if the coffin i was building for cnn, the clinton news network, needed a final nail this bit here would be it. i watched the 'news' conference live, or at least soon after it occurred and was appalled/amazed/entertained at how blinken was speaking of press freedom while the 'guards' were carrying the man with the uncomfortable question, out. it was like a monty python bit;

 Journalists Max Blumenthal and Sam Husseini posed hard-hitting questions – a “humanitarian intervention” as the former called it – to Secretary of State Antony Blinken in the midst of his press conference Thursday.

CNN anchor Pamela Brown immediately referred to it as “cringeworthy heckling” by, she erroneously claimed in her initial take, “activists.” The CNN website refers to them as “protesters.”

This commentary comes from a network that has frequently ignored the Gaza genocide much of the world sees.

The cavalier dismissal is infuriating – and yet not in the least surprising for CNN.

CNN domestic is not even trying for evenhandedness with a seven to one ratio of Israeli to Palestinian speakers during the time I watched on Wednesday. The march of Israeli speakers continued Thursday and Friday. The network simply refuses to provide significant space to Palestinians – and is silent when questioned – to speak of genocide, occupation, apartheid and dispossession.

Palestinians speaking about the war crimes and genocide is not what CNN wants to convey to viewers. Instead, CNN seeks to represent the Democratic-Republican establishment consensus.......more.......