So Much For 'Un-Biased': CNN Staff Revolting Over Lewandowski Hiring

[Foxfyre]

Yeah, that was the intent a LONG time ago... Maybe they hired him to try to get some cred as being 'unbiased'...but their internal revolt is proving they are anything BUT.

How do you get 'cred' as being unbiased by hiring someone who couldn't be MORE biased?

It's what the news formats are doing--you have the presumably 'objective' host giving his commentary while flanked on the left an right by opposing partisan pundits who then comment on the host's comments. So Lewandowski will no doubt be the 'balance' against a highly partisan leftist.

It is as predictable as rain, about as edifying as a Dick and Jane reader, and boring as hell no matter who does it. When the two opposing pundits start talking over each other, both citing predictable talking points, we change the channel quickly. I hope the news formats figure that out soon.

I'm not sure Lewandowski even has a political position, and it would be erroneous to make that assumption based simply on his working for Rump (who also has no known positions of his own). Lewandowski's a manager, a political hack who's worked for Republicans, Democrats and the seafood industry. Mostly he's a gadfly.

I'm sure your opinion of him is a really big deal to him. What I have seen of him on TV is a reasoned and pleasant person who bears no ill will towards his former boss. Nor is he disrespectful of anyone as you were to Trump here. But I will overlook that just for you my friend.

I'm not making any judgments there (who, me? ) --- I'm just spelling out the psychology behind what CNN wants to do.

I don't know that much about Corey Lewandowski but I don't get the impression he's out to foster a particular ideology. I don't see him as an ideologue. I see him as a manipulator. That's what a campaign manager does.

Suffice to say, if Lewandowski ends up waxing eloquent on political science, he's not going to last long. That's not what commercial media wants, because that's not what sells (again, regardless of the content). That's why William F. Buckley had to do his show on noncommercial television. But if Lewandowski starts pounding the table and arguing with some other talking head --- that's Gold.

The medium is the message.

He does lean right so far as the views I've heard him express. But I agree he is no ideologue. Nor is Trump for that matter. That is a huge part of the appeal he has had. He's not a party loyalist. Not an ideologue. Not a special interests kind of guy. Not part of the permanent political class and puts no value on the status quo when it is not working. And Lewandowski mirrors that to a great degree.

So what I expect them to use Lewandowski for is to counter the people they bring on to bash Trump so it will appear that they are being 'fair'.

 

[easyt65]

Yeah, that was the intent a LONG time ago... Maybe they hired him to try to get some cred as being 'unbiased'...but their internal revolt is proving they are anything BUT.

How do you get 'cred' as being unbiased by hiring someone who couldn't be MORE biased?

It's what the news formats are doing--you have the presumably 'objective' host giving his commentary while flanked on the left an right by opposing partisan pundits who then comment on the host's comments. So Lewandowski will no doubt be the 'balance' against a highly partisan leftist.

It is as predictable as rain, about as edifying as a Dick and Jane reader, and boring as hell no matter who does it. When the two opposing pundits start talking over each other, both citing predictable talking points, we change the channel quickly. I hope the news formats figure that out soon.

I'm not sure Lewandowski even has a political position, and it would be erroneous to make that assumption based simply on his working for Rump (who also has no known positions of his own). Lewandowski's a manager, a political hack who's worked for Republicans, Democrats and the seafood industry. Mostly he's a gadfly.

I'm sure your opinion of him is a really big deal to him. What I have seen of him on TV is a reasoned and pleasant person who bears no ill will towards his former boss. Nor is he disrespectful of anyone as you were to Trump here. But I will overlook that just for you my friend.

I'm not making any judgments there (who, me? ) --- I'm just spelling out the psychology behind what CNN wants to do.

I don't know that much about Corey Lewandowski but I don't get the impression he's out to foster a particular ideology. I don't see him as an ideologue. I see him as a manipulator. That's what a campaign manager does.

Suffice to say, if Lewandowski ends up waxing eloquent on political science, he's not going to last long. That's not what commercial media wants, because that's not what sells (again, regardless of the content). That's why William F. Buckley had to do his show on noncommercial television. But if Lewandowski starts pounding the table and arguing with some other talking head --- that's Gold.

The medium is the message.

