Tuesday, November 6, 2018

CNN: The most (fill in the blank) name in news


CNN’s Existential War With Trump  "It may be unwise or monotonous for President Trump to harp on CNN as a purveyor of “fake news.” And the constant refrain “enemy of the people” should not be used of a media outlet, even one as prejudicial as CNN.

"Yet Trump’s obsessions with CNN are largely reactive, not preemptive.
"After just 100 days in office, before his own agendas could even be enacted, the liberal Shorenstein Center at Harvard reported that 93 percent of CNN’s coverage of the Trump Administration was already negative. Just one in every 13 CNN stories proved positive. That radically asymmetrical pattern (shared by NBC/MSNBC) had never been seen before in the history of comparable media analytics. No one at CNN sought to explain the imbalance, leaving the impression that the news organization had more or less joined the progressive opposition.
"In his serial pushbacks against CNN, if Trump has perhaps surpassed the invective of Barack Obama’s own periodic dismissals of Fox News, he has clearly not ordered his Justice Department to monitor the communications of any CNN reporter, in the manner of Eric Holder’s surveillance of Fox News journalist James Rosen." . . .
If You Thought CNN’s Chyrons Were Biased Against Trump Before…
"Via Twitchy: "If CNN was even trying to hide its bias before by rolling out that “Facts First” branding, the network has completely given up on being objective. As Twitchy reported, CNN’s “breaking news” chyrons aren’t breaking news at all — they’re mini editorials against President Trump. "That one was nothing compared to this one as Wolf Blitzer talked to Jim Acosta, who was at a Trump rally in Indiana:" . . . Keep reading…

. . . "I'm seeing that at The Washington Post, under the headline "Introducing his daughter Ivanka at Cleveland rally, Trump vows never to call women 'beautiful.'" 
"Are they just pretending not to understand humor?
"I feel a little sorry for them, the Trump haters. They're willfully deafening themselves to humor and missing out on some hilarious stuff." . . . 
(Emphasis mine, TD)

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