So CNN is doing text interviews with Trump

[SocialDemocrat61]

and attacking Taylor Swift? Did Bari Weiss take them over too?

And no I’m not including a link.

[GreenWave]

1. He goes from kissing his poopy diapers for Tic Tok to this.

He must hope young people also suffer from short memory.

[AZJonnie]

5. Are you talking about Bari Weiss?

If so, fyi, Bari is a woman. Also she doesn't work at CNN

[GreenWave]

10. Nope! These are trumplian manuevers.

[jeffreyi]

2. Real t****p or AI ****?

[gab13by13]

3. CNN is pretty far to the right now.

The last time I watched them was when the votes were being tabulated for the 2024 election, I switched back and forth a few times from MSNBC.

[chouchou]

4. Pssst! Boss..We can take it from now!

Let us see: Meany to me. Very Biggly...Wait and see!....It is going to be magnificent!
You will be tired of Winning !!
It's coming 2 weeks from now.
You'll be the happiest people on the planet.
Everything is going like it should! (Our plan is working perfectly)
If those nasty Democrats would just get out of our way!

A cornucopia of bullshit.

[deRien]

6. Lawrence O'Donnell

did a segment on this last night and again blasted reporters for not doing their jobs.

[Silent Type]

7. Here's article link. Having hard time seeing how CNN attacked Taylor Swift. Apparently, it's not considered her best

album. It'll still sell millions and attract millions to concerts.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/06/entertainment/being-mean-to-taylor-swift

[SocialDemocrat61]

8. Ok

[mwmisses4289]

9. Reviews i have heard say it's areally good album.

Like every album ever produced there is at least one song that's meh. Her fans are going gaga over this album.
So not sure where cnn is getting it's info?

[muriel_volestrangler]

11. The Guardian: " The Life of a Showgirl review - dull razzle-dazzle from a star who seems frazzled" 2 stars out of 5

Far from the Max Martin-assisted pop juggernaut fans expected, this soft-rock paean to domestic bliss is slight on tunes and still seethes with grievance. And the less said about her fiance’s ‘magic wand’, the better

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/oct/03/taylor-swift-the-life-of-a-showgirl-review

[krawhitham]

13. Rolling Stone: "Swift hits all her marks -- from new, exciting sonic turns to incisive storytelling" 5 stars out of 5

Nearly two decades into her career, spinning in her highest heels, she has reached a whole new artistic and personal peak, each time reaching higher and higher than her last.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/taylor-swift-the-life-of-a-showgirl-album-review-1235439733/

[SocialDemocrat61]

14. The review of here album is not the point

It's CNN, which has been normalizing a wannabe dictator for years, even allowing him to do a text interviews; now encouraging attacks on Swift with the title "Finally, everyone can say bad things about Taylor Swift". Completely, mean spirited on their part.

[muriel_volestrangler]

15. No, the review of the album is the point. Read the post I replied to.

"Reviews i have heard say it's areally good album.
Like every album ever produced there is at least one song that's meh. Her fans are going gaga over this album.
So not sure where cnn is getting it's info?"

Oooh, CNN is "being mean" about a billionaire. Call the junior high school hotline!!!

More opinion - BBC radio had the president and VP of a university Swift fan club lined up to talk about it a few hours after the release, and they both said "yeah, not one of her best" https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002k4p3 (from about 2 hr 55 mins).

I can see your point about the "text interview". But trying to marry that to an article quoting some mixed reviews of a new album is a Mr. Fantastic-level stretch.

[SocialDemocrat61]

16. I wrote the op

I know my own point. The title of the CNN encourages hatred of Taylor Swift. They have a double standard, one for Trump and one for democrats and people who support democrats, like Swift.

[muriel_volestrangler]

17. I didn't reply to your OP. I replied to someone who wanted to know where CNN was getting

that the response to the album had been poor in some places.

"The title of the CNN encourages hatred of Taylor Swift." Get a sense of proportion.

" They have a double standard, one for Trump and one for democrats" Could be true.

"and people who support democrats, like Swift." Please, don't try to politicise an album release that is about how great Travis Kelce's dick is.

[SocialDemocrat61]

18. I get it

You don’t like Swift. But just because you don’t like someone doesn’t justify CNN encouraging hatred of that person.
And CNN does have a double standard. Jake Tapper did a text interview with Trump but wrote a book attacking Biden. Let’s not pretend that is not a double standard. I’ll let Lawrence O’Donnell explain it to you.

[muriel_volestrangler]

19. I'm indifferent to Swift's music. What I find comical is the idea that repeating mediocre reviews

is "encouraging hatred"

Let's be serious; there is far too much encouragement of hatred in the world. But that is the crap coming from Republicans about "left-wing terrorism", calling judges insurrectionists and so on. Showing people that a major artist's latest release has disappointed some is nothing like "encouraging hatred", and it cheapens the word "hatred" to misuse it like that.

