{"id":44962,"date":"2017-07-06T12:36:49","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T16:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=44962"},"modified":"2020-08-02T12:36:58","modified_gmt":"2020-08-02T16:36:58","slug":"cnn-done-fucked-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=44962","title":{"rendered":"CNN done fucked up"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When I was a kid, I was always under the impression that the news was just the news; reporting on facts, with no bias or leanings.\u00a0 Maybe a little bit of personality from the anchors, and on snow days, waiting for the weather people, otherwise, waiting until the last 5-7 minutes of the show for sports, so I can see which team was the latest to fall to the Chicago Bulls or what Cal Ripken, Jr\u2019s consecutive game streak was at.\u00a0 But that the FOX5 10 o\u2019clock news was just news, the same as all other news outlets, and really nothing more.<\/span><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think it was until the 2000 Presidential election did I realize that news outlets were far more capable of things other than just, the news.\u00a0 Regardless of what one feels about FOX News, there\u2019s no denying their involvement in the 2000 election, about how they declared a victor a little too precariously early and their overwhelming support for the Republican party.<\/span><\/p>\n

This experience opened my eyes that news sources were not as neutral and unbiased as I had grown up thinking they were, and that there were most definitely rosters of various sources taking difference sides and positions in political spectrum.<\/span><\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t take a genius to realize that I lean left when it comes to most facets of life, and I like to believe I\u2019m a pretty liberal thinker, open-minded to lots of logical things.\u00a0 That being said, I used to often read the Huffington Post, because I appreciated their want to broadcast positive and uplifting stories, especially in a media-driven world hell-bent on reporting all the stories of violence, hatred, gunfire and war; if it bleeds, it leads, and there\u2019s really only so much of it I can tolerate on a daily basis without feeling like I\u2019m losing my humanity.<\/span><\/p>\n

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But after the completely arrogant and misguided manner in which the Huffington Post anticipated the last Presidential election, I pretty much soured on them outright.\u00a0 I mean seriously, how could they forecast like a 97% chance of victory for Hilary Clinton and then have the audacity to show up to work the following day when they were proven wrong? \u00a0Although I would blame several parties for the disagreeable result of the last election, I always felt that HuffPo carried a larger part of blame, due to the arrogance in which they predicted it, and nowadays I don\u2019t really look at them at all anymore.<\/span><\/p>\n

CNN was always an outlet that I felt was fairly neutral; that is until the last election.\u00a0 Perhaps it\u2019s a changing of the times, or maybe it\u2019s always been like it and I\u2019ve just been blissfully ignorant of it.\u00a0 Or maybe the leaning went extreme with the rise of mein fuhrer, but CNN stopped looking like such a neutral outlet to me after last November.\u00a0 I still went mostly out of habit, the ease in which I remember they\u2019re an outlet for news, and the fact that I like several of their contributors, but I tended to glaze over anything they had to say about politics, because I couldn\u2019t not see just how biased their network was, and when things are biased, they\u2019re unreliable in my opinion.<\/span><\/p>\n

So it\u2019s especially ironic to me, that among all of the unpleasant happenings, developments and movements that have occurred as direct result of the elected guy, that CNN would stoop down to his level and do something as fucked up as doxing an individual<\/a> because they posted something on the internet that they didn\u2019t like.<\/span><\/p>\n

I mean really, CNN tracked a guy down like Jay and Silent Bob<\/a>, and basically dangled the anonymity of his identity over his head until he went on Reddit to apologize for having a little bit of harmless fun on the internet.\u00a0 There\u2019s really no way to sugarcoat that this was the narrative based on CNN\u2019s choice of words and their repeated<\/em> statements that they were voluntarily withholding the individual\u2019s identity from public release.<\/span><\/p>\n

In other words, blackmail.<\/span><\/p>\n

I 100% believe that elected guy would do this himself, but he hasn\u2019t, despite the fact that he probably has more justification to do so, considering all the veiled threats and inflammatory things said about him.\u00a0 And it\u2019s especially sad that what ultimately triggered CNN was a crudely generated GIF of their logo superimposed onto Vince McMahon\u2019s head getting clotheslined by Bozo the Prez.<\/span><\/p>\n

But seriously, of all the fucked up things to happen involving the disagreement in leadership, it\u2019s ironic that this story one, it didn\u2019t come from the presidential side, and that two, it\u2019s a tactic more associated by being used by more nefarious parties, often as blackmail, regardless of if it\u2019s white-hat or black-hat motivated.<\/span><\/p>\n

In spite of outlets like CNN crying out that elected guy is often conducting himself unprofessionally and making choices that are unconstitutional, it\u2019s hypocritical for CNN to personally attack and target one person\u2019s First Amendment rights.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ironically, by the logic of the source material, there\u2019s no actual <\/em>violence being promoted against the media, but instead scripted, rehearsed and premeditated violence.\u00a0 But now having typed that out, how fucking meta would it be if that\u2019s exactly what this whole debacle actually was?\u00a0 That HanAssholeSolo was perhaps a CNN employee already, and that this whole fucking thing was a stunt??\u00a0 Not sure what CNN would gain by making everyone think that they were hypocritical assholes, but maybe they\u2019re tired of just being a news outlet, and they\u2019re out to become the BAD BOYS of NEWS, and not look like such squares next to FOX News and their parade of hot reporters<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

But either way, I do not like what CNN has done.\u00a0 They sank to the level of the guy they\u2019re trying to denounce on a daily basis, losing sight of what they exist to provide, which is news, and are employing deplorable tactics in the name of journalistic integrity.\u00a0 I\u2019ve already reduced how often I go to CNN, going to outlets like USA Today and Reuters, which feel not nearly as biased, and if I really want facts, then I can simply seek out AP articles directly.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I was a kid, I was always under the impression that the news was just the news; reporting on facts, with no bias or leanings.\u00a0 Maybe a little bit of personality from the anchors, and on snow days, waiting for the weather people, otherwise, waiting until the last 5-7 minutes of the show for … Continue reading CNN done fucked up<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45,165,156,69],"class_list":["post-44962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-fail","tag-politics","tag-social-media","tag-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44964,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44962\/revisions\/44964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}