Has he commented on this? He should be able to make it pretty clear if he had a connection issue or if they really did just boot him. Going straight to network logo is pretty fucking suspicious.
I was gonna say I wasn't that suspicious at first but rewatching it... yeah. CNN definitely cut him off internally. The only debate possible is if it was a CNN broadcast op fumbling on the keys - or if it was intentional.
The reason I wasn't suspicious at first is I just don't think what Bowman was saying was especially radical or out there.
He hasn't said anything about it on twitter though which is weird. And he tweeted out these criticisms in advance.
Absolutely shameless and completely emblematic of the Democrat approach to black people. They care about black voices right up until the moment they say anything less than fawning and then immediately work to silence them.
Also , it behooves CNN to have Mr. Bowman on there to talk shit on biden's picks. the media likes reporting on conflict, that's why they put up the bernie sanders quote. they're basically fishing for the type of answer Bowman was giving. i'd be very surprised if they cut him off intentionally
“Freedom of the press” is another of the principal slogans of “pure democracy”. And here, too, the workers know — and socialists everywhere have admitted it millions of times — that this freedom is a deception while the best printing presses and the biggest stocks of paper are appropriated by the capitalists and while capitalist rule over the press remains, a rule that is manifested throughout the world all the more strikingly, sharply, and cynically, the more democracy and the republican system are developed, as in America for example.
The first thing to do to win real equality and genuine democracy for the working people, for the workers and peasants, is to deprive capital of the possibility of hiring writers, buying up publishing houses, and hiring newspapers. And to do that the capitalists and exploiters have to be overthrown and their resistance suppressed.
The capitalists have always used the term ‘freedom’ to mean freedom for the rich to get richer and for the workers to starve to death.
In capitalist usage, freedom of the press means freedom of the rich to bribe the press, freedom to use their wealth to shape and fabricate so-called public opinion.
In this respect, too, the defenders of ‘pure democracy’ prove to be defenders of an utterly foul and venal system that gives the rich control over the mass media. They prove to be deceivers of the people who, with the aid of plausible, fine-sounding, but thoroughly false phrases, divert them from the concrete historical task of liberating the press from capitalist enslavement.
—Lenin, Congress of the First Comintern
I love that split second of uncertainty on her face, then you can see her read her new lines, and then the show resumes.
