{"id":196358,"date":"2019-10-16T06:41:12","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T06:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=196358"},"modified":"2020-03-23T20:02:02","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T20:02:02","slug":"the-rise-and-fall-of-cnn-the-most-busted-name-in-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=196358","title":{"rendered":"The Rise and Fall of CNN, the Most Busted Name in News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jon Rappoport \u2013 Activist Post Oct 15, 2019<\/strong><\/h1>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

As new revelations about CNN emerge from Project Veritas<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a> (see also ExposeCNN.com<\/strong><\/span><\/a> for updates), here is a backgrounder I wrote and published several years ago. It brings back fond memories, and offers the beleaguered children at CNN solutions to their never-ending problems\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cCNN is still licking their wounds after a rather disastrous couple of weeks, where a shoddy Russia-Trump story led to three staffers resigning, a Project Veritas investigation exposed that the network\u2019s producers peddled the Russia story for ratings, and what came off as a wholly inappropriate veiled threat against an anonymous Reddit user who created a Trump WWE video, which the president tweeted before the Fourth of July Holiday. The video shows Trump beating up WWE\u2019s Vince McMahon, whose face has been superimposed with the CNN logo. The media went apoplectic as an attack against the press; it wasn\u2019t. This spurred the network\u2019s reporters to find the user and pretty much threaten to dox him if he continues to post things CNN doesn\u2019t like.\u201d<\/em> (Townhall, Matt Vespa, 7\/7\/17)<\/span><\/p>\n

If you create a giant, you gain extraordinary visibility, and if the giant develops an unsightly and grotesque case of fungal disease, that\u2019s a problem.<\/span><\/p>\n

CNN was born in 1980. At the time, it was the first television network offering 24\/7 news, and it was the first network offering nothing but news in the US.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 1991, CNN\u2019s coverage of the Gulf War reached a billion viewers worldwide.<\/span><\/p>\n

Today, CNN International reaches 200 countries.<\/span><\/p>\n

That\u2019s a giant.<\/span><\/p>\n

But from the beginning, back in 1980, there was a major question: how was CNN going to fill up all that time every day with news? Face it, television networks, without bells and whistles, could boil down their coverage of a day\u2019s events in four minutes. That\u2019s because their analysis is so thin. It\u2019s all surface.<\/span><\/p>\n

When you assiduously avoid looking into WHO REALLY RUNS THINGS, the well runs dry quickly. When you avoid detailing the role of mega-banks and mega-corporations and groups like the Trilateral Commission and CFR and Bilderberg, and when you never define Globalism and reveal its true agenda; when you discover nothing of value about the CIA; when you never broach the subject of American Empire; when you refuse to examine the horrendous effects of the medical system; when you fail to expose the ongoing collaboration between establishment Democrats and Republicans, and the influence of lobbyists (e.g., Israeli fronts); when you intentionally remain blind to the destruction of the American Republic and the Constitution; when you ultimately side with National Security and the Surveillance State; when you manage to sidestep actual ongoing environmental pollution flowing poisonously from a number of sources; when you refuse to reveal the full effects of open borders; when you never connect the dots and instead rely on limited hangouts\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

What are you left with? What do you do, for 24 hours of every single day?<\/span><\/p>\n

Mainly, you wait for \u201cbig events,\u201d and then you launch wall to wall coverage for as long as your viewers can stand it. The Gulf War; the first black president; the worst president and the worst human being in history (Trump).<\/span><\/p>\n

You develop bloated panel shows, during which pundits babble across each other like meth addicts in a rubber room.<\/span><\/p>\n

You call \u201cthe news\u201d The Situation Room, as if you\u2019re breaking vital stories every 30 seconds.<\/span><\/p>\n

You plow the same ground over and over, until not even weeds can grow in the soil.<\/span><\/p>\n

You fill your basket with the eggs of the \u201cprogressive agenda.\u201d You go all in.<\/span><\/p>\n

You fake stories.<\/span><\/p>\n

You do a bizarre version of affirmative action with your on-air talent, as if this will result in \u201cfairer\u201d coverage.<\/span><\/p>\n

And day by day, the public realizes you\u2019re crazy.<\/span><\/p>\n

You can\u2019t hide, because you aren\u2019t just laying on three fake newscasts a day; you\u2019re ON all the time.<\/span><\/p>\n

You\u2019re hoping against hope for a new terror attack or a natural disaster, so you can flood the airwaves with live reports, but in the meantime, you\u2019ll stick with 24\/7 Trump, because he\u2019s \u201cthe most interesting man in the world.\u201d He\u2019s creating your ratings, such as they are. You\u2019re the tabloid at the checkout counter in the supermarket, and he\u2019s always on the cover. You love him. You need him. It doesn\u2019t matter whether he\u2019s done what you say he\u2019s done. That\u2019s never been the issue. Without his presence, you\u2019d be raking leaves outside a nursing home. You\u2019re the self-appointed Pope, and he\u2019s Satan, and that means dollars.<\/span><\/p>\n

