General Discussion

When it was just "Headline news" I used to complain that it was a "press release" network. You say it, we'll broadcast it. It really hasn't changed over the years. People want to call them biased. It's not bias, it's a disregard for accuracy. I watched the Katrina broadcast. I had a brother IN New Orleans through the whole thing. What they were saying versus what was actually happening was horrible. They would report things on day one as "we're hearing that..." and by the next day it was "it is happening...". This despite the fact that they had never confirmed in any journalistic sense that it had actually happened.

It's a great channel for figuring out what everyone is talking about. It's a lousy channel for figuring out what is actually going on.