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CNN and Election Disinformation
American Thinker ^ | 3/2/23 | Joe Fried

Posted on 03/02/2023 2:29:22 AM PST by CFW

My friend and I sometimes argue about media outlets like CNN and MSNBC. Why do they spread misinformation?

A. Are they grossly uninformed?

B. Do they know the truth but tell falsehoods anyway?

C. Do they think we are stupid or naïve?

My buddy feels that the media outlets know the truth but lie about it.

To me, it is more complicated. The nice-looking journalists who read the teleprompters are genuinely ignorant. On the other hand, the news producers probably know the truth but spread misinformation anyway. Producers are the ones who select the topics, construct the programs, and hire the special analysts. Let’s consider this recent example

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Politics/Elections; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: clintonnewsnetwork; election; fraud; georgia; mostrustednameinnews; sos
CNN and other corporate media have been lying about the 2020 election and Trump's Georgia phone call since day one. Don't expect them to change now.
1 posted on 03/02/2023 2:29:22 AM PST by CFW
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To: CFW

The lamestream media is paid to lie


2 posted on 03/02/2023 2:36:20 AM PST by no-to-illegals (The enemy has US surrounded. May God have mercy on them.)
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>> CNN and MSNBC

I’ll say it again...

During Trump’s Presidency, CNN was owned and continuously resuscitated by ATT

MSNBC is Comcast

ATT and Comcast are multinational telecom corps. No doubt their China supplies were/are paramount to the Constitutional integrity of the Country


3 posted on 03/02/2023 2:37:05 AM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: CFW
The top brass in these organizations know doublethink and doublespeak as well as Winston Smith came to at the end of 1984. They go to Davos every year for refresher courses. They trade proofs to one another daily. The more intelligent underlings, ditto.

But there's a whole sector of the population that is just mind-numbed robots. Never think for themselves, just go along to get along. For the guys, that's how you get the girls. I include most of the higher education community, because I've lived with it since the '60s in Boston. Amazing that people with 140 IQs can be so dumb.

4 posted on 03/02/2023 2:56:47 AM PST by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: CFW

“A. Are they grossly uninformed?” NO

“B. Do they know the truth but tell falsehoods anyway?” YES

“C. Do they think we are stupid or naïve?” YES


5 posted on 03/02/2023 3:08:58 AM PST by Tupelo (A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand)
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To: CFW

One has to have an IQ under 70 to watch CNN


6 posted on 03/02/2023 3:10:15 AM PST by afchief
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To: CFW

Newsreaders are useful idiots


7 posted on 03/02/2023 3:22:55 AM PST by roving ( Pronouns- libs/suk)
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To: CFW

It’s definitely choice B.

The self-satisfied news readers definitely know what the truth is, but they will lie to advance their worldview or demonize someone.

An archetype is that little mouse Nicole Wallace.


8 posted on 03/02/2023 3:28:52 AM PST by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
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To: CFW

B and C, but not A.


9 posted on 03/02/2023 3:32:49 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (Stupid is supposed to hurt.)
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To: MayflowerMadam

Infiltrate the press.
Gain control of key positions in radio, TV and pictures.
Infiltrate and gain control of big business and unions.

These are three of the 45 goals of Communism. That’s why the media is the propaganda arm of the Democrat party. And why we are seeing companies going “woke.”


10 posted on 03/02/2023 3:55:35 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (“Racist” is the new “Nazi”.)
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To: CFW

“The nice-looking journalists who read the teleprompters are genuinely ignorant. “

I strongly disagree.


11 posted on 03/02/2023 4:09:27 AM PST by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: CFW

I can recall that when I heard the radio report of the grand jury’s findings, the results were presented in CNN disinformation format that made it seem the grand jury’s finding was “there was no widespread voter fraud in Georgia”. I think I heard this disinfo on ABC and Fox News Radio.


12 posted on 03/02/2023 4:10:10 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie ( )
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To: no-to-illegals

The mainstream media is totally a propagana operation.


13 posted on 03/02/2023 4:11:20 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie ( )
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Fox News and Fox News Radio are part of the mainstream media.


14 posted on 03/02/2023 4:12:26 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie ( )
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To: Tupelo

How about “D.” They’re paid a lot of money to do what they do and know if they so much as roll their eyes at the wrong time, they’re out.


15 posted on 03/02/2023 4:24:26 AM PST by sopo
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To: CFW

Democrats are evil.


16 posted on 03/02/2023 4:50:19 AM PST by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie. )
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To: The_Media_never_lie
Fox News Radio is among the very worst. All leftwing propaganda all the time.

I wonder how many millions of voters hear their lies during their daily commutes. Probably more than CNN and MSNBC combined.
17 posted on 03/02/2023 5:46:58 AM PST by Dan in Wichita
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To: CFW

Someone once said, “ A man who doesn’t read the news every day os uninformed, a man who does read the news every day is lisinformed”


18 posted on 03/02/2023 6:05:00 AM PST by stockpirate (Where Justice Ends Tyranny Begins...Repression Breeds Violence)
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To: CFW

Someone once said, “ A man who doesn’t read the news every day os uninformed, a man who does read the news every day is lisinformed”


19 posted on 03/02/2023 6:05:01 AM PST by stockpirate (Where Justice Ends Tyranny Begins...Repression Breeds Violence)
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To: CFW

And you could most likely find the same thing in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Arizona, and elsewhere......


20 posted on 03/02/2023 10:14:56 AM PST by eeriegeno (Checks and balances??? What checks and balances?)
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