There’s a vanishingly small number of journalists at mainstream TV and print outlets who don’t feed at the same trough of official sources & groupthink. @CBS_Herridge is one. Therefore - following the lead of the Biden campaign’s attack on her - she now must be destroyed:
There was more diversity of thought and opinion and more questioning of orthodoxies at the standard 1975 Politburo meeting than there is on US cable outlets & in the largest newspapers.
How many Russiagate conspiracy theorists were *ever* challenged or questioned on CNN/MSNBC?
How many Russiagate conspiracy theorists were *ever* challenged or questioned on CNN/MSNBC?
One of the many problems with the US media is that as jobs disappear, young journalists are increasingly deterred from questioning or challenging prevailing media narratives because it can be career-destroying. The overwhelming incentive is to affirm media pieties or stay quiet.
Yesterday I watched Dems attack the program we produced & accompanying article - on new docs showing the sham prosecution of Flynn - by insisting unmasking is routine.
The program never mentioned unmasking: they were attacking a show they hadn't watched.
The program never mentioned unmasking: they were attacking a show they hadn't watched.
But the more important point is these Dems saw a reference to "new documents" about Flynn in the article's headline & assumed it was about unmasking, because the cable shows they watch never told them about these explosive new docs incriminating Russigate
theintercept.com/2020/05/14/new…
theintercept.com/2020/05/14/new…
