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John Malone controls CNN. He also donated to the Trump "Save America" PAC that was formed after the 2020 election specifically to help Trump try to cling to power. When CNN says "neutrality," they mean "even more biased in favor of the right." CNN has always been center-right. twitter.com/perrybaconjr/s…
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I think this is a PERFECT screenshot, and it shows EXACTLY what's wrong with the press right now:
@brikeilarcnn was one of the loudest voices CREATING this criticism, and now she's REPORTING that "Biden faces criticism over Marines in backdrop of speech."
YOU did that.
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This is not how "news" is supposed to work. This is everything wrong with "news." @brikeilarcnn is just one of John Malone's propagandists.
CNN has always been biased in favor of the right, but lately it's been taking a HARD right turn, veering into Fox/OAN/Newsmax territory.
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As @zpleat points out, this is *exactly* what Fox has always done: offer an opinion, then "report" the opinion that they put into the world as though it just emerged out of nowhere. From 2011: mediamatters.org/sean-hannity/f…
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This is going exactly how I predicted it would (see thread). And it's not because I'm in any way insightful, but because the people who work in corporate media are SO predictable: twitter.com/ParkerMolloy/s…
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Also, ever notice that journalists are routinely punished for offering opinions on important things, but wild "yeah troops! woo! troops! let's go bomb some countries! yeah!" stuff is always welcomed and allowed on air, never treated as a form of bias (even though it is)?
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CNN is a right-wing media outlet. CNN has always leaned to the right (just look at the below list of paid contributors from this recent piece I wrote), but since John Malone installed Chris Licht, it's taken a sharp right turn. readtpa.com/p/what-liberal…
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The "lol, I just created a narrative and now I'm reporting it out as news" smirk is obnoxious
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If you're going to do this, then go the extra mile, guys. There, I improved it twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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One of the few people at CNN worth paying attention to, sadly, is now headed out the door. John Malone's Newsmax-ification of CNN continues. twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/s…
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Anyone with a shred of integrity who works at CNN should be loudly speaking out about what's happening. It might hurt your career, but it'd be the right thing to do. Show some bravery, people. Otherwise, you're just helping the rise of fascism.
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Except I think the sad thing here is that John Malone doesn't actually care about whether CNN makes money. He just knows it is worth keeping for his political propaganda purposes, to try to elect Republicans. twitter.com/tomtomorrow/st…
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And whoosh, January 6 funder John Malone had Harwood disappeared twitter.com/leahmcelrath/s…
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I feel like it should be a bigger deal that one of the biggest financial stakeholders in CNN donated to a Trump PAC that was created specifically to try to overturn the election. Why isn't it?
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On January 6, 2021, CNN had a chyron calling Trump's January 6 speech a "desperate coup attempt." And now the guy who funded that event owns CNN.
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I really think that sums up exactly where things are at right now with CNN's shift from being a right-leaning but mostly accurate place to get news... to becoming the OANN/Newsmax knockoff it is today twitter.com/ParkerMolloy/s…
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And this is just the money that can be publicly tracked. Who knows how much he's donated in untrackable dark money. Anyway, yes, this guy is the primary financial stakeholder over at CNN now. fec.gov/data/receipts/…
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If you're wondering what kind of journalists will remain at CNN, well... this Chomsky quote comes to mind youtube.com/watch?v=1nBx-3…
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This is clearly Malone being nervous about the GOP in the midterms, so he's rushing to try to tilt CNN as far right as possible. twitter.com/DylanByers/sta…
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One thing that's absolutely wild to me is that of the many signs that CNN has veered to the far right recently, former-Tucker-Carlson-employee-who-once-wrote-a-piece-for-the-Daily-Caller-about-only-taking-in-hot-Syrian-refugees guest hosting CNN shows isn't even a top 10 concern. twitter.com/TheLeadCNN/sta…
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Ah, an attempt to get a message to people as he was pushed out the door. Something very sinister is happening with CNN. twitter.com/froomkin/statu…
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If mainstream news outlets want to be taken seriously, they can't ignore the left anymore. And it's time the left calls out the clear right-wing bias that exists.
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The Overton window has shifted far to the right. Republicans who openly call themselves Christian nationalists get to go on TV and talk about how they want to turn Christianity into the law of the land but god forbid someone suggests we adopt center-left health care policies!
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Because Gore conceded. He gaveled down the objections. He told the country to move on. How are these guys on the right so clueless that they feel confident floating these nonsense false equivalences?
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The guy who responded to Trump losing the election by promising that Trump was going to remain in office anyway is pretending that he cares about the constitution.
