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CNN's Brian Stelter and The Grio vice president Natasha Alford scoff at the idea of parental rights, suggesting it's just a political "slogan." They also warn viewers: "When the top issue is called 'education,' the top issue is race," Stelter declared with finger quotes.

  CNN's Brian Stelter takes a look at how the media can latch onto a slogan instead of presenting the full story, which he says Republicans have used to their advantage in recent elections. Virginia voters  told  liberal media networks who were curious about their votes last week that they flocked to the polls to vote for Youngkin as a means of pushing back against their school districts' progressive agendas. In the lead up to Election Day, parents had spoken out more regularly about graphic material in classrooms, and against the use of critical race theory (CRT), a curriculum that teaches students U.S. institutions are inherently racist. Stelter, however, said the terms "parents' rights" and "critical race theory" have become little more than a "slogan" or a "catchall phrase." The segment was accompanied by the chyron, "Cheap Slogans Disguise Stories That Are Shaping America." Stelter and his "Reliable Sources...

CNN's Brian Stelter wants the media to ditch and remains of objectivity and just portray all conservatives as threats America itself.

  Veteran journalist Jackie Calmes says political journalists are failing the public when they indulge "both-siderism." She says the radicalization of the GOP is a key story: "People are feeling like, well, without Trump in the picture, we're sort of back to normal. And, in fact, we're not. Trump still runs the party." "I want to dive right into your argument about what both-siderism is and why it’s failing the public,"Stelter said of Calmes,  whose column  on the subject won praise from liberal journalists. "Is it that we're treating Democrats and Republicans equally and ignoring GOP radicalism, is that the heart of the problem?" Calmes said that was "in a sense" correct. "There's no question that journalists are recognizing the radicalization of the Republican Party," Calmes said. "I think what’s changed a little bit is that, since Trump left office there is more of a sense that maybe we’re back to norma...

Marc Elias says threats to democracy should be a daily story: "Treat it like we treat other major stores that pose existential risks to the country by covering it every day in a clear pro-democracy slant."

  CNN's   Brian Stelter   asked a Democratic attorney mixed up in the probe into the   Russia investigation's   origins what advice he would give the media on covering "threats to democracy." Marc Elias – the general counsel for Hillary Clinton's campaign who hired the research firm that spearheaded the infamous Christopher Steele dossier – was introduced by Stelter on "Reliable Sources" Sunday as being concerned about a "true constitutional crisis" but also "critical of this show last week."  Elias earned his way onto the media affairs show by criticizing CNN earlier in the week and drawing the attention of Stelter, a proficient tweeter. Free next Sunday at 11am ET? — Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) October 11, 2021 "I want to hear your No. 1 critique of how the news media is or is not covering threats to democracy," Stelter said. Elias noted he was "usually more praising of your show," drawing a smile from Stelter...

Bari Weiss teaches CNN's Brian Stelter a lesson to remember: The world has gone mad, and it's largely the fault of outlets like CNN.

  When Bari Weiss describes the kind of madness that we have all witnessed, Brian Stelter pretends as if he doesn’t know what she’s talking about. Such gaslighting is of course a big part of the problem. BRIAN STELTER: You write, "There are tens of millions of Americans who aren't on the hard left or the hard right, who feel the world has gone mad." So, in what ways has the world gone mad? BARI WEISS, AUTHOR AND FOUNDER, COMMON SENSE: Well, you know, when you have the chief reporter on the beat of COVID for "The New York Times" talking about how questioning or pursuing the question of the lab leak is racist, the world has gone mad. When you're not able to say out loud and in public that there are differences between men and women, the world has gone mad. When we're not allowed to acknowledge that rioting is rioting, and it is bad, and that silence is not violence, but violence is violence, the world has gone mad. When we're not able to say that...

Brian Stelter ratioed for quoting story claiming US leaders were 'in the bunker' on 9/11

  CNN’s Fat, Dumb, and Bald Guy can’t get enough of smelling his own farts, and he was breathing deep today on the 20th anniversary of 9/11. In a tweet linking to an AP article fawning over the bravery of their own profession and the importance of their branch of the Liberal Church, Stelter chose the most hideously cringe quote to include in his tweet as a gross overture to himself and his job. The whole article is just absurd, but the quote, which is from a book that I can only assume is equally absurd, goes above and beyond. Which is of course exactly why the drama queen loves it so. Network TV anchors were "the closest thing that America had to national leaders on 9/11. They were the moral authority for the country on that first day," especially with political leaders in bunkers or otherwise out of sight... https://t.co/j12NRPr2BM — Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) September 11, 2021 Stelter's critics, which included some prominent figures like Meghan McCain, hopped onli...