{"id":65448,"date":"2017-02-05T22:17:33","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T02:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=65448"},"modified":"2017-02-05T22:17:33","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T02:17:33","slug":"media-turning-on-itself-usatodays-wolff-slams-cnns-stelter-as-ridiculous-self-righteous-figure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=65448","title":{"rendered":"Media Turning On Itself: USAToday’s Wolff Slams CNN’s Stelter As “Ridiculous, Self-Righteous Figure”"},"content":{"rendered":"

ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n

Amid the ever-increasing virtue-signaling fanaticism of the mainstream media <\/em><\/strong>in their incessant anti-Trump (so-called ‘fact-checking’) propaganda, it appears the infighting has begun. As The Hill reports,<\/a> USA Today and Hollywood Reporter columnist Michael Wolff slammed CNN’s Brian Stelter on his media affairs program Sunday, telling the host he was becoming “quite a ridiculous figure.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

With mainstream media credibility at record lows, The Hill points out <\/a>that Wolff accused Stelter, in a recent Newsweek column, of delivering “a pious sermon about [Donald] Trump\u2019s perfidiousness and nursing personal grudges.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The 31-year-old “Reliable Sources” host asked Wolff if his style or substance was wrong in attempting to “fact-check the president.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

And then the fireworks began…<\/p>\n

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“I think it is, and I mean this with truly no disrespect, but I think you can border on being sort of quite a ridiculous figure. It is not a good look, to repeatedly and self-righteously defend your own self-interest.<\/strong> The media should not be the story every week.”<\/div>\n
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“Every week in this religious sense, you make it the story,” Wolff added. “We are not the story.”<\/p>\n

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“Isn’t there room for one hour a week on CNN for this?” Stelter asked.<\/p>\n

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“Listen, I love your show, but I wish every weekend you did not turn to the camera and lecture America about the virtues of the media <\/strong>and everyone trying to attack it. The media will be fine,” Wolff\u00a0 replied.<\/p>\n

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“The media doesn’t need defending?” Stelter followed.<\/p>\n

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“The media doesn’t need defending by the media,” Wolff responded. “The New York Times front page looks like it’s 1938 in Germany every day.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

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“No it does not. Give me a break,” retorted Stelter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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