Friday, April 19, 2013

Jon Stewart is fake news? What is CNN then?

The Jon Stewart show on April 17th identified the self-contradicting feature of CNN's coverage on the Boston Massacre. Here is the gist of it,

At 1:46, John King, the reporter for CNN claimed that a "dark skin male identified and captured".
At 2:44, King said no arrest has been made, anyone who said arrest in ahead of themselves.

But, wait a minute, isn't that you?

So, CNN spent the entire afternoon going back and forth, spent hours of programming fighting themselves and the suspect went from "definitely caught, headed to federal court" to "never existed". I don't want to believe it but Jon Stewart has the clip of real CNN footages. If we are talking about soap opera, we expect senseless repetition because that's the nature of it. But CNN? the Cable News Network? the coverage of Boston Marathon Massacre? One really doesn't expect the content of such quality. The self-branded fake news Jon Stewart has a much more acute sense of assessing information than the CNN reporter who rushed to a conclusion and then made a fool out of himself.

I was very disheartened and confused: what happen to U.S. media and why is CNN spent hours and hours of news coverage telling literally nothing? No wonder American people are disappointed in the mainstream media and Independent media is on the inevitable rise, because mainstream media are not doing their jobs properly. On the same day when I looked at Democracy Now's coverage, it is much more accurate and concise.

CNN is truly disappointing yet I still see hope: people like with great eyes like Jon Stewart and people who really care about delivering accurate news and inform the public like Amy Goodman. U.S. information/communication industry will retain its prime position because of the hard work of these people.

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