man wrote: | I hope this is alright, but...
This is from tonight's O'Reilly Factor, a topic for debate.
| Quote: | The ethics of consulting
The Kerry campaign has hired James Carville and Paul Begala as unpaid advisors, yet CNN has decided to keep the two on the air. Is this ethical? |
And that is the question: Is it ethical to keep on the air two Kerry advisors? It's NOT--it's not right! |
This just shows people that the press is SO liberal. Normal people should be able to figure that out. |
EXACTLY.
| Hitchhiker wrote: | | I don't think it is unethical. Everyone has opinions, and there's no such thing as doing your job with zero amount of bias. As long as they don't give advise over the air, and keep their unpaid job completely separate from their news show, then I think it's fine. |
1. It IS unethical! If you are an anchor in the media and yet are actually an ADVISOR to a Candidate, that is WRONG!
2. There isn't such thing as ZERO bias (with the exception of C-SPAN)
3. You don't need to ADVISE others for it to be unethical! They will be EXTREMELY supportive and biased for Kerry, and it's not the right thing to keep an advisor to ANY candidate on the air when he/she is in the news media.
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Hitchhiker
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| Wed Sep 08, 2004 8:25 pm |
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But don't the news anchors read from a tele-prompter anyway?
Like I said before, obviously they cannot remain completely unbiased. But neither can any other news anchor--you'd have to remove every news anchor above voting age if you don't want them supporting someone on the air. Heck, you couldn't even have underage news anchors because they would still favour one candidate over the other. This way, they're just adivising their favourite candidate as well as doing a news show.
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Toad
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| Wed Sep 08, 2004 8:41 pm |
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| Hitchhiker wrote: | But don't the news anchors read from a tele-prompter anyway?
Like I said before, obviously they cannot remain completely unbiased. But neither can any other news anchor--you'd have to remove every news anchor above voting age if you don't want them supporting someone on the air. Heck, you couldn't even have underage news anchors because they would still favour one candidate over the other. This way, they're just adivising their favourite candidate as well as doing a news show. |
The people who feed the teleprompter the words are VERY liberal.
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Hitchhiker
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| Wed Sep 08, 2004 9:12 pm |
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| Lt.CmdrWorf wrote: | | The people who feed the teleprompter the words are VERY liberal. |
And so you're asking if the news anchors, reading from the liberal teleprompter are unethical? It's not as if they have a choice who is feeding the words in . . . I would confront the teleprompter people, not the news anchors.
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Republican_Man
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| Wed Sep 08, 2004 9:18 pm |
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| Hitchhiker wrote: | But don't the news anchors read from a tele-prompter anyway?
Like I said before, obviously they cannot remain completely unbiased. But neither can any other news anchor--you'd have to remove every news anchor above voting age if you don't want them supporting someone on the air. Heck, you couldn't even have underage news anchors because they would still favour one candidate over the other. This way, they're just adivising their favourite candidate as well as doing a news show. |
1. If they are experienced anchors, then they hardly have the telepromter.
2. These two guys are hosts of a show called Crossfire which HAS NO teleprompter! And the teleprompter doesn't mean that the people behind the mask and doing the show aren't Liberal--which they ARE--ESPECIALLY CNN!
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Link, the Hero of Time
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| Wed Sep 08, 2004 9:37 pm |
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RM, I didn't see you complaining when Bush's campagin Laywer was advising The Swift Vets for Truth.
So its fair that one candidate is supporting a 527 but not when the other gets political advisors?
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Republican_Man
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| Wed Sep 08, 2004 9:42 pm |
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| Link, the Hero of Time wrote: | RM, I didn't see you complaining when Bush's campagin Laywer was advising The Swift Vets for Truth.
So its fair that one candidate is supporting a 527 but not when the other gets political advisors? |
That is NOT true, and you should know it. He did NOT advise them, and I've heard about it and know that it's not true. If it WAS true, then I WOULD condemn it. But it isn't. Even O'Reilly found that out.
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Theresa
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| Wed Sep 08, 2004 9:47 pm |
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I don't know if it's unethical or not, but it certainly gives the appearance of impropriety. You have to be able to trust your news anchor, IMO. (Which would be why I don't bother w/ CBS Evening News anymore, btw).
People should do as they always should have done, take nothing at face value.
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Link, the Hero of Time
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| Wed Sep 08, 2004 9:51 pm |
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| Republican_Man wrote: |
That is NOT true, and you should know it. He did NOT advise them, and I've heard about it and know that it's not true. If it WAS true, then I WOULD condemn it. But it isn't. Even O'Reilly found that out. |
BS, He's even admitted to doing it
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Republican_Man
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| Wed Sep 08, 2004 9:52 pm |
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| Link, the Hero of Time wrote: | | Republican_Man wrote: |
That is NOT true, and you should know it. He did NOT advise them, and I've heard about it and know that it's not true. If it WAS true, then I WOULD condemn it. But it isn't. Even O'Reilly found that out. |
BS, He's even admitted to doing it |
No he didn't, but if he did, show me it and the source and I'll change my mind and denounce it.
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Republican_Man
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| Wed Sep 08, 2004 10:06 pm |
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Now, I don't really trust these sources to much, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and will now say: I condemn his actions. There. You happy now?
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Link, the Hero of Time
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| Wed Sep 08, 2004 10:17 pm |
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I'm sure if you looked you could find it in a hundred other sources.
But yes, I am content for now
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Republican_Man
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| Thu Sep 09, 2004 9:44 pm |
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This just in: DAN RATHER IS WORKING FOR KERRY TOO!
(I got that from THE LAURA INGRHAM SHOW)
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Theresa
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| Thu Sep 09, 2004 11:03 pm |
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Tsss, who takes Dan Rather seriously anyway?
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| Thu Sep 09, 2004 11:23 pm |
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| Theresa wrote: | | Tsss, who takes Dan Rather seriously anyway? |
Sadly enough, MANY people, priamrily the Libs.
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Hitchhiker
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| Fri Sep 10, 2004 8:02 am |
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| Republican_Man wrote: | | Theresa wrote: | | Tsss, who takes Dan Rather seriously anyway? |
Sadly enough, MANY people, priamrily the Libs. |
Who's Dan Rather?
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Link, the Hero of Time
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| Fri Sep 10, 2004 11:38 am |
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| Theresa wrote: | | Tsss, who takes Dan Rather seriously anyway? |
Agreed. The guy's an idiot to begin with.
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| Hitchhiker wrote: | | Republican_Man wrote: | | Theresa wrote: | | Tsss, who takes Dan Rather seriously anyway? |
Sadly enough, MANY people, priamrily the Libs. |
Who's Dan Rather? |
A famous news anchor.
My friend's son went to college with his son, Just thought I'd share with all of you,  
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