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The widely criticized “journalists” at CNN have taken to bashing President Donald Trump for not holding new coronavirus briefings, despite the network having been among those that had complained incessantly about the president’s briefings last spring.
Leading this latest round of complaints is CNN chief media correspondent Brian Stelter, whose “reporting” oddly rarely has anything to do with the media unless it’s about Fox News or President Donald Trump’s mean words, the latter of which he routinely claims threaten press freedom.
(Yet Stelter didn’t tweet a single word about Twitter’s attack on the New York Post, unsurprisingly enough …)
In a tweet posted Friday morning, Stelter wondered why the president wasn’t “leading daily coronavirus task force briefings from the White House.”
Look:
Someday we’re going to look back and wonder, why wasn’t the president leading daily coronavirus task force briefings from the White House when the virus ripped across the country in late October of 2020?
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) October 30, 2020
The tweet quickly generated a ratio because of CNN’s history of trashing and sometimes outright refusing to air the president’s briefings.
Look:
CNN literally stopped showing them as soon as Trump started to talk. Shut all the way up, man. https://t.co/x8ro2KNnFB
— Claude Loves Guarantee Mechanisms (@Th3Claude) October 30, 2020
Even if he did, how would the CNN viewers know? https://t.co/6uhEDMGVfT
— Tatjana Pasalic (@Tattytats) October 30, 2020
Remember when your network alongside others refused to cover Trump’s COVID briefings from the White House and journalists declared them dangerous and applauded major news networks for protecting Americans by not airing them? https://t.co/6ZuwJGBELF
— Chad Felix Greene (@chadfelixg) October 31, 2020
CNN and a whole bunch of other outlets refused to cover Trump’s coronavirus briefings when he was holding them daily. https://t.co/CmkymdMPY3
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) October 30, 2020
Multiple times last spring, CNN purposefully chose to either only cover part of the president’s briefings or skip them altogether.
One of the first times happened on Monday, March 23, when both CNN and MSNBC reportedly “cut away” from the briefing.
“Pretty disgraceful,” White House spokesperson Judd Deere said at the time of CNN’s decision. In response, CNN got catty.
Look:
Pretty disgraceful that @CNN and @MSNBC have both cut away from this @WhiteHouse briefing with @realDonaldTrump and @Mike_Pence during a global pandemic. Thank you to @FoxNews for keeping Americans informed. #COVID19
— Judd Deere (@JuddPDeere45) March 23, 2020
CNN spokesperson responds: “If the White House wants to ask for time on the network, they should make an official request. Otherwise we will make our own editorial decisions.” https://t.co/EEOuwZBx3F
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) March 23, 2020
A week later, CNN did it again.
“CNN raised eyebrows Tuesday after it chose not to air President Trump’s initial prepared remarks at the daily White House coronavirus briefing,” Fox News reported on March 31st.
“The network, at first, continued with its scheduled programming and started airing the briefing only when the president was wrapping up his comments and handed the podium to coronavirus task force member Dr. Deborah Birx. The network carried most of the rest of the briefing, including Trump taking questions later.”
‘Shameless’! @CNN, @MSNBC cut away from WH emergency briefing, override with anti-Trump attacks https://t.co/AE0LMqOUuT via @BIZPACReview
— CherylCarpentrKlimek (@CherylBPR) April 2, 2020
CNN’s Acosta doing a report in front of the White House just an outfielder throw away from the briefing room – as said briefing is occurring but not airing on his network. pic.twitter.com/SCmERk2P3X
— Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) April 1, 2020
CNN jumped into the WH Coronavirus task force briefing on Tuesday once President Trump completed opening remarks. Tonight has a briefing including Gen. Mark Milley- Chairman of the Joint Chiefs – currently briefing reporters. CNN continues to stick with a panel discussion.
— Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) April 1, 2020
About a week after this, Stelter began urging other demonstrably left-wing media outlets to start delaying their broadcasts of the president’s briefings.
“Brian Stelter, CNN’s chief media correspondent, says that news networks — including his own — should run President Trump’s daily coronavirus briefings on a slight delay so they can jump in and correct any misinformation,” Yahoo News reported at the time.
In fairness to Stelter, he did reportedly say “he believes that viewers should still see the briefings even when Trump is spreading inaccurate information.”
However, the overall consensus at CNN was that the briefings shouldn’t be aired.
“CNN, MSNBC Bosses Ignore Staff Pleas to Cut Trump Coronavirus Pressers,” a headline from a report published by The Daily Beast in late March reads.
The media’s biggest complaint was and remains the allegation that the president spreads so-called “misinformation.” The problem is that the media’s definition of “misinformation” cannot be trusted.
The media think arguments against lockdown policies are “misinformation,” despite these policies being endorsed by thousands of doctors and scientists.
And in an unrelated but still pertinent story, the media adamantly claim that any allegations about Hunter Biden’s questionable activities are also “misinformation,” even though the claims are backed by copious amounts of evidence.
Dir. Of National Intel makes clear Biden bombshells ‘NOT part of Russian disinformation campaign’ https://t.co/90c6unK8IV
— Conservative News (@BIZPACReview) October 19, 2020
Conversely, while media “reporters” like Stelter are always eager to highlight the alleged “misinformation” being peddled by Republicans, they never seem to have anything to say about the misinformation being peddled by themselves.
Case in point:
This @MotherJones story is completely false. Back **in January**, when most of the media was obsessed with an inconsequential impeachment proceeding, @TuckerCarlson was urging attention be paid to the coronavirus. Whatever you think of him, you don’t get to re-write history: https://t.co/J6pywGUjS4 pic.twitter.com/TYTuqJ5zqS
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) March 26, 2020
What unmitigated audacity and dishonesty from @MotherJones!! Today they’re claiming no conservatives took coronavirus seriously except conspiracy theorists.
Literally *the day after* Carlson urged people to pay attention to it in January, this is what Mother Jones published: pic.twitter.com/YsZCmOzAcv
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) March 26, 2020
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