Media Collapse is Inevitable, and it's a Good Morning in America! CNN, Part X

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This has been sitting in my draft file for a couple of months, so some of this goes back a ways, but, it's history, and history is everything as we're seeing the Pravda media dying on the vine.  The cartoon is from this past week and sums up just about everything anyone needs to know about CNN.  CNN excels in a number of things.  Lies of commission, lies of omission, personal attacks, smears, fear mongering, and censorship. 

CNN, The Most Trusted Name in News, claims they're the guardians of truth, and they will decide what's truth tolerating no dissenting views.  Like this time when James Fishbeck challenged views about federal spending the host threatened to cut off his mic, and free speech on Facebook isn't desirable, claiming there's no one saying there's not enough free speech on Facebook.  Really?  Another CNN lie.  

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The Most Trusted Name in News has been caught up in a lot of lies, and then have the nerve to say the really big problem is so many millions of people willing believe Trump's lies, none of which they bother to prove.  But they know Biden did not strand the astronauts Musk rescued, unfortunately for them the astronauts think differently.   The also know Joe Biden already fixed the border, and now Trump is just trying to take credit for all of it, and Trump no understanding about economics. 

And when the lies don't work, they resort to fear mongering.  If Trump purges these agencies, the Deep State bureaucrats are threatening to sell state secrets, including the CIA.  Yeah, and they'll end up in prison.  

Jake Tapper, who has been caught up in these lawsuits says,we're about to enter a period of deep fakes.   The Pravda media loves to smear people.  As in this case where a CNN Panel Tries to Smear Dan Bongino as not being qualified to be the number two man at the FBI, yet we've seen amazingly stupid people appointed to powerful positions, including the judiciary, by Joe Biden without a peep from CNN.   Bongino is a public figure and as a result of they can get away saying a lot about public figures.  But Sullivan doesn't apply to private citizens, such as Zachary Young, who they accused of corruption, and destroyed his business.

Jury Was Ready to Send CNN a Message with $100M in Punitive Damages - The jury responsible for the CNN defamation case was prepared to award Zachary Young up to $100 million in punitive damages, one juror told far-left Variety............

Fed-up Judge Savaged CNN Attorney in Network's Disastrous Defamation Case: 'This Isn't Kindergarten'- Along the way to CNN losing a major defamation lawsuit, the attorney representing the network received a blistering rebuke from the Florida judge overseeing the case. Zachary Young, who is a security consultant, sued the network alleging CNN “destroyed his reputation and business” by branding him an “illegal profiteer” who exploited “desperate Afghans” during a Nov. 11, 2021, report by the network’s senior national security correspondent Alex Marquardt on CNN’s “The Lead with Jake Tapper,” Fox News reported.......

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 5 billion in punitive damages would make CNN start sounding unbiased - I read with great satisfaction that the Florida jury in Zachary Young’s defamation case against CNN awarded him $5 million in compensatory damages before deliberating about punitive damages .........  CNN’s lawyers almost instantly reached an undisclosed settlement with Young, avoiding any colossal punitive damages (which can’t be discharged in bankruptcy court). I was profoundly disappointed........

 

BREAKING: Jury Finds CNN “Committed Defamation Against Navy Vet Zachary Young” Jurors began deliberating after closing arguments were made on Thursday in a defamation lawsuit against CNN. The deliberations continued into Friday after the jury remained undecided late Thursday evening.  ‘The Most Trusted Name In News’ Guilty of Defamation.

Then there's the consequences for all this vile behavior.  Mass Lay-Offs amid tumbling ratings, to the tune of hundreds of employees.  Why? Their lies have caught up to them and viewership is crashing.  They kept catering to left-wing terrorism to appease a dwindling audience, and just can't seem to understand why they lost those viewers. 

