Persuasive Essay On Cnn At War With The World

Kyle Frazzette
Mrs. Bouchard
AP USGOV P4
January 17th, 2017
CNN: At War with the World
CNN is one of the largest and well known news organizations in the country, but it isn't without its controversies. CNN is known as being extremely liberal and very bias by Republicans and Foreign Eastern Countries. CNN actually has a lot of influence with the rest of the world. CNN International is the leading international news channel in terms of reaching to viewers all over the world. CNN International uses reporters that are local and sometimes directly affected by the events they are giving reports on. The reports are a more immediate and less detached style of coverage from the ground. However this has actually not benefited CNN in foreign eyes because many countries especially the Middle Eastern countries, accuse CNN International of being a pro-American perspective. This is very interesting because in America most organizations and a lot of people view CNN of being Anti-American

CNN created an online poll asking viewers to choose which of the party candidates they thought won the debate. Even though the poll ended with Bernie Sanders holding 75% of the vote, and Hillary Clinton holding 18% of the vote. CNN still published many articles declaring Secretary Clinton as the victor of the debate. After the poll had been shown on television following the debate, it was never shown again and was removed from CNN's website. Right after this, supporters of Senator Sanders claimed that CNN tried to bury Bernie Sanders's victory in an effort to help Hillary Clinton because of the fact that Time Warner which is CNN's parent company is Hillary Clinton's seventh largest backer in terms of money (elitedaily.com). This was very controversial and led many viewers to believe that CNN was completely bias to Hillary, who was very unpopular with a lot of people, even