Posted on 02/26/2021 3:53:43 AM PST by Kaslin
Brian Stelter and Oliver Darcy, CNN's in-house cheerleaders for censoring or squelching conservative media outlets, celebrated a letter in which Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee pressed TV providers to punish right-wing spreaders of so-called "misinformation."
California Reps. Anna Eshoo and Jerry McNerney asked, "What moral or ethical principles (including those related to journalistic integrity, violence, medical information, and public health) do you apply in deciding which channels to carry or when to take adverse actions against a channel?"
CNN exudes arrogance about its own performance, never worrying that TV providers will question the quality of its information or its journalistic integrity. One major provider is AT&T, which owns CNN. Another is Comcast, which owns NBC, CNBC and MSNBC. So those providers dumping Fox or putting them in a more obscure tier would look like a crass commercial move, not some public-spirited stand.
Critics can easily assemble a pile of examples of CNN sloppily spreading misinformation during Donald Trump's presidency:
-- Nov. 16, 2020: CNN spent 23 minutes promoting a South Dakota nurse who claimed her coronavirus patients were so deluded that they denied the virus was real even as they were dying. That was challenged as "fake news."
-- Sept. 16, 2018: CNN spent 67 minutes promoting The New York Times' unverified tale that Brett Kavanaugh exposed himself to Deborah Ramirez in his college years.
The Times then sheepishly added an editor's note saying that Ramirez "declined to be interviewed and friends say that she does not recall the incident." CNN only spent three minutes on the correction. Anchor John King disparaged Republicans for pointing at this correction as an attempt "to steer you away from the substance."
-- July 26, 2018: CNN reported that former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen would tell federal investigators that Trump knew of the controversial Trump Tower meeting to get dirt on Hillary Clinton from the Russians before it took place. A month later, Axios reported that Cohen didn't actually know whether Trump had any knowledge of the meeting. Then, Buzzfeed exposed Cohen's lawyer Lanny Davis as CNN's secret source -- after Davis lied on CNN that he wasn't the source.
-- April 16, 2018: In a sign of CNN's aggressive exploitation of the unverified Steele dossier, NewsBusters reported that a review of five days of transcripts found 77 separate mentions of the absurd claim that there was a videotape of Trump paying prostitutes to urinate on one another -- the alleged "pee tapes." No tapes ever emerged.
-- June 22, 2017: CNN's Thomas Frank reported that Congress was investigating a "Russian investment fund with ties to Trump officials," especially Anthony Scaramucci. The report was later retracted. Frank and two other CNN employees resigned in the fallout.
-- June 6, 2017: CNN reported that in impending congressional testimony, former FBI Director James Comey was going to refute Donald Trump's claim that Comey told Trump three times he was not under investigation. Instead, Comey did the opposite and confirmed Trump's claim.
We won't even go into all the wild CNN talk of Trump being like Hitler or Stalin, or Brian Stelter's guest who said Trump would kill more people than Hitler, Stalin and Mao combined. CNN pretends this is vital, democracy-saving information, not garishly cartoonish garbage.
Town Hall would rather dangle this beessss in front of us all than to have to write about the CCP coup now operating America
Townhall is not the author of this of this op-ed. The author is Tim Graham Townhall .com published the op-ed you fool.
BTW the article is also in News Busters.com. Go see for yourself.
Anyone that watches CNN has not all marbles in their head.
its a cat fight ....intended by both sides to inflame the other and to detract from the elephant in the room in the USA today .
Its a prime example of the Red-Blue ping-pong game media feeds us all every day which diverts attention from the major issues we all have in common. That Red-Blue ping pong game prevent Americans from uniting together and acting in their interests cohesively.
sorry to provoke you-my response is intended to provoke discussion
I have informed Himself that if I walk into the bedroom and find any news channel on but OANN, there will be holy hell to pay.
/kitten with a whip
I wonder which one they consider the dangerous individual, though?
:D
Correct and followed closely by MSNBC.
My 95 year old father had stock in ComCast (owned by AT&T), I sold it for him a few months ago. And took pleasure in selling it. He inherited the stock after the AT&T breakup, I wanted to do this before, but the stock reached an all time high and we sold it.
That was before the bombing on the AT&T facility, after the announced data/comms deal with Law Enforcement.
CNN is disinformation. Soledad O’Brien should be known as “Miss Information”. Insane.
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