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It is as plain as day that CNN has put itself into the candidate space in this election. They created a badly sourced story, they used it in the debate to allow Liz Warren to deliver a canned response and they contrived a post-debate encounter, tailor-made to benefit the Massachusetts senator.

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.

1 posted on 01/20/2020 6:47:21 AM PST by calvincaspian
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Candy Crowley already broke that ground.

Does no one remember anything anymore?


2 posted on 01/20/2020 6:52:37 AM PST by Fido969 (In!)
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Sanders reportedly told Warren that a woman could not win the presidential race.

What about this statement is untrue?

3 posted on 01/20/2020 6:56:07 AM PST by Cowboy Bob ("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
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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.


6 posted on 01/20/2020 7:00:06 AM PST by HighSierra5
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Exhibit A


9 posted on 01/20/2020 7:10:17 AM PST by McGruff
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It's all Kabuki theater anyway.

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.

10 posted on 01/20/2020 7:16:17 AM PST by ZOOKER (Until further notice the /s is implied...)
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It’s bad theater masquerading as bad reality.


11 posted on 01/20/2020 7:19:32 AM PST by Theophilous Meatyard III
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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


12 posted on 01/20/2020 7:24:37 AM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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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


13 posted on 01/20/2020 7:27:12 AM PST by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and so few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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We are directed to watch CNN because they are the, “Most trusted name in news.”

Wrong. CNN is the "mistrusted name in news".

15 posted on 01/20/2020 7:36:42 AM PST by Fresh Wind (The Electoral College is the firewall protecting us from massive blue state vote fraud.)
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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.


20 posted on 01/20/2020 9:30:16 AM PST by spintreebob
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