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Media pat themselves on the back following implosion of the collusion news cycle
Washington Examiner ^ | 03/26/19

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 ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cnn; cnnwashingtonpost; fakenews; media; mediabias; mediacorrupt; msm; muellerreportdone; obamagate; trumpvindicated; washingtonpost

1 posted on 03/26/2019 9:44:57 AM PDT by Liberty7732
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To: Liberty7732

Democrats buy their newspapers. They must keep their customer base “happy”. Keeping them on the paper-buying plantation.


2 posted on 03/26/2019 9:48:25 AM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: 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.

I could have said that the minute it became known Mueller's final report would not be damaging like the left wanted.

3 posted on 03/26/2019 9:48:45 AM PDT by CatOwner
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To: Liberty7732

Fake news circles the wagons on fake news. They’re incapable of irony.


4 posted on 03/26/2019 9:49:18 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Liberty7732

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.


5 posted on 03/26/2019 9:50:53 AM PDT by bkopto
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To: Liberty7732

6 posted on 03/26/2019 9:51:47 AM PDT by conservative98
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To: goldstategop

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.


7 posted on 03/26/2019 9:52:24 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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To: Liberty7732

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.


8 posted on 03/26/2019 9:52:40 AM PDT by dead (Our next president is going to be sooooo boring.)
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To: EagleUSA
I keep getting "special" offers mailed to me from the New York Times and my local rag.

"All the news fit to print lining bird cages and sopping up fish guts."

9 posted on 03/26/2019 9:54:45 AM PDT by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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To: Liberty7732
"Reporters are not investigators"?

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!

10 posted on 03/26/2019 9:56:55 AM PDT by blackdog
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To: EagleUSA

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!


11 posted on 03/26/2019 10:10:17 AM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR)
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To: Liberty7732

More spin than a Kansas twister.


12 posted on 03/26/2019 10:19:23 AM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: dp0622

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.


13 posted on 03/26/2019 10:20:13 AM PDT by Zenjitsuman (Y)
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To: Liberty7732
CNN-Mueller-s-Office
14 posted on 03/26/2019 10:27:44 AM PDT by FrankR (How to get a one-armed SOCIALIST out of a tree...wave to him.)
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To: Zenjitsuman

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!!


15 posted on 03/26/2019 10:30:27 AM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR)
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To: Liberty7732

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.


16 posted on 03/26/2019 10:32:46 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: dp0622
ATT=CNN
17 posted on 03/26/2019 11:25:25 AM PDT by skimbell
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To: EagleUSA

What about the nasty Trump haters on Fox? Will we get apologies from Wallace, Cavuto, or Shep?


18 posted on 03/26/2019 1:15:51 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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