CNN’s Acosta: GOP Should Have ‘Flat Out Rejected’ Trump, in an interview with Brad Todd Acosta was on a role saying the Republicans should have "flat out rejected" Trump.  From Kevin McCarthy to Mitch McConnell he asks how could the Republicans left him be the nominee.  And of course we know he was just trying to help the Republicans.  Right?  Well, unlike the chicanery performed by the Democrats, he was chosen by the base.  And it gets better.  

Acosta has always been an obnoxious jerk, and CNN liked it, at least until their ratings started to crash, and then CNN banished TDS-Afflicted Jim Acosta to time-slot ‘Siberia.  So little Jimmy threatened to quit, and it appeared no one cared.  It seems clear, even to little Jimmy, his days at CNN were numbered and he left.  He's gone, Kevin McCarthy's gone, and Mitch McConnell now sits in back of the boat, and is meaningless to the Republican party.  But the man he insisted should have been rejected, Donald Trump, is still there and he "is" the Republican party now.  

But Jimmy, Mitch, and Kevin aren't alone.  And a lot of people will be following them out the door, as CNN is desperate and big names are involved including Wolf Blitzer.  Time is not on CNN's side, and I expect to see it sold are fire sale prices. 

Media Collapse is Inevitable, and it's a Good Morning in America! Part II

By Rich Kozlovich Tags: My Media Commentaries

 

CNN has been tanking for years, it's continued existence is in question, and they're facing a major defamation fight with James O'Keefe they're most like to lose as the judge who ordered this case to be continued said:

"If you stay on the bench long enough, you see a lot of things. Still, I never thought I'd see a major news organization downplaying the importance of telling the truth in its broadcasts. But that is what CNN has done in this case."

 

If CNN had issued a retraction, which is what was originally asked of them, this could have been avoided, but they didn't because they deceived themselves into believing they could deliberately lie and get away with it by hiding behind the New York Time v. Sullivan decision, since actual malice is hard to prove, and it's long overdue for Sullivan to be overturned.

CNN has it's troubles, and the nation can smile.   At CNN they're going to chop hundreds, including network stars off the payroll.  

"If half the country has decided that Trump is qualified to be president, that means they're not reading any of this media, and we've lost this audience completely. A Trump victory means mainstream media is dead in its current form."..........The report cited Nielsen ratings for CNN, and also MSNBC, that revealed the networks' audiences have vanished. They're down by 40% or more. "Insiders told Puck the new round of firings will likely see on-air talent like them affected, as the network's new CEO looks to free up finances amid waning ratings," ............

In the midst of this Chris Wallace has decided to forego his seven million dollar a year salary in order to podcast.   Chris Wallace is leaving because "at 77, is eager to see what a transformed media environment has to offer, and neither he or his family want him to retire, and he wants more control over what he produces, which will be "unbiased".  Yeah right!  While I'm sure he's more than financially secure, it still comes down to this.  If he couldn't carry the freight at CNN, what makes him think he can carry the freight on his own.

Wallace, who CNN thinks is "one the the most respected political journalists int he news business" was hired at CNN to be their lead guy at CNN+ streaming service which lasted a month. 

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One of the things I found interesting is all of a sudden we're seeing the worm turning on air.  In times past they made sure everyone was in lock step. No on dared dispute the leftist meme of the moment.  All over the Pravda media they played the bully boy making sure no one dared to defend conservative views, and big tech censored any one who did.  

All the panels were rigged, just like The View with one weak conservative and multiple mouthy leftists who interrupted and talked over the "conservative", constantly spewing out red herring fallacies in order to altering the subject at hand. 

But what happens when a bully has been shown to be a punk?  We're now seeing their own defending those they hate.  And even proclaiming their constant far left drum beat helped elect Trump.  Why?  Because they see the handwriting on the wall, and the bully is almost down and out.   

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Paraphrasing Daniel Greenfield:  "all this reflects the larger reality that most leftist organizations are interchangeable pieces of the same movement with the exact same politics who use different brands to appeal to different demographics."   For the media this is like an infectious communicable disease, and they're all collapsing together as a result.   Let's hope they continue on down that dark path.

 

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