Posted on 01/20/2020 6:47:21 AM PST by calvincaspian
We are told again and again to trust the media. Almost always it is media organizations telling us this. We are told to read the Washington Post because, “Democracy dies in darkness.” We are directed to watch CNN because they are the, “Most trusted name in news.”
Last week, however, CNN took a new bold step ,which has brought the cable network out from the sidelines to right, smack into the action.
It started when the network ran a story in which it is reported that in 2018 Bernie Sanders held a meeting with Elizabeth Warren, at her Washington, D.C., home. During the meeting, Sanders reportedly told Warren that a woman could not win the presidential race.
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This is worse than bad-faith journalism. This is a media campaign to artificially influence the news cycle in favor of a particular candidate and it is unethical and disgraceful. CNN tampered in 2016 and it looks like it is happening again.
Candy Crowley already broke that ground.
Does no one remember anything anymore?
What about this statement is untrue?
You beat me to it.
CNN has years of experience in agitprop, and brought it expertise to the presidential debates in 2016.
Make that 2012 ... Obama-Romney.
I started to feel a little sorry for Burny but caught myself. He’s a POS commie and whatever happens to him is good. Even if it’s a creepy move by a creepy network to undermine his campaign to subvert the America that love.
And Martha Raddatz in 2016.
News flash CNN did not “break new ground”. The “News” outlets crossed the line into being nothng but a rat tool a long time ago. The collective looks of panic, horror and sorrow on the these people’s faces the day after Trump won was just a spectacle.
Berniacs are part of the dem base, so they must be appeased or they might stay home or, worse yet, go independent and split the vote.
Just like 2016, Bernie will allow the 'Rat party to BUY HIM OFF. He'll reluctantly end his campaign, forgive and endorse the eventual 'rat candidate, then go home (maybe even ANOTHER NEW HOME) with his campaign debts paid and millions in unused campaign funds in his pocket.
And the useful idiots who supported him, making this con possible, will never make the connection.
It’s bad theater masquerading as bad reality.
Ten bucks says someone from CNN also told her the mike would be hot after the debate if she didn’t like Bernie’s answer
And Walter Cronkite polled as “the most trusted man in America” in his heydays (1960’s-1970’s).
Yet, he was a closet leftist ‘newsman’ that lied about the Vietnam war status in 1969 and, in so doing, condemned thousands upon thousands of our young American military men to death and maiming.
NONE of today’s major media should be trusted. They believe they are kingmakers and social controllers. They believe THEY are the oh so smart, elite rulers over us unwashed masses.
ENEMDIA
At what point did we give the media permission to tell us who to vote for ?
The media no longer report the news,
they create and direct the news to tell you
who to vote for !
Under Obungler, they were 'spoon-fed' approved government information at a luncheon
that the media became govt. approved welfare whore$, living and thriving off largess.
Wrong. CNN is the "mistrusted name in news".
After he retired, Walter Cronkite admitted during an appearance on the old Larry King Show that he, Cronkite, was a Communist.
The late 1940's to early 1950's anti-Communists were 100% right about the Reds' march through our institutions. Unfortunately, the Reds found a way to kill the movement by destroying Joe McCarthy, inventing the term "McCarthyism," and harping on it ever since.
I’m not so sure. They’re all moon bats but I think the true loonies belong to Bernie. You know, like the guy who tried to murder a dozen or so republican congressmen. If he loses the nomination I think his supporters who are talking about violence at the convention and boycotting the election are serious. Which is why I’ve become a big Biden supporter. Go, Joe, go! Ummm... Wake and go, Joe, go!
After retiring from TV news, “Uncle Walter” wrote for a leftist rag.
Chris Wallace and George Clooney love him. Succeed by Dan Rather.
http://www.thezephyr.com/cronkite/cronkite.htm
https://www.conservapedia.com/Walter_Cronkite
If this story is about CNN running a story and then turning it into a debate controversy, George Stephanopoulos broke that ground of creating a birth control controversy in the Republican primary debate to sandbag Romney, way before Crowley broke role and began debating Romney.
Where CNN is breaking ground today is by using that tactic against a Democrat independent.
-PJ
This is not new. If there was a shift, it was at the 1968 Democratic Convention Riot. At that riot, the media clearly took the side of the “progressives” against the Democrat establishment, against the Mayor Daleys and Scoop Jackson types.
I the early 60s I was in frequent Alinsky organization meetings where the discussion was how to handle the press. The assumption was that the press were independent and had no agenda other than the truth.
In the 1970s the assumption was that the press had an agenda and the Alinsky strategy had to incorporate that strategy into their seeking of press coverage. Im the 1970s I sat in many Alinsky grooup meetings with Chicago media, and mational media like 60 minutes producers, where the media was often very frank about their agenda.
Only sometimes was the media agenda pro-Alinsky group. Many times they used the threat of media coverage of the Democrat establishment as leverage to get favors out of the Democrat establishment, such as real estate tax breaks for the media conglomerate.
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