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Following a week where the liberal media suffered an arguably crippling blow to their credibility by the Special Counsel investigation finding no collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, CNN offered little reflection on their role in pushing and generating fake news and conspiracy theories. And during their program dedicated to the worshiping the media, so-called Reliable Sources, host Brian Stelter once again obsessed about what Fox News was doing and how the network was called out his colleagues.
Shortly after Stelter brought on CNN global affairs analyst and New Yorker staff writer Susan Glasser complain even more about Fox News’s reporting on the media’s collusion conspiracy snafu. Or as they called it: the “anti-journalism” message.
Of course, Stelter had to bring up Trump’s personal relationships with Fox News prime time hosts, acting as though it was completely unprecedented. “But the existence of Fox as a repeater of his narrative, over and over again, I think those clip I was playing in the intro underscore how powerful it is for him, that he has the megaphone,” he decried.
There was no mention of how the Obama administration worked with and hired from friendly media outlets, or the CNN folks caught parting it up with accused shakedown artist Michael Avenatti, or the recent case of an NBC editor intimidating a reporter on behalf of the Democratic National Committee.
“He fills in as a Fox News PR person. He really does,” Stelter added. But that was false. There was no evidence the President had ever or “really does” fill-in for a Fox News PR person. So much for “facts first”.
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