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For me, personally, the nonstop rotation of defense lobbyists and uncritical parroting of anything put out by the Pentagon makes CNN appear pretty right wing to me. Especially since it’s a bunch of intelligence community apparatchiks doing the parroting.

Everything else they report comes from PR NewsWire, and to me that union of corporate power and media also seems very right wing

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I think CNN is definitely allied with the Democratic Party. Both parties are hawks when it serves their interest, so not having intelligence propaganda showing wouldn't be an option.

For those that downvoted him, many of the CNN "war contributors" have ties with the defense industry that are not disclosed, and those are all pro-war/intervention.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/news-networks...

https://jacobin.com/2022/04/defense-industry-ex-military-off...

This has been going on for decades.

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/us/20generals.html

EDIT: I just noticed but I think it's funny that the WaPo has an article showing that the defense industry has infiltrated our news organizations in the lifestyle section. It's almost as if the editors are trying to hide the fact. I would think it would be a front page thing. Pretty significant assault on the democratic process, particularly on a subject as immense as war.

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