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Wednesday, February 21, 2018

The Propagandists: CNN Anchor Drops All Pretense of Being Fair and Objective on Gun Control

By Rick Pearcey • February 21, 2018, 03:19 PM

Susan Jones writes at CNSNews.com:

Quivering with indignation, CNN's Alisyn Camerota "moderated" an on-air debate Tuesday morning between two Republicans with differing views on gun control.

But to Camerota, there is only one righteous side, and she defended it with all the passion of an activist.

Former U.S. Rep. David Jolly (R-Fla.) is a gun control advocate; Former Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.) had the nerve to suggest that the newly minted student activists from Parkland, Florida may have had help from outside groups in coordinating their gun control campaign.

When you view the video embedded in this story, you see that CNN's Alisyn Camerota functions not as a debate moderator but as a committed advocate for the gun control side of the debate.

There is no problem with people arguing for gun control. There is a problem when a journalist who is supposed to be neutral and objective in fact argues and supports a particular position in a debate.

Umpires in baseball are tasked with calling balls and strikes. They are not tasked with rooting for a particular team to win and to shape their calls accordingly. That would be unfair and cheating.

Camerota's unfortunate performance is evidence for the proposition that much of the so-called MSM (mainstream media) has degenerated into MSP (mainstream propaganda).

Perhaps her perfomance is one reason CNN has "deep credibility problems" -- with some 50% of Americans answering "no" when polled on whether they "trust CNN to give you objective news and analysis."

Our role as viewers -- as human beings with free and inquiring minds -- is to think critically about whatever is being presented as news.

No matter the source of information (whether "trusted" or not), blind trust is beneath who we are as human beings designed to live and think free by a verifiable and knowable (and by no means "religious" as "faith" is so often categorized today) Creator.

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