{"id":64058,"date":"2017-01-21T14:36:22","date_gmt":"2017-01-21T18:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=64058"},"modified":"2017-01-21T14:37:15","modified_gmt":"2017-01-21T18:37:15","slug":"the-beginning-of-the-end-of-the-mainstream-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=64058","title":{"rendered":"The Beginning of the End of the <i>Mainstream Media<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"posttitle\">Valparaiso YMCA Accused Of Censorship After Banning CNN From\u00a0TVs<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>CHICAGO (CBS) \u2014<\/strong> Not long after President-elect Donald Trump accused CNN of being \u201cfake news\u201d and refused to take a question from a CNN reporter, the Valparaiso Family YMCA has declared the channel off-limits in its workout room.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo me, it\u2019s blatant censorship that I find very surprising,\u201d said Greg Quartucci, who has been a member of the YMCA in Valparaiso for more than a decade.<\/p>\n<p>He said CNN has been a fixture on a TV at the Valparaiso Y for years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe timing of this was very peculiar because I think it was basically a day or two after Mr. Trump claimed that CNN was fake news,\u201d Valparaiso YMCA member Greg Quartucci said. \u201cI think they switched to the cooking channel.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"shortcode shortcode-clip-player\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/embed.radio.com\/clip\/61448248?ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fchicago.cbslocal.com%2F2017%2F01%2F20%2Fvalparaiso-ymca-accused-of-censorship-after-banning-cnn-from-tvs%2F&amp;station_id=15&amp;rollup_ga_id=UA-2438645-53&amp;ads_ga_page_tracker=UA-17434257-38\" width=\"550px\" height=\"310px\" scrolling=\"no\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>He said the Y turned off CNN shortly after Trump\u2019s angry confrontation with CNN correspondent Jim Acosta at a news conference last week. When Acosta tried to ask a question at Trump\u2019s first post-election news conference, the president-elect repeatedly shut him down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, not you, your organization is terrible. Quiet. Quiet,\u201d he said. As Acosta continued trying to ask a question, talking over another reporter, Mr. Trump continued: \u201cDon\u2019t be rude. Don\u2019t be rude. Don\u2019t. Be. Rude. I\u2019m not going to give you a question. You are fake news.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Quartucci said the Y has given in to a minority who complained about CNN, and he called it \u201cblatant censorship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a Christian organization. It\u2019s all about freedom and opportunity, and what they\u2019re doing, I personally think is against what they have on their walls and against what they have as their mission,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>A statement from the Valparaiso Y said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn order to eliminate perceived political bias associated with national news outlets, the Valparaiso Family YMCA will only be showing local news channels in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/chicago.cbslocal.com\/2017\/01\/20\/valparaiso-ymca-accused-of-censorship-after-banning-cnn-from-tvs\/\">http:\/\/chicago.cbslocal.com\/2017\/01\/20\/valparaiso-ymca-accused-of-censorship-after-banning-cnn-from-tvs\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valparaiso YMCA Accused Of Censorship After Banning CNN From\u00a0TVs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}