Comments on: '#CNNFail': Twitterverse slams network's Iran absence

The network that became famous by having reporters on the ground as bombs fell on Baghdad in 1991 missed the boat on the Iranian riots, and Twitter users noticed.

[bennyboy1984]

er. Sorry to be a pedant, but "#" is not a pound sign. It's a hash...

[JunkSiu]

This is not the fist time for CNN ignoring news event, local or global. A few years ago when Bush visited Canada for Free Trade Agreement meeting, CNN had no coverage at all!! However, BBC, a British news network did.

[thowland]

CNN has a long history of kowtowing to dictators- Remember Eason Jordan (CNN's news director) admission that he supressed news of Saddam Hussein's atrocities in return for access to the regime?

This is more of the same.

[dfevans-1]

Yo, People. Don't you remember CNN = Crescent News Network. Now why would Crescent News Network report bad things about Iran. Just wait. Soon they will tell us just how nice Ahmadinejad really is and that he is just a miss-understood nice democratic president.

The one that sold us to vote for Obama. Do you REALLY think that they would do anything else?

[keithrt49]

Why is anyone surprised? This is the same CNN that sounded like Saddam Hussein cheerleaders during the first Gulf war, was exposed for failing to report its knowledge of mass graves in Iran because it was afraid of jeopardizing its access to Hussein, and who's international channel sounds at times more anti-American than Pravda.

[PSmith]

Kwasiowusu,
Please go back on your meds. You are embarrassing yourself with your paranoid nonsense.

[Kwasiowusu]

@ PSmith, naaaah.
You get off the crack..and stop drinking Obama Kool Aide while you are about it.
Question: Did Comrade Obama launch his political career in the kitchen of notorious terrorist, and US Capitol/Pentagon bomber, William Ayers or not? Answer: YES.

Question: Did said William Ayers, mentor Obama throughout his political life till Obama petended to "denounce" Ayers, when he was eager to con Americans into voting for him? Answer: YES.

Question: Did the same Obama attend the "Rev" Jeremiah "God damn America" Wight's church and approvingly lsisen to Jeremiah Wright's hate-filled, racist, anti-white preachings for to the tune of TWENTY YEARS, without as much as ONE protest, till he wanted to be eleceted president, before he pretended to "denounce" Jeremiah Wright? Answer: YES.
'nough said.

[Patcheeetroof]

PSmith, you're just afraid because Kwasiowusu and I speak the truth! Let me lay some knowledge on your twisted libtard mind: Not only did Comrade Obama plot against the U.S. during the Vietnam War, but there's photographic evidence of him plotting against the U.S. in the 1970s in Indonesia! Why can't we find his birth certificate? Perhaps it's because he's the SON OF INDONESIAN MUSLIMS who have groomed him, along with their terrorist friends, for this day. Not only did Obama help Ayers bomb the Pentagon... but he KNEW OF THE 9/11 PLOT.

[Mr. Dee]

I was watching CNN World this week around 3 am, they had a program on called Green Eco Friendly something. Very interesting program, then I saw CNN Breaking news. They wanted to tell me that Renaldo was bought by Madrid. Why is that important breaking news? That is like something you put in a ticker at the bottom of the screen. CNN is the Paris Hilton of 27-7 news these days - very popular, but little substance. I personally find Ander Cooper inflated and Wolf Blitzer's situation room obnoxious, just a lot of loud suspense music and 'we'll be right back after these messages'.

[goseecalif]

umm, CNN?
What do you expect from Chinese New Network?

[CrabbyGolightly]

CNN has been a network 24-hours of recycled video clips borrowed from local tv stations for the last 25 years. Yet CNN should not be the only TV news agency targeted for its lack of coverage of real news. Americans have to ask themselves if two minutes on the networks' nightly news on events like those taking place in Iran is enough.

Where is the coverage by ABC, CBS and NBC, MSNBC, Fox? The bottom line is corporate media is about profits. It's events like those in Iran that prove that the best journalists are citizens with a stake in the outcome.

[Voice_Of_Logic]

What are you talking about - the media HAS BEEN in bed (both asleep and in cahoots) for eons now. It just decides when and with whom, respectively.

[Buk30]

I have found CNN very lacking in News reporting.
the worst experience I had when holidaying in ******.Thailand.
CNN did not even know that Perth Australia existed on their weather reports.
constantly recycled the same news over and over with a very limited coverage.
was very frustrating as was no other English news.

[todd3617]

Has anyone noticed that the media doesn't ask tough questions anymore? Especially of the Obama administration? It's like they have gone all Hollywood on us. Did anyone see NBC's week long story on how the Obama's live their life in the white house? It looked like something off MTV's cribs. The media is falling head over heels over this guy. Because the media loves him so much they don't ask tough questions. Have you heard them ask anything tough about this health care reform they are talking about? This is something that will be life changing for millions of americans and something that, when passed will be a permanent thing and the media is giving them a pass. They aren't grilling the Obama administration like they should be. The media has gone soft over the last several years, their job is to investigate what really goes on and they aren't doing their job.

[Patcheeetroof]

I agree with todd3617 -- during the run up to the Iraq War, the media didn't ask any tough questions. They're the reason we're stuck in that mess. They also refused to deal with any questions related to where the WMDs were. You tell 'em, Todd! I got your back!

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[Heebee Jeebies]

And, what does CNN have to say about this?

BTW the one person was right. CNN spends too much time talking about the same things over and over and over again. They have one host that talks about it and then the next one says the same thing and so on and so on and pretty soon you have slipped in to a coma. Is Nielsen setup to adjust there scoring for people that have slipped in to a coma during a program? I hope so other wise those numbers are very skewed, especially given the junk on TV today.

Robert

[oldmanangry]

Get used to it. Why do you need the media anyway right? Isn't that what all you kids keeps be saying?

[nickbarron]

The Iranian Stealection is proving Twitter's worth. [CNET editors' note: URL removed.]

[densouthampton]

knowing the damage that the reformists, have, and are doing. It's all about the greedy, and higher educated. (higher education, leads to visions of grandure, and makes useless bleeders to lazy to do manual work) getting a larger slice of the cake for themselves, they wone in bajing, and within a short time, the landed peasants were worce off, than they were before the revolution, and now, that they have recession ( over-production. ) they production workers are being slung out of work, and the ex-students and reformists, are laughig, all the way to their banks, is that what we should be supporting in iran.