Posted on 11/19/2018 10:00:28 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Veteran journalist Carl Bernstein said cable news networks should stop broadcasting White House press conferences and briefings in their entirety because they have become "propagandist exercises."
"I don't think we should be taking them live all the time and just pasting them up on the air because they're basically propagandist exercises because they are overwhelmed by his dishonesty and lying," Bernstein said during a segment of CNN's "Reliable Sources" on Sunday, referring to President Trump. "Maybe we should be there, edit, decide as reporters what is news, and after the press conference or briefing is over then go with that story with clips rather than treating the briefing or press conference as a campaign event, which they really are."
But Bernstein added it was important to still record the events and make them available online for the record. He also noted that cable news had cause to reconsider its coverage of the White House before the Trump administration took office.
"I don't think we should be taking them live all the time and just pasting them up on the air because they're basically just propagandist exercises…"
https://twitter.com/ReliableSources/status/1064284785483235328
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Which is exactly why Trump Tweets, because they can’t edit and spin it.
When were they not propaganda?
Old Carl does Goebbels proud.
It’s OK when it’s THEIR propaganda.
Yup. We all know how expert they are at editing.
They lie best when their lies are lies of omission.
Yet the extremists are alway crying of James O’Keefe “selectively editing” video.
I expect to see Trump cut the throat of a unicorn at a future news conference. Maybe it happened. You don’t know.
If only the media would try that! That would be the ultimate self-inflicted injury.
As if CSPAN or the White House wouldn’t stream it live and then compare with what the Democrat media reported.
Media, please do what Bernstein suggests!
Pressers should be live and uninterrupted , or not at all.
Mr. Red Diaper Baby understands Stalinism/Maoism very well. It’s in his genes.
[Sounds of compressed laughter]
Funny, they ate every socialist turd Obama threw at them for 8 years and regurgitated intact.
Waaaa
The f-ing journolistas who colluded as to who would ask what are complaining about propagandist exercises.
These are not journalists. Yellow journalism isn’t journalism any more than fake news is news.
Bernstein is such a tool.
Shut down the White House pressers — NOW.
Sieg Heil, Herr Karl!
Fake news complaining about propaganda. Democrat projection.
A great reason to stop holding press conferences. And don’t do them online. First, any mistakes are in writing online. Second, same problem. The responses can be edited.
They can simply inform the people via the Internet. Which is where most people get their news.
It’s shocking to hear the media admitting that THEY decide what’s news. Which is the very definition of fake news.
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