Site icon The Daily Signal

CNN’s Finger-pointing on ‘Misinformation’ Should Be Done in Mirror

While criticizing other networks, CNN exudes arrogance about its own performance, never worrying that TV providers will question the quality of its information or its journalistic integrity. (Photo: Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/ LightRocket/Getty Images)

Brian Stelter and Oliver Darcy, CNN’s in-house cheerleaders for censoring or squelching conservative media outlets, celebrated a letter in which Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee pressed TV providers to punish right-wing spreaders of so-called misinformation.

Reps. Anna Eshoo and Jerry McNerney, both California Democrats, asked, “What moral or ethical principles (including those related to journalistic integrity, violence, medical information, and public health) do you apply in deciding which channels to carry or when to take adverse actions against a channel?”

CNN exudes arrogance about its own performance, never worrying that TV providers will question the quality of its information or its journalistic integrity.

One major provider is AT&T, which owns CNN. Another is Comcast, which owns NBC, CNBC, and MSNBC. So those providers dumping Fox or putting it in a more obscure channel tier would look like a crass commercial move, not some public-spirited stand.

Critics can easily assemble a pile of examples of CNN sloppily spreading misinformation during Donald Trump’s presidency:

The Times then sheepishly added an editor’s note saying that Ramirez “declined to be interviewed and friends say that she does not recall the incident.”

CNN spent only three minutes on the correction. Anchor John King disparaged Republicans for pointing at this correction as an attempt “to steer you away from the substance.”

We won’t even go into all the wild CNN talk of Trump being like Hitler or Stalin, or Stelter’s guest who said Trump would kill more people than Hitler, Stalin, and Mao combined.

CNN pretends that is vital, democracy-saving information, not garishly cartoonish garbage.

Copyright 2021 Creators.com

The Daily Signal publishes a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Heritage Foundation.

Have an opinion about this article? To sound off, please email letters@DailySignal.com and we will consider publishing your remarks in our regular “We Hear You” feature. 

Exit mobile version