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PatrickforB

(15,457 posts)
11. The CNN tips email is tips@CNN.com
Tue May 14, 2024, 10:34 PM
May 2024

I just sent them this:

Dear CNN News Team,
This last weekend Trump entertained a group of big oil executives at Mar-a-Lago and told them that he would reverse all of Biden’s climate change policies if they would give him $1 billion for his campaign.

You have not reported on this. Why is that? Oh, that’s right – shareholder profits! CNN is owned by Warner Brothers Discovery Inc that trades under WBD on NASDAQ.

So the fiduciary responsibility of your senior people is ONLY to generate PROFITS for shareholders. Nothing at all about truth in news. They don’t care at all about that.

The only thing that keeps CNN having even a modicum of credibility is you and your ethics as journalists.

Guess what? You should hang your heads in abject shame, because Politico, the NYT, WaPo, The Guardian, Forbes, Business Insider, Atlantic and MSNBC.

MSNBC is the ONLY national cable network that reported on this. Why haven’t you? Why haven’t ABC and CBS? I wouldn’t expect it from Fox.

I know your president had idiotically had you ‘move closer’ to the GOP to cater to ‘that market’ but WTF? How about the TRUTH, people?

Just askin’.

Patrick (forB)
City and State

OH, PS – Hey, here’s a story idea! Why not report on how the legal doctrine of shareholder primacy (established 1919 in MI Supreme Court ruling against Henry Ford in favor of the Dodge brothers) has caused ‘news’ not to be truthful, but carefully biased to generate controversy because your executive think it is better for shareholder profits to have you report a horserace and normalize Trump and downplay the danger to this republic he represents.

What is wrong with you?

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