CNN wants to drive Fox News off the air. That’s a business decision. Brian Stelter wants to sell books bashing Fox News. That’s a business decision. But it’s not JUST a business decision in either case.
For one thing, it’s their little hurt baby feelings. When they get them hurt, they want you shut up.
And it’s also rank stupidity. Stupid in the sense that they just don’t understand any of the most basic principles of a free and fair society, or the ethics of their profession in any way. Either willfully (the brass) or by dint of dimness (Stelter), it’s the most basic thing wrong with the corporate jokes we refer to as the American press.
Just look at this trash.
.@brianstelter on CNN going after Fox News’ cable carriers: “Reducing a liar’s reach is not the same as censoring freedom of speech; freedom of speech is different than freedom of reach” pic.twitter.com/Tqsu1NgsRk
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) January 31, 2021
It is almost beyond parody. To call for censorship of people for objecting to censorship. And on the network that claims merely CRITICIZING them puts them in danger. They say that over and over. Stelter in particular.
🎶 That Fat, Dumb, and Bald Guy, SUUURE is a hypocritical douche douche, douche, douche, DOUCHE-DOUCHE.🎵
But, as with the must-see thread earlier, Glenn Greenwald put it better than I can.
Beyond all the creepy aspects of *journalists* again taking the lead in demanding media voices be repressed, @brianstelter's claim that "freedom of speech is different than freedom of reach" is totally false and has been rejected by courts for decades. https://t.co/8RP5zIv4pY
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) January 31, 2021
Imagine if you're an anti-Wall Street group and you want to march on Wall St & the city tells you: oh, you can march, but not on a busy street. We'll give you a permit to march on a deserted street in Queens.
You think that's not a free speech violation? Tons of caselaw on this
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) January 31, 2021
Also, CNN lies and spreads conspiracy theories constantly. They're a pro-Democratic Party outlet that barely airs any dissent from the DNC line. If @brianstelter's standards for banishing Fox were applied equally, it'd affect all cable news outlets, not just one.
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) January 31, 2021
Great thread. But the DEATH blow is here.
Hey @brianstelter, I know you don't do dissent on your show — can't have anyone challenging you or upsetting your DNC audience — but the next time you want to claim "freedom of speech isn't freedom of reach," read this on "free speech zones" by @ACLU:https://t.co/8eCG1mE8Uq
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) January 31, 2021
Using the ACLU. Devastation.