Bloggers keeping CNN honest

The moto for CNN host Anderson Cooper's show AC360 is "keeping them honest."  

Last week, this blogger was among hundreds of CNN viewers who appropriated and acted upon this principle.  Salon's Glenn Greenwald raised several concerns of his own about CNN coverage:

The blogger Jotman has been relentlessly chronicling CNN's truly awful and propagnadistic "reporting" on the WikiLeaks tape -- see here and here.  Aside from CNN's constant attempts to justify and obscure what was done, they simply refuse to show the most graphic and harrowing (i.e., the most revealing) parts of the video.  Wolf Blitzer actually justified this self-censorship with the smug claim that it was "out of respect for the family members" of the victims -- as though they would want the evidence of what was done to their loved ones to be suppressed -- and other CNN programs are sticking a huge black box over the video during the most important parts so as to prevent their viewers from seeing what actually happened:

The video released by WikiLeaks has now been seen by close to 4 million people on YouTube alone, but CNN either refuses outright to show the most revealing parts or treats those parts like they're too naughty for their fragile, childish viewers to see.  This is a perfect example of how the American media helps to propagandize the public and obscure the truth:  it's virtually always the case that these realities of what our Government is doing are simply kept away from Americans, but in the rare instances where it has to be addressed (because of what WikiLeaks did), CNN takes affirmative steps to block its viewers from seeing what it really is.

 I haven't been able to stomach CNN since the episode unfolded.