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CNN's Stelter Doubts ‘Anyone’ Thinks Williams 'Deserves a 2nd Chance'
February 11th, 2015 12:11 AM
After breaking the news that NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams will be suspended indefinitely for six months without pay, Reliable Sources host Brian Stelter joined CNN’s AC360 to discuss the story with the Hollywood Reporter’s Marisa Guthrie and expressed doubt that “anyone in the country” believes that Williams “deserves a second chance” as NBC Universal CEO Steve Burke did in backing him…
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Brian Williams Suspended for 6 Months Without Pay
February 10th, 2015 7:53 PM
Per Brian Stelter at 7:50 PM EST on CNN. Updated with MRC President Brent Bozell's reaction and NBC's statement.
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CNN: 'It's Hard' to 'Imagine a Scenario' Where Williams Survives
February 10th, 2015 4:08 PM
CNN's Brian Stelter on Tuesday suggested that it was unlikely Brian Williams could survive as Nightly News anchor, given the ongoing challenges to his honesty. The media analyst explained just how hard it would be for the anchor to get past the scandal related to lying about being struck by an RPG.
CNN Media Show Leaps on Brian Williams Defense from Moyers, Joe Klein
February 8th, 2015 7:32 PM
CNN’s Reliable Sources devoted most of its show Sunday to the Brian Williams scandal, but host Brian Stelter made sure that Williams defenders in the liberal elite, from Joe Klein to Bill Moyers, were quoted and discussed. Stelter didn’t have interview or quote any conservative critics of Williams.
Stelter quoted Bill Moyers the PBS omnipresence to former network reporter and analyst Jeff…
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Brian Williams Cancels Thursday Night Appearance with David Letterman
February 8th, 2015 7:32 PM
Late Sunday afternoon, CNN’s Brian Stelter reported the latest information in the ongoing Brian Williams controversy with the news that the NBC Nightly News anchor has cancelled an appearance on CBS’s The Late Show with David Letterman after reports initially suggested that he was planning to use it to clear the air and answer the many questions surrounding him.
The cancellation comes a day…
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CNN: 'Fearful' NBC Unsure How to Deal With 'Humiliated' Williams
February 6th, 2015 3:39 PM
According to CNN media correspondent Brian Stelter, "fear" is setting in at NBC as the executives and journalists there worry over the widening "questions" being raised about Brian Williams.
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Media Critics Hit NBC's Brian Williams Over Iraq Lie
February 5th, 2015 2:22 PM
On Wednesday night, NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams apologized on air for falsely claiming that while reporting from Iraq in 2003, the helicopter he was on was hit by enemy fire. Despite Williams’ attempt to walk back his past statements, numerous media critics have called out the NBC News anchor for failing to uphold the standards expected of a network news anchor. Howard Kurtz, Fox News…
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CNN: Williams's False Iraq Story A 'Serious Blow' To His Credibility
February 5th, 2015 12:20 PM
On Thursday's New Day, CNN's Brian Stelter contented that Brian Williams's false account about his helicopter coming under attack in Iraq in 2003 "just does not pass the smell test," and added that "this is a serious blow to [his] credibility." He also underlined that "all those times in the past where...the story got murkier over time – that seems like it was maybe intentional, and not just an…
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Actor: Hollywood Awards Should Be Made Racially 'Equitable And Just'
January 19th, 2015 12:10 PM
Last week, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences released their nominations for the 87th Academy Awards and many have criticized the academy for shutting out the film “Selma” from the four biggest acting categories. With the so-called controversy over the film’s lack of nominations continuing, on Sunday, CNN’s Reliable Sources brought on actor Gbenga Akinnagbe, star of HBO’s “The Wire”…
Bozell & Graham Column: Are There No Media Ethics on Hackers?
December 20th, 2014 8:04 AM
The widespread reporting on hacked e-mails from Sony Pictures – spurred by the upcoming release of an allegedly funny movie about assassinating North Korean despot Kim Jong Un – might encourage some gloating from people who would like to bring Hollywood down a peg. But hold the schadenfreude. The media’s ethics – or seeming lack of ethics – are troubling.
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UVA Student on CNN: Rolling Stone Writer Had An 'Agenda'
December 15th, 2014 4:54 PM
On CNN's Reliable Sources on Sunday, University of Virginia student Alex Pinkleton revealed how Rolling Stone's Sabrina Rubin Erdely, who wrote the disputed Rolling Stone story on alleged rape at the college, acted more like an "advocate" than a reporter as she interviewed people for the article. Pinkleton, a friend of the woman who made the rape accusation, asserted that Erdely "did have an…
Bozell & Graham Column: TV Anchors Shouldn't Lecture About Democracy
November 4th, 2014 11:17 PM
On the Sunday before the election, CBS “Face the Nation” host Bob Schieffer unloaded one of those pompously “progressive” end-of-show commentaries about how our democracy is being ruined by money.“The right to vote is our proudest possession, but the way it has become debased by money shames us all.”
He claimed “Congress hasn't done anything in years, yet these midterm elections will be the most…
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CNN Hypes 'Groundbreaking' Transgender TV Series on Amazon
October 6th, 2014 5:29 PM
Samuel Burke touted Amazon's new streaming TV series Transparent on Monday's CNN Newsroom as "groundbreaking," and underlined that it's "tackling a topic that TV has rarely touched." The main character in the series, "Moira," is an elderly father who begins to dress as a woman. Burke acclaimed that "this role of a 70-year-old trans-gender character might just give Netflix a run for its money."
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CNN’s Stelter: Zakaria Plagiarism Claims Merely ‘Attribution Mistakes'
September 28th, 2014 4:20 PM
For the second time in two years, CNN’s Fareed Zakaria has been accused of plagiarism, for using other people’s words and claiming them to be his own, during his Fareed Zakaria GPS program. Despite the seriousness of the charges leveled against Zakaria, CNN’s Brian Stelter did his best to protect his colleague during his Reliable Sources program on Sunday. The CNN host defended Zakaria from…