CNN’s Brian Stelter led his “Reliable Sources” newsletter on Wednesday with the event he’s attending in London, the “Sir Harry Evans Investigative Journalism Summit,” operated by former Newsweek and Vanity Fair editor Tina Brown as a tribute to her late husband. The Twitter account for it uses the boastful title “Truth Tellers.”
In her American heyday, she loved trashing conservatives, that the Republicans donned “suicide vests” in opposing Obamacare, and Rush Limbaugh was a “blowhard bullfrog” who shouldn’t be popular. Nothing’s really changed with Tina, as Stelter began:
Naturally there’s been a ton of conversation here about President Trump’s attacks against the media. Trump “has gone for the journalistic jugular,” Brown said on stage, “and when the press needs to be at its most strong, the underpinnings are at its most weak….