Delusionl: Hannah-Jones Complains Media Aren’t Biased Enough Against Republicans

On Wednesday’s Day of the NewCNN hired race-obsessed reporters New York Times MagazineNikole Hanna-Jones, reporter will work together with conservative and Republican-hating networks to spin reports that Republicans are trying to get controversial books removed from Texas schools libraries. Hannah-Jones, who was prodded to laugh by Erica Hill as fill-in host, claimed that the media are not biased against Republicans.

Referring To a deranged, pre-recorded piece by CNN reporter Evan McMorris-Santoro, Hill began by fretting over a massive strawman about “accurate history” being targeted by Republicans and parents calling for bans of books from schools:

As you look at where we are right now, what do we stand to lose as a country by going down this road of banning books, by ignoring accurate history, and by vilifying people who are simply trying to make reading and history and accuracy available?

Hill and McMorrisSantoro were unwilling to read or display on-screen portions of books that contained pornography.

Ironically, CNN’s host brought up historical accuracy concerns with Hannah Jones since the infamous Hannah Jones saga. 1619 ProjectThis inaccuracy was criticized heavily. And, more recently, she was even caught wrongly claiming that Japan had been on the verge of surrendering before the atom bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Hannah-Jones repeated some of her assertions from a recent interview with the Associated Press, insisting “we are in very dangerous times.” She soon added that “our democracy is on the brink right now” because of “the assaults that we are seeing on voting rights, on the attempts to ban books, on these memory laws — which they’re calling anti-critical race laws, but they’re really anti-history laws.”

Without a shred of irony, she added: “These are all means of stoking division and resentment, and I don’t think we quite know where we’re going to go at this moment.”

As Hill followed up, she asked her liberal guest to critique the journalistic profession and lamented the supposed delusion and hate emanating from the right:

And, sadly, they seem to be working in certain communities, right, as we’re seeing it. Also, in your interview you mentioned the need for journalists to question themselves as storytellers and narrators if the “alarm bell is ringing in the correct way”. Are we doing it right?

Hannah Jones was critical of CNN’s tilt towards the left and MSNBC’s insistence on promoting liberal causes and attacking conservatives almost every hour, despite MSNBC and CNN both being heavily biased to the right. She also complained about the media trying to be too fair:

While I believe there are many political journalists who do try to cover the events, I feel that far too many people in this profession are attempting to normalize them. Now, in an attempt to say, “Well, we’re going to treat both political parties equally when we clearly have, in this moment, one political party that is passing anti-democratic policies, that is upholding people with authoritarianism ideas. We just saw how Kyle Rittenhouse got a standing ovation, and he’s a young man who killed two people, so I think that we, as a profession, have to step up. The firewall that protects this democracy is us. However, I doubt that it’s holding up right now.

In the setup piece, McMorris-Santoro highlighted liberal teachers in Texas who were defending the inclusion of books on questionable topics popular with the left — some of which have been the subject of concern by conservatives for decades. Note again that CNN has not shown or read any of the inappropriate material with which parents are concerned.

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CNN’s Day of the New
December 22, 2021
Eastern, 7:46

ERICA HALL: Recently, I interviewed the Associated Press with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Erica Hill, creator of The New York Times Magazine’s 1619 Project, Nikole Hannah-Jones warned about the decline of American democracy, saying “We, as Americans, are going to be severely tested in the next year or two to decide, what are we willing to sacrifice to be the country that we believe that we are?” Joining us now, Nikole Hannah-Jones, who is the creator of The 1619 Project. Thank you so much for joining me this morning. I think it’s such an important, thought-provoking question — both that, and I hope you could hear Evan’s piece. That Texas librarian, at the very end when she said what — you know, we talked about what do we stand to lose. As you look at where we are right now, what do we stand to lose as a country by going down this road of banning books, by ignoring accurate history, and by vilifying people who are simply trying to make reading and history and accuracy available?

NIKOLE HANNAH-JONES: Thank you so much for having me on. That was a deeply disturbing piece and very important. I’m grateful that you all ran it because we are in very dangerous times. When you have librarians — librarians are one of our greatest public goods. These are spaces, you know, I wouldn’t be where I am today without my public library, which allowed me as a child to go in and read about all of these different people and all these different places, and gain a different understanding of the world and my place in it. And to think that that is now a dangerous profession, I think really — it really is demonstrative of the warning that I and others are trying to call out right now, which is our democracy is on the brink right now. I don’t know that our institutions are going to hold with the assaults that we are seeing on voting rights, on the attempts to ban books, on these memory laws — which they’re calling anti-critical race laws, but they’re really anti-history laws. These are all means of stoking division and resentment, and I don’t think we quite know where we’re going to go at this moment.

HILL: And, sadly, they seem to be working in certain communities, right, as we’re seeing it. Also, in your interview you mentioned the need for journalists to question themselves as storytellers and narrators if the “alarm bell is ringing in the correct way”. Are we doing it right?

HANNAH-JONES : Although there may be political journalists or others trying, I am sure there are too many who in our profession try to normalize what is happening in order to seem objective. Now, in an attempt to say, “Well, we’re going to treat both political parties equally when we clearly have, in this moment, one political party that is passing anti-democratic policies, that is upholding people with authoritarianism ideas. We just saw how Kyle Rittenhouse got a standing ovation, and he’s a young man who killed two people, so I think that we, as a profession, have to step up. The firewall that protects this democracy is us. However, I doubt that it’s holding up right now.