Station Gossip: Phil Mattingly, CNN’s chief White House correspondent, believes news outlets should surrender whenever the government demands that they censor certain subjects.
Mattingly made this brazen suggestion on the Wednesday, July 5, broadcast of “CNN This Morning,” where he was serving as a guest co-host with main presenter Poppy Harlow.
He said this after admitting that “more often than not,” he gave in to demands for censorship by the administration of President Joe Biden. According to Mattingly, censorship “makes sense” and is “probably what we should do on public health grounds.”
“[The] Biden administration would regularly reach out to Twitter and Facebook and other companies in kind of the early stages of their [Wuhan coronavirus] COVID response and say, ‘This person is spreading lies about vaccines,’ ‘This account is spreading misinformation that is inhibiting – not just our efforts, the administration’s efforts to address COVID, but also public health, do something about it,'” said Mattingly. more here
“Nice social media company you have there…it would be a shame if something happened to it. Or to you.”
I can imagine how willingly this political harlot would censor content if Trump were President.
I remember libs on certain forums justifying censorship on the grounds that “it’s a private platform and they don’t have to allow your lies; it’s not like the *government* is censoring speech.”
That didn’t age well, did it?
Should have asked if reporters would see any problem in publishing what Hitler wanted ? Boy people sure can keep their eyes and mind closed completely 24/7.
When people advocate and go along with this type of tyranny it eventually comes back to bite them.
No one will feel bad for them either.
You think some 2 bit judge from Hodunk, USA is gonna stop this?
Sure he will, wink wink. Hey judge🖕, enjoy.