CNN was called out for blurring out the faces of DHS personnel — President Trump’s “secret police” — during a segment on arrests in Portland earlier in the week:
CNN is blurring the faces of secret police and not the faces of the people they’re kidnapping. What the fuck pic.twitter.com/5mAtkMmDWg
— Matt Novak (@paleofuture) July 19, 2020
Libs have questions, Jake:
@jaketapper what’s the thinking behind blurring the faces of secret police?
— Matt Novak (@paleofuture) July 19, 2020
And according to the CNN host, it was a mistake and the video editor was actually supposed to blur the faces of the protesters:
thanks for bringing this to our attention; I didn’t see it when it happened. I looked into it and someone misunderstood an instruction to blur the *protester’s* face. Thanks again for letting us know so we could fix it, which we’ve done.
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) July 19, 2020
This apology is not good enough for some, however:
Rogue intern or something, of course. https://t.co/E0faNUInHr
— Matt Novak (@paleofuture) July 19, 2020
The “Gestapo”:
Oops, we accidentally enabled the Gestapo. https://t.co/acaCaFbYQF
— Ed Bott (@edbott) July 19, 2020
Do they want the person fired?
What kind of staffer – or newsrm ethos that would lead one to – would think blurring our faces of UNMARKED SECRET POLICE was the correct thing to do?
And: do editors exist at CNN?
Sounds like some history – & journalism! – training needed at CNN
— Kim Hurdman (@kimhurdman) July 19, 2020
Do they really think this will happen?
Cool cool, can we get that photo tweeted corrected then? Asking for a friend*.
*The Hauge
— Bilbro Swaggins (@WildBilbo) July 19, 2020
They’re not buying it, CNN:
They knew exactly what they were doing.
— SolidState (@SolidStateGreg) July 19, 2020
LOL:
It's funny how many people will believe that professionals are actually *that* incompetent.
You're basically saying that *you* would've misunderstood it.
Would you have?
— The Real Meheel ✍️ ✊? (@realmeheel) July 19, 2020
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