I didn't know you had a degree in psychology.

 

[Slade3200]

Uh yeah peeps, it isn't known as the 'Communist News Network/Clinton News Network' for nothin. I don't get why so many still watch Cable 'News' at all. It's anything but news. It's absurd 24/7 dumbed-down propaganda.

The folks who get their 'news information' from CNN, are the same folks who also get their 'news information' from shitty shows like 'The View.' Not very intelligent folks. It is what it is.

Thank god for Fox right? The only honest network out there! And Rush, and Levin (excuse me I just threw up in my mouth)... I gotta go

 

[paulitician]

Uh yeah peeps, it isn't known as the 'Communist News Network/Clinton News Network' for nothin. I don't get why so many still watch Cable 'News' at all. It's anything but news. It's absurd 24/7 dumbed-down propaganda.

The folks who get their 'news information' from CNN, are the same folks who also get their 'news information' from shitty shows like 'The View.' Not very intelligent folks. It is what it is.

Thank god for Fox right? The only honest network out there! And Rush, and Levin (excuse me I just threw up in my mouth)... I gotta go

Off to inhale another Whoopi Goldberg fart ay? More insightful intelligent 'news & information' for ya.

 

[Slade3200]

Uh yeah peeps, it isn't known as the 'Communist News Network/Clinton News Network' for nothin. I don't get why so many still watch Cable 'News' at all. It's anything but news. It's absurd 24/7 dumbed-down propaganda.

The folks who get their 'news information' from CNN, are the same folks who also get their 'news information' from shitty shows like 'The View.' Not very intelligent folks. It is what it is.

Thank god for Fox right? The only honest network out there! And Rush, and Levin (excuse me I just threw up in my mouth)... I gotta go

Off to inhale another Whoopi Goldberg fart ay? More insightful intelligent 'news & information' for ya.

Whoopie is a joke, I don't know anybody that takes her seriously... She is the lefts version of Rush and Levin.

I would hate to meet her frogs... That was funny!

 

[Uncensored2008]

'He's Not a Reporter - He's a Trump Advocate'
- Like CNN is not an advocate for anything and everything Liberal, Obama, and Hillary...


"Corey Lewandowski, Donald Trump’s ousted campaign manager, is off to a rocky start in his new position as a political commentator for CNN.

The news network scooped up the embattled former Trump operative just three days after the billionaire businessman’s campaign gave him the boot and, according to a Page Six report, some CNN staff members are ready to kick him out, too."

CNN is “facing a near internal revolt” over company President Jeff Zucker’s decision to offer Lewandowski a salaried position as an exclusive correspondent for the network.

“CNN is facing a near internal revolt over the Corey hiring,” an unnamed source, described by Page Six as a “TV insider,” said, adding that many in the newsroom are “livid.”

“Female reporters and producers especially,” the source added. “They are organizing and considering publicly demanding [that Lewandowski be let go].”


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Awwwww.....poor wittle biased, uber-partisan socialists are upset that someone NOT like them has been added to their ranks.

Now that's funny right there!




CNN Staff Revolting Over Network Decision to Hire Lewandowski, Report Says

Leftists are the most intolerant fuckers on the planet.

 

[easyt65]

Leftists are the most intolerant fuckers on the planet.

Negative....they are 2nd behind ISIS

 

[NYcarbineer]

The RWnuts are cheering for Lewandowski now, but the first time he says anything negative about Trump

they'll pin the 'disgruntled former employee' label on him.

That I guarantee.

 

[Uncensored2008]

Negative....they are 2nd behind ISIS

Are ISIS and the DNC still considered separate entities?

 

[ElmerMudd]

'He's Not a Reporter - He's a Trump Advocate'
- Like CNN is not an advocate for anything and everything Liberal, Obama, and Hillary...


"Corey Lewandowski, Donald Trump’s ousted campaign manager, is off to a rocky start in his new position as a political commentator for CNN.

The news network scooped up the embattled former Trump operative just three days after the billionaire businessman’s campaign gave him the boot and, according to a Page Six report, some CNN staff members are ready to kick him out, too."

CNN is “facing a near internal revolt” over company President Jeff Zucker’s decision to offer Lewandowski a salaried position as an exclusive correspondent for the network.

