{"id":1639202,"date":"2022-09-12T12:49:09","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T16:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1639202"},"modified":"2022-09-12T12:50:05","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T16:50:05","slug":"failing-upwards-brian-stelter-is-heading-to-harvard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/failing-upwards-brian-stelter-is-heading-to-harvard\/","title":{"rendered":"Failing Upwards: Brian Stelter Is Heading To Harvard"},"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\">16<\/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%2Ffailing-upwards-brian-stelter-is-heading-to-harvard%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=1639202&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>What does an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/harvard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ivy League<\/a> education get you in the year 2022? Life lessons on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/democracy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">democracy<\/a> and media from the likes of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/brian-stelter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brian Stelter<\/a>, apparently.<\/p>\n<p>The ex-CNN anchor just <a href=\"https:\/\/shorensteincenter.org\/stelter-shorenstein-fellow\/?utm_source=newsletter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">landed<\/a> a plush job as the Fall 2022 Walter Shorenstein Media and Democracy Fellow at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard\u2019s Kennedy School. Stelter, recently fired from CNN, has once again proven that in politics and media, the worst offenders tend to fail upwards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span data-contrast=\"auto\">As the Walter Shorenstein Fellow, Stelter will convene a series of discussions about threats to democracy and the range of potential responses from the news media,\u201d Harvard said in an announcement. \u201cThese discussions with media leaders, policymakers, politicians, and Kennedy School students, fellows, and faculty will help deepen public and scholarly understanding about the current state of the information ecosystem and its impacts on democratic governance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To his credit, Stelter has done something that defies the odds in 21st-century America. He landed an academic job as a white and straight male. Based on the Left\u2019s standards \u2014 and Harvard\u2019s student <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/just-in-supreme-court-will-hear-cases-challenging-race-based-affirmative-action\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">admission<\/a> system \u2014 those immutable characteristics do little to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, Stelter is now an esteemed fellow at Harvard and can opine about \u201cdangers\u201d to democracy. In short, his class likely won\u2019t be that much different from his Sunday show.<\/p>\n<p>Stelter regularly spent his time parroting White House talking points \u2014 even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/cnn-asks-jen-psaki-how-it-can-help-push-joe-bidens-agenda\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">asking<\/a> former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki for tips on how to cover the Biden administration.\u00a0 Thus, it probably is not an incorrect prediction to speculate his lectures will be chock-full of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/the-soul-of-joe-bidens-america-is-dark-as-hell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">denigrating MAGA supporters<\/a> as \u201cthreats\u201d like the White House has been doing in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Stelter also gave America a preview of how he handles college kids who challenge his ideas. He pretty much tells them they don\u2019t know what they\u2019re talking about and refuses to answer questions straightforwardly.<\/p>\n<p>The University of Chicago <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/brian-stelter-cant-handle-the-truth-from-a-college-kid-but-he-wants-your-trust-with-the-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hosted<\/a> a \u201cDisinformation and the Erosion of Democracy\u201d conference in April. Stelter was one of the \u201cexperts\u201d given stage time.<\/p>\n<p>NewsBusters\u2019 Nicholas Fondacaro <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NickFondacaro\/status\/1512125598440824833?s=20&amp;t=IG7_gtEC-jLF-4jucITDuA\">flagged<\/a> one student who pressed the then-CNN and CNN+ star on legacy media\u2019s malfeasance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFreshman Christopher Phillips CALLS OUT Brian Stelter and CNN for being a \u2018purveyor of disinformation,&#8217;\u201d Fondacaro tweeted. \u201cHe points to the Russian collusion hoax, Jussie Smollett, the smears of Justice Kavanaugh and Nick Sandmann, and their dismissal of Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Phillips noted that \u201call the mistakes of the mainstream media, and CNN in particular, seem to magically all go in one direction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre we expected to believe that this is all just some sort of random coincidence or is there something else behind it?\u201d Phillips asked Stelter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think my honest answer to you \u2014 and I\u2019ll come over and talk in more detail after this \u2014 is that I think you\u2019re describing a different channel than the one that I watch, but I understand that that is a popular right-wing narrative about CNN,\u201d Stelter retorted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s important when we talk about shared reality and democracy, all these networks, all these news outlets have to defend democracy, and when they screw up \u2014 admit it,\u201d Stelter added.<\/p>\n<p>Yet he didn\u2019t\u00a0 \u201cadmit\u201d that CNN botched and incorrectly reported the stories mentioned by Phillips. Instead, he simply dismissed them as part of a talking point contrived by the Right.<\/p>\n<p>Stelter also claimed he was adversarial media because he once got into a shouting match with a Biden aide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo that\u2019s the reality of the news business that people don\u2019t see, that people don\u2019t hear,\u201d he added. \u201cThey imagine that it\u2019s a situation that it simply is not. But I think your question, it speaks to the failure of journalism to show our work and show the reality of how our profession operates. We have a lot of work to do, I think.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In other words, the issue with legacy media isn\u2019t that it is driven by an overarching leftist bias and anti-Trump agenda, but the problem is that the American people are ignorant of how journalism really works.<\/p>\n<p>According to the University of Chicago student, Stelter never did answer his question.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you @brianstelter for taking my question and having a conversation with me afterwards, but i am STILL wondering: if CNN is truly unbiased, WHY is every mistake they make an overstep in favor of democrats and against republicans??\u201d Phillips tweeted after the interaction.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">thank you <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brianstelter?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@brianstelter<\/a> for taking my question and having a conversation with me afterwards, but i am STILL wondering: if CNN is truly unbiased, WHY is every mistake they make an overstep in favor of democrats and against republicans?? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ofx0ghtrfD\">https:\/\/t.co\/ofx0ghtrfD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chris Phillips \ud83d\udea8\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@chrispthetruth) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chrispthetruth\/status\/1512149034147926022?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 7, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, Stelter is here to save the day by working to mold America\u2019s next generation of media experts at Harvard.<\/p>\n<p>The Ivy League school\u2019s motto is \u201cveritas\u201d or \u201ctruth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The irony is that if Stelter had been focused on the truth \u2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does an Ivy League education get you in the year 2022? Life lessons on democracy and media from the likes of Brian Stelter, apparently. The ex-CNN anchor just landed a plush job as the Fall 2022 Walter Shorenstein Media and Democracy Fellow at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard\u2019s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1639204,"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-1639202","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\/1639202","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1639202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1639204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1639202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1639202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1639202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}