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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But if you're queer, you can marry your boy friend, so ignorance doesn't always win. /sarc
To Mock The Media ... sounds like the title of a long overdue book!
Big Media is mock-worthy. They have earned it, for decades.
Exactly its like a bank robber saying that people talking badly about bank robbers is bring down the financial system. The problem with the Elite is that they never consider that they can do wrong.
The “media” has no integrity or class. They insult the First Amendment. They are LIB asshats almost without exception. They deserve being ridiculed until they either resign in complete disgrace or commit harikari. What pathetic, yet often preening, losers. May they rot in their malignancy.
That's the point Trump is trying to make.
Undermining American Democracy!!!
This from, can you believe it, CNN.
This from CNN, an organization dedicated to undermining American Democracy.
Laughable. Certainly deserving 1000 LOLs.
That’s a switch, CNN’s mocking of democracy undermines the country.
red
CNN’s website is like a prostitute. Story after story that is anti-Trump. Some days I have noticed 3-4 bullet points mocking Trump.
They don’t hide their bias at all.
One story about a week ago was about Trump speaking about Phyllis Schlafly’s death.
The headline read (close to) “Trump honors anti-feminist”.
Of all the ways they could have written the headline; that was as biased as they could have done it.
And that’s just one small example.
The Animal Farm pigs are telling us black is really white.
Suitable graphic.
These people disgust me. Truly pathetic, they believe their own lies and fabrications - and think we really NEED them.
oBomba Suck-Ups One and all.
Dinning on Karma today and it tastes bad, do it?
Burn in hell traitorous scum!
Banfield and Byers have their panties in a wad.
“Apparently Ashleigh has forgotten the deal CNN made with Saddam”
Her short-term memory is also failing. She doesn’t remember the DNC email leak that showed coordination between them and big reporters.
Think about this: at a huge press event it took some citizen with a cell phone camera to capture the moment that will decide this election.
I agree with Mr. Woods. If it hadn't been for the citizen with the cellphone camera documenting what happened, the eyewittness reports of Hillary collapsing and being thrown into the limo "like a side of beef" would have been pushed under the rug, and ridiculed as a conspiracy theory.
The media is interested in pushing their own political agenda. They have zero interest in accurately reporting the truth.
The leaks have outed them all as “Contractors” for the White Hut.
LIke WE didnt know that already??
ROLF
>>> “When you start celebrating restriction of the media”
That’s what you call projection. Ridicule is not “restriction”. Rather it is merely the free flow of ideas. It is the left who seeks “restriction” as the goal.
o.O
I’m still trying to figure out the “Democracy” part...
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