{"id":75041,"date":"2017-06-12T19:15:15","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T23:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=75041"},"modified":"2017-06-12T19:15:15","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T23:15:15","slug":"fake-new-label-sticks-to-mainstream-media-more-distrusted-than-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=75041","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Fake New&#8221; Label Sticks To <i>Mainstream Media<\/i>, More Distrusted Than Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>VIDEO: CNN HOST WHINES ABOUT AMERICANS\u2019 \u2018INHERENT DISTRUST\u2019 IN MEDIA<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>&#8216;Anti-media venom is having a real effect.&#8217;<\/h3>\n<p>Steve Watson | Infowars.com<\/p>\n<p><strong>CNN host Brian Stelter is extremely butt hurt that the majority of Americans have a problem with trusting the media.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On his ironically named\u00a0<em>Reliable Sources<\/em>\u00a0show on Sunday, Stelter devoted an entire segment to complaining about how the public, in particular Trump supporters, don\u2019t believe a word the mainstream media says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you don\u2019t believe the \u2018media,\u2019 then you probably don\u2019t believe that the Trump administration has had a dysfunctional few months,\u201d Stelter said, adopting an overtly lecturing tone.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Za6puAnJUwg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you don\u2019t believe the \u2018media,\u2019 you might not believe Russia\u2019s meddling in last year\u2019s election is a very big deal.\u201d he continued, ignoring the total lack of evidence of any such meddling.<\/p>\n<p>So in his first two sentences about how it\u2019s wrong to label the media as \u2018fake news\u2019, Stelter pushed two pieces of fake news.<\/p>\n<p>While the CNN host acknowledged that distrust in the media has been an issue much longer than Trump has been in office, he still blamed the President for it anyway.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe President feeds that inherent distrust with tweets like this. Here he is this morning saying: \u2018The fake news MSM doesn\u2019t report the great economic news since Election Day,\u2019\u201d Stelter said, reading one of Trump\u2019s tweets.<\/p>\n<p>The host then whined about \u201chow this anti-media rhetoric is having a real effect,\u201d flashing up a recent Quinnipiac poll that found a majority of Americans feel Trump has changed Americans\u2019 attitudes toward the media \u2018for the worse\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Calling on analyst Jeff Greenfield, the CNN host wanted to know how \u2018corrosive\u2019 Trump\u2019s \u2018anti-media campaign\u2019 has been.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, neither of them acknowledged that for well over a year, the media has been engaged in a relentless obstruction campaign against Trump. As the Media Research Center has noted, Stelter himself has\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/nb\/nicholas-fondacaro\/2017\/01\/22\/cnn-dictator-trump-making-you-doubt-your-own-eyes-truth\">openly described Trump as a \u2018dictator\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Greenfield described the growing distrust in the media as \u201cthe singular political success\u201d Trump has had since becoming President.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that has served that relentless campaign on Twitter and in his comments, fake news, fake news, fake news has been to convince that group of people that there is no such thing as a set of facts independent of your politics, and that has certainly served to continue and accelerate what you\u2019ve talked about as a long process of declining trust in news.\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Stelter concluded that those saying the media is fake are spreading a \u201cvenom,\u201d and that the whole issue is based upon \u201canti-media rhetoric,\u201d not the media, and CNN in particular, actually\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/heatst.com\/politics\/cnn-forced-to-correct-report-from-anonymous-sources-after-comey-proves-them-wrong\/\">publishing inaccurate reports<\/a>, being untrustworthy and pushing a biased agenda.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/video-cnn-host-whines-about-americans-inherent-distrust-in-media\/\">http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/video-cnn-host-whines-about-americans-inherent-distrust-in-media\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VIDEO: CNN HOST WHINES ABOUT AMERICANS\u2019 \u2018INHERENT DISTRUST\u2019 IN MEDIA<\/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-75041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75041","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=75041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}