We Should Cheer CNN’s Ritual Suicide
https://townhall.com/columnists/kur.../we-should-cheer-cnns-ritual-suicide-n2350761
https://townhall.com/columnists/kur.../we-should-cheer-cnns-ritual-suicide-n2350761
CNN Just Published A Fake Quote From Abraham Lincoln
The quote, which is also displayed at the Newseum, was interpreted as yet another attack from the media giant against the president. The Independent ran a story about it headlined, “CNN taunts Trump on July 4 with Abraham Lincoln quote on facts: The post did not mention the President, but it was obvious who it was directed at.”
Critic and playwright Terry Teachout had a funny feeling about the quote. He asked Quote Investigator, the research operation headed by Garson O’Toole, to look into it: “This quote, though familiar, looks suspicious to me. Any thoughts?”
Three hours later, Quote Investigator had found a quote with some similarities, and some differences, to the one being put out by CNN...but....
UPDATE: In the same Twitter thread, CNN also misattributed a quote to Benjamin Franklin that actually came from British writers John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon, authors of Cato’s Letters.
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CNN maimed in meme wars
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