‘The real heroes’: CNN’s Stelter outrages Twitter by sharing story calling ‘network TV anchors’ the ‘moral authority’ on 9/11
11 Sep, 2021 20:56
Brian Stelter at SXSW Festival in Austin, Texas © Flickr (nrkbeta)
Brian Stelter has been relentlessly mocked for promoting an article claiming news anchors became versions of “national leaders” on 9/11, while the CNN host dissed politicians for supposedly being in “bunkers” or “out of sight.”
“Network TV anchors were ‘the closest thing that America had to national leaders on 9/11. They were the moral authority for the country on that first day,’” Stelter tweeted on Saturday, the quote coming from an Associated Press piece highlighting the major news anchors covering the 9/11 terrorist attacks while they happened.
The actual quote comes from ‘The Only Plane in the Sky’ author Garrett Graff, who claimed television news anchors like Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings, and Dan Rather “counseled” the country through a trying time while “its political leadership was largely silent and largely absent from the conversation.”
Stelter added to the point by claiming political leaders were hiding in “bunkers” and keeping “out of sight” following the terrorist attacks.
https://www.rt.com/usa/534599-brian-stelter-911-news-anchors/
