Posted on 03/26/2019 9:44:57 AM PDT by Liberty7732
If you are hoping for an industrywide reckoning in the press following the implosion of the Russian collusion news cycle, you’re going to be sorely disappointed.
Media executives are not just unashamed of how their employees have covered this story for the last two years, they are proud of them.
CNN President Jeff Zucker, for example, has defended his network’s disastrously flawed coverage of the allegations that President Trump conspired with the Russian government to steal the 2016 presidential election, by claiming his reporters are not investigators. This is not a paraphrase.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Democrats buy their newspapers. They must keep their customer base “happy”. Keeping them on the paper-buying plantation.
I could have said that the minute it became known Mueller's final report would not be damaging like the left wanted.
Fake news circles the wagons on fake news. They’re incapable of irony.
The MSM is highly concentrated industry who collaborate via their 4AM talking points.
The global elite who own the MSM are not about to change their point of view. They have too much money invested in globalism.
The nationalists and patriots have to build their own outlets and platforms to provide the alternative narrative.
The MSM won’t go down anytime soon. They just have to be made irrelevant.
Big Media needed a HUGE story today to distract from their loss.
I’m not sure Smuttle’s “victory” will be enough.
Let’s be careful out there.
He should be proud. They did exactly the job they intended to do. It’s just not the job old fogies like us think they should be doing - the impartial and accurate reporting of news. We may as well criticize their poor manufacturing of buggy whips.
"All the news fit to print lining bird cages and sopping up fish guts."
Bring on the billions in libel suits. Freedom of the press comes with a price. That price is journalistic standards that shield the person and outlet reporting said facts.
Boy is this a$$ clown about to hear from the general counsel's office at CNN!
They don’t give a #### any more about their base than they do us.
They’re rich marxist PIGS, I bet many with ancestors that escaped some kind of nightmare government, who got ungrateful in just a few short generations and want to destroy this country before they move on to the next one and ruin things there.
They are running out of countries.
Burn the whole sordid operation to the FREAKING GROUND Mr. President!
More spin than a Kansas twister.
AT&T is the new owner of CNN and public pressure via calls, Emails and shareholders could get them to fire Zucker.
After all most of CNN’s viewers are forced to watch in airports, DMV offices, and banks.
First, WOW. How did ATT end up buying CNN?
Most of us DONT KNOW these things!!
Will let them know in short time that they will never be used by me and mine until zucker is gone and some semblance of fairness is shown.
As far as it being on everywhere, WTH!!?!
Do they PAY doctors to keep it on???
Staten Island voted Trump by almost 60 percent and CNN is on everywhere!!
1) If you were part of a Leftist activist hate Trump group would you stop attacking Trump? No
2) If you were part of an ethical professional journalistic organization that wanted to share news in a fair and balanced way would you do some introspection and take any corrective measures to maintain your high standards and ethics? Yes
The so called media won’t change a thing. Why? See number 1.
What about the nasty Trump haters on Fox? Will we get apologies from Wallace, Cavuto, or Shep?
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