{"id":180350,"date":"2021-02-27T12:00:16","date_gmt":"2021-02-27T17:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=180350"},"modified":"2021-02-28T10:35:51","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T15:35:51","slug":"graham-cnn-should-shut-up-about-misinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/graham-cnn-should-shut-up-about-misinformation\/","title":{"rendered":"GRAHAM: CNN Should Shut Up About \u2018Misinformation\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/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%2Fgraham-cnn-should-shut-up-about-misinformation%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=180350&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/4A3CD9E6-5B50-4A18-80E5-0CAC1178FB74-1200x800-1.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Brian Stelter and Oliver Darcy, CNN\u2019s in-house cheerleaders for censoring or squelching conservative media outlets, celebrated a letter in which Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee pressed TV providers to punish right-wing spreaders of so-called \u201cmisinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>California Reps. Anna Eshoo and Jerry McNerney asked, \u201cWhat moral or ethical principles (including those related to journalistic integrity, violence, medical information, and public health) do you apply in deciding which channels to carry or when to take adverse actions against a channel?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CNN exudes arrogance about its own performance, never worrying that TV providers will question the quality of its information or its journalistic integrity. One major provider is AT&#038;T, which owns CNN. Another is Comcast, which owns NBC, CNBC and MSNBC. So those providers dumping Fox or putting them in a more obscure tier would look like a crass commercial move, not some public-spirited stand.<\/p>\n<p>Critics can easily assemble a pile of examples of CNN sloppily spreading misinformation during Donald Trump\u2019s presidency:<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nov. 16, 2020: CNN spent 23 minutes promoting a South Dakota nurse who claimed her coronavirus patients were so deluded that they denied the virus was real even as they were dying. That was challenged as \u201cfake news.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sept. 16, 2018: CNN spent 67 minutes promoting The New York Times\u2019 unverified tale that Brett Kavanaugh exposed himself to Deborah Ramirez in his college years.<\/p>\n<p>The Times then sheepishly added an editor\u2019s note saying that Ramirez \u201cdeclined to be interviewed and friends say that she does not recall the incident.\u201d CNN only spent three minutes on the correction. Anchor John King disparaged Republicans for pointing at this correction as an attempt \u201cto steer you away from the substance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 July 26, 2018: CNN reported that former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen would tell federal investigators that Trump knew of the controversial Trump Tower meeting to get dirt on Hillary Clinton from the Russians before it took place. A month later, Axios reported that Cohen didn\u2019t actually know whether Trump had any knowledge of the meeting. Then, Buzzfeed exposed Cohen\u2019s lawyer Lanny Davis as CNN\u2019s secret source \u2014 after Davis lied on CNN that he wasn\u2019t the source.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 April 16, 2018: In a sign of CNN\u2019s aggressive exploitation of the unverified Steele dossier, NewsBusters reported that a review of five days of transcripts found 77 separate mentions of the absurd claim that there was a videotape of Trump paying prostitutes to urinate on one another \u2014 the alleged \u201cpee tapes.\u201d No tapes ever emerged.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 June 22, 2017: CNN\u2019s Thomas Frank reported that Congress was investigating a \u201cRussian investment fund with ties to Trump officials,\u201d especially Anthony Scaramucci. The report was later retracted. Frank and two other CNN employees resigned in the fallout.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 June 6, 2017: CNN reported that in impending congressional testimony, former FBI Director James Comey was going to refute Donald Trump\u2019s claim that Comey told Trump three times he was not under investigation. Instead, Comey did the opposite and confirmed Trump\u2019s claim.<\/p>\n<p>We won\u2019t even go into all the wild CNN talk of Trump being like Hitler or Stalin, or Brian Stelter\u2019s guest who said Trump would kill more people than Hitler, Stalin and Mao combined. CNN pretends this is vital, democracy-saving information, not garishly cartoonish garbage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><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>Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org. To find out more about Tim Graham, and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Stelter and Oliver Darcy, CNN\u2019s in-house cheerleaders for censoring or squelching conservative media outlets, celebrated a letter in which Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee pressed TV &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2274380,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/4A3CD9E6-5B50-4A18-80E5-0CAC1178FB74-1200x800-1.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"GRAHAM: CNN Should Shut Up About \u2018Misinformation\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/4A3CD9E6-5B50-4A18-80E5-0CAC1178FB74-1200x800-1.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"GRAHAM: CNN Should Shut Up About \u2018Misinformation\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180350","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=180350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2274380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}