All this week, NewsBusters is recounting probably the most obnoxious liberal bias of the 12 months.
On Monday, we offered probably the most outrageous examples of journalists fawning over liberal or left-wing icons; on Tuesday we reviewed the grossest examples of the media taking part in politics with the pandemic; on Wednesday we examined the 12 months’s nastiest assaults on Crew Trump conservatives; and yesterday we highlighted the media’s Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Right this moment, we take a look at the silliest evaluation of 2020.
This 12 months noticed CNN’s Don Lemon evaluate ANTIFA/BLM rioters to the Founding Fathers on the Boston Tea Celebration, whereas CBS This Morning correspondent Vladimir Duthiers (and others) celebrated the “silver lining” of the pandemic.
Time to Cancel Superheroes
“Authorized procedurals and shoot-em-up motion motion pictures have lengthy offered a skewed notion of the justice system in America, wherein the police are virtually at all times positioned as the great guys….Mother and father are protesting benevolent portrayals of canine cops within the youngsters’s tv present Paw Patrol….And but what are superheroes besides cops with capes who enact justice with their powers?….What’s extra, provided that the creators and stars of those motion pictures have traditionally been white males, it’s hardly stunning that so few reckon with problems with systemic racism — not to mention sexism, homophobia, transphobia and different types of bigotry embedded within the justice system or the inherent biases these superheroes may carry with them as they patrol the streets, or the universe.”
— Time journal employees author Eliana Dockterman in a June 29 article.
Looting and Rioting Simply Like The Boston Tea Celebration
“Let’s not overlook, if anybody’s judging this, I’m not judging this. I’m simply questioning what’s going on as a result of we had been supposed to determine this experiment a very long time in the past. Our nation was began as a result of — that is how — the Boston Tea Celebration. Rioting. So don’t get it twisted and assume that is one thing that has by no means occurred earlier than and that is so horrible and these savages and all of that. That is how this nation was began.”
— Host Don Lemon describing scenes of looting on CNN Tonight, Might 30.
I’m Sorry Son, We Screwed It All Up for You
“My dearest River, In opposition to all odds you had been conceived in a lighthouse, born throughout a pandemic and can style simply sufficient of Life as We Knew It to resent us when it’s gone. I’m sorry. I’m sorry we broke your sea and your sky and shortened the wings of the nightingale. I’m sorry that the Nice Barrier Reef is not nice, that we worth Amazon™ greater than the Amazon and that the waterfront neighborhood the place you burble in my arms could possibly be condemned by rising seas earlier than you’re sufficiently old for a mortgage….As you grow old, this shall be arduous to grasp. However we had been underneath the spell of Genesis 1:28: to take dominion over each dwelling factor. We had the unusual urge to carve straight traces out of nature’s curves and had been underneath the spell of a uniquely human drive referred to as ‘revenue motive.’”
— CNN chief local weather correspondent Invoice Weir in a letter to his new child son as posted on CNN.com, April 25.
Discovering the “Silver Lining” of Pandemic
“Let’s speak to you about Italy. Clearly that nation, its folks have been devastated by the coronavirus. However there’s a little little bit of a silver lining in a few of its historic cities. That is Venice…You possibly can by no means see the waters as a result of they’re so murky from all of the boats. This time, now you may see the crystal-clear waters of the Venice canals. You possibly can see fish swimming round within the canals….It is a map, a satellite tv for pc map exhibiting you the extent of air pollution that has gone away the previous three months due to the discount of emissions throughout northern Italy. So, there’s a little bit of a silver lining.”
— Correspondent Vladimir Duthiers on CBS This Morning, March 19.
Mom Nature “Hissed” At Us
“Wanting again, Mom Earth was beginning to clear her throat and make herself heard. Australian bushfires had been ravaging the continent. Earth had registered its highest temperatures since data started….Now that the planet has primarily hissed, ‘I can’t be ignored,’ how can we confront the local weather emergency?…From Shanghai to Secaucus, by circumstance and never design, a glimpse of life with fewer fossil fuels. And already the clear and quiet environment have discovered favor with wildlife.”
— Correspondent Jon Wertheim on CBS’s 60 Minutes, Might 17.
CNN Doesn’t Appear to Perceive What the Phrase “Peaceable” Means
“FIERY BUT MOSTLY PEACEFUL PROTESTS AFTER POLICE SHOOTING”
— Precise headline aired throughout CNN correspondent Omar Jimenez’s report aired on August 25.
