CNN's Brian Stelter Insists Media Mostly Acts in 'Good Faith,' As He Proves He Doesn't

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CNN's Brian Stelter Insists Media Mostly Acts in 'Good Faith,' As He Proves He Doesn't
By Tim Graham | May 25, 2020 10:44 AM EDT

CNN Reliable Sources host Brian Stelter said something fascinating on his show Sunday. He complained to New York Times media columnist Ben Smith that "I don't know how to show folk that journalists are mostly acting in good faith."

Here's how a show allegedly focused on journalism fails to show good faith. Stelter had on a writer from The Atlantic to discuss the coronavirus and never whispered a word about The Atlantic projecting that Gov. Brian Kemp's reopening of Georgia would be an "experiment in human sacrifice."

Instead, he merely asked Ed Yong "As a science writer, you know, you're studying this every day, where are you on the optimism/pessimism scale?" On Georgia, they were extremely pessimistic! That looks like Stelter wants to avoid any attempt at holding media outlets accountable.

 
Source URL: https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-graham/2020/05/25/stelter-insists-media-acts-good-faith-he-proves-he-doesnt

[PeteS in CA]

US MSM and Good Faith have been strangers to each other since at least 1992 when the MSM denigrated a strongly recovering as anemic to torpedo GHWB (not that he didn't torpedo himself by violating, "Read my lips ...").