Enter Exhibit A: an astonishing exchange between CNN’s media analyst Brian Stelter and journalists Liz Wahl and Julia Ioffe that occurred on Sunday. In that one conversation, Wahl insisted Trump’s win undermined “our democracy,” Ioffe expressed bewilderment at the fact that the people no longer take the mainstream media’s word as sacrosanct, and Stelter implied that Trump’s impending presidency is a national emergency.
“That is the ultimate goal [of Russian ‘disinformation’], to undermine democracy, to undermine faith in our institutions, like the media,” Wahl told Stelter. “We have a president-elect now who has basically matched some of these key talking points in Russian propaganda to undermine our system.” – READ MORE
