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Jim Acosta may be stuck behind a desk, but the self-righteousness from his days as White House correspondent reappeared on Saturday’s CNN Newsroom as he hyped a new HBO documentary executive produced by Ronan Farrow entitled Endangered. As Acosta tells it, journalists are under attack around the world, including in America where conservatives don’t trust them.
During a promotional interview with Farrow, Acosta introduced a clip from the documentary, “Yeah, I mean, as—as– the truth is under attack, journalists are under attack. It only goes that one would follow the other. And as part of the documentary, you follow a journalist for The Guardian named Oliver who was out covering the Trump campaign in 2020. I probably saw him from time to time.”
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The Oliver in question is the ironically named Oliver Laughland, who was shown asking an unidentified female Trump from Youngstown, Ohio, “So, the paper in Youngstown, The Vindicator , closed down recently, meaning that Youngstown is now the biggest city in America without a local newspaper. Were you upset by that?”
For something called Endangered and all of Acosta’s histrionics , the woman very politely, but firmly told Laughland, “No. It’s just a sign of the times. They’re a dying industry because they are so left-wing progressives, we are not left-wing progressives, so we stopped buying the newspaper. We stopped them just having one point of view, the Democrats. Why am I going to pay for a paper that calls me all kinds of names because I’m a conservative Republican? That’s why they’re a dying industry.”
It’s a fair point and one that a serious journalist would take time to consider, but Laughland followed up, “Don’t you think that, though, this […]
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