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Brian Stelter and Oliver Darcy, CNN’s in-house cheerleaders for censoring or squelching conservative media outlets, celebrated a letter from Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee pressing TV providers to punish right-wing spreaders of so-called “misinformation.”
Anna Eshoo and Jerry McNerney, two California House Democrats, asked “What moral or ethical principles (including those related to journalistic integrity, violence, medical information, and public health) do you apply in
deciding which channels to carry or when to take adverse actions against a channel?”
CNN exudes arrogance about its own performance, never worrying that TV providers will question their quality of information or their journalistic integrity. One major provider is AT&T, which owns CNN. Another is Comcast, which owns NBC, CNBC, and MSNBC. So those providers dumping Fox or putting them in a more obscure tier would look like a crass commercial move, not some p
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