You know the scene in Rosemary's Baby where Mia Farrow realizes that all her husband's friends are witches?
Or the scene in The Stepford Wives where Katherine Ross realizes that all her friends have been turned into femme bots?
That's how I felt Thursday night watching CNN.
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Throughout the Trump years Kaitlyn Collins regularly chased Trump out of the briefing room with her incisive bull's eye q's that made him name call her in tweets. Brianna Keilar b*tch slapped Trump's stooges frequently and ordered Peter Navarro off her broadcast for lying.
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Erin Burnett called Trump a liar more than any other news anchor. She and Keilar each had segments devoted to showing clips of Trump's lies. Burnett has been MIA for a few weeks,on vacation or perhaps refusing to have the new bothsides chip implanted. But Poppy Harlow. Sigh.
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It's way more than disheartening.MSNBC has always had this problem, but CNN at certain hours (never Jake Tapper's) felt like safe space for honest Trump reporting. Not during the #BidenSpeech, though. And it felt like losing a friend who eloped with some toxic dude: gutting.
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I know there's been changes at the top. I know all MSM is cheerleading for neutrality. But if networks that could skewer Trump fearlessly before the way Burnett and Collins and Don Lemon have done cease to do so now, where does that leave us for keeping the fascists at bay?
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Because it truly doesn't matter that there were two Marines at the door to Independence Hall when Trump did this 👇🏻
(Photo: Martha Raddatz)
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Biden kept talking while Trumpists here in Philly went wild trying to interrupt his speech. He said it was democracy. Whereas Trump teargassed sitting protestors so he could have a photo op with an upside down Bible.
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People who aren't journalists always make the ludicrous claim that news should be neutral. Impossible. But what it can be is honest. I try to do that. Most of my colleagues are doing that. But that's not what's talking over. Instead we are getting that bothsides neutrality.
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It's dangerous. Neutrality asserts there is no moral clarity,no moral compass. Just random statements of what happened. We can't have that. We have to speak truth to power. It's the job. Do that job. Or find a new profession where truth is a variable, not our very lifeblood.
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