CNN's Brian Stelter was destroyed by a college freshman. See video clip. Everything the student said has proven to be true. Listen to what Stelter and the other Atlantic reporter said at the 'DISINFORMATION and the erosion of Democracy forum.' Unbelievable irony and hypocrisy.
The Atlantic and the University of Chicago Institute of Politics held a “Disinformation and the Erosion of Democracy” conference over the past three days. They intended to explore the “organized spread of disinformation” and the ways to deal with it. But a few college students managed to put them on the spot, and point out the inherent contradiction in their effort. College freshman Chris Phillips eviscerated Brian Stelter with CNN’s pushing of disinformation.
What was ironic was that they had speakers at their conference — mainly media types like CNN’s Brian Stelter — who are the very personification of disinformation.
Projection, gaslighting, spin, and lies—doublespeak. This is exactly what CNN and other liberal mainstream media, like The Atlantic, have been doing for the last five years. Stelter is one of the most dishonest talking heads in the industry. Gaslighting is his middle name.
When the student called out Stelter on CNN's years of disinformation—well, Stelter did what he does best. He projected, gaslighted, and lied. Stelter didn’t have much of a response, other than to call it a “popular right-wing narrative” and try to deflect it." I think you are discussing the other channel." He was no doubt talking about Fox News.
Stelter is the poster boy for disinformation and CNN promoted one of the greatest scams in our lifetime, the Russian Hoax. CNN has been one of the biggest contributors to the erosion of Democracy in modern history. It suppressed, dismissed, and ignored important news about Hunter Biden's laptop and told one big lie after another about Trump. Why? To prevent Trump from winning a second term.
There were some other fascinating and revelatory looks into the mind of the liberal media.
There was the Atlantic staff writer Anne Applebaum, whom freshman Daniel Schmidt asked about how the media had dealt with the issue of Hunter Biden’s laptop and the lies told to suppress it.
Applebaum’s response showed exactly why no one trusts the liberal media anymore.
Now that they can’t call it “disinformation” anymore, because it’s so true that even liberal media admitted it, they have to come up with some other reason to ignore it. Applebaum called it “totally irrelevant” as to who should be president — and not interesting.
Interestingly, even though she says this now, she pushed the Russia disinformation claim when it came to the Hunter Biden laptop, so it was “interesting” enough to do that. Speaking of disinformation, Applebaum falsely wrote in 2020 that President Donald Trump called COVID a “hoax.” That wasn’t true, but it was a common media falsehood.
So influence-peddling — someone in the highest office in the land possibly being compromised by relationships with foreign governments — is not interesting? Possible Russian blackmail isn’t interesting? How does she call herself a journalist? And here’s another question: If this isn’t interesting and is “irrelevant,” then why did the media spend four years pushing the false, Russia collusion hoax that was paid for in part by the Democrats? Why was that relevant and interesting?
Now exposed, they want to talk about disinformation and the erosion of Democracy—and blame one of the few honest channels that exposed their many lies. Good Lord! These people are dishonest and shameless. CNN is the Disinformation Network.
“Doublespeak is language which pretends to communicate but doesn't. It is language which makes the bad seem good, the negative seem positive, the unpleasant seem attractive, or at least tolerable. It is language which avoids, shifts or denies responsibility; language which is at variance with its real or purported meaning. It is language which conceals or prevents thought.” William Lutz