Posted on 09/08/2022 8:51:56 AM PDT by rktman
MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan called for media outlets to not cover both sides of what he called “major issues” during a Wednesday forum.
“There are two words we need to remove from our media vocabulary right now and that is ‘both sides,’” Hasan told Semafor’s Ben Smith, a former New York Times reporter, in a video posted on Twitter and YouTube. “This fundamental crutch, this reliance on ‘both sides’ as a kind of lazy way of covering our political moment is deeply dangerous.”
“There are a bunch of major issues on which there are not both sides,” Hasan continued. “There are not both sides on climate change. There are not both sides on white supremacy. There are not both sides to democracy. Ben, there are not both sides on the Holocaust.”
Hasan referenced comments by an administrator at the Carroll Independent School District in Southlake, Texas, in October 2021 that said students should learn opposing views about the Holocaust.
“That’s not what the bill says,” Republican State Sen. Bryan Hughes of Texas, who wrote the legislation that required providing contradictory views on controversial issues, told NBC at the time.
“On the big issues of our time, on whether people should be able to vote, on whether they should be able to get to a ballot box, on whether one party should be able to overturn elections, no there are not both sides,” Hasan said.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
The MSM covers enough to show the public that they are far removed from pragmatic thinkers, implusive, misinformed, stupid... yes.
Pragmatic? They don’t have clue.
All you need to know when you see this guy, is where the “Off” button is. What he knows, is not worth knowing. Where does the mainstream media find all these guys?
They say it out loud.
Better yet; just shut down all so-called “News Media” on TV that will not report the news factually without bias. All they do is sew division. Now if they want to rebrand themselves as “Opinion Media” and call themselves something other than a news station then fine. That’s just like any other fictional show.
Both kinds screen shot....
Maybe they lost power.
Nah, they cut off the conservative side of the issues on purpose.
WIKI excerpt...(typical radical leftwing kook/terrorist)
In 2015, Hasan moved to Washington, D.C., United States to work full-time for Al Jazeera on UpFront and host the Deconstructed podcast produced by the online publication The Intercept from 2018 to 2020.
Hasan is the co-author of a biography of Ed Miliband and was formerly the political editor of the UK edition of The Huffington Post and the presenter of the Al Jazeera English shows: The Café, Head to Head and UpFront
Yet another foreigner that doesn’t understand the US.
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