Wednesday, April 3, 2019

Whatever happened to "Journalism" as a true profession?

Ratings for CNN and MSNBC continuing to crash, as viewers migrate to Fox News prime time  "Karma has come calling at CNN and MSNBC, the avid broadcast-
Cartoon added by TD
promoters of the Russia hoax.  Viewers who deserted the conspiracy theorists after it turned out that Mueller reported no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia are staying away and — even worse! — migrating to Fox News.

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"The culpability of these two cable news networks in promoting a hoax, employing former intelligence officials — John Brennan at CNN and James Clapper at MSNBC — to pretend to offer inside intelligence data convicting President Trump of treason, is serious.  Lee Smith, in a long and thoughtful article at Tablet Magazine, calls it "an extinction level event."  If they were independent businesses, it might be, but both are owned by huge, wealthy conglomerates that have many other business lines to generate cash and can use the influence ownership of a cable news network provides to protect and enhance those other businesses.  Neither is likely to go the way of the dinosaurs, much though they deserve that fate."

CNN Host Asks If FBI Should Have ‘Shut Down’ Trump Supporters Chanting ‘Lock Her Up’ . . . "CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour called "lock her up" chants by Donald Trump supporters "hate speech" in a new interview and asked James Comey if he wished he had "shut down that language" in his capacity as FBI Director at the time." . . .
Leftists chanted "Lock him up!" at General Mike Flynn as he walked into a courthouse hearing.

Jim Acosta doing his best to prove Trump is right about CNN as 'fake news'
. . . "CNN called the incident "a non-story." Actually, it was the story, and not just because CNN got negative coverage for its suppression - it's actually the story that CNN is belatedly reporting right now." . . .
"His credibility as a newsman is shot.  He's nothing but a narrative boy, doing the bidding of his Democratic Party masters.  Fake news is the only thing to call him because there's nothing believable about him."

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