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You can really feel David Zaslav’s thumb on the scale as CNN insists the trial of Hunter Biden, who has never sought or held office, for allegedly lying in the purchase of a gun he possessed for 11 days in 2018, when his father was not in office, is the week’s most important story.
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marcosantana
@marcosantana.bsky.social
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Media fellatio to balance the “one sided” nature of Trump’s trial, last week. The organizations we know today won’t exist in 2028. Because they aren’t real journalists. They prostitute themselves on the alter of advertising revenue. @brianstelter.bsky.social @chrislhayes.bsky.social
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Danny Pinion
@sirala6.bsky.social
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It's all show biz.
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Mark Shore
@markshore.bsky.social
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it's unsurprising but still depressing that none of CNN's big name commentators - such as they are - are calling out this bullshit
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The Loony Liberal (HIATUS)
@loonyliberal.bsky.social
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I wonder if David Zaslav will try to cancel the trial the same way he cancelled "Coyote vs. Acme" and "Batgirl."
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Russ Bengtson
@russbengtson.bsky.social
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who also never did anything with said gun as far as I know
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Tim Just Tim
@timkrauss.bsky.social
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To me, it's only a story because the fact that this trial is happening is proof positive that Joe Biden cares about the rule of law and upholding the norms of America and is 100% against the politicization of the justice system, unlike the GOP
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m o c h y
@mochy.bsky.social
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Last I checked their viewership was down in the low 6-figures "average weekday audience of 409,000 viewers" so, like... No one cares Literally, no one cares
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Delbert Grady Seasons
@delbertgseasons.bsky.social
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I think it’s pretty great that conservatives support strict enforcement of gun laws. In particular, they’re going to prosecute everybody with an oxy habit who ever bought a gun
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Stef @wikisteff@mastodon.social Christensen
@wikisteff.bsky.social
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I think that it's still "Presidential candidate Trump convicted on 34 charges" myself.
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bsdtectr
@bsdtectr.bsky.social
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Sure, but don’t discount CNN anchors actually believing that.
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JayZero
@jayzero9.bsky.social
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If you haven't figured this out yet, big media "news" is just entertainment commentary segment shows for the low information voter base, nothing more. 90 percent of it is all designed for the polarized political echo chambers of left vs right banality.
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LaReyne
@lareyne.bsky.social
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When you can't find any dirt on the person you're actually after
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Comfortably Numb
@numb.comfortab.ly
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southpaw
@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
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No other news organization among the ones I’ve checked (NYT, WaPo, WSJ, Axios, Politico) has made the same judgment.
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Daniel Ninja
@okiest.bsky.social
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The brief time in the last 55 years his father wasn't in office
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Janet Webb
@janetwebb.bsky.social
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Zaslav, what a POS and shame on CNN for allowing it.
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Cath RN, PhD
@headdoc35.bsky.social
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Read this in a Business Insider article awhile ago. His friend thought it a flex, but it’s more a Freudian slip: “He's masterful at presenting himself as an aw-shucks guy from Rockland County, but underneath in the middle of a deal he's more aggressive than one of the *great whites* on 'Shark Week.”
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Zoomer Antimillenarian
@surcomplicated.bsky.social
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For a charge, no less, that seems more likely than not to be invalidated on appeal under Bruen. (Seriously, there were a lot of addicts with guns in the Revolutionary Era.)
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@bsaks.bsky.social
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Total bull!!!
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Tom Nichols
@radiofreetom.bsky.social
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The report on Fauci yesterday was a “just asking questions” classic
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Mark Shatraw
@markshatraw.bsky.social
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Color me convinced: I'm not voting for Hunter
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Jylle benson-gauss
@jbgnobody.bsky.social
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My main interest in the hunter biden trial is that he's a very good lawyer and his legal team are excellent also. I am looking forward to his defense's counterpunches. That said, i'd rather this had not happened to him. I'm not watching trial coverage. I'll wait for the book.
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Doug Hibbard
@dhibbard.bsky.social
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And for lying about drug use, not even domestic violence or other aggressive acts. If he were republican the NRA would be in his corner
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Aisling/Luxe
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I'd argue its more John Malone's influence, since he's the reason Zaslav has a job, and explicitly wanted discovery to buy warner because he wanted his own Fox News.
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Flan Solo
@flansolo.bsky.social
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Of a piece with “Trump has joined Tik Tok” being the news of the day. The remaining few news outlets are having their revenue stolen by Google and Facebook, and soon will have to compete with AI-generated garbage text for viewer's attention.
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Jack Sprat
@jacksprat39.bsky.social
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The real CNN...
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Yoqueray
@yoqueray.bsky.social
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Judge won't allow the gun purchase form - which weirdly is marked up with three different pen colors - to be admitted as evidence.
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Neopagan Esq.
@liminalatlaw.bsky.social
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I mean, it IS important as a matter of contrast. Joe could 100% spare his son this ordeal by pardoning him and he is choosing to let the law take its course. Trump would have pardoned Ivanka in a hot second.
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Brian DeViteri
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It was the top story on local Philly news last night. The former POTUS didn’t get that billing until he was a convicted felon.
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❀°。der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆
@sababausa.bsky.social
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With all that airtime, viewers will hear all about how the 18 USC 922(g)(3) charge has been held unconstitutional as-applied in other circuits but he has to go to trial first due to the final judgment rule; or that the gun store employees doctored paperwork but Judge Noreika ruled this inadmissible
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Michael Regan
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I honestly don’t know where to get news anymore. It’s all been Murdoched.
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@kenner3616.bsky.social
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CNN’s audience is so small that I’m not so sure that CNN’s insistence on broadcasting Hunter’s trial will matter.
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Brian McCabe
@mccabeagent.bsky.social
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David Zaslav is a cancer on society
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Jesse Berney
@jesseberney.bsky.social
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I think there's also a big "both sides" element here. "We covered the Trump trial nonstop, so we have to cover this one too or we'll be biased."
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Myrna
@bigbunnymomma.bsky.social
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I give 0️⃣ f$?ks about this whole case.
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S knows that p
@sknowsthatp.bsky.social
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Pyrholidon Enthusiast ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
@pyrholidon.bsky.social
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The funniest thing about the whole Hunter Biden saga is last year the 5th circuit overturned part of the law that's currently being used to convict him.
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taco socialist
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As recently as last week, CNN was only averaging 96,000 viewers in the 25-54 demo per night in primetime. I think it's probably dubious that this week's programming will help.
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Dee, but not THAT Dee, the other one.
@deetoriadee.bsky.social
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Definitely not voting for Hunter then..geez.
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@mjk4mj.bsky.social
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A Trump federal judge didn't delay Hunter's trial till after the election. A Trump federal judge in Florida is helping Trump to get reelected by delaying his trial. Republicans on the Supreme Court still can't figure out that Trump doesn't have total immunity (thus delaying a different Trump trial).
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Invisible Patrick
@bad-scientist.bsky.social
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the new WaPo guy just called out coverage of this trial as being impt for why he changed the newsroom - plain hackery
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Jay Schiavone
@jaytingle.bsky.social
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Journos are feeling intense pressure to make Hunter’s trial at least as big as Trump’s.
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maraleia
@maraleia.bsky.social
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See also the right-wing assholes who run MSNBC.
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