“CNN is facing a near internal revolt over the Corey hiring,” an unnamed source, described by Page Six as a “TV insider,” said, adding that many in the newsroom are “livid.”

“Female reporters and producers especially,” the source added. “They are organizing and considering publicly demanding [that Lewandowski be let go].”


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Awwwww.....poor wittle biased, uber-partisan socialists are upset that someone NOT like them has been added to their ranks.

Now that's funny right there!




CNN Staff Revolting Over Network Decision to Hire Lewandowski, Report Says

Leftists are the most intolerant fuckers on the planet.

Can we agree that being intolerant is BAD

 

[Uncensored2008]

[
Can we agree that being intolerant is BAD

Do you tolerate cockroach shit in your happy meal?

We can agree that leftists seek to crush any message that exposes the left, often through violent means.

 

[blackhawk]

CNN hired him as commentator not a journalist all cable news networks hire both liberals and conservatives as commentators this is nothing new. Yes he's going to promote the Trump viewpoint just as say a James Carville would promote Hillarys.

 

[gipper]

You think the media is only interested in making money. That money is the only driver. This is utterly and completely wrong.

Actually I don't think that -- I know it. I know it because I've worked in it my whole working life. I know it because I believe in looking up to see the puppet strings when there's puppetry about.

For decades there was no conservative voice in MSM, until an unknown guy came on the radio in the late 80s. So, if as you think it is all about the money, why did the MSM ignore conservative Americans for decades and still does. Then, Fox News goes live not until the mid-90s and becomes the largest cable news networking making many millions, yet the other nets ignore that market.

Yawn. That's what the manipulators tell you to feed your emotional vulnerabilities. Nothing sells like instilling fear and then going "stick with us in our little club, we'll protect you". Don''t be so fucking gullible. Ideology does NOT sell anything. Attention sells, and attention is generated by fear and loathing as just mentioned, by controversy, by the outrageous, from the fire in some neighborhood you never heard of to fake wrestling to watching to see if two naked strangers can survive in the jungle. NONE of that is based on ideology. ALL of that is based on emotion.

Enter Corey Lewandowsky, the loose cannon gadfly who can be counted on to supply fear, loathing and controversy. Ergo --- ratings. What the actual content is --- is irrelevant. It will be whatever pushes your buttons, as it's doing right now by your being in this thread.

Not that complex. Look up and see the damn puppet strings.

You don't know your history and don't what you are posting. Just try to comprehend what I am telling you and you will come to understand the truth.

Further proof the MSM is biased to the left:

1. Hillary Clinton, arguably the most corrupt, incompetent, elitist, opportunist politician ever, could be POTUS.
2. Big Ears is one of our worst presidents, yet he has popularity ratings over 50%.
3. The D Party still exists.
4. The welfare/warfare/regulatory state is thriving.

Now...if the MSM was not liberally biased, none of the above would be true.

 

[Pogo]

How do you get 'cred' as being unbiased by hiring someone who couldn't be MORE biased?

It's what the news formats are doing--you have the presumably 'objective' host giving his commentary while flanked on the left an right by opposing partisan pundits who then comment on the host's comments. So Lewandowski will no doubt be the 'balance' against a highly partisan leftist.

It is as predictable as rain, about as edifying as a Dick and Jane reader, and boring as hell no matter who does it. When the two opposing pundits start talking over each other, both citing predictable talking points, we change the channel quickly. I hope the news formats figure that out soon.

I'm not sure Lewandowski even has a political position, and it would be erroneous to make that assumption based simply on his working for Rump (who also has no known positions of his own). Lewandowski's a manager, a political hack who's worked for Republicans, Democrats and the seafood industry. Mostly he's a gadfly.

I'm sure your opinion of him is a really big deal to him. What I have seen of him on TV is a reasoned and pleasant person who bears no ill will towards his former boss. Nor is he disrespectful of anyone as you were to Trump here. But I will overlook that just for you my friend.

I'm not making any judgments there (who, me? ) --- I'm just spelling out the psychology behind what CNN wants to do.

I don't know that much about Corey Lewandowski but I don't get the impression he's out to foster a particular ideology. I don't see him as an ideologue. I see him as a manipulator. That's what a campaign manager does.

