For critics of the mainstream media—myself very a lot included—it’s tempting to at all times really feel some kinship towards unbiased media commentators, reporters, and influencers. In any case, we now have lived by way of an period during which the skeptics of multinational media establishments have been confirmed proper repeatedly: from the hysterically off-base mainstream contentions relating to Russiagate and Hunter Biden’s laptop to inadequate scrutiny of official claims concerning the COVID-19 pandemic. Rating one (or extra) for the outsiders.
The complication, nonetheless, is kind of apparent: Simply because knowledgeable, mainstream, legacy media establishments made severe errors, it doesn’t observe that each contrarian, fringe, or conspiratorial thought is routinely right. It is a mistake to dismiss the cranks fully; it is also a mistake to uncritically settle for the whole lot they are saying.
Enter Candace Owens. The unbiased podcasting big definitely has a whole lot of outlandish opinions—and he or she completely fails to again them up. This consists of the whole lot from her fervent, incorrect belief that Brigitte Macron is a person to her assertion that her buddy, the conservative media big Charlie Kirk, was assassinated by somebody apart from Tyler Robinson, the alleged killer.
To debate this principle, Owens lately appeared on CNN and was eviscerated by correspondent Elle Reeve, who identified that Owens had no proof for her claims that the messages despatched by Robinson—during which he appeared to admit to the homicide—have been faux. In actual fact, Reeve corrected Owens on a related factual level about whether or not the underlying messages have been texts or Discord chats.
I interviewed Candace Owens about Charlie Kirk, Epstein, and Israel. Full 25-min story is at https://t.co/IlKWdp8qv5 pic.twitter.com/7YduapsYjx
— Elle Reeve (@elspethreeve) November 7, 2025
Owens then asserted that the mainstream media are bored with pursuing the true story of the Kirk assassination; Reeve countered that after all a reporter would wish to blow the lid off such a cover-up if any proof might be marshaled in assist of it.
Declining to take the phrase of regulation enforcement at face worth is a helpful tendency, and even a libertarian one. On the identical time, there isn’t a purpose in anyway to disbelieve the knowledge offered by the FBI establishing Robinson’s complicity within the homicide. Owens gives nothing however her intestine feeling that Robinson’s confession was faked by the FBI.
CNN dealt with the interview accurately. At no level did Reeve interrupt Owens and accuse her of spreading misinformation, or name for her to be censored, or urge social media to deplatform her. She merely challenged Owens to exhibit a shred of proof backing up her claims. That is the suitable option to deal with such grifters.
