Hotel refuses to carry CNN in rooms

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A hotel chain owner has banned CNN from his hotel rooms because of his anger over CNN carrying Terrorist propaganda, the videos of snipers shooting American troops.

I sent him an email supporting his stance. I am pasting in his response.

The management of Stoney Creek Inns respects and supports diversity of opinion. America's strength comes from the freedoms we embrace. I support the men and women of the United States military, who protect those freedoms. The October 18th broadcast of a terrorist propaganda tape, witnessing the sniper assassinations of American soldiers is an obscenity! A decision of conscience was made.

We continue to offer a variety of news channels for our guests with a wide diversity of coverage.

Respectfully,


James H. Thompson

President

Stoney Creek Hospitality Corporation
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The lame ducks are quacking. Nothing to do with guns.

(And what's with that sig line? That better not be 'minorities' as relates to ethnic groups, or you SO do not belong here!) :barf:
 
I don't find the material in question to be offensive or propaganda. I suppose i would support the owner's right to show whatever channels he chooses though. I would simply not stay there.
 
I don't care if a private buisness censors itself, bans a t.v. network, news paper or even prohibits CCW. It's your choice to give them money for goods and services or not. Personally I think a propaganda video of soldiers of any army being killed is not something that needs to be shown. Reporting on it and showing it are two different things. Using the footage of the deaths of soldiers like that for ratings is morally wrong IMHO. That's why hollywood banned snuff films years ago when they still had morals. The reality is that most people don't care. The fringe 5% care 95% are sheeps who don't.
 
Who cares what James Thompson does with his hotel chain. I guess he does not like to know about the unpleasant aspect our soliders have to face every day in Iraq. He sounds like a typical chickenhawk Republican. Always blaming someone else for the Iraq failure. I guess he won't mind that I won't stay at his chain if I ever traveled out to that area.
 
while i feel that real events can be used as propaganda, i would like the oppurtunity to sort the truth for myself. as a private business he does have the right to censor, as we have the option to support him or not.
 
" he does have the right to censor,"
He has a right to not carry the program. In fact I would say it is his right under the "Freedom of Speech" to boycott CNN.
Techinally, censor is reserved for "Official" denial of "speech", not individual--unless you consider this to be offical from the owner. It is usally resverved for governments. Minor nit pick--I'm just in that mood this morning, I don't mean anything by it:D
 
Where'd all the individualists go?

So now we're debating what he should show on T.V. in a hotel he owns? Isn't that kinda like me complaining because I don't like you watching "Gunsmoke"? If I don't like his decision, I'll go to another hotel. It's a free country. For me and Mr. Thompson.
 
i might not understand right

don't find the material in question to be offensive or propaganda. I suppose i would support the owner's right to show whatever channels he chooses though. I would simply not stay there.



You don't find them showing snipers shooting americans offensive? correct me if i'm wrong but aren't we referring to news pieces where the reporter was with the sniper?
Heck i got issues with the reporters getting calls about ied's and going there to watch em be set off against our guys. If i found a reporter doing that and i was over there i'd be tempted to strap em to the hood of a hummer road warrior style and go trolling.

i wonder if it was one of your kids over there and it was them being shot... would that make it your ox being gored and thereby make it offensive?
 
I would have no trouble if the hotel owner didnt show Fox, many of the hotels I stay in while traveling don't show Fox. Whatever, their choice.



"I'm almost certain his signature is a humorous quote from Family Guy."

Yup. Thought it very funny. Was a line from an "NRA" film on guns on the show.
 
My brother lived in Red China for 3 1/2 years. When he lived there the hotel's satellite TV system blocked CNN.

The Bush 'bots solution is to shoot the messenger and declare them to be terrorist sympathizers.
 
I would think it to be owners choice. I get most of the world news from the web, often before it is broadcast. I listen to several sources, then run them through my own filters.
I like FOX though, a nice alternative to the one sided news we had for years. they still have to go through my filters.
 
I actually find defense of Fox to be laughable, since Fox's message seems to be "Iraq is Going Great! Wonderful! Please to Ignore Exploded Hummer! Did Not Happen! Flowers! Candies! Democracy!"

Whereas CNN is airing Glenn Beck's exposes as to the realities of jihadist extremists, showing who and what they are and how they're dangerous.

Whatever.
 
A majority of us currently in the military, that have been a part of events that have taken place and then saw what CNN twisted it into, have a very anti-CNN stance. It is also commonly referred to as the Communist News Network.
 
I myself find the showing of snipers shooting American soldiers disgusting if it's CNN, FOX, or ESPN. These are AMERICANS. Maybe a kid from your hometown. Exploiting their killings for ratings is plain, wrong.
Considering CNN's politics, I am suprised HNN has given Glenn Beck such a loose leash.
 
He has every right to do as he pleases in his hotel. If he wants to ban TV altogether it's his hotel. If you don't like it don't stay there.

He sounds like a typical chickenhawk Republican. Always blaming someone else for the Iraq failure.
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CNN has the right to show anything they want on their broadcast. We can question and debate their motivations for showing it. This business owner has the right to not allow CNN in his hotel. We can debate and question his motivations. But blanket insults like you threw down contribute nothing to the dialog and only serve to disrupt it. There is absolutely no evidence in the hotel owner's statement to support the second half of your statement.

I don't think anyone needs to see video of American Soldiers getting killed to know it is happening. I can't understand how anyone would want to see it anyway.
 
What I find offensive are delusional, lying politicians who put good American boys in craphole places FOR NO GOOD REASON to get shot at by snipers, and who keep our boys there because they themselves are PROVEN MORAL COWARDS who can't admit they screwed up royal in the first place.

Boycott this.
 
It was a family guy joke at the expense of gun culture though, pushing the already popular stereotype that gun owners are rednecks and racists...
 
I know. I wish he would take it down too. But I respect his rights if he doesn't... since that quote wasn't actual racism. But that quote is just another one of mainstream media's jabs at us, the gun owning public. To say we're paranoid/crazy/racist, and more of those stereotypes :(. I remember the specific episode and that segment was presented as rabidly anti-gun. I don't know why gunner would want to publish a joke capitalizing on our negative stereotypes.
 
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