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CNN's Brooke Baldwin Objects to Guest Calling Michael Brown 'Thug'

By Matthew Balan | October 26, 2015, 5:07 PM EDT

On Monday's CNN Newsroom, Brooke Baldwin rebuked a guest who bluntly labeled Michael Brown a "thug." Former DEA agent David Katz underlined that Darren Wilson was "by all accounts, a good police officer — did exactly what an officer is ...

NYT Public Editor Makes a Mea Culpa on Ferguson Case for Criticizing Pro-Police Sources Later Proven Right

By Clay Waters | March 23, 2015, 10:36 PM EDT

New York Times Public Editor Margaret Sullivan on Monday made a mea culpa for her past criticism of Times reporting on the racially-charged Ferguson case. In a post last August, Sullivan called out a Times lead story for including the views of anonymous s ...

Surprise: CNN Reports 'Hands Up, Don't Shoot' is Based on Falsehood

By Matthew Balan | March 6, 2015, 11:40 PM EST

On Friday, CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 surprisingly spotlighted that the "hands up, don't shoot" narrative and chant forwarded by many left-wing supporters of Michael Brown's family is grounded in falsehoods. Correspondent Sara Sidn ...

Chris Hayes: Killing of Three Muslims in N.C. Serves as a ‘Trayvon Martin’ and ‘Michael Brown Moment’

By Curtis Houck | February 13, 2015, 3:56 PM EST

MSNBC’s Chris Hayes took about a minute and a half out of his show All In on Thursday night in between guests to give his thoughts on the recent killing of three Muslim students in North Carolina and, naturally, he brought their minority status into the p ...

AP's David Crary Perpetuates Michael Brown 'Hands Up' Myth as 'Police Killings of Blacks' is AP's Top Story of Year

By Tom Blumer | December 23, 2014, 10:43 AM EST

Establishment press reporting has all too often been about perpetuating a narrative, even long after it has been proven false, than conveying facts and truth. Anyone arguing that 2014 has been one of the worst years ever for this growing trend won't ...

Ramos Hits Obama From the Left on Race; Wishes He Did More to Address ‘White Privilege’

By Curtis Houck | December 10, 2014, 6:31 PM EST

Fusion/Univision anchor Jorge Ramos interviewed President Obama on Tuesdayand spent the interview flaunting his liberal beliefs by constantly hitting the President from the far left on a wide range of issues, including race. After discussing the release o ...

'Why Was He Holding Back?' NYT Front Page Disappointed in Obama's Insufficient Fiery Leftism on Police Shootings

By Clay Waters | December 10, 2014, 9:20 AM EST

"Why was he holding back?" The New York Times sniped at President Obama from the left on the front of Tuesday's edition. Reporters Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Michael Shear were disappointed by the insufficiently fiery leftism displayed by t ...

Comedy Central's Jon Stewart Slams Fox News Channel While Correcting His Own Mistake

By Randy Hall | December 9, 2014, 9:36 PM EST

Never let it be said that Jon Stewart allowed a chance to slam the Fox News Channel slip through his fingers-- even when to do so, he has to apologize for making a blunder on The Daily Show on the Comedy Central cable television channel During his Monday ...

CBS and NBC Ignore Police Investigating Inflammatory Comments From Michael Brown’s Stepfather

By Curtis Houck | April 29, 2015, 3:41 PM EDT

Major broadcast networks CBS and NBC failed to cover the news that police in Missouri are looking into inflammatory comments made by Michael Brown’s stepfather in the aftermath of a grand jury’s announcement on November 24 that Ferguson police officer Dar ...

CNN's Lemon Wonders If 'Hands Up, Don't Shoot' is A 'False Narrative'

By Matthew Balan | December 2, 2014, 5:39 PM EST

On Monday's CNN Tonight, Don Lemon refreshingly pointed out a problematic component of the Ferguson protests. During a discussion on the controversy surrounding the several St. Louis Rams players, who recently used the demonstrators' "hands ...

Ferguson 'Hands Up' Gesture Makes House Floor; Politico Fails to Flag It As Bogus

By Tom Blumer | December 2, 2014, 1:54 PM EST

Certain members of Congress abused their positions Monday to imply that "Hands up, don't shoot" was something Michael Brown actually said before he was killed by police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri in August. On Friday, the A ...

‘Big Three’ Networks Provide Free Publicity For Obama’s Ferguson Summit

By Jeffrey Meyer | December 2, 2014, 11:00 AM EST

On Monday, President Obama hosted “activists and officials including police” for a summit in the wake of the Michael Brown shooting. Following the event, all three network morning shows gave the White House event ample publicity during their Tuesday morni ...

Farrakhan Praises Ferguson Violence and ‘Law of Retaliation’; Networks Fail to Cover

By Curtis Houck | December 2, 2014, 12:33 AM EST

During a speech in Baltimore on Saturday, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan justified the violence that took place in Ferguson, Missouri in the aftermath of the grand jury decision and called on African-Americans to “die for something” and “tear this ...

CNN 'Investigation' Covers Months-Old News About Brown Family 'Pathologist,' 'Professor'

By Tom Blumer | December 1, 2014, 12:07 AM EST

The establishment press's performance in Ferguson has certainly been disgraceful, especially its role in turning one local death into a national obsession. One element of that buildup involves Shawn Parcells, one of two men hired by the family of Mic ...

NBC Legal Analyst Lisa Bloom Falsely Tweets: Wilson Called Michael Brown an 'It'

By Tom Blumer | November 28, 2014, 7:39 PM EST

Lisa Bloom describes herself as a "Fighter for justice at my law firm, The Bloom Firm," and is "legal analyst for NBC News & Avvo." NBC and Avvo should seriously reconsider their relationships with Ms. Bloom. In a series of tweets ...