MRC News Busters: CNN’s Acosta Tells Trump: ‘We’re A Real Network Too’
During President Trump’s joint press conference with British Prime Minister Theresa May on Friday, CNN’s hostile White House Correspondent Jim Acosta demanded to ask a question. As Trump refused and dismissed CNN as “fake news,” he turned to John Roberts of Fox News, remarking, “Let’s go to a real network.” A dejected Acosta muttered in response: “Well, we’re a real network too, sir.”
Read more ....
WNU Editor: When a network's coverage of a President is overwhelmingly negative, and where discussion panels are heavily stacked (if not entirely stacked) with opponents of your agenda .... I do not care who you are .... you are going to avoid that news organization. I understand that everyone has a biased point of view .... especially when it comes to politics .... but CNN is on my cable package, and when I watch them they have gone beyond jumping the shark in promoting their agenda and views to a level that I have never seen before (with the exception of the Canadian news networks where I live and where the coverage is 99% anti-Trump, 100% on the French networks).
10 comments:
WNU editor,
I rarely open a link to the big names in US media posted on this site. I have tried a number of trial subscriptions of their efforts and decided I preferred the articles and commentary I find on the "other media" in your multiple listings on a topic. They seem to be able to fill in the blanks the others don't find relevant.
Their liberal bias and sometimes downright dishonesty in the political realm is unacceptable.
WNU; with all that negative coverage, what do you think the population thinks up there overall?
WNU, couldn't agree more.. in fact, I used to watch CNN entirely about 5-10 years ago.. I even used to like Wolf and Cooper.. but man, they are just talking heads these days - letting a porn star lawyer on their network like more than 80 times, or is it one hundred times now? That's more airtime than Obama got haha and they never question his motives, like his debt issues, his wife divorcing him because of his over-the-top lifestyle/spending money left and right habit, etc.. and now, he's "running for president" (and he will use that money to pay off his debt, if that's not obvious.. omg) and on top the Russia collusion narrative that ripped the country apart and they now somehow, slowly need to back away from (they still hope that it will all turn out in their favour, perhaps, but I think they too know where this is heading.. the weakest possible link (Stone) they can make and the Democracts will eat it up, have their protest marches and so on and will get beat and beat badly in the next election. Without massive and hard evidence, this show is a burning pile of garbage someone left in front of your door, and that house belongs to CNN, and they need to deal with it and fast.. I expect them inviting other perspectives in, pushing this as an "we have an open mind" thing and come up with a new slogan to rebrand CNN, perhaps replace a few names that aren't too popular and have been too extreme in all that crazy stuff they have said omg.. some people ought to get fired for running CNN's brand to the ground like that
Right: stay with Fox
you would do well to note that cable news gets news from the press, ie NY Times, Reuters, BBC etc. They do not, repeat, do not do original reporting from sites of action. Then, with items garnered, they call in so-called pundits to comment. Of course one tires of such babble used to fill in the time slots. Thus to piss on cable news is plain silly; now if you want to also dismiss MSM, then ask where the links come from that fill this site, all aggregated.
Anonoymous, FOX does plenty of original reporting--Hannity for example, he is digging in an reporting on the FBI-Gate scandal when no one else is.
Trump falsely claims CNN did not cover him refusing question from Acosta at UK press conference
Hannity is Not a reporter...he is a tv celeb who gives his opinions...Blitzer did that, though when he did he was more objective that Hannity
in depth reporting requires a trained experienced person who does not mostly spend time opinionating on tv
Even if they could gain respect from the President, which is doubtful. They still need respect from the public. A big ask. They've dug a huge hole for themselves.Pass the popcorn if they start trying to crawl back out.
Geoff,
You'll need a LOT of popcorn waiting for that to happen.
"in depth reporting requires a trained experienced person who does not mostly spend time opinionating on tv"
And one day CNN, MSNBC, CBS, NBC, ABC, etc will find that person. I have very high hopes.
Post a Comment