Of course.
In an article for the Atlantic, CNN White House Correspondent Jim Acosta and CNN “Fact-Checker” David Dale admitted they weren’t going to be as tough on Biden as they were on President Trump.
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CNN reporters admitting they won’t cover Biden as feverishly as they did Trump!!https://t.co/5Hn07iBtG0 pic.twitter.com/DxcMVWgEnO
— Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) December 29, 2020
The Atlantic:
Few reporters have been at the center of more high-profile spats with the Trump White House than CNN’s Jim Acosta. A veteran TV newsman with salt-and-pepper hair and a concerned-dad demeanor, Acosta has spent the past four years picking fights with Trump flacks in the briefing room. Once, he walked out of a press conference after then–Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders refused to say reporters weren’t enemies of the people; on another occasion, the White House temporarily revoked his press credentials. Detractors have accused Acosta—who published a book in 2019 titled The Enemy of the People: A Dangerous Time to Tell the Truth in America—of showboating. But he insists that his on-air indignation has always been genuine. “You can’t just go and trash the press and totally lie to the American people and tell them real news is fake news,†Acosta told me. “I couldn’t stomach it.â€
The drama has made him famous, but Acosta said he doesn’t expect to bring the same crusading style to his coverage of the next administration. “I don’t think the press should be trying to whip up the Biden presidency and turn it into must-see TV in a contrived way,†he said.
If that sounds like a double standard, Acosta told me it’s not partisan—it’s a matter of professional solidarity. In his view, Trump’s campaign to discredit the press has constituted a “nonstop national emergency,†one that required a defiant response. “If being at the White House is not an experience that might merit hazard pay,†he said, “then perhaps it is going to be approached differently.â€
Daniel Dale, the former Toronto Star correspondent who rose to stardom at CNN for his exhaustive cataloging of Trump’s lies, says his beat will necessarily expand come January. “It will not be a 24-hour, seven-day-a-week job to fact-check Biden,†he told me. Though he stressed that the same “intensity and rigor†should be applied to the incoming president, the simple reality is that Biden doesn’t lie nearly as often as Trump does. Consequently, Dale hopes to spend more time debunking online disinformation and digging into claims made by congressional leaders.
Donald Trump Jr. had a great response:
CNN “fact checker†admitting that he’s pivoting from fact checking Biden to focusing on “online disinformation,†AKA CNN code for Republicans who use the internet + “congressional leaders” which will almost undoubtedly = congressional Republicans in practice.
So predictable 🙄 https://t.co/SzkFuYKIFJ
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) December 29, 2020
They aren’t even hiding it any more folks.
They are now admitting what we have said all along.
They turned President Trump’s presidency into war so that they could get him out.
Now, they are going to be cheerleaders for Joe Biden.
They aren’t news they are propaganda.
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