CNN has been told to stop making false equivalences

[Hardkill]

Leo has talked about how cable news channels such as CNN have to stop being too centrist and making false equivalences. CNN and other mainstreams outlets like them have to call out the problems right-wing extremism that have been going on and not compare it or try to balance it with the problems associated with left wing extremism.

Well, Eric Deggans from NPR actually recently told CNN those same things: 

https://www.cnn.com/videos/business/2022/08/22/media-critic-warns-about-the-pitfalls-of-false-equivalence.cnn

 

Even, A top legal analyst, named Jeffrey Toobin, who used to work on CNN, said a couple years ago that he regrets his role in making false equivalences between Hillary Clinton and Trump during his time on CNN:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2018/01/29/cnns-jeffrey-toobin-i-regret-my-role-in-hillary-clinton-false-equivalence/

Perhaps CNN will eventually learn from their mistakes?

[thepixelmonk]

CNN will never learn and that's by design

[Hardkill]

Well, actually maybe they are beginning to learn:

Zakaria points out how the right-wing rhetoric has become much more dangerous than the left-wing rhetoric. I don't think that CNN has any of their news anchors make any kind of comparisons like that before. 

Edited November 1, 2022 by Hardkill