Nets Ignore Lauded Anti-Hydroxychloroquine Study Getting Shot Down
Just as with their cable counterparts, the evening newscasts of ABC, CBS, and NBC refused to give airtime to the revelation that a lauded scientific study, purporting to show anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine was ineffective and deadly, was retracted Thursday because of questions surrounding its accuracy and ethics. That, despite the fact that all three had used the study to chide President…
CNN Spent Over 90 Minutes Hyping Now-Retracted Coronavirus Study
When Jeffrey Zucker’s CNN settles on a narrative, they flood the zone with employees singing from the same sheet music seeing as how they have a President to hate. Such was the case on May 22 when CNN shows spent 90 minutes and 54 seconds heralding a now-debunked study that originally claimed taking hydroxychloroquine while battling COVID-19 could be fatal. Over on MSNBC, the total clocked out…
CNN's Bakari Sellers: George Wallace Looking 'Up' at Trump With Smile
Speaking of the use of force to clear protesters prior to President Trump's appearance in front of St. John's Episcopal Church, CNN commentator Bakari Sellers says, "the only thing I could think of was George Wallace is probably looking 'up' at him with a smile." He thus suggested that Wallace is in Hell, and by extension, that Trump is a kindred spirit.
Nets Declare ‘Virus of Hate May Be More Dangerous’ Than COVID
After having spent weeks trashing anti-lockdown protests during the coronavirus pandemic as racist and a threat to public health, on Wednesday, the broadcast networks tried to excuse the same COVID concerns amid nationwide protests over the death of George Floyd. In part, journalists argued “the virus of hate may be more dangerous” and that racism was the real pandemic.
Facebook Takes Down COVID-19 Shutdown Protests But Not Antifa Protests
Facebook made a point to take down protest pages during the shutdowns. But it doesn’t seem to want to do the same for the leftist protests occurring in 16 states.
Soros Fuels His Super PAC with Millions from Fund for Policy Reform
Liberal billionaire George Soros’s Democracy PAC has been actively involved in funneling millions into left-wing groups pushing twisted coronavirus anti-Trump ads on TV. But just who is funding Democracy PAC?
AP Cries False on 'Trump vs. Twitter' on Coronavirus Spin
AP's "Fact Check" team obsessively challenges the statements of President Trump, almost to the exclusion of other people in national politics. But are they checking facts, or opinions? On Saturday, they claimed Trump "stretched the facts or shredding them as he tried to make the best of a U.S. death toll surpassing 100,000 from the coronavirus" and other issues. Their "fact check" was actually…
Journalists Forget Their Own Predictions: Millions of Americans to Die
The liberal media certainly has a convenient memory.Recently, as noted here by NewsBusters own Tim Graham, much was being made that 100,000 Americans had died of the virus. The New York Times devoted its entire front page to listing the dead. Let’s be plain: 100,000 dead Americans from the virus is horrific. Every human life is important.
NY Times Says Pandemic Should Stop 'Me First' Conservatism
The New York Times lead National “news” story on Friday was a full-page opinionated attack on conservatives by NewsBusters regular Jeremy Peters, who once again used the coronavirus pandemic as a cudgel: “‘The Crisis of 2020,’ Predicted in 1991: What’s Next?” Peters first marveled at how the 1991 book “Generations” by William Strauss and Neil Howe, “which introduced a provocative theory that…
Politico: 'Cuomo’s Coronavirus Halo Begins to Fade'
Could the love affair that the mainstream media has been having for New York governor Andrew Cuomo finally be diminishing? One sign of that could be a new skepticism creeping into the stories about how Cuomo has handled the coronavirus crises with his disastrous decision to send COVID-19 patients into nursing homes. An example of how the bloom might be off the rose for Cuomo could be seen in…
