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Any neutral observer looking at the Broadcast Networks of the United States could not but come to the conclusion that they all take a side. Some are much worse than others (Fox News) and some are pretty honest about it, (MSNBC) However, CNN is certain fair more to the left than it was even 5 years ago. It's not straight news.

This is what I'm talking about. Reporting the facts, and being critical of those spreading misinformation, does not automatically make you on the left. It just shows how much society's perspective has shifted to the right. I'm very much a centrist myself, but I find the right wing media's frequent and audacious mendacity to be far worse than anything the so-called "lamestream media" get accused of. I don't think CNN have moved at all, just that they, like many of us, got absolutely fed up of right wing lies and propaganda being allowed to spread unchecked. You can't have an honest both sides argument, if one side comes in with all the facts, and the other side comes in with nothing but lies and then accuses the other side of lying all the time. To use the old example, if one person says it's raining and the other says it's sunny, objectivity would require to look out the window, and discover the truth before reporting it, not to have both people on making deliberately contradictory statements.

It is really sad indeed. And the Facts First campaign, even if it’s not a bad idea on paper, only reenforces that partisan agenda. Another thing is that CNN International viewers had to support such agenda due to the decision to increase simulcasts due to the pandemic and the 2020 US election, and still have to do so, but in a much reduced scale as CNNI’s programming is being gradually reintroduced. Hope this doesn’t take too long…

Anyway, in other news, another CNN-branded affiliate channel is being introduced, this time in Portugal. Media Capital, owners of TVI, has signed a deal to rename its TVI24 news channel as CNN Portugal; additionally, TVI will be CNN’s exclusive affiliate for Portugal. The changes should take place this fall.

https://eco.sapo.pt/2021/05/24/dona-da-t...-portugal/