Media conspiracy theories and UFO abductions

John Arnone somewhat simplistically protests too, too much. First, he should ditch specious nonsense taken from a dramatic work of fiction and used as a substitute for reality. Plus, interviewer Christiane Amanpour was emphatically not trying to “badger” the Chinese ambassador to the US at all. Anyone with even a passing knowledge of diplomatic protocols would instantly recognise Amanpour’s professional remit to honestly question a person of influence. The ambassador’s answer could have gone either way, as she very well knew.
Moreover, Arnone’s contention that “anyone who fails to recognise the anti-Trump tone of CNN during the election campaign and since must lack basic powers of observation, whether they are a Trump supporter or not” demonstrated to me that he can’t have been watching the CNN electoral and post-electoral exchanges every day as I did. Either that, or he’s guilty of selective amnesia.
Further to this, watching Anderson Cooper and Don Lemon, both these respected CNN broadcasters hosted politically balanced panels of expert commentators who were both pro- and anti-Trump. Every day. Hardly biased. Every contributor of whatever political stripe had an equal chance to air their views. Again, hardly biased. “Strong evidence of a conspiracy’’? Oh, dear; by that kind of skewed thinking, then, John, the US didn’t put a man on the moon, and aliens are harvesting human abductees for experiments?
As for the dig at my personal opinion: “I disagree with what you say, but I defend to the death your right to say it.”
Dr Frank