As a bonus, you\u2019re doing what you\u2019re supposed to be doing, on behalf of Globalism and the \u201cinterdependent world.\u201d The risk of Trump speaking words of Nationalism against Globalism (whether or not he meant them) is too great to go unchallenged. The international system (aka technocracy) that has been under construction since the dawn of the 20th century must not be derailed.<\/span><\/p>\n

So whether it\u2019s the way Trump sips water from a bottle, or scratches his nose, or treats one of your so-called reporters, you\u2019re the National Enquirer blowing it up into a scandal of the moment. You\u2019re leaking leaks from pipes that don\u2019t even exist. Maybe he has a love child; look into that. Maybe he has another wife he never divorced. Maybe he\u2019s an alien from Venus.<\/span><\/p>\n

Keep those ad revenues flowing, no matter what. Face it, you\u2019ve got nothing else going for you. Connect Trump to the latest news from Tibet if you have to. Or Madagascar. Or Tierra del Fuego. He caused the cold snap across America, because he didn\u2019t sign the Paris Climate Accords.<\/span><\/p>\n

You\u2019re CNN, \u201cthe most trusted name in news.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Ride that horse all the way to the end of the road.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you end up shithole broke, somebody will bail you out. Warts and all, you\u2019re too big to fail. Not just because of your work against Trump, but because The News, as the public knows it, must survive.<\/span><\/p>\n

Otherwise, the people will find out what\u2019s really going on in this world and who runs things. And that must never happen.<\/span><\/p>\n

That\u2019s the prime situation in The Situation Room.<\/span><\/p>\n

Who could have guessed, say, 15 years ago, that the following exchange would occur on CNN, in March of 2014?<\/span><\/p>\n

As reported by New York Magazine, CNN host Don Lemon, discussing the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, said: \u201cPeople are saying to me, why aren\u2019t you talking about the possibility \u2014 and I\u2019m just putting it out there \u2014 that something odd happened to this plane, something beyond our understanding? What if it was something fully that we don\u2019t really understand? A lot of people have been asking about that, about black holes and on, and on, and on, and all of these conspiracy theories\u2026That\u2019s what people are saying. I know it\u2019s preposterous \u2014 but is it preposterous, you think, Mary?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

To which, Mary Schiavo, ex-Department of Transportation inspector general, replied: \u201cWell, it is. A small black hole would suck in our entire universe so we know it\u2019s not that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Maybe it WAS a black hole, and we all disappeared, and resurfaced in an alternate universe, where we got the CNN we know today.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Let\u2019s look at Jeff Zucker, CNN\u2019s boss.<\/span><\/p>\n

In April 2017, Zucker baldly told the New York Times, \u201cThe idea that politics is sport is undeniable, and we understood that and approached it that way.\u201d The \u201cit\u201d was certainly the 2016 presidential campaign.<\/span><\/p>\n

Zucker always has understood political news in this corrupt fashion\u2014and in the process, he helped elect a US president and a California governor.<\/span><\/p>\n

Zucker was the man who launched The Apprentice, starring Donald Trump, at NBC, in 2004.<\/span><\/p>\n

In other words, Zucker happened to play a major role in electing Donald Trump. There is no getting around it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Washington Post, October 2, 2016: \u201cLooking for someone specific to hold responsible for the improbable rise of Donald Trump?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAlthough there are many options, you could do worse than to take a hard look at Jeff Zucker, president of CNN Worldwide.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt was Zucker, after all, who as the new head of NBC Entertainment gave Trump his start in reality TV with \u2018The Apprentice\u2019 and then milked the real estate developer\u2019s uncanny knack for success for all it was worth in ratings and profits.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd it succeeded wildly \u2014 boosting the network\u2019s ratings, as well as Zucker\u2019s [and Trump\u2019s] meteoric career. In turn, under Zucker, the show gave rise to \u2018Celebrity Apprentice,\u2019 another Trump extravaganza. And, in turn, Zucker became the head of NBC overall.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe show [The Apprentice] was built as a virtually nonstop advertisement for the Trump empire and lifestyle\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe executive [Jeff Zucker] rode the Trump steed hard. When the reality-TV star was preparing to marry Melania Knauss in 2005, Zucker wanted to broadcast the wedding live. (Trump, uncharacteristically, declined.)\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBut make no mistake: There would be no Trump-the-politician without Trump-the-TV-star. One begot the other.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

POLITICS IS TELEVISION, AND TELEVISION IS POLITICS.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you\u2019re looking for a person who embodies that fake version of reality most purely, you need look no further than Jeff Zucker.<\/span><\/p>\n

Despite his network\u2019s present hatred of Trump, Zucker would give Trump his own show right now if he wanted one.<\/span><\/p>\n