Suffice to say, if Lewandowski ends up waxing eloquent on political science, he's not going to last long. That's not what commercial media wants, because that's not what sells (again, regardless of the content). That's why William F. Buckley had to do his show on noncommercial television. But if Lewandowski starts pounding the table and arguing with some other talking head --- that's Gold.

The medium is the message.

He does lean right so far as the views I've heard him express. But I agree he is no ideologue. Nor is Trump for that matter. That is a huge part of the appeal he has had. He's not a party loyalist. Not an ideologue. Not a special interests kind of guy. Not part of the permanent political class and puts no value on the status quo when it is not working. And Lewandowski mirrors that to a great degree.

So what I expect them to use Lewandowski for is to counter the people they bring on to bash Trump so it will appear that they are being 'fair'.

I agree with most if not all of that. To which I'd add, "not a thinking kind of guy (both of them), but a guy who just likes to push emotional buttons to get what he wants (again, both of them).

 

[TyroneSlothrop]

Media Experts: CNN Hiring Lewandowski Is “Profoundly Disturbing”

 

[Pogo]

You think the media is only interested in making money. That money is the only driver. This is utterly and completely wrong.

Actually I don't think that -- I know it. I know it because I've worked in it my whole working life. I know it because I believe in looking up to see the puppet strings when there's puppetry about.

For decades there was no conservative voice in MSM, until an unknown guy came on the radio in the late 80s. So, if as you think it is all about the money, why did the MSM ignore conservative Americans for decades and still does. Then, Fox News goes live not until the mid-90s and becomes the largest cable news networking making many millions, yet the other nets ignore that market.

Yawn. That's what the manipulators tell you to feed your emotional vulnerabilities. Nothing sells like instilling fear and then going "stick with us in our little club, we'll protect you". Don''t be so fucking gullible. Ideology does NOT sell anything. Attention sells, and attention is generated by fear and loathing as just mentioned, by controversy, by the outrageous, from the fire in some neighborhood you never heard of to fake wrestling to watching to see if two naked strangers can survive in the jungle. NONE of that is based on ideology. ALL of that is based on emotion.

Enter Corey Lewandowsky, the loose cannon gadfly who can be counted on to supply fear, loathing and controversy. Ergo --- ratings. What the actual content is --- is irrelevant. It will be whatever pushes your buttons, as it's doing right now by your being in this thread.

Not that complex. Look up and see the damn puppet strings.

You don't know your history and don't what you are posting. Just try to comprehend what I am telling you and you will come to understand the truth.

Further proof the MSM is biased to the left:

1. Hillary Clinton, arguably the most corrupt, incompetent, elitist, opportunist politician ever, could be POTUS.
2. Big Ears is one of our worst presidents, yet he has popularity ratings over 50%.
3. The D Party still exists.
4. The welfare/warfare/regulatory state is thriving.

Now...if the MSM was not liberally biased, none of the above would be true.

1. is an entirely subjective premise, irrelevant, and the fact remains she's a former FLOTUS, which gives here YUUGE name recognition universally.
2. Again subjective, and a non sequitur.
3. The Democratic Party existed over a century before mass electronic media was created; the Republican Party almost as long. Again --- irrelevant.
4. This if anything DISproves your point. Particularly the "warfare" part. You don't get a warfare state without your most powerful influence -- the MSM -- cheerleading it on. And when you have, say, a major weapons manufacturer also running a major network, the collusion cannot be more obvious.

NONE of which has anything to do with Liberalism.

What's lost here that you didn't mention, apparently because you don't see --- Barack O'bama $ells where John McCain doesn't. George W. Bush $ells where Al Gore doesn't. Bill Clinton $ells. Ronald Reagan $ells.

Want an illustration?
Pop quiz -- who freed the Khomeni Iran hostages?
Look that up, then tell us what we were $old.

 

[Foxfyre]

It's what the news formats are doing--you have the presumably 'objective' host giving his commentary while flanked on the left an right by opposing partisan pundits who then comment on the host's comments. So Lewandowski will no doubt be the 'balance' against a highly partisan leftist.

It is as predictable as rain, about as edifying as a Dick and Jane reader, and boring as hell no matter who does it. When the two opposing pundits start talking over each other, both citing predictable talking points, we change the channel quickly. I hope the news formats figure that out soon.

