On CNN, David Zurawik Endorses Boycott of Carlson: 'If It Gets...People Like Him Off The Air, I'm Fine With It'

Ryan Foley | March 18, 2019
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Appearing on CNN's Reliable Sources Sunday, Baltimore Sun media critic David Zurawik endorsed the effort to pull Fox News host Tucker Carlson off the air.  Zurawik had previously complained that a previous boycott of Carlson based on comments he made back in December did not succeed: "the boycott started and then the holidays kicked in and it kind of fizzled."  According to Zurawik, "I don't like an ideological group necessarily starting the boycott but you know what, if it gets...people like him off the air, I'm fine with it." Zurawik's position comes across as quite strange considering the fact that CNN just won a First Amendment Award. Zurawik then tried to pass himself off as a defender of the First Amendment by pointing out that when President Obama attacked Fox News, "Jake Tapper and I were the two who said...the executive branch does not get to say what is and what is not a legitimate news organization." Zurawik attempted to justify his change of heart: "they went to a different place when they threw themselves in totally as part of propaganda arm of Trump, right-wing machine." He went on to slam the "right-wing messaging machine with Fox and Sinclair and Breitbart and all the rest."

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