Title: What do you think of CNN? Is it credible? - Quora
Headings: What do you think of CNN? Is it credible?
What do you think of CNN? Is it credible?
Anonymous

Content: I could probably end here, but there is another common case that I will illustrate with a personal example. I am an information security professional, so when I heard about the DNC server hack, I was naturally very interested, but highly disappointed with the reporting (this is true every time I have more than casual knowledge of a subject or issue reported in the media, which should tell you something important about the competence of journalists to report on complex issues in which they are superficially or not-at-all educated…). I followed the links to the Joint task-force report, and was perplexed by how far it deviated from the common format for such reporting and all the missing information. I then started surfing the message boards and blogs of other security professionals, who were all similarly suspicious. The result was that I had a very different perception of the DNC hack that you probably have, relying on CNN to tell you what happened. So aside from missing information due to the current media business model of appealing to their audiences biases, there is also a substantial problem with the media’s competence to report complex issues and stories. Sponsored by Mandalay Trucking
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Murry Shohat
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Answered 10 months ago · Author has 4.4K answers and 2.3M answer views
Originally Answered: How dependable is CNN as a news source?