Yeah I caught the show this morning...

Sesno is Sesno... like I said to my husband...I sure as heck haven't missed him one iota on CNN...not that I watch it that much anymore anyway.

Just par for the course...

What disappointed me was Howie baby not showing the confrontation with Susan and Norman when they did the clip. I'm about ready to quit watching this show too.

Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart

"Our job is not to use our podium and our platform and our
television camera to tell people what they should be thinking and doing."

Where has this SOB been the last 15 years?

Boy...this is the pot calling the kettle black

Run by NBC to push their windmill business was fine with CNN.

This clown is a "professor". Typical of modern "liberals", logic  obviously is not his strong suit. But speaking out of both sides of his mouth is a technique he has mastered very well. No wonder our kids can't think.

NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"

I think I might finally understand liberal hypocracy. They don't think but rather feel. If you feel Foxnews is bad than anything they do is bad. So you make an "arguement" that they shouldn't tell people what they should think. Its not really an arguement since they don't back up the statement that Foxnews actually told anyone what to think or even why they shouldn't advocate positions on their programs. Now he likes CNN and Olbermann so he finds a duty on their part to not let others get away with their "evil" or "harsh" opinions. He feels bad about those opinions so anything is justified even the behavior he just said was bad when discussing Foxnews. When you aren't thinking and merely feeling the Sesno hypocracy makes more sense.

Liberals gave up debating and using facts and argumentation long ago. Now they use judgmental statesments and name calling as a substitute for debate. It has been suprisingly successful in a land of uneducated non-critical thinking public. See Barack Obama.

lol. These people are hilarious.

do they really believe what they are saying??

I doubt it. They know they have become the Obama State Media.

I had to go to the CNN website to see how Kurtz was going to handle this.  To me, and I'll admit I'm partisan, Kurtz seems to put his show together, in such a way as to find someone that will justify the poor journalism and then someone that won't be too critical of it.  The beauty of that, from his standpoint is, he can say he presented a fair picture of it.  Amanda Carpenter was way too kind on Roesgen, if there was a penalty for journalistic malpractice, Roesgen should have been tried, convicted, and fined for her act and yet CNN was able to find a professor of the media that thought it was just fine. 

You have to laugh at this stuff.  The liberal media has put themselves in the position of defending their conduct, almost on a weekly basis.  In cases like this, they have to go through such contortions that you wonder if they'll ever be able to get straight again.  This all started with the Clinton thing, where the liberals networks (and the Democratic Party) felt they had to defend the indefensible because they didn't want the Republicans to win.  This, in turn, led to their attempt to support John Kerry in 2004, which even the liberal media had a hard time doing; but they totally earned their stripes in 2006 and 2008.

So, as CNN sinks to even lower levels in the ratings war, when will they cry no mas and attempt to get back to doing the news the way it should be done and get rid of the political hacks like Carville and Begala and get some real journalists in there. 

As an aside, I wonder if it will ever get out why Fox News didn't hire Roesgen?  Perhaps she just wasn't fair and balanced enough for them?  Obviously she was for CNN and now we know why.  

Election 2008-God's way of showing us that elections count.  

Clang's one's head against the wall over and over trying to make sense of usless dolts; and why God ever allows / allowed them to popoulate.

that has this description:

Advanced techniques in writing, reporting, producing, and editing long-form television documentaries, including analysis of the techniques of propaganda and rhetoric used in film and television to visualize political ideology.

Sesno is also the creator of Planet Forward, that is both a PBS Special that aired on April 15 and a website. In an article at cleantechnica.com titled Welcome To Planet Forward: From Your Lens To The White House Gates Sesno describes Planet Forward as:

"A revolution in technology and green jobs to reduce carbon emissions, deal with climate change and improve our security. A revolution in the energy marketplace to knock the oil-igarchs around the world down a notch. Coincidentally, this is the bottom line of Barack Obama’s hugely ambitious energy program. And it’s what citizens and experts alike weigh in on here at Planet Forward." 

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So "Professor" Sesno is just another liberal "journalist" who has joined the ranks of academia in order to indoctrinate the next generation of journalist and students in false liberal propaganda.

The Planet Forward website links to another contributor Public Agenda. Public Agenda claims that:

For over 30 years, Public Agenda has been providing unbiased and unparalleled research that bridges the gap between American leaders and what the public really thinks about issues ranging from education to foreign policy to immigration to religion and civility in American life. Nonpartisan and nonprofit, Public Agenda was founded by social scientist and author Daniel Yankelovich and former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance in 1975. Public Agenda's two-fold mission is to help:

1)American leaders better understand the public's point of view.
2)Citizens know more about critical policy issues so they can make thoughtful, informed decisions. 

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I noticed that the Public Agenda website offers "Objective Tools for Journalist" including "help when you're in a hurry to find an expert to interview
as you zero in on various subjects."  What do you want to bet that they are Liberal "experts." All of this stinks of the liberal agenda. By the way, Cyrus Vance was Secretary of State under Jimmy Carter , and Daniel Yankelovich has contributed ONLY to Democrats.

This is how liberals indoctrinate the uneducated, the illiterate, and the uninformed. These are the citizens who elected Barack Obama.

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let their ratings fall... their sponsors leave and they can all sit in their empty offices packing away their equipment for the last time - wondering why.

I love to help the helpless but I'm not gonna help the clueless   ~Dennis Miller

More and more news stories where the news reporters report about other news reporters and organizations - totally missing the point about the news?

 Is it really all about them?

It certainly isn't journalism.

I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them. - J.B. Books (John Wayne)

In my opinion, what the Tea Parties really revealed this week is that most of the national media view this as a type of civil war if you will.  It's a us against them thing.  I knew there would be bias, but I could not believe just how extreme that bias was this week.

There are no guns a blazing.  No death toll from battle, but I really do believe that for most of the national media is this their civil war.

"Our job is not to use our podium and our platform and our television camera to tell people what they should be thinking and doing." - Frank Sesno, professor of media and public affairs at George Washington University

I think this is the most frightening quote from the article. How can this man utter this statement without gagging? This is the exact opposite of what he supports MSNBC and CNN for doing.

Somebody check me on this, some years ago Rush Limbaugh gave a speach at a school of journalism somewhere, he supposedly asked the audience "Who is here to change the world?". Over half the hands shot up and Rush is supposed to have said "Then you are in the wrong profession!".

I'll look for it, but maybe somebody can confirm this as well?

Thanks

What if we began to flood MSNBC and CNNs advertisers with emails letting them know that we will not be purchasing any of their products as long as they continue to advertise on channels that put this sort of garbage on television at anytime during the day when impressionable young children could be watching?

I wonder if the executives that work for these companies know what it is these immature punks on MSNBC and CNN are saying online: and they are paying for it.

Would this do any good??