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CNN’s Brass are Just as Biased and Obnoxious as You Thought
Posted By Daniel Greenfield On December 26, 2014 @ 7:01 am In The Point | 21 Comments
Here’s what one young woman discovered when trying to talk to CNN bigwigs about bias.
Hayley Nagelberg, a high school senior from West Orange, NJ, has revealed that a top CNN executive asked her if she was “brain dead” following a question-and-answer session in Atlanta, where the news broadcaster is based, earlier this week.
The meeting was with Richard Davis, the Executive Vice President of News Standards and Practices for CNN
During an animated conversation about CNN’s “abysmal” coverage of last month’s terrorist atrocity at a synagogue in the Har Nof neighborhood of Jerusalem, in which four worshippers and a Druze policeman were brutally murdered, Davis was asked to explain why the broadcaster initially identified the synagogue as a “mosque.”
“To expound on how the words ‘mosque’ and ‘synagogue’ could have been swapped, Davis gave an even more infuriating response,” said Nagelberg. “Apparently, in the room where the headlines were written, there was some conversation taking place regarding a mosque in Damascus. ‘Haven’t you ever written something you heard instead of what you meant to write?’ he asked.”
I wanted to know why CNN, when releasing the headlines at issue, couldn’t call it a terrorist attack. Davis explained that they would never jump to a conclusion that anything is a terrorist attack. “Okay”, I said, fully understanding the weight that the word “terrorist” carries. “But by the time it was known that it was four Israelis and two Palestinians, it was known that there were meat cleavers and stabbings involved. Why couldn’t you call it an ‘attack’?” I continued. His response? “You’ve got to be kidding me? One word? Are you brain dead?”
To summarize, CNN’s VP of News Standards and Practices explained that his staff is too stupid to check what it’s typing into the chyron while carrying on a conversation and thinks that anyone who asks basic questions is an idiot.
CNN, yes it’s exactly as dysfunctional as you think. And there’s a reason it’s in last place.
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