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With CNN taking a lot of flak for mocking 63 million Americans, Inez Stepman of The Federalist reports on Don Lemon “moderating” a discussion with “strategist” Rick Wilson and Wajahat Ali. The self-labeled elitists “viciously mocked American voters as idiots and rubes.”
CNN and other media outlets might want to meditate on why trust in the media is in the toilet – and was so long before Trump ever came down the escalator – before they unwittingly create any more perfect Keep America Great commercials. Also, if you’re going to make super-offensive jokes, you should at least ensure that they’re funny.
Jim Lehrer’s 10 Rules of Journalism
- Assume the viewer is as smart and caring and good a person as I am.
- Assume the same about all people on whom I report.
- Cover, write and present every story with the care I would want if the story were about me.
- Assume there is at least one other side or version to every story.
- Assume the viewer is as smart and caring and good a person as I am.
- Assume the same about all people on whom I report. . . .
- Carefully separate opinion and analysis from straight news stories and clearly label everything.
- Do not use anonymous sources or blind quotes except on rare and monumental occasions. No one should be allowed to attack another anonymously.
- I am not in the entertainment business.
Jim Lehrer died last week at the age of 85.
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