Posted on 11/08/2018 8:27:39 AM PST by Hojczyk
interview with RT America on Tuesday, saying his past employer “stopped doing news a long time ago” to focus primarily on covering President Donald Trump.
KING: Two things, Rick — the internet and cable news. Could you imagine cable news in Watergate? And they don’t do news anymore. In fact, RT is one of the few channels doing news. RT does news. CNN stopped doing news a long time ago. They do Trump. Fox is Trump TV and MSNBC is anti-Trump all the time. You don’t see a story — there was vicious winds and storms in the Northeast the other day – not covered on any of the three cable networks, not covered. Not covered! So when CNN started covering Trump — they were the first — they covered every speech he made and then they made Trump the story.
So, Trump is the story in America. I would bet that ninety-eight percent of all Americans mention his name at least once a day. And when it’s come to that, when you focus on one man, I know Donald 40 years — I know the good side of Donald and I know the bad side of Donald — I think he would like to be a dictator. I think he would love to be able to just run things. So, he causes a lot of this.
Then his fight with the media and fake news. I’ve been in the media a long time, like you — longer than you, Rick. And at all my years at CNN, in my years at Mutual Radio, I have never seen a conversation where a producer said to a host “pitch the story this way. Angle it that way. Don’t tell the truth.” Never saw it. Never saw it.
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RT doesn’t really do news either, but I get his point.
I was waiting for him to move closer to the podium so the SS could pump a few 40s into him.
There was a tornado in the NE (Baltimore) the other day that knocked a wall down on an Amazon distribution center that killed two people.
Not really covered.
The left is claiming that clip is “doctored” by speeding it up and making Acosta’s “chop” look more violent than it was.
Larry would have asked her to marry him
When Larry King goes after you for not giving real news...
Larry marries big breasted blondes named Barb only.
Plus, Larry has front row seats season tickets at Dodgers Stadium.
Can we get CNN’s version for comparison?
Met him at Radio City Music Hall while waiting for a Tony Bennett concert, He was really nice to my Wife and me...
Not anymore as FOX has joined CNN/MSLSD as "Goebbels News Networks"
As an aside, when I see the name "Larry King", I always think of the James Carville parody - still LOL funny.
as talented as he is, I never cared much for Larry King’s style
but... he’s sure right about CNN....
and I appreciate the fact he saw fit to speak up about it
CNN stopped talking news as soon as Bill Clinton became President.
Their roll in promoting Ross Perot was where they became political.
You just hire rabid leftists and you don't rein them in. They don't have to be told to pitch a story a certain way. They just do it naturally.
A picture is worth a thousand words.
Not in the eyes of liberal democrats. You could show photo and video proof a thousand times to liberals, and they'll claim the opposite of what is a common-sense interpretation.
There are some freepers here that deny Acosta's arm came down on the female intern's arm. They can't be blind, so they must be intoxicated, morons, or shills for liberal causes. How else to explain it?
We were watching a NASA special yesterday about the Challenger incident. There were behind-the-scene clips of CNN’s newsroom and it was so interesting. That was when they did the news, and were serious about it. It was quite different than the CNN we have now.
Reading through this thread, I wondered who would flag Larry King for his distortion about “In all my years...I have never seen a conversation where a producer said to a host ‘pitch the story this way...’”
But fellow Alaskan Erik stepped to the plate. Good post, Erik. “They don’t have to be told to pitch a story a certain way. they just do it naturally.”
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