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After defending the liberal media’s anti-Brett Kavanaugh crusade Saturday night, CNN’s Reliable Sources host Brian Stelter got rebuked by former CNN bureau chief Frank Sesno on Sunday. According to Sesno, the media’s coverage of President Trump was “unrelentingly negative”. He then ripped into the utter lack of standards the media employed before running with uncorroborated allegations against the Supreme Court nominee.
Stelter downplayed the liberal media’s enthusiasm for smearing Kavanaugh as simply “misreporting” on their part. “Do you think the press is coming out of this looking weaker because many people feel that the press chose a side through this,” he wondered.
“Yes. Certainly, that's the way it's going to look to Trump supporters and to people who have been questioning media's bias and their ability to report straight for a long time,” Sesno said. After mocking how the media’s approval rating was buried under the basement, the CNN veteran noted that despite the week being “extraordinary” “by any reasonable measure” and yet “the coverage has been unrelentingly negative.”
“So, there’s going to be some very serious thinking now and as the county – as you pointed out—as divided, more divided than it’s ever been coming out of this Kavanaugh thing around this stuff,” Sesno lamented. “I think the challenge grows greater for the media to figure out where it's going and how it's going to try to find as balance in all of this.”
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. Corwin Parks
