The kneejerkers at CNN just can't help themselves: Tonight, a special on alleged American abuses in Iraq.
The Cable Gamer is old enough to remember CNN's notorious "Tailwind" scandal; back in 1998, then-CNN correspondent Peter Arnett gleefully smeared US troops in Vietnam. A firestorm ensued, mostly thanks to an upstart TV network, called Fox News, and the whole story was retracted, Arnett and several others fired.
Such behavior was easy to see, back in the days when Ted Turner and his then-wife Jane Fonda were forces in the network, but long after Ted and Jane were gone, CNN keeps at it, finding new ways to heap scorn on America.
But CNN just can't help itself.
By contrast, tonight Fox is showing a documentary on fighting the Somali pirates.
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