CNN’s 2022 Resolution: Make Everything an Attack on Democracy

Nicholas Fondacaro | January 3, 2022
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On Sunday, CNN’s so-called “Reliable Sources” rang in 2022 with some New Year resolutions for the media (I guess that makes them News Year resolutions) at the end of the show. But there was only one resolution they wanted to stick to and it was to gaslight their audiences by making everything into a threat to democracy.

In the final minutes of the first episode of 2022, host and media apologist Brian Stelter was joined by partisan author and CNN columnist Nicole Hemmer to review “some New Year's resolutions for the news media.”

“Let’s figure out what the press should be doing in the next 12 months,” Stelter prefaced. “Do you have a resolution for us, Nicole?”

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