The investigative reporters at CNN want you to know that RT stands for Russia Today. And you know what else? Russia Today is run by a bunch of Putin-friendly Russians.
No Way!!!
Also breaking news, animal rights groups want you to know that the C in KFC stands for Chicken!
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Earlier this week, The Blaze's Glenn Beck made news when he took a run at his former employer Fox News, calling them the "Source of Spiritual Evil." Why the harsh words if Beck is a principled Conservative and Fox News is a Right-Wing news outlet?
Because The Blaze TRIES to adhere to right-leaning journalistic tenets, whereas, according to Beck, Fox News only cares about money.
What???
All of these crazy revelations in just a few paragraphs....
Of the 3 "Shocking" revelations above, let's focus on CNN's breaking story of Russia Today's links to Russia!
You don't like my tone? Listen, if you pay even CURSORY attention to the news, you already know that RT is nothing more than an extension of the Russian Government. That is not a secret. RT runs itself and is then heavily subsidized by that same Russian Government in order to be a world-wide media entity. RT would not exist without a substantial monetary commitment from Vladimir Putin himself.
The problem is, the same exact business model can be stated for PBS. PBS leans heavily to the Left and when Donald Trump made some flippant remarks about cutting off their funding, you would have thought Trump was digging up the corpse of Walter Cronkite himself and jailing him. Trump's argument was simply: If you do nothing but criticize my government, maybe the government shouldn't give you money. The marketplace should dictate the news.
PBS shrieked, but what about Sesame Street? Donald Trump hates Big Bird!
I'm watching Kermit the Frog and Grover on Max right now from Season 7. There are 4,700 episodes of Sesame Street. Do your grandkids watch new Sesame Streets or Bluey? Subsidizing Sesame Street, in 2024, is like trying to revive the Pony Express. All of your favorite Sesame Street neighbors are dead.
CNN is an American Media Company that leans Left. They rely on advertisers to survive.
Fox News is an American Media Company that leans Right. They rely on advertisers to survive.
But that's not the whole story. CNN is owned by Warner Brothers Discovery. If CNN loses money, it still exists because other divisions of Warner Brothers Discovery make money. Could I argue that CNN only exists if movies like Barbie have good box office numbers? Yes.
According to Microsoft Co-Pilot: "As of the latest available information, CNN has faced some financial challenges, including layoffs and restructuring efforts to cut costs. However, specific details about whether CNN is currently profitable or “in the black” are not readily available from recent reports."
Similar models at ABC, NBC, and CBS exist. The news divisions may not make money, but are subsidized by other divisions at their respective networks. What happens, though, when ALL divisions at a network start to lose money? Could there be a day when ABC News doesn't exist? Feasibly.
Fox News is owned by Fox Corporation. According to Glenn Beck himself, everything at Fox is dictated by money. If Fox News is not necessarily beholden to other divisions of Fox, that would reinforce all of the rumors of a cutthroat atmosphere specifically at that network. If you don't make money, you don't exist. How do you make money? A sensationalized story is followed by an even more sensationalized story. Hard news mixed with tabloid journalism.
Which moves us back to CNN. If CNN's decisions are not necessarily driven by money, what philosophies guide their hand? If all their journalists lean Left to Middle, and they're on top of the news food chain, that means they can move overarching political philosophies without repercussions. CNN's content aligns not with the Democrats, per se, but the Global Left, heavily flavoring daily news with Left-wing talking points like LGBT issues, defunding the police, and global warming.
Which means RT is both an international news competitor of CNN's outside of the United States, and a philosophical competitor because RT aligns with the Global Right.
So when CNN chirps that International RT reporters are giving information to the FSB, my response is "I'm sure they are." You say it's fundamentally not right that reporters help the Russian Government? Let me tell you a story about CNN.
During the last Presidential Election cycle, no CNN reporters went on the record as saying they were voting for Donald Trump. Not one. Their coverage was overwhelming pro-Biden and that trend continues to be the same today. The basic tenets of journalism dictate that CNN tells both sides of any story. CNN continues to defend why they DON'T do that.
Last year CNN published a story about aging politicians and used Republican Mitch McConnell and decrepit 90-year-old Diane Feinstein as their examples. Joe Biden's name was surprisingly omitted from the article.
When Joe Biden stopped having press conferences, CNN did not hold the President's feet to the fire. When people asked why CNN didn't hold Biden's feet to the fire, CNN replied it wasn't their job to make the president hold press conferences. Actually, that IS the press' primary job, to cover the president. If the president says something stupid, you ask why he said something stupid. If the president doesn't want to talk to the press, you ask why the president doesn't want to talk to the press. That is American Politics 101. For the last 2 years, CNN protected President Biden during his cognitive decline.
When Trump debated Biden, it wasn't CNN that questioned Biden's cognitive decline, they already knew about it and hid it. The Trump/Biden Debate exposed Biden's issues directly to the American People. And even CNN couldn't spin away what American citizens had personally witnessed.
Remember, just last year, CNN ran out with this gem:
The way CNN covered for Joe Biden for the past few years is no better than what RT does for Putin, except RT has monetary strings, not necessarily philosophical strings, attached to their allegiance.
Pravda, the website, on the other hand, is a lot like Fox News. Over a hundred years ago, Pravda, the newspaper, was founded as an arm of the Communist Party. When the Berlin Wall fell, the Communists Party continued to run the newspaper side, albeit only 3 days a week, but Pravda.ru was bought by capitalists that marketed Russia to the new generation of Russians. But here's the difference between RT and Pravda. Pravda operates under the blessing of Putin, RT is run by Putin.
CNN operates under the blessing of Joe Biden, whereas PBS is run by Biden's Government. Your argument is that Joe Biden would never shut down CNN due to negative coverage, WHAT NEGATIVE COVERAGE?
Other than the week after the Biden/Trump Debate, where CNN was forced to admit Biden's limited capacity, show me a negative Joe Biden article in the last 2 years. Show me a negative Kamala Harris article challenging her to admit Joe's limitations. You can't because they don't exist.
Right now, in countries like France, they trust CNN. In Eastern Europe and South America, many international news consumers believe that CNN has lurched too far to the Left. They trust outlets like RT because they hold more traditional values and Right-Leaning philosophies.
Don't get me wrong, RT's business model shouldn't exist. They shouldn't be a branch of the Russian Government, their reporters shouldn't be reporting back to Russian Government agents. All I'm saying is that RT would have a compelling argument if they exposed the gray lines between CNN and the Democrat Party.
Literally yesterday at The Blaze: The FBI will crush you': Suspended Special Agent Garret O'Boyle risks it all to warn Americans about Politicized Agency. The gist of the article? The FBI is not neutral and leans the same way as Joe Biden and CNN. As a matter of fact, they're all in bed together.
Technically, the only news agency that even tries to adhere itself to the principles of the media marketplace is Fox News.
We at Beacon of Speech do not like Fox News.
We at Beacon of Speech rarely cite Fox News.
As a matter of fact, People are Shocked and Disgusted by Fox News.
You want my source?
Well CNN, of course.
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