Sound Off to CNN

I tend to watch the Situation Room on CNN in the afternoons, switching to cooking, or cartoons, or porn vids, anything else, when Lou Dobbs comes on, but it's been almost unwatchable this week. Suzanne (su zahhhhn, you morons!) Malveaux has been subbing for Wolf Blitzer, and the complete credulity she exhibits as WH Correspondent has slopped over to her anchoring gig, and she's basically spent the week feeding Repug talking points to the Repugs, and shouting them at the Dems. The one good bit was yesterday watching her interview the Syrian Ambassador to the US during the Pelosi brouhaha; they're probably STILL trying to shout over each other.

Anyway, MediaMatters has had enough, and Atrios echoed them. His post in it's entirety:

Make Some Noise

Tell CNN to get the facts right on Pelosi trip

For much of the past week, CNN and its White House correspondent Suzanne Malveaux have offered a steady stream of inaccurate and incomplete coverage of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-CA) trip to the Middle East and her April 3 meeting with Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad.

Please join Media Matters for America in demanding that CNN and Malveaux stop misinforming viewers about Pelosi's trip and present all the facts. CNN's contact information can be found in our "Take Action!" sidebar on the right.

Since April 2, Malveaux has wrongly and repeatedly claimed that Pelosi had no "standing" and was not acting in an "official capacity," has attacked the trip as "political theater" and a "political stunt," and has parroted the Bush administration's attacks on Pelosi for going to Syria while ignoring the fact that a Republican-led delegation met with Assad on April 1. Most recently, Malveaux asked whether Pelosi's trip was a "big wet kiss to President Al-Assad."

Other CNN personalities have joined in as well. Lou Dobbs devoted an entire segment to "Pelosi's bad trip," while the April 3 edition of Anderson Cooper 360 featured a segment on Pelosi's trip titled "Talking to Terrorists."

After several days of inaccurate, one-sided coverage, it's time to tell CNN enough is enough. It's time to take action.

Use the contact information in our "Take Action!" sidebar to contact CNN, Malveaux, and Dobbs -- and be sure to tell your friends.

Take Action!

Contact information:

CNN
CNN
One CNN Center, Box 105366, Atlanta, GA 30303-5366
Phone: 404-827-1500
Fax: 404-827-1906

When contacting the media, please be polite and professional. Express your specific concerns regarding that particular news report or commentary, and be sure to indicate exactly what you would like the media outlet to do differently in the future.

-Atrios 18:24

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