• DogPeePoo@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    That really showed what a shitbag outfit CNN has become under it’s new conservative ownership group. They are a wolf in sheep’s clothing now.

    “I would like to see CNN evolve back to the kind of journalism that it started with, and actually have journalists, which would be unique and refreshing,” he said. Then he suggested a model: “Fox News, in my opinion, has followed an interesting trajectory of trying to have ‘news’ news, I mean some actual journalism, embedded in a program schedule of all opinions.”

    Malone’s comments didn’t resonate much beyond a couple of places: At Fox News, which responded with glee, and inside CNN, where they sounded alarm bells.

    —New board member and billionaire John Malone, a legend in the cable TV business and one who has deep and longstanding ties with David Zaslav

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      CNN was much more honorable—the debate we had with Biden was a much more honorably run debate.”

      The CNN moderators in June notably did not fact-check or question statements made by Trump or Biden during that event, as per agreed rules.

      Emphasis added

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      I would like to see any organization actually have journalists or actually do journalism. But my definition of journalism is different from this sociopath’s, like I take telling the truth as an assumption.

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        Al Jazeera is pretty good with international news. Be skeptical of their middle east news though.

        Also Democracy Now. Amy Goodman is still out there trying to break stories.

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        There are only a handful of journalists left. Two that come to mind are Pam and Russ Martens of WSOP (Wall Street On Parade) who have been speaking truth to power for decades but remain obfuscated like other journalists with integrity.

        Obviously these are financial journalists and we need many like them and their courage in the political and world news spheres.

        They are out there, but they are the very few.