Posted on 09/16/2016 6:49:36 PM PDT by Enlightened1
CNN’s Ashleigh Banfield and Dylan Byers bemoaned the mocking and distrust of the American media by Republicans and Donald Trump on Friday, with Byers saying it undermined the American political system and Banfield likening it to Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.
After playing a clip of Trump gleefully telling his audience in New Hampshire on Thursday that his press pool was going to be late, Banfield wondered why the crowd would cheer such news.
“Do people not realize or are they forgetting that other critical element of it?” she asked. “Either you have a media, or you have what I witnessed in Saddam’s era … where you never got to actually call yourself press or you’d go to jail for it.”
Byers, CNN’s media reporter, discussed the recent Gallup poll showing only 32 percent of Americans trust the media to report the news accurately. Byers wrote a story saying the drop in trust was “fueled by Republicans,” of whom only 14 percent trust the press. His report did not mention recent controversies involving the mainstream press assisting Democrats or left-wing causes through editing techniques, such as Katie Couric’s deceptive documentary edit of gun rights advocates or CBS taking a critical remark out of Bill Clinton’s recent interview about his wife’s health.
Byers said it is a “serious problem” that Trump, who often rips the press, is taking credit for increasing distrust in the media.
“When you start celebrating restriction of the media, when you start mocking the media, that becomes a serious problem for the very foundation of the democratic project and the American political system,” he said.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpf_UUGPFWU
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I remember when Banfield was hot. Long time ago.
LOL - That's telling CNN they're clueless...
“ONLY WE ARE ALLOWED TO MAKE PEOPLE LOOK LIKE FOOLS. YOURE NOT ALLOWED TO MAKE US LOOK LIKE FOOLS. THATS NOT FAIR!”
Our mediots are deplorable.
Pray America wakes
CNN should stop worrying about those who “mock” them, because the “mockers” are fueled by those who demonstrate with abundant evidence that they (the MSM) are flat out liars.
What undermines American Democracy is a Media that is in bed with the Establishment.
Trump rolled out a tar baby and they swung away.
>> Mocking the Media
The MSM is the Country’s greatest threat.
“We already have what Saddam had. A uniparty media dedicated to whichever leftist wannabe dictator is running for or is in office.”
Actually, it is worse than that. We had a uniparty media that, for most of my life, pretended to be objective and fair. And, sadly, most of the public believed it until recently.
I doubt anyone believed Baghdad Bob’s press because they didn’t pretend to report both sides.
Their Hussein was better for Iraq than ours is for America, that I can tell you.
Flush the excrement media.
Bring back journalism.
Media = Democrat Party Propaganda Machine.
There is no journalism anymore. It is all communist propagandists.
Banfield is insane—the definition of insanity is doing the same thing (biased pro-Hillary anti-Trump journalism) over and over again and expecting different results (public distrust and hostility towards the MSM).
I'm not undermining American democracy, you're undermining American democracy! Why would you say that I'm undermining American democracy? I never undermined American democracy... I don't know why you would say that? Are you mmocking me? Are you? Why would you mock me? I never mocked you...
-PJ
If we had any real investigative journalists left, they might look into why productive Americans no longer trust them. That’s not going to happen, which is a shame - we would be better off with honest media inquiry into events.
Sort of like in the media’s reporting of Republicans,demonstrating their mockery of objectivity
What’s really weird is that over on DU they have the same, but mirror image opinion of the media - they’re all a bunch of in-the-tank right wingers. Imagine that.
No, wait WHAT? DEMOCRACY? We the People: A Constitutional Republic, Not a Democracy. The United States is, indeed, a republic, not a democracy. Accurately defined, a democracy is a form of government in which the people decide policy matters directly—through town hall meetings or by voting on ballot initiatives and referendums.
One could far more easily contend that it’s a fawning, lying media that undermines democracy, and even more, undermines being able to have an honest, transparent government.
And CNN is among the worst offender. The scorn shown by the public towards the media is a direct result of the actions of the media, now that the media is being honestly revealed as a puppet.
Mark
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