Is Brian Stelter tremendously unaware of what CNN seems like? Brian’s so-called “Dependable Sources” publication appears to be at present based mostly on the idea that the one sources which might be dependable are those that hate Donald Trump with an unquenchable ardour. Everybody else is meek and cowardly. Any concession to Trump and one way or the other authoritarianism is on the march.
The present onus of concession is the Paramount merger with Skydance. In his publication on Friday, Stelter freaked out over the merger, insisting CBS is caving to an authoritarian, simply as media shops allegedly submitted to Viktor Orban in Hungary.
Stelter started his Friday publication with the headline: The Orbán playbook? The Paramount-Skydance saga “reeks of Orbanism. That is the evaluation of Gábor Scheiring, who skilled Viktor Orbán’s autocratic energy performs in Hungary firsthand as a member of the Hungarian parliament.”
However who’s actually the authoritarian on this critique? Scheiring hates “authoritarian capitalism” and it is fairly clear he is on the onerous left. He touts being backed by the Rosa Luxemberg Basis in Germany. Rosa was a Marxist, however don’t fret, they’re searching for “democratic” types of socialism. Honk if yow will discover democratic Marxism anyplace.
Stelter and his Hungarian knowledgeable assume some of the Dependable Sources is CBS “comic” Stephen Colbert, whose present will probably be ending in ten months. Then there are the screechers at 60 Minutes. Anybody who would search to curtail their incessant partisanship, together with their promotional interviews with each Democrat from Biden to Harris to Obama to each Clintons – they’re bowing to an aspiring tyrant. They don’t seem to be fearless or unbiased with regards to interviewing Democrats.
However, Stelter lectured “the democratic backsliding in Hungary was partly achieved via media seize and management of tradition.” The liberal media have achieved seize, and don’t desire anybody to problem them. Stelter quoted Biden’s ambassador to Hungary, a gay-rights activist named David Pressman, evaluating Trump to Orban in The New York Occasions: “right here, too, highly effective individuals are responding to authoritarian advances simply as their Hungarian counterparts have — not with defiance, however with capitulation, satisfied that they will preserve their independence and keep above the fray.”
We additionally talk about James Carville’s newfound admiration for Rupert Murdoch, and David Folkenflik toeing Stelter’s line on mergers. Benefit from the podcast beneath, or wherever you take heed to podcasts.
