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JONATHAN TURLEY: Ignore the tears and rage of 'objective' media

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10.11.2024

District Media Group president Beverly Hallberg discusses the media’s 2024 race coverage and their response to President-elect Trump’s victory.

So how does CBS feign neutrality when an anchor gets choked up at the thought of a Trump victory? The answer is easy: The public is told to ignore it and trust a journalist who cannot even discuss the election results without fighting back tears.

That message was even more jarring at Scientific American. Once a popular, science-based publication, the magazine has been increasingly criticized for its political slant and pseudoscientific views. Much of the blame has focused on Laura Helmuth, the editor-in-chief.

After the election, Helmuth had a raving, profanity-laden meltdown on social media.

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN EDITOR BLASTS ‘F---ING FASCISTS’ WHO ELECTED DONALD TRUMP

She called Gen X voters f**king racists." She dismissed "solidarity to everybody whose meanest, dumbest, most bigoted high-school classmates are celebrating early results because f--k them to the moon and back." She even added a condemnation to her fellow Indianans as "racist and........

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