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Smollett got lots of oxygen from CNN, other news outlets – No wonder people don't trust the press
Fox News ^ | February 21 2019 | Dan Gainor

Posted on 02/21/2019 11:02:23 PM PST by knighthawk

Jussie Smollett got lots of oxygen from CNN, other news outlets – No wonder people don't trust the press

The Jussie Smollett story is the perfect example of almost everything wrong with today’s media.

The story followed quickly on the heels of another media hoax, where “neutral” reporters tried to destroy boys from Covington Catholic High School in Kentucky, claiming they were racist. That disaster has already led to a $250 million lawsuit against The Washington Post. The overall news coverage was so biased that other lawsuits will likely follow.

Yet journalists learned nothing.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: cnn; empire; fakenews; jussiesmollett; smollett
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1 posted on 02/21/2019 11:02:23 PM PST by knighthawk
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The lamestream media has traveled and continues to travel the road of a state owned entity. The entity speaks for the agenda and if one does not want that agenda thrust upon yourself or your family your fate is to be labeled a hater of their truth. Sense nazis or Pravda. Although our lamestream media is much more of a propaganda entity than Pravda and hitler wish our lamestream had been his media. Yes the swamp is well entrenched


2 posted on 02/21/2019 11:34:45 PM PST by no-to-illegals (Liberals, Rinos, moslems, illegals, lamestream media. All want America to fail and die)
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To: knighthawk

Useful idiots.


3 posted on 02/21/2019 11:34:55 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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4 posted on 02/21/2019 11:39:33 PM PST by conservative98
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To: no-to-illegals

Smolletts folly had a command and control green-light from DNC operatives. Scripted reality show boy got a script, coordination, and media enhancement package put into motion by others. Think about it.


5 posted on 02/22/2019 12:12:02 AM PST by blackdog
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is highly probable imho


6 posted on 02/22/2019 12:18:29 AM PST by no-to-illegals (Liberals, Rinos, moslems, illegals, lamestream media. All want America to fail and die)
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To: no-to-illegals

Media outlets have algorithms for instantaneous approved responses already to go. They just type in the names, city, and nasty key words. In ten seconds fiction goes to fact that even gets warrants issued based on the “instantly credible sources”. It’s insane. Very cheap though. Who needs expensive reporters asking questions when an algorithm designed by deep staters on the payroll are part of the plan?


7 posted on 02/22/2019 12:20:35 AM PST by blackdog
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To: blackdog

I believe you to be correct hence tagline


8 posted on 02/22/2019 12:23:00 AM PST by no-to-illegals (Liberals, Rinos, moslems, illegals, lamestream media. All want America to fail and die)
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To: knighthawk
He’s getting ‘first’ press on CNN because his defense Att. Geragos is directly affiliated with CNN.and he goes after the police when his clients are guilty....so expect to hear how the police reported and conducted communications that will get this racist off.
9 posted on 02/22/2019 12:27:37 AM PST by caww
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"Process Crime" in ten, nine, eight, seven......................

Tomorrows talking point. Expect to hear it 50 times an hour until focus group results are in.

10 posted on 02/22/2019 12:34:01 AM PST by blackdog
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Sunday talk shows will have reduced it down to a legitimate cry for help. A perfectly understandable act from a passionate young black man who is merely acting out his prior real life experiences for us all to share. The message is real.

No sarcasm tag.

11 posted on 02/22/2019 12:39:25 AM PST by blackdog
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To: knighthawk

L8r


12 posted on 02/22/2019 1:12:31 AM PST by preacher ( Journalism no longer reports news, they use news to shape our society.)
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Of course. The leftist media is anti-white. They will attack white people for any reason.

JoMa


13 posted on 02/22/2019 1:59:14 AM PST by joma89
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To: knighthawk

Tonight’s statement did not come from Smollett’s regular reps at Sharp & Associates nor his crisis PR team at Sunshine Sachs, but rather Mark Geragos, most recently Colin Kaepernick’s attorney, sometime shameless self-promoter and current CNN contributor. He was recently was retained as a part of the Empire actor’s defense team; the statement was first reported on CNN tonight.

From “Deadline Hollywood” — “Jussie Smollett “Feels Betrayed” After $100K Bail Hearing; Says He’s Innocent”


14 posted on 02/22/2019 2:17:27 AM PST by grayeagle (MAGA)
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To: knighthawk
Our country is in the midst of a civil war (not a disagreement over how to interpret the Constitution, but a war whose goal is the destruction of that Constitution).

Anyone who listens to the enemy press and does not interpret it in a way that accounts for its lies and bias should not pretend they are dealing with the truth.

15 posted on 02/22/2019 2:31:11 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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Smolletts folly had a command and control green-light from DNC operatives.


Smollett may have acted alone with the idea of helping his friend Kamella Harris get her anti-lynching bill passed,but I don’t believe the DNC had anything to do with this simply because it was such an amateur production.

If DNC operatives were behind this the two “thugs” would have been white, and the crime would have been committed under a camera and Smollett would have ended up in the hospital.

In other words Smollett would have volunteered to be a “victim” but he would not know when and where the beating would take place.

If that would have happened the fraud would be more difficult to expose and it would still be the number one news 24/7 on all leftest news outlets.

Smollett would be the new civil rights poster boy instead of facing jail time.


16 posted on 02/22/2019 4:04:15 AM PST by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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Scary thought.


17 posted on 02/22/2019 4:42:26 AM PST by palmer (...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
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To: knighthawk

Smollett leaving Empire to join cast of Shameless. More at 11.


18 posted on 02/22/2019 4:52:41 AM PST by patriotred
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Everyone keeps saying that the media “fell” for the hoax. They didn’t “fall” for anything, they deliberately encourage, promote and spread these hoaxes. When the hoaxes are exposed as such, there is NEVER an apology, they just move on to the next hoax. It is a proven fact that most people will remember the original allegation simply because of all the hype, and few will remember that it was proven to be a hoax. There have been thousands of “hate-crime” hoaxes over the last 20+ years.


19 posted on 02/22/2019 5:13:44 AM PST by euram
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So, are CNN Haters fair game if found alone walking the street?

Of course, they are all haters


20 posted on 02/22/2019 5:18:20 AM PST by bert ( (KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Honduras must be invaded to protect America from invasion)
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