{"id":1162585,"date":"2021-12-27T20:35:13","date_gmt":"2021-12-28T01:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1162585"},"modified":"2021-12-27T20:35:16","modified_gmt":"2021-12-28T01:35:16","slug":"call-out-gop-extremism-brian-stelter-tells-associated-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/call-out-gop-extremism-brian-stelter-tells-associated-press\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Call Out GOP Extremism,\u2019 Brian Stelter Tells Associated Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcall-out-gop-extremism-brian-stelter-tells-associated-press%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1162585&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>CNN\u2019s Brian Stelter had a request for the world\u2019s largest news organization: \u201cCan you call out GOP extremism?\u201d And The Associated Press\u2019 leader said that as the nation moves closer to the 2022 midterm elections, her news organization would hyperfocus on the 2020 election and its aftermath.<\/p>\n<p>Stelter asked Julie Pace, executive editor and senior vice president of The Associated Press, to name the biggest stories of the year \u201cbeyond the pandemic, if that\u2019s possible.\u201d Pace immediately said the biggest story of 2021 was \u201cthe January 6th insurrection.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we push into 2022 and beyond, I think that\u2019s something you\u2019re going to see us really focus on,\u201d said Pace of The Associated Press, whose content is republished by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ap.org\/about\/\">15,000 news outlets<\/a> worldwide. She said she was interested not only in \u201cthe event itself, but I think what it also symbolized about threats to democracy and what is happening in the United States \u2026 We want to be really clear with people about the threats that we are seeing to democratic institutions. We want to try to amplify who is behind them, expose the money and the forces, the powerful forces that are behind these efforts, because I think this is one of the great, kind of, challenges of our time right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stelter asked whether AP would paint the Republican Party as extremists trying to crush American democracy \u2014 and Pace appeared willing to do so. \u201cCan you be full-throated about the reality? Can you call out GOP extremism for what it is?\u201d Stelter asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we have been extremely clear when we talk about, for example, the realities of the 2020 election,\u201d Pace replied. She added that \u201cevery time we wrote a story,\u201d the AP journalists would insist that 2020 \u201cwas a free and fair election,\u201d devoid of electoral quirks.<\/p>\n<p>Stelter then challenged the editor-in-chief of Reuters, Alessandra Galloni, if her news wire has \u201ca democracy beat? You have lots of political reporters, but we need democracy reporters?\u201d&nbsp;Stelter had maintained that newsrooms should put reporters on \u201ca democracy beat,\u201d covering Republican voter integrity measures and election concerns as an all-out assault on representative government since at least the <a href=\"https:\/\/transcripts.cnn.com\/show\/rs\/date\/2021-05-16\/segment\/01\">May 16 episode<\/a> of his show. \u201cThe most important dividing line in American politics right now isn\u2019t between Democrats and Republicans. It\u2019s between Republicans versus democracy,\u201d said Stelter\u2019s guest, Ari Berman of the far-Left Mother Jones magazine.<\/p>\n<p>Stelter expressed the need for this new reporting focus after House Republicans voted to remove Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) from its fourth-highest leadership position \u2014 a vote that Stelter\u2019s colleague, Dana Bash, called \u201cexistential, not just for the GOP; it is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/a-hair-on-fire-emergency-leftists-react-to-liz-cheneys-ouster\">existential for democracy<\/a>.\u201d She did not explain how the democratic vote threatened democracy.<\/p>\n<p>Months later, Stelter sketched out a Manichean alternate reality in which only news outlets that meet his approval can stop Republicans from using misinformation to foment a second civil war in the United States. As this author <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/red-state-dawn-brian-stelter-imagines-how-anti-cnn-insults-lead-to-shooting-in-2024\">reported<\/a> at The Daily Wire:<\/p>\n<p><em>CNN\u2019s Brian Stelter dedicated his Halloween monologue to predicting a dark, dystopian future in which insults from Fox News personalities and Republican politicians lead to \u201cbombs in newsrooms\u201d of honest news outlets, like CNN. The only thing that can prevent a full-blown civil war, Stelter said, is the power of genuine \u201cnews sources\u201d like CNN.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>CNN may have a less altruistic reason to hype the January 6 D.C. riot: The ratings-starved network enjoyed the <a href=\"https:\/\/cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com\/2021\/01\/07\/yesterday-was-cnns-most-watched-day-in-history\/\">highest ratings of its four-decade history<\/a> on January 6. CNN has covered or referred to the one-day riot on virtually every ensuing day of 2021. Yet CNN attracted just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/cnn-bottomed-out-in-2021-will-viewers-come-back\">585,000 viewers<\/a> in prime time earlier this month, making it the 17thnetwork on basic cable. Meanwhile, conservative competitor Fox News celebrated its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/1-fox-news-celebrates-sixth-year-as-the-top-channel-on-basic-cable\">sixth year as the number one network<\/a> on basic cable.<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN\u2019s Brian Stelter had a request for the world\u2019s largest news organization: \u201cCan you call out GOP extremism?\u201d And The Associated Press\u2019 leader said that as the nation moves closer to the 2022 midterm elections, her news organization would hyperfocus on the 2020 election and its aftermath. Stelter asked Julie Pace, executive editor and senior &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1162585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1162585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1162585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1162585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1162585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}