As new revelations about CNN emerge from Project Veritas, here is a
backgrounder I wrote and published several years ago. It brings back
fond memories, and offers the beleaguered children at CNN solutions to
their never-ending problems...
"CNN is still licking their wounds after a rather
disastrous couple of weeks, where a shoddy Russia-Trump story led to
three staffers resigning, a Project Veritas investigation exposed that
the network's producers peddled the Russia story for
ratings, and what came off as a wholly inappropriate veiled threat
against an anonymous Reddit user who created a Trump WWE video, which
the president tweeted before the Fourth of July Holiday. The video
shows Trump beating up WWE's Vince McMahon, whose face
has been superimposed with the CNN logo. The media went apoplectic as
an attack against the press; it wasn't. This spurred the network's
reporters to find the user and pretty much threaten to dox him if he
continues to post things CNN doesn't like." (Townhall,
Matt Vespa, 7/7/17)
If you create a giant, you gain extraordinary visibility, and
if the giant develops an unsightly and grotesque case of fungal
disease, that's a problem.
CNN was born in 1980. At the time, it was the first
television network offering 24/7 news, and it was the first network
offering nothing but news in the US.
In 1991, CNN's coverage of the Gulf War reached a billion viewers worldwide.
Today, CNN International reaches 200 countries.
That's a giant.
But from the beginning, back in 1980, there was a major
question: how was CNN going to fill up all that time every day with
news? Face it, television networks, without bells and whistles, could
boil down their coverage of a day's events in four minutes.
That's because their analysis is so thin. It's all surface.
When you assiduously avoid looking into WHO REALLY RUNS
THINGS, the well runs dry quickly. When you avoid detailing the role of
mega-banks and mega-corporations and groups like the Trilateral
Commission and CFR and Bilderberg, and when you never
define Globalism and reveal its true agenda; when you discover nothing
of value about the CIA; when you never broach the subject of American
Empire; when you refuse to examine the horrendous effects of the medical
system; when you fail to expose the ongoing
collaboration between establishment Democrats and Republicans, and the
influence of lobbyists (e.g., Israeli fronts); when you intentionally
remain blind to the destruction of the American Republic and the
Constitution; when you ultimately side with National
Security and the Surveillance State; when you manage to sidestep actual
ongoing environmental pollution flowing poisonously from a number of
sources; when you refuse to reveal the full effects of open borders;
when you never connect the dots and instead rely
on limited hangouts...
What are you left with? What do you do, for 24 hours of every single day?
Mainly, you wait for "big events," and then you launch wall
to wall coverage for as long as your viewers can stand it. The Gulf War;
the first black president; the worst president and the worst human
being in history (Trump).
You develop bloated panel shows, during which pundits babble across each other like meth addicts in a rubber room.
You call "the news" The Situation Room, as if you're breaking vital stories every 30 seconds.
You plow the same ground over and over, until not even weeds can grow in the soil.
You fill your basket with the eggs of the "progressive agenda." You go all in.
You fake stories.
You do a bizarre version of affirmative action with your on-air talent, as if this will result in "fairer" coverage.
And day by day, the public realizes you're crazy.
You can't hide, because you aren't just laying on three fake newscasts a day; you're ON all the time.
You're hoping against hope for a new terror attack or a
natural disaster, so you can flood the airwaves with live reports, but
in the meantime, you'll stick with 24/7 Trump, because he's "the most
interesting man in the world." He's creating your
ratings, such as they are. You're the tabloid at the checkout counter
in the supermarket, and he's always on the cover. You love him. You need
him. It doesn't matter whether he's done what you say he's done. That's
never been the issue. Without his presence,
you'd be raking leaves outside a nursing home. You're the
self-appointed Pope, and he's Satan, and that means dollars.
As a bonus, you're doing what you're supposed to be doing, on
behalf of Globalism and the "interdependent world." The risk of Trump
speaking words of Nationalism against Globalism (whether or not he meant
them) is too great to go unchallenged. The
international system (aka technocracy) that has been under construction
since the dawn of the 20th century must not be derailed.
So whether it's the way Trump sips water from a bottle, or
scratches his nose, or treats one of your so-called reporters, you're
the National Enquirer blowing it up into a scandal of the moment. You're
leaking leaks from pipes that don't even exist.
Maybe he has a love child; look into that. Maybe he has another wife he
never divorced. Maybe he's an alien from Venus.
Keep those ad revenues flowing, no matter what. Face it,
you've got nothing else going for you. Connect Trump to the latest news
from Tibet if you have to. Or Madagascar. Or Tierra del Fuego. He caused
the cold snap across America, because he didn't
sign the Paris Climate Accords.
You're CNN, "the most trusted name in news."
Ride that horse all the way to the end of the road.
If you end up shithole broke, somebody will bail you out.
Warts and all, you're too big to fail. Not just because of your work
against Trump, but because The News, as the public knows it, must
survive.
Otherwise, the people will find out what's really going on in this world and who runs things. And that must never happen.
That's the prime situation in The Situation Room.
Who could have guessed, say, 15 years ago, that the following exchange would occur on CNN, in March of 2014?
As reported by New York Magazine, CNN host Don Lemon,
discussing the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, said:
"People are saying to me, why aren't you talking about the possibility -
and I'm just putting it out there - that something
odd happened to this plane, something beyond our understanding? What if
it was something fully that we don't really understand? A lot of people
have been asking about that, about black holes and on, and on, and on,
and all of these conspiracy theories...That's
what people are saying. I know it's preposterous - but is it
preposterous, you think, Mary?"
To which, Mary Schiavo, ex-Department of Transportation
inspector general, replied: "Well, it is. A small black hole would suck
in our entire universe so we know it's not that."
Maybe it WAS a black hole, and we all disappeared, and resurfaced in an alternate universe, where we got the CNN we know today.
Let's look at Jeff Zucker, CNN's boss.
In April 2017, Zucker baldly told the New York Times, "The
idea that politics is sport is undeniable, and we understood that and
approached it that way." The "it" was certainly the 2016 presidential
campaign.
Zucker always has understood political news in this corrupt
fashion---and in the process, he helped elect a US president and a
California governor.
Zucker was the man who launched The Apprentice, starring Donald Trump, at NBC, in 2004.
In other words, Zucker happened to play a major role in electing Donald Trump. There is no getting around it.
Washington Post, October 2, 2016: "Looking for someone specific to hold responsible for the improbable rise of Donald Trump?"
"Although there are many options, you could do worse than to take a hard look at Jeff Zucker, president of CNN Worldwide."
"It was Zucker, after all, who as the new head of NBC
Entertainment gave Trump his start in reality TV with 'The Apprentice'
and then milked the real estate developer's uncanny knack for success
for all it was worth in ratings and profits."
"And it succeeded wildly - boosting the network's ratings, as
well as Zucker's [and Trump's] meteoric career. In turn, under Zucker,
the show gave rise to 'Celebrity Apprentice,' another Trump
extravaganza. And, in turn, Zucker became the head of
NBC overall."
"The show [The Apprentice] was built as a virtually nonstop advertisement for the Trump empire and lifestyle..."
"The executive [Jeff Zucker] rode the Trump steed hard. When
the reality-TV star was preparing to marry Melania Knauss in 2005,
Zucker wanted to broadcast the wedding live. (Trump,
uncharacteristically, declined.)"
"But make no mistake: There would be no Trump-the-politician without Trump-the-TV-star. One begot the other."
POLITICS IS TELEVISION, AND TELEVISION IS POLITICS.
If you're looking for a person who embodies that fake version of reality most purely, you need look no further than Jeff Zucker.
Despite his network's present hatred of Trump, Zucker would give Trump his own show right now if he wanted one.
For ratings and ad revenues.
Consider another event, one which I've analyzed in great
detail. It took place on NBC in 2003, when Zucker was the head of the
network's entertainment division. The Tonight Show, with Jeno Leno, was a
prime piece of that division then. What Leno
pulled off in 2003 had to have the OK from Zucker, because it was a
highly unusual move, a distinctly unethical move.
An actor wanted to launch a political career and become a
governor. The whole news division of a major network surrendered itself,
for one ratings-busting night, to a talk show.
This is how Arnold Schwarzenegger won the California
governor's race. It all came down to his famous appearance on The
Tonight Show with Jay Leno, where he announced that he was going to run.
The Arnold interview was a global event. It was pre-hyped to
the sky, and after three red hot six-minute segments, with a studio
audience screaming in approval, the election was virtually over.
POLITICS IS TELEVISION. TELEVISION IS POLITICS.
Here are a few of CNN's "black-hole" gaffes, just refresh your memory---
Because Trump was attacking CNN and other media as fake, CNN
claimed THAT was making life more physically dangerous for journalists
in war zones and at home. Wow. I guess the takeaway is: don't criticize
mainstream news, keep your mouth shut and
stay hypnotized...
Independent journalist, James O'Keefe, released two
undercover sting videos which revealed CNN medical producer, John
Bonifield, remarking that the whole Trump-Russia scandal is "mostly
bullshit right now, like, we don't have any giant proof"; and
Van Jones, CNN political commentator, stating that "the Russia
thing is just a big nothing burger." Of course, CNN relentlessly pursues
the Trump-Russia story as if God and a choir of angels have certified
it as the truest, most important event of our
time.
June 2017: CNN dumped Reza Aslan, the host of their network documentary series called Believer. Why? Because Aslan tweeted,
"This piece of shit [Donald Trump] is not just an embarrassment to
America and a stain on the presidency. He's an embarrassment to
humankind."
October 2016: CNN contributor Donna Brazile was dumped,
because she passed along questions that would be asked in an upcoming
presidential debate, sponsored by CNN. Brazile passed those questions to
the Hillary Clinton camp.
CNN reporter-dunce Chris Cuomo, during the 2016 election
campaign, preposterously told the viewing audience that accessing
Wikileaks' treasure trove of John Podesta emails was a crime---for any
member of the public. Only "the media" were permitted
to perform that delicate operation and then decide what to report. Put a
picture of Cuomo on your wall and pray to it every night.
On June 13, 2015, CNN host Fredricka Whitfield talked about
the attack on the Dallas police headquarters. She said the shooter,
James Boulware, was "courageous and brave, if not crazy." Who's crazy,
Fredricka?
The 2016 Milwaukee riots. CNN aired a woman named Sherelle
Smith telling the rioters, "Don't bring that violence here." She was
calling for peace. Well, not exactly. The network failed to broadcast
the rest of Smith's advice: "Burning down shit ain't
going to help nobody! Y'all burning down shit we need in our community.
Take that shit to the suburbs! Burn that shit down!"
CNN: the most trusted name in news.
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