CNN sure "pushed back on" a private citizen for daring to use their logo in a video. American principles like forbidding free speech with threats.
Posted on 12/04/2017 1:20:04 PM PST by ColdOne
CNN’s senior White House correspondent Jim Acosta called on reporters to “resist” when they are attacked at a Monday journalism summit in Washington, D.C.
Acosta pointed out that while journalists are not members of the “resistance,” they should still “stand up” when the institution of journalism is being attacked.
“We are not part of ‘the Resistance’ but … if journalism is attacked, we should resist. That is up to us,” Acosta reportedly told those gathered at the Poynter Ethics Summit. The conference gathered Washington correspondents and other editors to speak on how to report in an era where trust in the media has declined.
“I think these are all just American principles that we are allowed to push back on in our work,” Acosta added.
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Wouldn’t it be great if American media would, en masse, declare themselves as seriously biased propagandists, repent of their wrong doing, ask forgiveness of the American people, and set out to resolutely change and become honest, objective journalists?? Well, I can dream, can’t I??
Mainstream journalists are nothing but Democrat apparatchiks.
If it was journalism instead of propaganda and advocacy there would be no need to attack it.
I’ll have a comment later.
CNN sure "pushed back on" a private citizen for daring to use their logo in a video. American principles like forbidding free speech with threats.
The Press hasn’t been the press in YEARS..they are nothing more than an arm of the Democrat party..they get their talking points every single day from the DNC
Unbiased journalism is essential to the preservation of a free republic. Advocacy Journalism is a free republics enemy. As you mentioned, Goebbels is the prime example.
Antifa Press
Resist we much!
Journalism isn’t being attacked, CNN is.
Hey Jim Trump didn’t fire the first shot in this war of lies you started. Fight back please you’re making total asses of yourselves and showing the American people exactly who and what you are: communist and against the people and country.
CNN is the same network that called for Trump’s assassination the day before he was inaugurated President. Wolf Blitzer had his lil “Hypothetical” asking “What if Donald Trump and Mike Pence were assassinated, could Barack Obama stay in power, or could he appoint Hillary Clinton as President” GEE imagine if ANYONE on Fox News had asked the same hypothetical when Obama won in 2008..yet people wonder why Trump hates CNN..gee CNN do ya think maybe just maybe Trump saw that lil hypothetical had a bad reaction to it do ya think
Or as Freddie Blassie would say they are Pencil Neck Geeks
Hehe!
He said, “We are not part of ‘The Resistance’...” HA HA HAAA HAAA HAAA!!!!!!!
Trump doesn’t attack journalism. He attacks propaganda and fake news.
If journalism is attacked, CNN is safe. No journalism there!
Let’s see, when called out for obvious lies and malfeasance, the LSM should fight back.......when smeared by the lying/malfeasance of the LSM, the intended prey should shut up and take it......
. . . but why is “journalism” a single entity which can be attacked as such? Huh??Adam Smith’s explanation is good enough for me:
People of the same trade seldom meet together, 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. - Wealth of NationsDo “people of the same trade" (in this case, journalism) “meet together?” Obviously they can read each others’ newspapers, but there is a more systematic way in which they do it: the Associated Press. The AP (and any other news service) homogenizes journalism by giving the same inputs to all member news publishing organizations. That is, the AP “wire” is a continuous virtual meeting of all major journalists.And the result is precisely as Smith predicted - “a conspiracy against the public.” What does this “conspiracy” look like? It looks like journalism uniformly slandering America. That is, a massive libel of society.
Journalists know that their reporting is systematically negative towards American society. It is part of their business model (“If it bleeds, it leads”). And yet they claim that journalism is objective. Since “the conceit that negativity is objectivity” is a perfectly serviceable definition of “cynicism,” it is clear that journalism as an institution is cynical about society.
But contrary to “liberal” dogma, society and government, far from being synonymous, are quite different things:
SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.In a real sense, then, the American Revolution was fought over the proposition that both government as well as society must be subject to skepticism. As surely as recognition of flaws in society inspire a “There oughta be a law!” response, extreme skepticism towards society leads directly to naiveté about government. The "conspiracy against the public” implied by the unification of journalism under the wire service model is a conspiracy to eviscerate the freedom of the people.Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one: for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries BY A GOVERNMENT, which we might expect in a country WITHOUT GOVERNMENT, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer. Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built upon the ruins of the bowers of paradise. For were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other lawgiver; but that not being the case, he finds it necessary to surrender up a part of his property to furnish means for the protection of the rest; and this he is induced to do by the same prudence which in every other case advises him, out of two evils to choose the least. Wherefore, security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows that whatever form thereof appears most likely to ensure it to us, with the least expense and greatest benefit, is preferable to all others. - Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)
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