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leonard pitts: will cnn’s new facebook ad be effective?
published: october 28, 2017 at 7:35 p.m. | updated: april 20, 2018 at 4:18 a.m.
but not just any apple. perfect in color, perfect in shape and without blemish, this is the apple other apples dream of being. it is the acme of apples, the most apple-y apple you ever saw, and you’d never mistake it for something else.
the apple’s bona fides thus established, a tagline flashes onscreen: “facts first.” then comes a logo: cnn.
thus goes an ad that debuted monday on facebook. here’s hoping it’s effective. the truth needs all the help it can get in an era where untruth spews from the highest levels of american governance with a brazenness and frequency never seen before. still, there’s something a little rich in the fact that the spot was produced by a network known for shows where pundits in boxes yell half-truths over one another.
the best of them, meaning the worst of them, was jeffrey lord, the donald trump surrogate who, before he was fired in august for tweeting a nazi salute, made jaws drop on a regular basis with the crazy things he said.  and said black lives matter caused the rise of white supremacy. and blamed singer ariana grande for the terrorist attack at her concert in england.
but these were not “claims,” said westen. it was a fact the weapons were missing, and also a fact that this was an embarrassment for the bush white house. he concluded that cnn failed to frame it as such, brought in left and right talking heads to cover itself, out of fear that reporting the truth would be seen as bias.
that’s how squeamish news media were over a decade ago. it has only gotten worse since then.
to be sure, cnn does not bear all or even most of the responsibility for america’s retreat into facts-free incoherence. for that, blame the internet (which gave lies greater reach), the schools (which did not demand critical thinking), the politicians (who acted like politicians), and all of news media, both print and electronic.
cnn, like many others, has embraced false equivalences in the search for that mythic beast, “objectivity,” has sought to suspend the role of judgment in journalism — as if the one did not, by definition, require the other. now the proverbial chickens come home to roost.
a country that can’t tell apples from bananas is a country that will swallow anything.

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