CNN Media Critique

For many years, CNN News Network has been a big source of current events for people across the country. Despite all this, the network has some bad habits when reporting stories that break some of the key elements of journalism. As a network, CNN has a tendency to make the interesting important rather than the important interesting and they often do large coverage on stories that aren't newsworthy.
For example, they recently ran a poll inquiring about people's fews with the county's deal with Iran. On the internet, the network posted the full story will all results of the polls but on air, they majorly downplayed the portion of America that is against the deal and only kept major updates on the portion that is in favor of the deal.
They also recently published an article regarding the Republican debate but it in fact had nothing to do with the debate. The network asked Iranians what they knew and thought about some of the prominent presidential republican candidates. The entire article was making interesting information important information despite the fact that it isn't and they then put it on their top stories page even though it is not newsworthy information because it does not affect a large amount of people for a long time.
CNN could potentially fix their problem by making a separate page on their website that is for stories that pertain more to interesting information rather than important information. The company also needs to be sure that their stories are matching on air and on their website so it doesn't look biased in any way.
If the company can make the adjustments needed, it could be a representative of good journalism but it first needs to make these adjustments so that it stop breaking two of major elements of journalism.

Find articles at: http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/13/politics/iran-nuclear-deal-poll/index.html
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