February 27^th 2017 Blog

It seems that President Trump was correct about some “fake news”.  President Trump’s treatment of the press is not really new, but is really a matter of style in regards to this particular President.  I received news about a case that dates back to February 15, 2017 and is directed squarely at CNN.  The report states that Judge Orinda Evans did not declare the network “fake news”.  However, she did rule that the network is guilty of a “series of false and defamatory news reports” concerning Davide Carbone, the former CEO of St. Mary’s Medical Center.

“The Court finds these allegations sufficient to establish that CNN was acting recklessly with regard to the accuracy of its report i.e. with ‘actual malice.”

During her ruling on the 30 million dollar lawsuit against CNN, Judge Evans ruled the corporate media giant purposefully manipulated numbers and reported the bias.  Judge Evans did not mince words in her 18-page order allowing the case to go forward and dismissed CNN’s attempt to get it thrown out of court.  Conservatives have accused CNN of being biased and unfair for years.  At least one Federal Court agrees and vindicates President Trump’s accusation(s) against those who produce “fake news”, for which my personal take on “fake news” is overstated and needs to be called “Liberal biased news”.

There is something else that needs to be said in regards to the above and the video can be found for the following; there was a discussion of “fake news” on one of the networks and it was stated that President Trump in his “tweeting” is influencing or changing people’s minds, to which one media anchor stated, “That is our job.”  To me that sounds like a “State controlled” news agency.  And I did state in a prior blog that most news is “controlled” by “The Powers That Be”, for which many news producers are mere puppets.

Reporting news is one thing, but providing bias commentary is another, from the same mouth as is being reported.  Commentary is reserved for the editorial pages of a newspaper or coming from directly from a “commentator” on a program and specifying “this is an opinion”.  Interviews are also a reporter’s job, for which all reporting finds its way the “editor desk” and the editor can also provide his personal commentary, based upon the reporters’ submissions.  Some reporters can provide or form an opinion, based upon all the information from all the sources he or she has gathered, but must be stated that these opinions might be speculation.