You don't even need to disparage Phillips. The issue is that CNN misrepresented the situation to make a kid look bad. If Phillips lied, that's a small problem (people everywhere lie, and everyone trying to make a political change sacrifices some truth-telling while trying to reach a broader audience). It's the lack of clear fact-checking on CNN's part.
You don't even need to disparage Phillips. The issue is that CNN misrepresented the situation to make a kid look bad. If Phillips lied, that's a small problem (people everywhere lie, and everyone trying to make a political change sacrifices some truth-telling while trying to reach a broader audience). It's the lack of clear fact-checking on CNN's part.
You don't even need to disparage Phillips. The issue is that CNN misrepresented the situation to make a kid look bad. If Phillips lied, that's a small problem (people everywhere lie, and everyone trying to make a political change sacrifices some truth-telling while trying to reach a broader audience). It's the lack of clear fact-checking on CNN's part.
You don't even need to disparage Phillips. The issue is that CNN misrepresented the situation to make a kid look bad. If Phillips lied, that's a small problem (people everywhere lie, and everyone trying to make a political change sacrifices some truth-telling while trying to reach a broader audience). It's the lack of clear fact-checking on CNN's part.
That's the bigger issue, yes. But I also take issue with Phillips continuing to be treated with reverence despite his repeated lies, both regarding this incident and his life in general, being amply exposed.
I also am very disturbed with activism for political change based on lies or ignoring the facts, but that's another subject.
They basically are. The distinction is barely meaningful. They have a track record of slightly more egregious moves than Fox, but largely act the same way.
They basically are. The distinction is barely meaningful. They have a track record of slightly more egregious moves than Fox, but largely act the same way.
i mean Fox News is the propaganda arm for whatever GOP talking points are form one day to the next and CNN is that for American corporations. Since the GOP is government and the corporations aren’t I’ll go with Fox being functionally worse. But you do you! The Five need their viewers !
i mean Fox News is the propaganda arm for whatever GOP talking points are form one day to the next and CNN is that for American corporations. Since the GOP is government and the corporations aren’t I’ll go with Fox being functionally worse. But you do you! The Five need their viewers !
No bad tactics, only bad targets, in some people's minds.
On topic though, the media circus around this kid was atrocious, and no better is the fact that certain people, even in this thread, imply it was a-ok because of what hat he wore, or what protest he was at. Smearing some kid in nationwide news with things that aren't even true is wrong, no matter what his political beliefs. I hope CNN had to pay out the nose; I'm just sad that they settled, and that their internal communications were not made public during a trial.
That's probably why they settled. The optics of this are already really bad, don't think they could afford being the first mass media so publicly outed for this practice in election year. Whatever they paid to make this go away was likely worth avoiding that from their perspective, and they're probably correct in the estimation.
Jesse Ventura sued sniper Chris Kyle for lying about him in his book and a jury verdict sided with Ventura. The big media jumped in to lobby to overturn the verdict because Ventura successfully sued someone who defamed him for profit.
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