Contact CNN to protest hiring of 3 right wing nuts! [View All]

Its official - CNN is now a fox clone. From Moveon email I received today:

CNN is trying to gain viewers by imitating right-wing Fox News.


This week, CNN Headline News announced it will give a full primetime hour to right-wing talk radio host Glenn Beck.1 In the past month, CNN hired former Gingrich-era Republican congressman J.C. Watts2 and reportedly hired Reagan cabinet secretary Bill Bennett3 as on-air news analysts. CNN has hired no progressive voices.


Variety magazine reports CNN "will look to build Beck into the type of TV personality that could siphon viewers from Bill O'Reilly, Joe Scarborough and other conservative hosts."4 Why is CNN imitating Fox News? CNN's president thinks progressives don't care, saying "they don't get too worked up about anything."5 It's time for us to strike back—hard.

Please contact CNN right away. Let CNN know it's outrageous to skew the news by hiring Beck, Watts, and Bennett—and that the public will not stand for CNN becoming a Fox News clone.

CNN headquarters in Atlanta
404-827-1500 (Ask for comment line—then option 1 to leave message, option 2 for live person)

Calling is most effective. But if you can't call or if the switchboard is closed, you can e-mail CNN using this webform:
http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form1.html?39
Help track our impact by letting us know you contacted CNN at:
http://civic.moveon.org/call/?cp_id=195&tg=67.34

The hiring of right-wingers isn't just a minor misstep by CNN executives—they are becoming accomplices in the right-wing's war on journalism, caving to years of right-wing pressure.