People keep paying to hear media hall monitor Brian Stelter’s hot takes. A little while ago he was onstage at the World Economic Forum moderating a panel on disinformation, and on Saturday he was at the International Journalism Festival as a member of the “Declining trust in media: a journalist safety issue.” Yes, we all know that journalists are very vulnerable and fragile, hence Twitter 1.0 suspending anyone who told a laid-off journalist to “learn to code.” At least their panel acknowledged the declining trust in the media, but that’s the fault of platforms like Twitter and Substack, where anyone can be a “journalist” without the Ivy League degree and corporate paycheck.
Kicking off this panel on declining trust in media. Featuring our own @eduardosuarez @elodievialle
from @PENamerica, @brianstelter from @ShorensteinCtr, @lvzwestcott from @pressfreedom
📺 Watch https://t.co/XDx3ORq4RA 📌Key points in thread pic.twitter.com/lOvtQAsYeD— Reuters Institute (@risj_oxford) April 22, 2023
There were a couple of other clowns on stage with Stelter, but his contributions were the standouts:
"The cratering of the trust in the media is related to the fact that we're all members of the media now," says @brianstelter #ijf23
— Reuters Institute (@risj_oxford) April 22, 2023
"We need to pre-bunk, we need to anticipate what misinformation and lies are going to be coming our way," says @brianstelter #ijf23
— Reuters Institute (@risj_oxford) April 22, 2023
Like CNN pre-bunked the Hunter Biden laptop story. Is CNN reporting that Antony Blinken and the Biden campaign were behind the whole censorship effort?
"We need to publicise the harassment we receive, pre-bunk misinformation and prosecute the people who harass us," says @brianstelter #ijf23
— Reuters Institute (@risj_oxford) April 22, 2023
"Let's make sure our voices are louder than the misinformers and harassers," says @brianstelter #ijf23
— Reuters Institute (@risj_oxford) April 22, 2023
"It's important to draw a difference between criticism of the media and dehumanisation," says @brianstelter #ijf23
— Reuters Institute (@risj_oxford) April 22, 2023
Is calling someone a potato dehumanization?
And to cap it all off, a stunning show of lack of self-awareness:
"We need to help folks know the difference between reporters and repeaters," says @brianstelter #ijf23
— Reuters Institute (@risj_oxford) April 22, 2023
the people who cry the most about protecting the First Amendment for journalists are *squints* crying about the First Amendment protections for the rest of us https://t.co/oPADogintt
— siraj hashmi (@SirajAHashmi) April 22, 2023
"prosecute the people who harass us"
He's a litigious potato
— 5PointSlo (@5PointSlo) April 22, 2023
Completely agree that they should start publishing more of the harassment they receive. I bet it's hilarious!
— Frost Fangs (@frostfangs2) April 22, 2023
So, potato head dislikes free speech.
Got it.
— Me (@Keefer1958) April 22, 2023
So this lardbutt is going to prosecute people?
LMAOOOO.
— JWF (@JammieWF) April 22, 2023
Propagandists complaining about being bad at their job . . .
— Bards of Antiquity (@BardsAntiquity) April 22, 2023
The sanctimony from the self-righteous, holier-than-thou crowd is sickening:
— John J (@JohnJtheSane) April 22, 2023
“Arrest people who make fun of me on the internet!” is definitely a super normal and not at all deranged sentiment.
— Arthur Fortune (@CBove1) April 22, 2023
Prosecute people for speaking their mind. Tater has gone full fascist.
— Taro Tsujimoto (@RCannon74) April 22, 2023
Let’s prosecute anyone who harasses the public and denigrates pulpit trust with dystopian concepts like pre-bunk.
— Menkui (@Cmplxe) April 22, 2023
Tater just drops a new word like “pre-bunk” and expects us to accept it.
— Marooned in Marin ❌❌ 🇺🇸 (@MaroonedInMarin) April 22, 2023
I’ve seen lots of harassment under the guise of journalism and editorial freedoms. You are propagandists and you’re totally comfortable with that.
— DLew (@DarrenClarkSol) April 22, 2023
Prosecute people that are mean to us, the potato says.
What a goober.
— Paul Lynd (@allyallpaul) April 22, 2023
So the guy that told me the Steele dossier was mostly verified and Hunter Bidens laptop story was Russian disinformation, is concerned about disinformation.
— Rick (@HeyJealously0) April 22, 2023
“Journalist” who is a documented liar and spreader of misinformation wants you to go to jail for pointing out he’s a liar and spreader of misinformation.
— Chirp Chirp! (@hearingcrickets) April 22, 2023
Turds pic.twitter.com/UR9cxCgcbe
— TonySoprano (@TonySoprano623) April 22, 2023
We need to publicize the lies journalists put out, call out their bullshit narratives and misleading headlines, and clean out the bank accounts of news organizations and journalists that libel.
— Me llamo (@Teereevveerrr) April 22, 2023
STFU potato head.
— ǝᴉʞoHZ∀ (@AZHokie54) April 22, 2023
Seriously, what would it take to get this guy to shut up? He went from CNN to CNN+ to Harvard to the WEF to whatever this was, all on his crusade against “disinformation,” which is code for truth the media doesn’t want to get out. Absolutely no self-awareness, any of them.
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