I think that by now unless you well and truly have the blinders on, you are aware of the fact that the news media is evil and is definitely not interested in actually teaching you anything. I have a friend who actually pays for the New York Times and her reaction to anything that happens is very predictable (right = BAD and left = GOOD!) and I have some Fox News buddy who is equally as predictable in a conservative way.
Neither of these people are so much as willing to admit that there is a small possibility that their news of choice might be trying to manipulate them. They are well and truly gone and I don't even try to pull them out of their ignorance spiral, I just ask them to talk about anything else when I am around them.
But every now and then a story, in this case a hit piece against Elon Musk, gets called out by the public and there is some level of backlash against who writes the story, and the news media's response to this is to simply never say anything about it again.
I think that CNN is likely the most laughable organization in the MSM right now. I think that almost everyone kind of views them as a tabloid at this point and this is a good thing. Now do the same thing to all the other ones and we will start to see progress.
But one article not that long ago sparked a lot of online debate because it was so easily disproved yet CNN didn't write a correction, instead they pointed the finger elsewhere.
This is from a while ago guys. I know this. That's not the point. The point is that once the online masses got a hold of this, including Elon himself, CNN didn't say "whoops, our bad" instead they changed the headline to point to the "director of UN food scarcity organization"...whatever the hell that is.
People most don't know chimed in first with some really difficult to refute information such as the that this same organization already gets more money than CNN is claiming it would take to "solve world hunger."
Later, Elon upped the ante and said this
He would later follow up with how this new program, which he said he would fund, would need to have open accounting so that everyone would be able to see how the money was used.
The UN did in fact respond, but with a non answer about how "a $6.6 Billion "investment" (love that they call it that) may prevent 42 million people in 43 countries from starving"
That my friends, is a non-answer. CNN never truly addressed the issue again but their true objective was already accomplished. They didn't want to have Elon solve world hunger, they wanted people to think that Elon is greedy and even though it would be just a small part of what he owns he doesn't care about poor people that are starving! A lot of people probably still think this and are completely unaware that he offered to do it, if they could provide a clear plan of how the money would actually work, and how it needs to be completely above board for all to see. The UN people responded by saying that their accounting is already open, which I'm not going to look into but let's just say "I doubt that is true."
Their response was to give vague words and use the word "MAY" in their response probably because they are already aware of the fact that there is no chance in hell that this plan would actually work.
CNN didn't even take the article down it's still there but it has been edited so that the blame of this being kind of bullshit is placed firmly on the director at the UN instead of themselves. Tricksy Wicksy!
The real point here is that CNN knew exactly what they were doing when they wrote this. They knew it could be easily disproved from a number of angles, but their intention was to attempt to make Elon look bad because he isn't on "their side."
As you would expect, the comments are conveniently turned off on that particular article.
Their attempts to "sweep this under the rug" was effective because no major news network bothered to talk about this for very long. Fox probably did a story or two but CNN simply didn't ever talk about it and just went about their week as though it never happened.
This is the news world we live in to this day even though this particular event happened 4.5 years ago. It still continues all day, every day. I have zero faith in any news station left or right. I think the comment section of a meme site is much more likely to give you real information than any of the editors and talking heads at MSM, especially CNN.
