{"id":1172252,"date":"2021-12-30T10:04:32","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T15:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1172252"},"modified":"2021-12-30T10:04:34","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T15:04:34","slug":"the-single-biggest-misconception-is-that-we-are-lying-cnn-contributor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-single-biggest-misconception-is-that-we-are-lying-cnn-contributor\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Single Biggest Misconception Is That We Are Lying\u2019: CNN Contributor"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fthe-single-biggest-misconception-is-that-we-are-lying-cnn-contributor%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=1172252&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>The two biggest misconceptions about the legacy media are \u201cthat we are lying\u201d and that they manifest \u201cpolitical bias,\u201d according to CNN\u2019s \u201cReliable Sources.\u201d The media\u2019s bias actually benefits the people journalists are biased against, the show insisted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe single biggest misconception is that we are lying,\u201d guest Mara Schiavocampo told host Brian Stelter on Sunday\u2019s episode, which tackled alleged common myths about the state of American journalism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a lot of media mistrust,\u201d she said accurately. Schiavocampo said she frequently encounters media misconceptions \u201cwhen I\u2019m at a cocktail party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hear this all the time. And here\u2019s what I would love to correct about that misperception: We are human. We make mistakes.\u201d But she added that \u201cmost often,\u201d when people point out examples of the media\u2019s lies, \u201cwhat they\u2019re pointing to is an example of a mistake, not an intentional lie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Neither she nor Stelter addressed \u201c60 Minutes\u201d reporter Sharyn Alfonsi accusing Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) of corruption, then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/cbs-slammed-for-smearing-ron-desantis-on-60-minutes-one-of-the-more-blatant-political-hatchet-jobs\">editing out the substantive part<\/a> of his response, which refuted her allegation.<\/p>\n<p>Mistakes are \u201calmost always innocent,\u201d Stelter said. Schiavocampo asserted, \u201cWe do not have malicious intent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Neither mentioned CNN contributor Reza Aslan, who&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitchy.com\/gregp-3534\/2019\/01\/20\/reza-aslan-who-cried-at-the-gillette-commercial-thinks-covington-catholic-hs-student-has-a-punchable-face\/\">suggested<\/a>&nbsp;he\u2019d like to punch 16-year-old Nick Sandmann in the face during his viral stand-off with left-wing activist Nathan Phillips. \u201cHonest question. Have you ever seen a more punchable face than this kid\u2019s?\u201d&nbsp;Aslan tweeted of the teenager. Earlier, in 2017, Aslan had called President Donald Trump a &nbsp;\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/cnn-cancels-hosts-show-after-he-calls-trump-piece-hank-berrien\">piece of s***<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CNN continued enumerating the common lies and errors about the media, with Shiavocampo saying \u201canother big\u201d misconception about the legacy media is that reporters suffuse their coverage with their own \u201cpolitical bias.\u201d She said it seems \u201creally ironic,\u201d but \u201cjournalists are aware of our own political bias,\u201d and so \u201cwe\u2019ll overcompensate to make sure the other side really gets a fair amount of coverage and really gets explained properly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo in my view, when we do have a political bias, it\u2019s the other view that actually benefits from that because we\u2019re trying to counter our own human impulses,\u201d she claimed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s very interesting,\u201d replied Stelter, who said that mistakes often creep in because of the network\u2019s \u201ccrazy workflow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In reality, CNN has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/rick-santorums-firing-proves-cnn-doesnt-want-to-hear-anyone-who-sounds-like-you\">systematically purged<\/a> every contributor who expressed the view of the 78 million Americans who voted for the Republican ticket last November. After the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/cnn-fires-rick-santorum-after-he-claimed-founding-fathers-birthed-a-nation-from-nothing\">firing of former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum<\/a> in May, nearly half of CNN\u2019s remaining \u201cRepublican\u201d commentators <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/nearly-half-of-cnns-republican-commentators-are-voting-for-biden\/\">endorsed<\/a>&nbsp;Joe Biden in advance of the 2020 election: Amanda Carpenter, S.E. Cupp, former Congressman Charlie Dent, Ana Navarro, former Ohio Governor John Kasich, and \u201cAnonymous\u201d author Miles Taylor. The network\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/barrettsportsmedia.com\/2021\/12\/13\/former-trump-communications-director-alyssa-farah-joins-cnn\/\">latest hire<\/a>, Alyssa Farah, has also been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/12\/01\/politics\/alyssa-farah-trump-covid-test-biden-debate-cnntv\/index.html\">highly critical<\/a> of former President Donald Trump. Instead, CNN host Don Lemon said everyone who voted for the Trump-Pence ticket voted to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/cnn-anchor-everyone-who-voted-for-trump-sided-with-the-klan-nazis-rioters\">associate themselves<\/a> with neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan. He featured no opposing viewpoint.<\/p>\n<p>Stelter and Schiavocampo went on to address why CNN often does not cover stories that have already circulated on social media. \u201cVerification takes time,\u201d she replied.<\/p>\n<p>That does not explain CNN\u2019s error-laden coverage of numerous recent stories. For instance, in September, Stelter criticized a \u201cfaulty media narrative\u201d that erroneously claimed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/cnn-slams-faulty-media-narrative-of-border-patrol-whipping-haitians-which-it-pushed-for-a-week\">Border Patrol agents whipped illegal immigrants from Haiti<\/a> attempting to cross into Del Rio, Texas. He did not mention that CNN had repeated the same narrative at least seven times in the past week.<\/p>\n<p>Nor did CNN await \u201cverification\u201d before presenting Nick Sandmann and other students of Kentucky\u2019s Covington Catholic High School as aggressively mocking American Indians based on their ethnicity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCNN\u2019s tagline is \u2018facts first.\u2019 And what we believe their reporting was in this circumstance was lies first, cover up second, and facts not yet determined by that organization,\u201d Sandmann\u2019s attorney <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-covington-catholic-student-nick-sandmann-gets-settlement-from-cnn-after-275-million-lawsuit?utm_campai\">told<\/a> Fox News. \u201cThat\u2019s millions and millions and millions of repetitions of the lies and falsehoods that CNN spread.\u201d CNN ultimately <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-covington-catholic-student-nick-sandmann-gets-settlement-from-cnn-after-275-million-lawsuit?utm_campai\">settled Sandmann\u2019s $275 million&nbsp;lawsuit<\/a> against the network on January 7 for an undisclosed sum.<\/p>\n<p>When Stelter lamented the fact that Governor DeSantis has said conservatives should \u201cassume\u201d the legacy media are lying, Sandmann <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/N1ckSandmann\/status\/1453035437489074183\">pointed<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/cnns-stelter-mocks-desantis-for-saying-that-media-lies-nick-sandmann-uses-one-word-to-crush-him\">his own story<\/a> as an example.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Howdy \ud83e\udd20 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/J6949IkMSS\">https:\/\/t.co\/J6949IkMSS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nicholas Sandmann (@N1ckSandmann) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/N1ckSandmann\/status\/1453035437489074183?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 26, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The ratings of Stelter\u2019s show, which frequently critiques Fox News while ignoring his own network\u2019s foibles, have plummeted throughout 2021.<\/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>The two biggest misconceptions about the legacy media are \u201cthat we are lying\u201d and that they manifest \u201cpolitical bias,\u201d according to CNN\u2019s \u201cReliable Sources.\u201d The media\u2019s bias actually benefits the people journalists are biased against, the show insisted. \u201cThe single biggest misconception is that we are lying,\u201d guest Mara Schiavocampo told host Brian Stelter on &#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-1172252","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\/1172252","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=1172252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172252\/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=1172252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1172252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1172252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}