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Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA
Obviously you started out giving them way too much benefit of the doubt. Their slant has been around for years, it's NBC that seems to have taken a decided turn (including MSNBC that is)
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I know about the liberal slant, the difference that I've perceived during the last couple months of this campaign are the choice in wording of headlines and links, maybe you'll tell me that's always been extremely biased too but it seems lately like they've turned towards a... tabloid-esque style of reporting that hasn't existed until recently, using extremely misleading headlines as the links to their main stories.
The biggest example to me was the story that was linked when Joe Biden released his health records:
Democratic VP nominee Biden releases medical records - CNN.com
While most of the story was about the information in Biden's health report, there was also this little bit:
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Biden's Republican counterpart, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, 44, has not released any medical information. Biden's running mate, Obama, 47, has not released records either; his campaign did release a one-page summary of those records, which concluded that he is in excellent health.
The campaign of Sen. John McCain has derided Obama for running "on a doctor's note."
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So what's the headline on CNN.com that day that links to the story?
"Biden Releases Medical Records; Palin still has not"
That one sentence is the only thing in the article about Palin. No Democrats were bitching about the fact that Palin hadn't, it was a one line throwaway in the story. More time was spent discussing the fact that Obama was less forthcoming about his health information than McCain, though still, 95% of the story was about Biden. So why the hell is your headline focusing on Palin as if there's some scandal here?
I am used to CNN more accurately and more faithfully describing the actual content of their stories instead of implying controversy that doesn't actually exist.
Minor I guess, but it feels disingenuous and bothers me.