Posted on 06/11/2017 4:06:21 PM PDT by ForYourChildren
In one of the last segments on Sunday’s Reliable Sources, CNN host Brian Stelter spent nearly four and half minutes whining about the public, specifically Trump supporters, who don’t believe the news media. “If you don't believe the ‘media,’ then you probably don't believe that the Trump administration has had a dysfunctional few months,” he chided at the start of the segment. “If you don't believe the ‘media,’ you might not believe Russia's meddling in last year's election is a very big deal.”
Stelter admitted that the distrust in media started long before President Trump, but he rested its current state at Trump’s feet. “And the President feeds that inherent distrust with tweets like this. Here he is this morning saying: ‘The fake news MSM doesn’t report the great economic news since Election Day,’” he read from a cheery picked tweet. He then pointed to a poll to show “how this anti-media rhetoric is having a real effect:”
"A new Quinnipiac poll shows that more than half the country, 52 percent, believes Trump has changed attitudes towards the news media for the worse. 22 percent say he’s changed attitudes for the better. And 20 percent say he hasn't had an impact."
He then brought on political analyst Jeff Greenfield to confer, asking him: “How corrosive has this antimedia campaign been, do you think?”
Greenfield thought it was “the singular political success” Trump had had since being elected president of the United States. “I think that has served that relentless campaign on Twitter and in his comments, fake news, fake news, fake news has been to convince that group of people that there is no such thing as a set of facts independent of your politics,” he complained. “And that has certainly served to continue and accelerate what you've talked about as a long process of declining trust in news.”
Stelter described any and all discussion of the press’s dishonesty as “venom” and called it “the story of the decade in media.” And he didn’t know how to solve the problem of an aware public. “It's kind of like Sisyphus. You got to roll that stone up the hill,” Greenfield explained, saying that eventually, people might come around.
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Ha ha.
CNN does not like it that people don’t trust them.
“I think that has served that relentless campaign on Twitter and in his comments, fake news, fake news, fake news has been to convince that group of people that there is no such thing as a set of facts independent of your politics,” he [Greenfield] complained. “And that has certainly served to continue and accelerate what you’ve talked about as a long process of declining trust in news.”
Well, how about CNN start making sure they give out accurate information. They need to realize that they do have competition.
“STELTER: To me, this is the story of the year. It might be the story of the decade in media, this issue of mistrust and the venom that’s encouraging folks to trust even less and less and less. And I always come back to the same question, what do we do about it?”
LOL
“..what do we do about it?”
How about close up shop and go home!
Screw these people.
Stelter is guilty of collusion with the ‘rats and old skool commies.
It’s called Karma. Not like you did nothing to deserve it. Every story is laced with an underlying hatred of all things good.
Ha!
If you don’t believe the ‘media,’ then you probably don’t believe that the Trump administration has had a dysfunctional few months,”
Nothing dysfunctional about it. Quite a lot is getting done. You jerks in the media are not reporting on it.
The distrust was earned.
News_Flashback: Young Donald Trump Walks Out On CNN Interviewer: “You’re …”
1991
Trump trashes CNN, then gets up and walks out the interview.
“You aren’t going to talk about positive people. You’ll talk about the negative. You want to talk about the negative.” After more back-and-forth about the tone of Feldman’s questions, Trump announced the interview was over. “Do the interview with somebody else. Really. You don’t need this. Do it with somebody else. Have a good time. Frankly, you’re a very negative guy, and I think it’s very unfair reporting. Good luck.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hsbhSe_QZ4
If the Propagandist Media helps Impeach Trump over Bogus crap, I would recommend bodyguards.
Well, if CNN and the rest would give the people the truth, then they wouldn’t have to resort to whinning about not being liked.
And vests
Being purveyors of #FAKENEWS, CNN and the msm lie about people.
They are very clearly guilty about “bearing false witness.”
This is what todays CNN and msm is doing.
And good, normal, decent people, don’t like it!
Jeez, Stelter, Talk about a lack of self awareness.
Let’s sum it up succinctly: You are and your ilk are lying Crap-Weasels.
Great way to make the distrust even worse, Stelter.
Well, when every hour of CNN's programming is filed with democrat bias, lies and downright leftist propaganda, what do you think YOU should be doing about it, Stelter?
The only trust we have in you is that we can trust you to lie to us on behalf of one political party.
cnn need some self reflection, how corrosive is their anti-trump campaign? Blame trump for the corrosion when cnn started it
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