For ratings and ad revenues.<\/span><\/p>\n

Consider another event, one which I\u2019ve analyzed in great detail. It took place on NBC in 2003, when Zucker was the head of the network\u2019s entertainment division. The Tonight Show, with Jeno Leno, was a prime piece of that division then. What Leno pulled off in 2003 had to have the OK from Zucker, because it was a highly unusual move, a distinctly unethical move.<\/span><\/p>\n

An actor wanted to launch a political career and become a governor. The whole news division of a major network surrendered itself, for one ratings-busting night, to a talk show.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is how Arnold Schwarzenegger won the California governor\u2019s race. It all came down to his famous appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, where he announced that he was going to run.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Arnold interview was a global event. It was pre-hyped to the sky, and after three red hot six-minute segments, with a studio audience screaming in approval, the election was virtually over.<\/span><\/p>\n

POLITICS IS TELEVISION. TELEVISION IS POLITICS.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here are a few of CNN\u2019s \u201cblack-hole\u201d gaffes, just refresh your memory\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n

Because Trump was attacking CNN and other media as fake, CNN claimed THAT was making life more physically dangerous for journalists in war zones and at home. Wow. I guess the takeaway is: don\u2019t criticize mainstream news, keep your mouth shut and stay hypnotized\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

Independent journalist, James O\u2019Keefe, released two undercover sting videos which revealed CNN medical producer, John Bonifield, remarking that the whole Trump-Russia scandal is \u201cmostly bullshit right now, like, we don\u2019t have any giant proof\u201d; and Van Jones, CNN political commentator, stating that \u201cthe Russia thing is just a big nothing burger.\u201d Of course, CNN relentlessly pursues the Trump-Russia story as if God and a choir of angels have certified it as the truest, most important event of our time.<\/span><\/p>\n

June 2017: CNN dumped Reza Aslan, the host of their network documentary series called Believer. Why? Because Aslan tweeted, \u201cThis piece of shit [Donald Trump] is not just an embarrassment to America and a stain on the presidency. He\u2019s an embarrassment to humankind.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

October 2016: CNN contributor Donna Brazile was dumped, because she passed along questions that would be asked in an upcoming presidential debate, sponsored by CNN. Brazile passed those questions to the Hillary Clinton camp.<\/span><\/p>\n

CNN reporter-dunce Chris Cuomo, during the 2016 election campaign, preposterously told the viewing audience that accessing Wikileaks\u2019 treasure trove of John Podesta emails was a crime\u2014for any member of the public. Only \u201cthe media\u201d were permitted to perform that delicate operation and then decide what to report. Put a picture of Cuomo on your wall and pray to it every night.<\/span><\/p>\n

On June 13, 2015, CNN host Fredricka Whitfield talked about the attack on the Dallas police headquarters. She said the shooter, James Boulware, was \u201ccourageous and brave, if not crazy.\u201d Who\u2019s crazy, Fredricka?<\/span><\/p>\n

The 2016 Milwaukee riots. CNN aired a woman named Sherelle Smith telling the rioters, \u201cDon\u2019t bring that violence here.\u201d She was calling for peace. Well, not exactly. The network failed to broadcast the rest of Smith\u2019s advice: \u201cBurning down shit ain\u2019t going to help nobody! Y\u2019all burning down shit we need in our community. Take that shit to the suburbs! Burn that shit down!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

CNN: the most trusted name in news.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

CODA:<\/span><\/p>\n

The pack of losers at CNN are always trying to save their operation. They obviously need to hire Jerry Springer as news director. The network is already a reality show; they just don\u2019t know how to put one on. They require help.<\/span><\/p>\n

Publishing fake news and airing talk-show hosts who spout venom doesn\u2019t make it. It doesn\u2019t go far enough. On camera, they need women breaking into the studio claiming their babies were fathered by CNN journalists; they need burly security guards tackling the intruders and bringing them to the floor. They need live audiences who hoot and holler and boo and applaud.<\/span><\/p>\n

CNN is a reality show. But it doesn\u2019t go far enough. If the network\u2019s boss Jeff Zucker applied his talents, he could stage flame-outs and scandals that would rock the house. Go big. Go wild. Hire a few dyed in the wool terrorists and put them on in prime time and let them talk. Bring Glenn Beck back, build him a studio that looks like a chapel with stain glass windows, and let him tell the audience what God wants him to do. Lure Scott Pelley and Megyn Kelly to CNN and team them together in a show called The Sadism Hour. Set up Michael Moore in a Burger King for 24 hours straight every weekend and have him talk non-stop (while he eats and slurps) about why he hates Donald Trump. How about an investment show hosted by George Soros called How to Kill the West?<\/span><\/p>\n

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The author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th<\/sup> District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his <\/em>free<\/em><\/strong> NoMoreFakeNews emails here<\/strong><\/a><\/span> or his <\/em>free<\/em><\/strong> OutsideTheRealityMachine emails here<\/span><\/strong><\/a>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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