College Freshman Confronts Brian Stelter About ‘Disinformation’ on CNN
CNN’s Brian Stelter faced questions about his network’s coverage of various issues and the appearance that mistakes “all go in one direction.” During a conference on “Disinformation and the Erosion of Democracy” at the…
CNN’s Brian Stelter faced questions about his network’s coverage of various issues and the appearance that mistakes “all go in one direction.”
During a conference on “Disinformation and the Erosion of Democracy” at the University of Chicago, the media correspondent was confronted about his own network’s coverage.
A freshman student who identified himself as Christopher Phillips noted, “You’ve all spoken extensively about Fox News being a purveyor of disinformation. But CNN is right up there with them.”
“They push the Russian collusion hoax, they push the Jussie Smollett hoax, they smear Justice Kavanaugh as a rapist, and they also smeared Nick Sandmann as a White supremacist. And yes, they dismissed the Hunter Biden laptop affair as pure Russian disinformation,” he continued.
Phillips asked, “With mainstream corporate journalists becoming little more than apologists and cheerleaders for the regime, is it time to finally declare that the canon of journalistic ethics is dead or no longer operative?”
He also claimed, “All the mistakes of the mainstream media and CNN, in particular, seem to magically all go in one direction.”
“Are we expected to believe that this is all just some sort of random coincidence, or is there something else behind it?” Phillips asked.