From the Thursday, January 26 Anderson Cooper 360 on CNN:
Anderson Cooper read this quote from Steve Bannon to the New York Times: “The media should be embarrassed and humiliated amd keep its mouth shut and just listen for a awhile.”
Christiane Amanpour replied: “Steve Bannon is playing the role that he set out for himself. There is obviously some kind of strategy here, although it’s hard for me to comprehend it because, you know, I operate in the truth and the fact-based universe. But he’s playing a strategy which involves creating straw men and women, creating an enemy out of the press, and then, you know, dividing, diverting, obfuscating while other things are going on. That’s the only thing I can imagine. Obviously, there are many other -- I want to say -- totalitarian regimes in the past which used this same kind of strategy.
“And, I mean, if I was going to be funny, I’d say that he’s angling for an order of merit from Presidents Sisi, Putin, Erdogan, and all the others. That is how they treat their press. That is what they believe the press should be -- a pliant, state propaganda unit in the service of the President. It is not the tradition of the American press.”
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