The more I think about this, the more pathetic it is - ThreadSky

kairyssdal.bsky.social • 68 days ago

The more I think about this, the more pathetic it is

This is journalism malpractice, full stop. @cnn.com should be ashamed.

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The Canada thing, I thought, was kind of stupid but whatever. It seems to me that the Greenland and Panama comments could be reasonably construed as threats, which is pretty bad. Do you have a different read on it?

rwillemann.bsky.social•68 days ago

His frequent fever dreams accomplish multiple authoritarian purposes -- the media is distracted from informing the public about true and vital news, while most people become habituated to the idea that military action in these areas is normal, plausible and desirable.

couponforpoupon.bsky.social•67 days ago

Top shareholders of CNN parent co. Warner Bros Discovery:

Vanguard Group
BlackRock Inc.
State Street Corp
Harris Associates LP
XLC
Geode Capital Management
Invesco

They're all tuned up for short-term gains and the clampdown death of democracy.

Defund legacy media.

ibc.bsky.social•68 days ago

"extremely liberal CNN"

jimcashel.bsky.social•67 days ago

Couldn’t agree more. Shameful framing.

treetopflyer.bsky.social•68 days ago

Weapon of mass distraction

solemngolem.bsky.social•67 days ago

100%. All the media is so warped that, as a person who normally thinks he knows what's going on, I'm not sure i know what's going on anymore.

bluepointer.bsky.social•67 days ago

You called it… 100% pathetic (and obeying in advance.)

northcoastnews.bsky.social•67 days ago

I stopped watching cable news years ago. It’s all about sensationalism and snark. They truly have no sense of purpose anymore.

binaryequation.bsky.social•68 days ago

Maybe we should get global HQ running smoothly before we start looking at more franchises?

bgrueskin.bsky.social•68 days ago

They can’t even blame their social-media intern! It’s an actual headline!

paulbijhouwer.bsky.social•67 days ago

I honestly can’t believe the story is still up on their website. Embarrassing.

cbernardh.bsky.social•68 days ago

Did anyone ever really think @cnn was a journalism organization?

torhegst.bsky.social•66 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/torhegst.bsky.social/post/3ldy7rruvd22t

Panama is probably known.
Canada due to rumors concerning wife and PM?
Greenland so far unknown. Any ideas?

worldcitizen1994.bsky.social•68 days ago

Bottom line: The corporate MSM *is badly broken.* Not sure what the solution is right now.

jimc5.bsky.social•68 days ago

Zaslav has pushed CNN to the right, ostensibly to make it more centrist, to try to bring back right leaning viewers. It’s been an epic fail. They’re retreating to clickbait

wander3030.bsky.social•68 days ago

I keep hearing reporters use words like “decisive” in regards to his win and I feel like it’s the same kind of pandering and capitulation.

jackpondit.bsky.social•68 days ago

Trump ran on getting the US out of any involvement in foreign wars and the media let him. He hasn’t even been sworn in and he is threatening to invade Mexico, Panama, and Greenland and again the media covers for him.

buzzbishop.bsky.social•68 days ago

The choice of sanewashing words for that headline grabbed me this morning too. So many ways to write about expansionary threats against sovereign nations, they chose to soft pedal it. It you, Pravda?

friendpanda.bsky.social•68 days ago

Kai, can we clone you? Actual journalists are rare these days. Reporters clambered for my family’s attention yesterday when we buried my niece, the heroic victim of a school shooting.

CNN is repeatedly guilty of journalistic misconduct.

Ben Bradlee’s ghost should haunt them all.

chrishansonut.bsky.social•68 days ago

It's almost like the media got the POTUS they wanted for the ratings.

twoandseven.bsky.social•68 days ago

I am still stumped, even after all these years, about his fascination with acquiring Greenland. Like, why? Does he think it's good farm land or something? Something strategic not covered by what we have in Iceland?

chrishansonut.bsky.social•68 days ago

He probably thinks it's huge because he only knows Mercator maps. It's a (penis) size thing.

twoandseven.bsky.social•68 days ago

That certainly may be part of it. Anyway, I found this for anyone else who is curious.

TL;DR There are several possible explanations, but nobody really knows for sure why he's so stuck on Greenland.

chrishansonut.bsky.social•68 days ago

also, don't forget. His brain is mush.

twoandseven.bsky.social•68 days ago

And he has a near-pathological need to never back down from an idea, no matter how bad or poorly though out it is.

It is a potent combo of awful.

zephyrcan.bsky.social•68 days ago

The shining light on a hill is a trumpster fire.

cherrycapital.bsky.social•68 days ago

I would love to know who wrote that, to understand how what happened to CNN. Who assigned that story? Who decided it was fit to publish?

Somehow, CNN still has a veneer of being a news organization to some people, even though it's obvious all the journalists and researchers have left the building.

richlevine6.bsky.social•68 days ago

We’ve already expanded ACROSS the continent. To claim Panama would require a hop, skip and a jump DOWN the continent.

jeremyerwin.bsky.social•68 days ago

It’s a distraction strategy FFS.

Has everyone forgotten that he did this daily/weekly for the entirety of his first term?

bacchus666.bsky.social•68 days ago

It's really, really weak. Even for CNN.

Can't wait to see how they report when Trump actually *does* something.

docmcdoom.bsky.social•68 days ago

No headline or story can make any value judgement.

matt-man69.bsky.social•68 days ago

🤦😳😞💯

origammi.bsky.social•68 days ago

This intended to distract us from the plan Eric proposed to push Justice Sotomayor off the bench and replace her with Judge Dredd.

afarmerinohio.bsky.social•68 days ago

Zaslav really sucks at his job.

gspeng.bsky.social•68 days ago

It should be, "Trump proposed war on 3 fronts"

sugarhead.bsky.social•68 days ago

Absolutely

littlebearsfriend.bsky.social•67 days ago

If these pipe dreams kept him distracted from any harmful actions, that wouldnt be a bad thing, would it?

busrules.bsky.social•68 days ago

It’s a disgrace.

mcdonaldrodney.bsky.social•67 days ago

Hopeful pandering to a more right-leaning audience.

comicbookkid.bsky.social•68 days ago

I am still trying to wrap my head around antagonizing our NUCLEAR ARMED neighbor to the north with invasion and aggressively working to destabilize relations with one of our most important trading and manufacturing allies to the south.

Maybe that’s the point.

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