TYT: CNN Suspends Reporter For Tweeting Opinion On Refugees

[WhoIsNumberNone]

A reporter has been suspended from CNN due to a tweet where she editorialized on the Syrian refugee crisis. Ana Kasparian (The Point), John Iadarola (Think Tank), and Jimmy Dore (The Jimmy Dore Show Podcast), hosts of the The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.

“CNN source informs me that Elise Labott has been suspended for two weeks for tweet about House vote on refugees: https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2015/11/19/dear-cnn-are-you-biased/

CNN strives for a tricky balance in its news programming. It wants spicy, watchable coverage enlivened by perspectives and opinions — but no partisan biases from its corps of reporters and anchors. Take controversial anchor Don Lemon, who is licensed to express opinions on air on the condition that they’re not “predictably partisan.”

So we’ve asked CNN what part of the company’s editorial guidelines smiles on this very recent tweet from the network’s Elise Labott:…”*

Read more here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2015/11/19/dear-cnn-are-you-biased/

[newthinking]

1. CNN suspends reporter for tweeting her own opinion and not the corporate narrative

There, I fixed it

[niyad]

3. wow, she got suspended for that tweet? seriously? considering the crap that passes for journalism

these days, that one was mild (and accurate)

[Fred Sanders]

2. "Jeff Zucker Enforces Anti-Muslim, RW-enabling, Trump-Boosting Policy at CNN" is better title.

House votes for law that could limit Syrian refugees. Statue of Liberty bows head in anguish @CNNPolitics http://cnn.it/1O5IS6b

Unbelievable she gets disciplined for truth!

CNN should also be hanging their heads in shame, for many, many things.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

4. CNN is the home of false equivalency.

[eppur_se_muova]

5. It's what Edward R. Murrow would have tweeted.

Oh, right, Murrow never worked at CNN. Nor has anyone comparable. Go figure.

[Bubzer]

6. CNN = Certainly Not Nuetral.

[lastlib]

10. CNN = "Certainly Not News" eom

[malthaussen]

7. Petty, perhaps, but reporters are not supposed to editorialize.

I wonder, if she had tweeted "True Americans cheer" there would be any complaint about her suspension. (That CNN would probably not have suspended her if she had tweeted that is a separate issue)

Mind you, tweets are a grey area. I don't think that she should have to be concerned about being "officially" a representative of her organization with every breath she takes. When doing a story, yes, but she is, after all, allowed to have opinions.

-- Mal

[captainarizona]

8. corporate media in action

This is somewhat surprising as the corporate media usually has a pseudo moderate liberal persona to lead liberals and minorities in way that does not threaten the corporate state because if all main stream media outlets were like fox news the left would be uncontrollable.

[Fritz Walter]

9. They (TYT) fail to take into account something very basic here

Corporate news outlets -- from CNN to Faux to MSNBC -- do not hire people to tell the truth, to be objective, fair, balanced, accurate, and all the other things that I was taught in Journalism school some 40 years ago.

These on-air personalities have one job: keep the audience from changing channels -- or dog-forbid, switch to streamed internet content on their 72" wall-screens -- in between commercials.

To put it even more succinctly, their job is to sell boner-pills, reverse-mortgages, Swiffer mops, Carnival cruises or whatever else the ratings-obsessed advertisers pay them to sell. Period.

Go watch the 1976 movie Network (again). What seemed so totally absurd 39 years ago has become the standard business model today.