Julian Assange‏ @Real_Assange 2h2 hours ago

A multi-billion dollar TV network blackmailing a private citizen into not making funny videos about it is not journalism, CNN. #CNNBlackmail

opelmanta1900 wrote:

blackmail

Definition

Coercion by unjustifiably threatening to reveal to another person or to the public substantially true information that is embarrassing, injurious, or incriminating. Although revealing this information is not in itself a crime, blackmail that comes in the form of demanding money in exchange for withholding information is considered criminal behavior.

Cornell Law School wrote:

CNN is not publishing "HanA**holeSolo's" name because he is a private citizen who has issued an extensive statement of apology, showed his remorse by saying he has taken down all his offending posts, and because he said he is not going to repeat this ugly behavior on social media again. In addition, he said his statement could serve as an example to others not to do the same.

CNN reserves the right to publish his identity should any of that change.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/04/politics/kfile-reddit-user-trump-tweet/index.htm
By Andrew Kaczynski, CNN wrote:

... news should not require skewing right or left. There is information. If one needs to present "the other side" then they are not providing information they are providing an opinion. If a channel is providing too much opinion (and all of them have been providing a bit much recently) the solution is NOT to provide an opposite opinion. The solution is to provide information.

victor809 wrote:

Agreed but it's never been. Remember rosebud?

teedubbya wrote:

Agreed but it's never been. Remember the mint buttplug?

teedubbya wrote:

well that, of course, wasn't bias in the news media nor was it about politics ...

SteveS wrote:

As Martin Lee and Norman Solomon noted in their 1990 book Unreliable Sources, Hearst "routinely invented sensational stories, faked interviews, ran phony pictures and distorted real events". This approach discredited "yellow journalism".

Hearst's use of yellow journalism techniques in his New York Journal to whip up popular support for U.S. military adventurism in Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines in 1898 was also criticized in Upton Sinclair's 1919 book, The Brass Check: A Study of American Journalism. According to Sinclair, Hearst's newspapers distorted world events and deliberately tried to discredit Socialists. Another critic, Ferdinand Lundberg, extended the criticism in Imperial Hearst (1936), charging that Hearst papers accepted payments from abroad to slant the news. After the war, a further critic, George Seldes, repeated the charges in Facts and Fascism (1947).

He used his papers for his own political purposes aw well.

Rosebud.

teedubbya wrote: