New in PJ Media:
The establishment media is finally being exposed for what it really is — the propaganda arm for the hard left — and it’s a glorious thing to see. Two flagship media outlets, pillars of the “journalistic” establishment, have now lost defamation cases and must pony up millions as a result. This is extremely good news for those who value the truth and are tired of these moneyed, undeservedly respected propaganda outlets manipulating the American people.
A month ago, ABC and its far-left propagandist George Stephanopoulos reached a settlement with Donald Trump, who had sued them for defamation. The settlement involved the network forking over $15 million to Trump; it also precluded Trump’s suit from going to trial. which showed that ABC’s top dogs understood how weak their case really was: they were happy to pony up $15 million to make this thing go away rather than have a trial reveal just how far from actual journalism they had allowed themselves to stray.
On Friday, it was CNN’s turn. Fox News reported that “a jury found that CNN committed defamation against U.S. Navy veteran Zachary Young and is responsible for punitive damages on Friday after more than eight hours of deliberation. The jury ruled Young is awarded $4 million in lost earnings, $1 million in personal damages such as pain and suffering and said that punitive damages are warranted against CNN.”
That’s $20 million and counting in judgments against establishment who were caught manipulating and spinning the news while loudly and repeatedly insisting that they were telling nothing but the straight truth. CNN’s chest-thumping proclamation that it is the “most trusted name in news” has been a joke for years, but now it has been confirmed in court that anyone who trusts CNN probably also thinks that Old Joe Biden has been a capable, competent president and that Hamas is a valiant army of freedom fighters engaged in “resistance” against an “occupier.”
The rulings against ABC and CNN are sweet victory for those who have been insisting for years that the media was biased, only for far-left “fact checkers” and those same media outlets to dismiss any concern about their agenda, perspective, or accuracy as right-wing conspiracy theorizing.
After all, the news media has been a leftist mouthpiece for decades, but only since Donald Trump became a presidential candidate and then president of the United States did that become too obvious to deny. As far back as 1962, when Richard Nixon lost his race for governor of California, he excoriated the press for its leftist bias and famously declared: “You won’t have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.”
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࿗Infidel࿘ says
All these MSM companies need to be sued into oblivion. Their Leftist viewers can go to Pod Save America for their news
Rarely says
Has FOX been any better?
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Not really. They are like a weathervane: they were strongly on the RINO side from 2021-2023, but switched to Trump last year once his renomination, if not re-election, looked inevitable. I used to be an FNC viewer, but the list of shows I used to watch started dwindling in 2019, until it was just Tucker Carlson Tonight (I stopped following him after he turned on Israel, but I agreed w/ him fully on Russia, China and South Africa), and when he was dropped by Fox, it became 0. Now, I do watch recorded feeds of “The Five”
However, I wonder how many people, other than elderly people who only know how to channelsurf TVs, still pay for cable or satellite TV? Every year, more and more people have cut the cord, and that number keeps growing. Once the TV viewing generation dies out, TV packages will be about as relevant as the telegraph or analog radio
Any person, no matter Left or Right, can go to YouTube or another social media platform of one’s choice, and subscribe to and follow one’s favorite commentators. If someone on the Left has discontinued Dish/Comcast/Cox/Spectrum…., that person can still subscribe to YouTube’s CNN, MSNBC or Pod Save America or TYT or any number of Leftist platforms. Similarly, people on the Right, unlike in 2020, now have a wide range of options – from Bannon’s War Room to Daily Wire to BlazeTV. Even people in the Center have choices – Joe Rogan, Megyn Kelly, Mark Halperin, et al
What is the media landscape like in Canada?
James Lincoln says
࿗Infidel࿘,
The only actual “TV” that I have watched during the last three years has been the Army-Navy football game – and the Masters PGA tournament.
skeptiker says
Wow. Nein. CNN verbreitet Lügen? Jetzt bricht aber eine Welt für mich zusammen. Das hätte ich nie und nimmer für möglich gehalten.