[SocialDemocrat61]

20. That is all wrong

But right and wrong should not have degrees or conditions just because you don’t like the person who it’s directed at or to defend a corporate media organization. Titling an article ‘ Finally, everyone can say bad things about Taylor Swift’ is encouraging hate whether you can see past your bias and admit it or not.

[muriel_volestrangler]

21. I really think you need to sit down and think about "hate", and what it actually means

and then work out some priorities. Defending a pop star from bad reviews is not opposing hate. Trying to link the bad reviews to politics will just make your political message fall flat. And make people laugh.

[SocialDemocrat61]

22. I think you need to realize this is about CNN, not a pop star

or about her album. It’s about their use of incendiary language in the headline and their double standard when they deal with Trump versus everyone else. And not just Trump, think of the outcry if the same language about the late Charlie Kirk. Jimmy Kimmel was suspended for far less. Like it or not, Taylor Swift is a human being and that language is unacceptable for any human being. Just because you hate her doesn’t make it ok. And I’m not the only one who thinks so.

Post by @_stillwerise

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Critic of a record is fine, expected even, but to use this language in 2025 about anyone let alone someone with known stalkers and who the President of the United States has gone after is dangerous.

Plus let’s not pretend that she’s “just a pop star” and it isn’t political.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_impact_of_Taylor_Swift

[muriel_volestrangler]

23. This is the first time you've mentioned that "open season" remark

which they used on social media. There is a difference between "say bad things", which is criticism, and "open season", which, although no doubt intended as a metaphor, is not good language in a country with more guns than people, and a wide variety of nutters owning a lot of the guns.

I do not "hate" Taylor Swift; as I said, I'm indifferent to her music (as I am to the vast majority of current performers). So she's mainly a cultural phenomenon to me. She treated the workers on her huge tour very well, and seems like a nice person. But "open season" is the first problem that's come up in this thread. as the person on Threads said, "Critic of a record is fine, expected even".

[SocialDemocrat61]

24. It's both the post and the title of the article

Too bad you’re hatred of Swift blinds you too that. And let’s not pretend that Swift is “just a pop star” either.
https://www.billboard.com/lists/donald-trump-taylor-swift-timeline-everything-hes-said/
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/taylor-swift-endorsed-joe-biden-160400677.html
Again this is about CNN and their choice of language when reporting on Trump and those on the right versus democrats and those on the left. Trying to move the goalposts to claim it’s just about criticizing her album because you hate Swift is intellectually dishonest.

[muriel_volestrangler]

25. No, it isn't. The title is "Finally, everyone can say bad things about Taylor Swift"

And, again, I don't hate Swift. I've already said that. You're just not even trying to argue in good faith. You're making things up. I answered someone who wanted to know where the criticism is, and I gave an example (CNN gave several more, of course). And the CNN article you put a screenshot of in the OP was just about criticizing her album. So talking about that is not moving the goalposts.

You made a silly, unjustified link between 2 things CNN did, and now you're making things up to try and justify that. The intellectual dishonesty is from you.

[SocialDemocrat61]

26. The fact that you refuse to accept that this is about CNN

and keep making this about Swift, exposes that you're fixated on her and hate her so stop pretending that you don't. And if it is about criticizing her album wouldn't "Taylor Swift is facing criticism for new Album" be a more a more accurate and less incendiary title instead of "Finally, everyone can say bad things about Taylor Swift"?
The title of my OP is "So CNN is doing text interviews with Trump". It has always been about how CNN covers and treats Trump versus other people, especially people on the left. But you are so blinded by your hatred of Swift, that you keep trying to move the goal posts and make it about her. It's not.

[muriel_volestrangler]

27. LOL.

Just LOL.

You're disowning your own OP now. You said fuck all about the text interviews (and still have said fuck all), but went to the trouble of taking a screenshot of the Swift story, and proudly informed us you weren't giving a link (as if the screenshot is all that mattered). And didn't actually talk about "the left".

No, I don't hate Swift. That's a lie from you. I'm far from "fixated on her"; as I've said, I don't care about her music. But when I gave another DU another example of a bad review, you've leapt in and tried to claim I'm moving the goalposts from your "CNN says people are giving Swift bad reviews" OP.

You think "people can say bad things about Swift" is "incendiary??? Fuck me, your sense of proportion has completely disappeared.

If you don't want your Swift-themed thread to be about Swift, then talk about something else.

[SocialDemocrat61]

28. Thanks for proving my point

You’re so blinded by your hatred of Swift you can’t focus that this was always about CNN. You are so fixated on your hatred of Her you keep making every post about her.

Please go ahead and make another post about Swift and ignore CNN. Each one proves my more right.

[krawhitham]

12. She has the #1 album & #1 movie in the country, they can talk all the s#&t they want

Personally I don't care for music, she seems like a very good person, but DAMN is she impressive, no one has ever had the #1 album & #1 movie at the same time before