CNN’s Cuomo: It Will Be Media’s Job To Act As Trump ‘Opposition’

According to CNN’s Chris Cuomo, it is the media’s job to serve as the “opposition” to President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming administration.

On CNN’s New Day Wednesday morning, Cuomo vowed to oppose Trump’s policies, and stated he feels it is the job of the media as a whole to treat the next president of the United States with hostility.

Per Cuomo, “The media cannot yield. This administration is going to demand constant fact-checking and opposition.”

The CNN anchor, who is the brother of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and the son the of late New York Gov. Mario Cuomo, said the reason for his belief is, “Because otherwise, you don’t know which way it’s going to go from day to day. That’s just a fact.”

Cuomo made his comments during a discussion with New Day co-host Alisyn Camerota and CNN political director David Chalian.

Chalian was previously employed as the Washington bureau chief for Yahoo News, but was fired by the company in 2012 after he was caught on a hot-mic saying that Republican Party officials did not care if black people died during Hurricane Isaac.

The RNC held its 2012 convention in Tampa, as the powerful and unpredictable storm hugged the state’s western coast.

During a live web broadcast, Chalian said Republicans were “not concerned at all. They’re happy to have a party with black people drowning.”

Chalian was promptly hired by CNN less than a year later, and promoted to political director in 2014

CNN has dubbed by critics as the “Clinton News Network” for its perceived bias coverage promoting Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in her campaign against Trump.

Cuomo, who joined the network following the 2012 presidential election, falsely claimed in October that it was “illegal” for CNN viewers to read documents published by Wikileaks, many of which contained private conversations between members of Clinton’s presidential campaign and inner circle.

“Also interesting is, remember, it’s illegal to possess these stolen documents. It’s different for the media. So everything you learn about this, you’re learning from us,” he said.

It was not uncommon for Trump supporters to yell disparaging comments about CNN at Trump rallies during the campaign season.

Trump himself lashed out at CNN president Jeff Zucker during a meeting Monday with key figures at several news networks, reportedly saying to Zucker, “I hate your network, everyone at CNN is a liar and you should be ashamed.”

it is the media’s job to serve as the “opposition” to President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming administration.

Yes! That is the medias job. They are supposed to be a watchdog of the government. They are not supposed to just parrot the official government line.

It is often claimed that journalists must be objective because of the First Amendment. That is propaganda, or misunderstanding fostered by propaganda. The First Amendment precludes the government from enforcing any standard of objectivity - and, as understood, little in the way of a standard of truthfulness. There are libel laws, but . . .
In no sense does the First Amendment enforce objectivity, and there is no reason in the Bible why a Christian should assume that journalism would be objective. Journalists do claim that journalism is objective, but that is sheer propaganda. It is a self-negating claim, in that it is inconsistent with candor about any reasons why you might have a motive not to be objective. And such candor is sine qua non for anyone actually trying to be objective. It is legitimate, and laudable, to try to be objective. It is even legitimate to claim that you are trying to be objective (if indeed you are). But to claim actually to be objective is to be arrogant - and to foreclose the possibility that you actually are even trying to be objective.
If journalism isn’t objective, what is the point of the First Amendment? Simply this - freedom of the press allows the possibility that the truth will be published by somebody. But of course, that depends on the existence of multiple free and independent presses. Rather than a “media” which actually consists of the Associated Press, and various front organizations which are distinct but not different.
People of the same trade [e.g., journalists] seldom meet together [e.g., virtually over the AP newswire], even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty and justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary. - Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations
SCOTUS long ago declared the AP to be in violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, but the AP’s mission of economizing on scarce and expensive bandwidth in the transmission of news made the AP “too big to fail.” The difference in the Internet era is that transmission bandwidth is not "scarce and expensive.” It is dirt cheap.

Your point is well taken and undeniable.
"The Democratic Party” and “the MSM” is (not are, is) a single entity. Our constitutional system is dysfunctional at present because of hypertrophied “faction” (partisanship). The very thing that the Framers feared.
My point is that

for business reasons journalism is negative toward American society. Just because bad news sells.

the wire services homogenize journalism. Whereas newspapers used to be fractiously independent, they now consist of (slightly) various spins on the same input.

the wire services exacerbate the natural tendency of journalism to claim objectivity. the claim of objectivity is self-negating because you can’t even try to be objective without being candid about why you might not be objective.

anyone, including journalists, who is negative and calls that negativity “objective” is a cynic.

There is no reason to assume that both political parties would be independent of the cynical borg which is wire service journalism. And plenty of reasons why at least one party might be absorbed by the borg - leaving only the name, “Democratic Party” to distinguish it from the borg. Just like all the major newspapers still exist as fronts for the borg.

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