Brian Stelter has hit a new low. He’s bashing Fox News again and wants them — CNN’s competition — off the airwaves. In the clips, he’s basically complaining about people complaining about censorship.
He wants to decide who’s lying while he himself lies daily.
Stelter blathered irrationally, “Reducing a liar’s reach is not the same as censoring freedom of speech; freedom of speech is different than freedom of reach.”
Disingenuously, he added, “This is not aimed at shutting it down … it’s about making Fox better. Putting the news back in Fox News … If Fox is going to keep transitioning into the 24/7 Tucker channel, maybe it belongs next to sci-fi, not MSNBC … But harm reduction is possible.”
How nice of him. Do as Brian says, and he will let Fox exist.
Watch:
Stelter: “This is not aimed at shutting it down … it’s about making Fox better. Putting the news back in Fox News … If Fox is going to keep transitioning into the 24/7 Tucker channel, then maybe it belongs next to sci-fi, not MSNBC … But harm reduction is possible.” pic.twitter.com/hQ0zN0yh0u
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) January 31, 2021
Glenn Greenwald weighed in with a series of tweets:
Beyond all the creepy aspects of journalists again taking the lead in demanding media voices be repressed, @brianstelter‘s claim that “freedom of speech is different than freedom of reach” is totally false and has been rejected by courts for decades.
He continued: Imagine if you’re an anti-Wall Street group and you want to march on Wall St & the city tells you: oh, you can march, but not on a busy street. We’ll give you a permit to march on a deserted street in Queens. You think that’s not a free speech violation? Tons of caselaw on this
Also, Greenwald added, CNN lies and spreads conspiracy theories constantly. They’re a pro-Democratic Party outlet that barely airs any dissent from the DNC line. If @brianstelter‘s standards for banishing Fox were applied equally, it’d affect all cable news outlets, not just one.
Finally, Greenwald said, Hey @brianstelter, I know you don’t do dissent on your show — can’t have anyone challenging you or upsetting your DNC audience — but the next time you want to claim “freedom of speech isn’t freedom of reach,” read this on “free speech zones” by @ACLU.
Beyond all the creepy aspects of *journalists* again taking the lead in demanding media voices be repressed, @brianstelter‘s claim that “freedom of speech is different than freedom of reach” is totally false and has been rejected by courts for decades. https://t.co/8RP5zIv4pY
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) January 31, 2021
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You mean like build it back better?
Yea…the people have spoken and we don’t want it.
We aren’t Russians, Germans, French, Italians, North Koreans, Chinese, and this whole power mad control freak thing isn’t going to end well for any side.
Is he telling us we can say anything we want as long as we agree with him?
Listening to this clown is like listening to the rants of a lunatic.