The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School announced it is bringing on fired CNN host Brian Stelter as the Fall 2022 Walter Shorenstein Media and Democracy Fellow.
The fellowship, established in 2013, “brings high-profile figures at the forefront of media, politics, and public policy to Harvard’s Kennedy School to work with students, faculty, scholars and the public on important issues of the moment.”
The “important issues of the moment” seem to be “threats to democracy and the range of potential responses from the news media.”
Well, thank goodness we don’t live in a democracy! Thank goodness America is a republic!
Stelter appears to be the best person for this since he was among the first new CNN CEO Chris Licht fired in an attempt to make the network non-partisan. Licht also canceled Stelter’s show Reliable Sources.
The show was anything but reliable because it spent every Sunday attacking the right and then-President Donald Trump.
Who could forget Stelter fawning over Michael Avenatti?
Dead: “And looking ahead to 2020, one reason I’m taking you seriously as a contender is because of your presence on cable news.”
Then Stelter didn’t challenge a guest who claimed former President Donald Trump “may be responsible for many more million deaths” than Mao, Hitler, and Stalin.
Trump critic Michael Wolff chastised Stelter during an appearance:
“I don’t want you to think that what I said at that point was in any way inauthentic,” he continued. “I think the media has done a terrible job on this. I think you yourself — you’re a nice guy, you know, you’re full of sanctimony. You become one of the parts of the problem of the media.”“You come on here and you have a monopoly on truth, you know exactly how things are supposed to be done. You are why — one of the reasons — people can’t stand the media,” he added.
The reactions are priceless.
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