"Weird aspects" of CNN journalism

Remember that appalling Wolf Blitzer assessment of Richard Clarke? The one in which Blitzer told us that unnamed administration officials, comenting on Clarke's personal life, were "suggesting there are some weird aspects in his life"? That's the sort of slimy rumor-mongering that can get you a failing grade in Journalism 101.

Paul Krugman called Blitzer on this one, and got a frustrating and evasive response. More than that. Krugman opens his column by detailing another instance in which CNN relayed a White House smear against -- believe it or not! -- the David Letterman show.

But wait -- there's more. Check out this Guardian piece on Israeli accusations of anti-Semitism in the press. Scroll down until you find this doozy:


CNN sources say the network has bowed to considerable pressure on its editors. Israeli officials boast that they now have only to call a number at the network's headquarters in Atlanta to pull any story they do not like.


And yet the right-wing pretends that CNN has a leftist bias!