CNSNews.com doesn’t just do stenography for Trump — it runs to his defense and presents it as “news.”
A Nov. 28 “news” article by Susan Jones begins with this lament
President Trump’s many tweets criticizing “fake news” and the “dishonest” media are an exercise of his own free speech, but that’s not the way his liberal critics see it.
Among those critics is James Clapper, the former director of national intelligence under President Obama, who told CNN Monday night that the president’s “attack on the free press” is “dangerous and disturbing.”
Jones offeres no evidence that Clapper is a “liberal” (being DNI under Obama is not evidence) or that every critic of Trump is a “liberal,” as she appears to be suggesting.
After Clapper raised the specter of repressive regimes that suppress the media, Jones leaped into full defense mode: “Trump has never advocated suppressing acccess to the Internet. In fact, since he began his presidential campaign, Trump has used Twitter, an Internet platform, to get his message past liberal media filters.”
Unmentioned by Jones: Trump has, in fact, advocated changing libel laws to make it easier to sue media organizations.
Jones unironically concludes her article by whining: “The nation’s media outlets remain free, but objectivity has flown out the window in the Trump era.” It’s also flown away from CNS as a whole, and from Jones in particular, who uses a so-called “news” article — traditionally the epitome of objectivity — to attack the media and defend a politician she adores.