Breaking news: CNN is a sad, dangerous joke:
CNN has gone to great lengths to
politicize the tragic mass murder at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School
in Parkland, Florida. Despite the fact that the FBI and other officials were
repeatedly, repeatedly, repeatedly warned that the killer was a grave threat,
and that the tragedy could have been averted or minimized if the officer on
duty had actually gone in to stop the violence or if anyone else had had a
firearm at the time, the network blamed the debacle on guns.
Worse
yet, CNN allegedly fed at least one student survivor a scripted question to ask
at a town hall meeting about the violence. Inarguably, it’s reporters
emphasized the incomprehensible heinousness of this “child murder,” and rightly
so. However, if anyone appearing on any CNN platform talked of “child murder”
in the context of abortion, they’d be indignant and look down their noses at
that person and demand that his or her mic be turned off.
The
network also added to the rapidly growing list of its egregious breaks with
journalistic integrity by running a “Breaking News” chyron during Wolf
Blitzer’s Situation Room reading,
“WHITE HOUSE REPEATS TRUMP’S FALSE CLAIM THAT HE’S TOUGHER ON RUSSIA THAN
OBAMA.” Technically, this is a subjective statement/issue, and as such is not
something properly subject to denial in absolute terms. In this sense, it would
be like stating: “WHITE HOUSE REPEATS TRUMP’S FALSE CLAIM THAT HE LIKES BIG
MACS MORE THAN BILL CLINTON DID.”
Yet, on
the other hand, any sentient being knows that the statement itself is obviously
false, for reasons that should be abundantly clear to anyone who hasn’t been in
a coma for the past few years, and that are too numerous to cover here.
If CNN
had been around in the Civil War Era, we would have been treated to this
chyron, circa 1865: “CNN BREAKING NEWS: WHITE HOUSE REPEATS LINCOLN’S FALSE
CLAIM THAT HE’S TOUGHER ON SLAVERY THAN PIERCE.”
Or
perhaps: “WHITE HOUSE REPEATS FALSE CLAIM THAT REPUBLICANS FREED THE SLAVES.”
CNN has
become- literally- the Counterfeit News Network. It is now akin to Pravda or
the Korean Central News Agency. CNN is to journalism as Crayola’s® Spin Art is to
Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel paintings.
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