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Upstart conservative network One America News decision to turn over three hours this week to Rudy Giulianis conspiracy theories gleaned from his trip to Ukraine found a receptive audience in the White House less so in major newsrooms and TV studios.
CNN anchor Jake Tapper said Wednesday that Giuliani brought back dirt of questionable credibility from his trip with a reporter from a far-right fringe cable channel. On MSNBC, national security correspondent Ken Dilanian said Giuliani floated a bogus conspiracy theory about Joe Biden on OAN, a network which makes Fox News look like PBS. The Washington Posts Aaron Blake labeled the OAN series a stunning piece of propaganda.
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Charles Herring, president of One America News, shot back in an email to POLITICO. We recognize that some media outlets wont acknowledge proven facts and wont do their own time consuming and costly investigate work if the facts dont fit their narrative, he wrote. This is simply a part of our media landscape today.
But for much of the media world, OANs decision to give Giuliani a direct role in preparing its Ukraine report presents a troubling ethical development in the media landscape. Where once opinion shows began supplanting traditional news, now openly partisan content presented largely unfiltered by the presidents personal attorney is seeking to supplant content thats opinionated but still independent.
Trump has celebrated OANs willingness to take his largely unfiltered line, retweeting several clips from the three-part OAN series this week in making his public case against impeachment. Thats come as he continues to carp at Fox News over its polling and bookings and suggested that only its pro Trump Fox shows do well.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.politico.com/amp/news/2019/12/19/journalists-blast-one-america-news-series-giuliani-087893
This is the disinformation Trump tried to blackmail Ukraine into endorsing, he got caught, so the slimy rat Giuliani gets to disseminate it anyway.
I thought this treason weasel was under investigation?
greymattermom
(5,754 posts)So creepy. I know that he voted for Paul Wellstone and loves Amy Klobuchar. All I can say is that something is seriously wrong with older white men.
orangecrush
(19,620 posts)I can confidently assure you that there are many things wrong with me, but wanting to see Trump take full power as the first American dictator is not one of them.
snowybirdie
(5,239 posts)older white men. Been with one for 58 years. Hate when the young whipper snappers generalize.
orangecrush
(19,620 posts)5X
(3,972 posts)dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)supposedly work on a documentary. Fox news is going to look normal, if the Trump administration succeeds in what they are aiming to do with OAN.
orangecrush
(19,620 posts)And I would won't be surprised when it comes out Russian money is being funneled to it.
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)orangecrush
(19,620 posts)underpants
(182,885 posts)The fact that it is any way relevant is more alarming than .......okay it's not more alarming than Alex Jones being a name people know.
orangecrush
(19,620 posts)With Trump's endorsement.
They have plans for it.
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)year. I was going to grab a tweet about the documentary, there were so many disturbing tweets about what's going with OAN and Trump, it was quite alarming.
blm
(113,095 posts)the evidence he has collected? Would Herring bet his network and his house that he broadcast proven facts?
orangecrush
(19,620 posts)Propaganda doesn't work that way.
Initech
(100,104 posts)I don't think I could make it past 30 seconds without waiting to throw something at my TV.
orangecrush
(19,620 posts)would watch it.
The dictator channel.
RDANGELO
(3,435 posts)Rudy Giuliani will be indicted sometime in late July or early August, and this whole Ukraine, Huner Biden thing will blow in their faces.