Study Blames Conservatives For ‘Fake News’ on Twitter
January 28th, 2019 4:39 PM
Left-wing academia attacks conservatives and conservative news for “fake news.” But their studies fall short of proving this theory. A new study found that “fake news was most concentrated among conservative voters.” Yet it highlighted 11 sources as “fake news” or “questionable” that constitutes a large part of conservative media
BuzzFeed, Covington and the Media’s Self-Inflicted Wounds
January 26th, 2019 4:00 PM
It was remarkable to behold. In the space of a handful of weekend hours, the liberal media shot itself in its proverbial foot. Not once - but twice. The first time was a report from BuzzFeed. The internet news outlet had run with the story that ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen was telling investigators that President Trump had directed him to lie to Congress about the Trump Organization’s plans to…
Bozell: NBCUniversal Should Split from BuzzFeed After Fake Cohen Story
January 24th, 2019 2:34 PM
RESTON, VA — On Thursday, Media Research Center Founder and President Brent Bozell released an open letter to NBCUniversal President Jeff Wachtel calling on NBCUniversal to divest itself of BuzzFeed following a pattern of biased and factually inaccurate reporting, including its embarrassing Thursday night story about Michael Cohen and President Trump that was debunked nearly 24 hours later by the…
Wow: Cuomo Lamely Defends Buzzfeed: 'Reporting's Hard'
January 24th, 2019 1:03 PM
Just when you think The View can’t get any more unwatchable, they bring on CNN journalists as their guests. On Thursday's show, host Chris Cuomo came on to talk about pretty much everything in the news cycle except Covington. He even defended Buzzfeed for their inaccurate anti-Trump report released last week, while defending his own network as having no bias but slamming Fox News for its own.
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REALLY? MSNBC Still Pretending BuzzFeed Story Might Be True
January 24th, 2019 11:46 AM
For most, BuzzFeed’s recent reporting debacle is, both literally and figuratively, last week’s news. However, there are still some holdouts over at MSNBC who have continued to imply that the story might be true, even after Special Counsel Mueller’s office flatly denied it
NBC Refused to Disclose BuzzFeed Stake in Coverage of Cohen Piece
January 23rd, 2019 3:54 PM
Amidst the appalling and loathsome coverage of the Covington Catholic High School students, the liberal media are in the midst of a damaging week for their credibility when one includes the now-debunked BuzzFeed News story. For NBC News in particular, the story is even more damaging when noting the fact that at zero point in their 17 minutes and 32 seconds of coverage on their morning and evening…
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Whoopi Defends Media Hoopla Over Buzzfeed Report: ‘No One Is Perfect!'
January 23rd, 2019 8:45 AM
View co-host Whoopi Goldberg shamelessly defended the media Tuesday, after they spent all day Friday hyping the Buzzfeed report that claimed President Trump directed Michael Cohen to lie to Congress, and was later refuted by Robert Mueller that same day. Conservative co-hosts Meghan McCain and Abby Huntsman slammed the media’s initial response to the Buzzfeed report, arguing they were helping…
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Concha Rips Todd’s Failure as Political Director on BuzzFeed Story
January 22nd, 2019 5:19 PM
Over the weekend, NBC News political director and Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd lashed out at those who would “tar all media” for their enthusiastic sprint to push impeachment following BuzzFeed’s false report. In a Monday appearance on Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson Tonight, The Hill's Joe Concha blasted Todd for failing in his duty as political director and allowing MSNBC to mention…
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Watch Media Hyperventilate Over Buzzfeed’s Now-Defused ‘Bombshell’
January 22nd, 2019 1:25 PM
Before special counsel Robert Mueller rained all over the media’s parade, liberal journalists spent much of Friday gleefully touting a now-discredited Buzzfeed story alleging how: “President Donald Trump directed his longtime attorney Michael Cohen to lie to Congress.” Here’s a video re-cap of how the media let their wishful thinking get the better of them on Friday.
Buzzfeed's Leopold Was Source for 2006 Fake News Rove Indictment Story
January 21st, 2019 9:44 AM
Buzzfeed reporter Jason Leopold along with Anthony Cormier broke the now increasingly discredited story that President Donald Trump directed Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about the Trump Tower project in Moscow. The story pretty much lost all credibility on Friday when Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team issued an unusual statement that the Buzzfeed story is "inaccurate."
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On CNN, Buzzfeed Defends Dubious Report With Shady Deflections
January 20th, 2019 2:07 PM
Buzzfeed News got into hot water over the weekend, after the Special Counsel’s Office issued a rare public rebuke regarding the outlet’s claim President Trump directed his attorney to lie to Congress. Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith and co-author of the dubious piece Anthony Cormier appeared on CNN’s “Reliable Sources” to defend themselves and “to talk about process”, but what viewers got were shady…
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Hannity: Buzzfeed Article One of Many Examples of Inaccurate Reporting
January 19th, 2019 4:07 PM
During Friday's edition of Hannity, host Sean Hannity played clips of media figures falling hook, line, and sinker for a Buzzfeed report alleging that President Trump asked his attorney Michael Cohen to lie under oath; which later turned out to be faulty. Hannity also highlighted the story as one of many examples of reporting on the Trump-Russia probe that later had to be backpedaled, at least…
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MSNBC: Buzzfeed's Been Debunked, but Something Could Still Turn Up!
January 19th, 2019 3:12 PM
On Joy Reid's show, MSNBC legal analyst Maya Wiley says that although the Buzzfeed allegation that President Trump ordered Michael Cohen to lie about Russian collusion has been debunked by the Mueller investigation: "what we are hearing in this does not mean that we know that there won't in the future be corroborated evidence of Donald Trump having knowledge of and in some way being part of…
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Networks Spend Over 27 Minutes on Dubious BuzzFeed Trump Story
January 19th, 2019 1:17 AM
Friday night, the Special Counsel’s office released an extremely rare statement that dismised as “not accurate” a BuzzFeed News item from Thursday night that alleged President Trump directed former attorney and fixer Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about possible construction of a Trump Tower in Moscow. Despite the fact that the story remained not confirmed by any news outlet from when it was…
