CNN media correspondent Brian Stelter and the Washington Post are facing intense backlash for attempting to compare the arrest of a CNN crew while covering the Minneapolis riots to the tragic death of George Floyd.
Jimenez and the crew were taken into custody because they were told to move and didn’t listen. CNN said Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz “deeply apologizes” for the incident and had been working to have the three employees freed. headlined, "When a CNN camera hit the ground, America saw the world through George Floyd’s eyes."
Kennicott acknowledged that "volumes could be written about how CNN has turned news into theater, how the narcissism of celebrity degrades its coverage and how it has substituted the argument of self-aggrandizing ideologues for genuine discourse" before adding that Jimenez and his crew "were doing their jobs, and nothing caught on camera in those six or seven shocking minutes suggested that he was acting in any way counter to journalistic norms, public safety or police requests.
While the Post critic conceded that "the arrest of the CNN crew cannot compare, by any moral calculus, to what the camera caught on Monday", he called it "another epochal moment in the disintegration of American public life, and its consequences could be profound.
"The media just can’t stand it when they’re not the center of the story, huh? Despicable take," Spectator USA editor Amber Athey tweeted. "See, this is how the media so often throw goodwill, which was absolutely there this morning b/c it was awful. Perhaps the biggest lie about the news media is that their insistence that they don't like being a part of the story. They love it and relish it, especially CNN," NewsBusters managing editor Curtis Houck scolded the network.
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