The world has gone mad, and the media is to blame for it, but who's really to blame? CNN's Brian Stelter and a former New York Times editor, Barry Weiss, go head-to-head in a heated exchange about whether or not journalists should be allowed to ask questions that are deemed "racist" or "anti-American" by the mainstream media. This is a must-listen, because it's a classic case of self-censorship by the media, and a perfect example of how far the media has gone as a whole, and how it's time we wake up to the fact that we're not allowed to have the conversations we need to have in order to have a free and fair discussion about things that matter to us, and that matters to the people we care most about, like race, class, and immigration, among other things. If you want to know who's stopping us from talking about things we should be able to talk about, then tune in to this episode of The Nod, hosted by John Avlon and Alex Blumberg, to find out who's blocking us from having the conversation, and why it's so important that we can have it, and who's keeping us from doing it, tune in and listen to the conversation! Subscribe to the Nod on Apple Podcasts! Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Podcoin Learn more about your ad choices. Rate/subscribe on iTunes Learn about our sponsorships and become a supporter of our sponsor, Pizzagate Connect with us on Anchor Learn more by becoming a supporter and get 10% off your first month only discount code: Pizzarettaville at $10,000 or more! Subscribe and get 20% off the first month, plus a FREE 7-day shipping offer when you shop using promo code "PODCASTLEPROMO at PODCOODLEVELAND. Learn more at Podcoin.COM/PODCOODELLER.COM? Subscribe on PODCODELEVEL.COM and PODCASTONIONAL.COM PROMOLEVEL? Learn about the latest Podcoin? Get 20% OFFER CODE: PODIALIAL? Use the promo code: GIVE_PODCALIBROTTERIALIAL Use code: PODOCALTER? and GOT A FRIENDS PRODCAST? at GOOGLE?
00:00:00.000Okay, guys, just when you thought you couldn't despise CNN and its chief propagandist, Brian Stelter, anymore, he goes out and does something like this and totally redeems himself.
00:00:11.000You have to watch. This is an interaction between him and a former New York Times editor, right?
00:00:15.000So not exactly a conservative, where she literally lists, Barry Weiss lists all of the things that were deemed You can't touch this, right?
00:00:24.000If you talk about the Wuhan lab leak theory, you're a racist.
00:00:33.000He tries to pretend like this is totally normal, that it's totally fine, that we could have these conversations.
00:00:39.000Yeah, you could have the conversation if you don't mind being cancelled, if you don't mind being wrecked, if you don't want to lose your job, if you're part of these mainstream institutions, no problem, you could have that conversation.
00:00:48.000But again, just when you thought you couldn't despise an individual and a propagandist like Brian Stelter anymore, You got to watch this clip because you realize just how bad it is when a former New York Times editor is calling him out and lists just verbatim, boom, ba-boom, ba-boom, 20 things, 15 things, whatever it is, that were totally deemed inappropriate, totally out of the realm of free speech for the last 18 months, also happened to be, in my opinion, almost all totally true.
00:01:16.000You realize just how far the media has fallen as an institution.
00:01:21.000Check out this clip because it's always fun to watch CNN get absolutely wrecked.
00:01:25.000You write, there are tens of millions of Americans who aren't on the hard left or the hard right who feel the world has gone mad.
00:01:32.000So in what ways has the world gone mad?
00:01:35.000Well, you know, when you have the chief reporter on the beat of COVID for the New York Times talking about how questioning or pursuing the question of the lab leak is racist, the world has gone mad.
00:01:47.000When you're not able to say out loud and in public that there are differences between men and women, the world has gone mad.
00:01:54.000When we're not allowed to acknowledge that rioting is rioting and it is bad, And that silence is not violence, but violence is violence.
00:02:05.000When we're not able to say that Hunter Biden's laptop is a story worth pursuing, the world has gone mad.
00:02:11.000When, in the name of progress, young school children, as young as kindergarten, are being separated in public schools because of their race, and that is called progress rather than segregation, the world has gone mad.
00:02:26.000There are dozens of examples that I could share with you and with your viewers.
00:02:33.000You say we're not allowed, we're not able.
00:02:35.000Who's the people stopping the conversation?
00:02:38.000Who are they? Um, people that work at networks, frankly, like the one I'm speaking on right now who try and claim that, you know, it was, it was racist to investigate the lab leak theory.
00:02:52.000It was, I mean, let's just take an example.
00:02:54.000But I'm just saying that when you say allowed, I just think it's a provocative thing you say.
00:02:57.000You say, you say, we're not allowed to talk about these things, but they're all over the internet.
00:03:01.000I can Google them. I can find them everywhere.
00:03:03.000I've heard about every story you mentioned.
00:03:04.000So I'm just suggesting, of course, people are allowed to cover whatever they want to cover.
00:03:08.000But you and I both know, and it would be delusional to claim otherwise, that touching your finger to an increasing number of subjects that have been deemed third rail by the mainstream institutions and increasingly by some of the tech companies will lead to reputational damage, perhaps you losing your job, your children sometimes being demonized as well.
00:03:31.000And so what happens is a kind of internal self-censorship.