Network Newscasts Downplay Minneapolis Church Incursion
On Sunday, former CNN anchor Don Lemon joined an anti-ICE protest group that stormed a Minneapolis church, disrupting the service and in the process violating worshippers’ right to freely exercise their religion as protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. You would think that the Elitist Media, self-styled custodians and keepers of the First Amendment flame,…
NYT Sees Racism in Nickname for Liberal Women, Embraced Walz's 'Weird'
Hyper-attuned to liberal sensitivities, Sunday’s New York Times featured race-beat reporter Clyde McGrady’s story “After Renee Good’s Killing, Some Conservatives Scorn Liberal Women.” The online headline: “After Renee Good Killing, Derisive Term for White Women Spreads on the Far Right -- Vocal Trump supporters are demonizing Renee Good, her partner and their allies, with some even…
ABC, CBS IGNORES Anti-ICE Mob Harassing Christians at MN Church
On Sunday, a violent anti-Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) mob stormed City Church — a church affiliate with the Southern Baptist Church (SBC) denomination — and disrupted Lord’s Day services out of a false assumption that the pastor there was an ICE agent and demand accountability for Renee Good’s January 7 death. Thus far, ABC and CBS have yet to say a word about this ugly scene on…
ABC, CBS Omit Shovel-Wielding Assailant In ICE Traffic Stop Shooting
Both Friday editions of ABC’s World News Tonight and CBS Evening News highlighted a Minnesota family that got caught in the chaos that ensued on Wednesday after an ICE officer shot a Venezuelan illegal immigrant in the leg after he fled a traffic stop. However, both shows omitted the detail that the man fled only to eventually join in with two other men—one of whom had a snow…
CBS Reporter: Still ‘Not Clear’ If Good Hit ICE Officer WIth Her Car
Thursday’s CBS Mornings included a remarkable assertion from correspondent Lana Zak, which was that, despite “the video” of the January 7 incident between an ICE officer and Renee Good (when there are actually multiple vides), “it is not clear whether or not the car made contact with him and — and how forceful it may have been” and it’s debatable whether the officer actually suffered…
Nets Mildly Protesting FBI Raid of WashPost Reporter’s Home, For Now
Earlier today, the Federal Bureau of Investigation raided the home of Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson pursuant to a warrant related to a classified documents case. Coverage on the broadcast network evening news was muted, at best.
NBC’s Laura Jarrett Lectures SCOTUS Conservatives on Trans Sports Bans
NBC was the lone network evening newscast to report on the hearing on transgender bans in school sports before the United States Supreme Court. The brief report, however, quickly devolved into a lecture from legal correspondent Laura Jarrett lamenting conservatives’ position on continued attempts to erase women in sports.
Colbert, Kimmel Claim DOJ Is 'Investigating The Victims' In Minnesota
CBS’s host of The Late Show, Stephen Colbert, and ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel lamented that the Justice Department is “investigating the victims” of the Minneapolis shooting involving Renee Good and ICE agent Jonathan Ross. However, neither host provided their audience with the key detail that Good’s wife, Rebecca, told her to “drive, baby, drive” after Good herself was told to get out of the…
CBS’s Margaret Brennan Offers No Resistance to Rep. Omar’s Gaslighting
The broadcast network Sunday shows made the unfortunate shooting of Renee Nicole Good their top story, with coverage and “analysis” inevitably geared towards gaslighting the public regarding what it can plainly see and further fueling anti-ICE sentiment. CBS’s Face the Nation stands as an example of such coverage.
Jake Tapper Tries to Trip Sen. Mullin on Minneapolis, Gets SCHOOLED
A great deal of media coverage of the events in Minneapolis is marred by a bad-faith framing of the events that ultimately seek to blame the ICE agent and ICE policy for the unfortunate death of Renee Nicole Good. Case in point, Jake Tapper’s interview of Senator Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) on an extended State of the Union.
MS NOW: Good Was Shot Because She Was a Woman Trying To De-Escalate
MS NOW’s Ali Velshi and historian Heather Cox Richardson joined forces on Saturday to hurl what might be the most incendiary and stupid hot take on the situation in Minneapolis to date. According to Richardson, ICE Agent Jonathan Ross shot Renee Nicole Good because she was a woman trying to de-escalate the situation.
'CBS Saturday Morning' Omits ICE Order For Good To Get Out of Her Car
ABC, CBS, and NBC’s Friday evening news broadcasts managed to report on new video that emerged that afternoon of ICE agents telling Renee Nicole Good to get out of her car before being shot by Agent Jonathan Ross after she started to drive at him. ABC’s and NBC’s Saturday editions of Good Morning America and Today also managed to cover the critical detail, which left CBS…
NBC’s Vespa: Vance Claimed ‘Without Evidence’ Renee Good Was a Radical
Friday morning on NBC’s Today, correspondent Maggie Vespa misled viewers by telling them from the scene of anti-Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) protests in Minneapolis, Minnesota that, a day earlier at the White House, Vice President JD Vance stated “without evidence” that the woman who died when she hit an ICE officer with her (which was confirmed Friday afternoon in a…
NewsBusters Podcast: It's Not 'Minnesota Nice' If You Run Over ICE
The network news can hardly notice the massive welfare fraud perpetrated by Somalis in Minnesota, and the media find nothing offensive about local Democrats telling ICE to 'get the f--k out of Minneapolis' and threatening to deploy the National Guard against ICE.