I'm not sure Lewandowski even has a political position, and it would be erroneous to make that assumption based simply on his working for Rump (who also has no known positions of his own). Lewandowski's a manager, a political hack who's worked for Republicans, Democrats and the seafood industry. Mostly he's a gadfly.

I'm sure your opinion of him is a really big deal to him. What I have seen of him on TV is a reasoned and pleasant person who bears no ill will towards his former boss. Nor is he disrespectful of anyone as you were to Trump here. But I will overlook that just for you my friend.

I'm not making any judgments there (who, me? ) --- I'm just spelling out the psychology behind what CNN wants to do.

I don't know that much about Corey Lewandowski but I don't get the impression he's out to foster a particular ideology. I don't see him as an ideologue. I see him as a manipulator. That's what a campaign manager does.

Suffice to say, if Lewandowski ends up waxing eloquent on political science, he's not going to last long. That's not what commercial media wants, because that's not what sells (again, regardless of the content). That's why William F. Buckley had to do his show on noncommercial television. But if Lewandowski starts pounding the table and arguing with some other talking head --- that's Gold.

The medium is the message.

He does lean right so far as the views I've heard him express. But I agree he is no ideologue. Nor is Trump for that matter. That is a huge part of the appeal he has had. He's not a party loyalist. Not an ideologue. Not a special interests kind of guy. Not part of the permanent political class and puts no value on the status quo when it is not working. And Lewandowski mirrors that to a great degree.

So what I expect them to use Lewandowski for is to counter the people they bring on to bash Trump so it will appear that they are being 'fair'.

I agree with most if not all of that. To which I'd add, "not a thinking kind of guy (both of them), but a guy who just likes to push emotional buttons to get what he wants (again, both of them).

Can't agree with that. You might not like how Donald Trump or Lewandowski think--no leftist would--but I have heard both express some pretty serious and well thought out thoughts.

 

[ElmerMudd]

[
Can we agree that being intolerant is BAD

Do you tolerate cockroach shit in your happy meal?

We can agree that leftists seek to crush any message that exposes the left, often through violent means.

You do not sound very tolerant.
I am guessing you have eaten bat shit in several happy meals.

 

[Pogo]

I'm not sure Lewandowski even has a political position, and it would be erroneous to make that assumption based simply on his working for Rump (who also has no known positions of his own). Lewandowski's a manager, a political hack who's worked for Republicans, Democrats and the seafood industry. Mostly he's a gadfly.

I'm sure your opinion of him is a really big deal to him. What I have seen of him on TV is a reasoned and pleasant person who bears no ill will towards his former boss. Nor is he disrespectful of anyone as you were to Trump here. But I will overlook that just for you my friend.

I'm not making any judgments there (who, me? ) --- I'm just spelling out the psychology behind what CNN wants to do.

I don't know that much about Corey Lewandowski but I don't get the impression he's out to foster a particular ideology. I don't see him as an ideologue. I see him as a manipulator. That's what a campaign manager does.

Suffice to say, if Lewandowski ends up waxing eloquent on political science, he's not going to last long. That's not what commercial media wants, because that's not what sells (again, regardless of the content). That's why William F. Buckley had to do his show on noncommercial television. But if Lewandowski starts pounding the table and arguing with some other talking head --- that's Gold.

The medium is the message.

He does lean right so far as the views I've heard him express. But I agree he is no ideologue. Nor is Trump for that matter. That is a huge part of the appeal he has had. He's not a party loyalist. Not an ideologue. Not a special interests kind of guy. Not part of the permanent political class and puts no value on the status quo when it is not working. And Lewandowski mirrors that to a great degree.

So what I expect them to use Lewandowski for is to counter the people they bring on to bash Trump so it will appear that they are being 'fair'.

I agree with most if not all of that. To which I'd add, "not a thinking kind of guy (both of them), but a guy who just likes to push emotional buttons to get what he wants (again, both of them).

Can't agree with that. You might not like how Donald Trump or Lewandowski think--no leftist would--but I have heard both express some pretty serious and well thought out thoughts.

Those will be curtailed I'm sure. Commercial broadcast doesn't want cerebral. It wants dirt.