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STUDY: Media Nearly Blind to the Far Left, but Panic Over ‘Far Right’
Despite the growing trend of left-wing extremist violence during the first six months of the Trump administration (including the DC Jewish Museum shooting, the firebombing of a GOP building in Albuquerque, and the anti-deportation riots Los Angeles), talking heads on TV news remained reluctant to acknowledge the existence of the American far left. However, those same journalists had no qualms…

GPS REDUX? Legacy Newscasts Tout Leaked DIA Bombing Damage Assessment
The leaked and Natasha Bertrand-laundered Defense Intelligence Agency assessment of the aftermath of Operation Midnight Hammer, the U.S. bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities in Natanz, Esfahan and Fordow, quickly made it to the top of the legacy media evening news. Its promise of a minor setback for Iran’s nuclear program, as opposed to total destruction, was uniformly parroted, touted and…

DIDN’T HAPPEN: CNN Claimed Iran Strike Would Spur Surging Oil Prices
CNN is the latest to suffer from the utter humiliation of prophesying Armageddon-level economic catastrophe as a result of President Donald Trump’s military strikes on Iran, only to have their predictions collapse faster than Biden on the steps of Air Force One.

Joy Reid's Israel Hot Take Was So Insane, Even CNN Pushed Back
CNN hasn’t exactly covered itself in glory on the Israel-Iran War, but on Tuesday, former MSNBC rabble-rouser Joy Reid had a hot take so insane that even NewsNight host Abby Phillip had to rebuke her. According to Reid, the only reason why Iran wants a nuclear weapon is because Israel is attacking it in the first place.

CNN's Iran Leak Spreader Reported Fake News on Hunter Biden's Laptop
CNN is aerobically back-patting national security correspondent Natasha Bertrand for her "incredible reporting" suggesting the Trump team wasn't very successful in it's bunker-busting of Iran's nuclear facilities. She always finds anonymous sources inside the intelligence community who assist in the anti-Trump spin. They don't mention her previous "incredible" intel disinformation on Hunter…

Trump, Hegseth SLAM CNN, NBC Over Deep State Leak on Iran Strikes
On Wednesday during his press conference on the sidelines of the annual NATO summit, President Trump tag-teamed with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to obliterate the new Deep State leak to CNN’s Natasha Bertrand — who penned the infamous article declaring Hunter Biden’s laptop to be Russian disinformation — that claimed the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) has deemed the weekend U.S. military…

CNNer: There’s ‘Friendliness’ in Iranians Who Chant ‘Death to America’
Near the start of Tuesday’s Inside Politics, CNN’s OutFront host Erin Burnett tried to downplay the long-standing practice Iranians chanting “death to America” (and “death to Israel”) because, from her experience reporting from Tehran, those same people often display a “friendliness” and genuine interest in America. Yes, dear readers, Burnett declared those calling for mass killings…

Scott Jennings MOCKS Dem on Iran: 'Fiery But Mostly Peaceful Butchers'
On CNN's State of the Union on Sunday, commentator Scott Jennings mocked a Democrat for suggesting Iran wasn't a threat by using the phrase "fiery but mostly peaceful Iranian butchers." The Democrat was new CNN pundit Xochitl Hinojosa, who was until recently a spokesperson at Biden's Department of Justice.

Legacy Media Reax to U.S. Bombing Iran Nuke Sites: SHOCK AND SQUAWK
Media reaction to news of the U.S. bombing of critical Iranian nuclear sites was mixed at best, as evidenced by initial Saturday night coverage. Below is a compendium of some of those reactions, which ranged from plain goofy to outright awful.

FIVE YEARS AGO: When the Left Rampaged, the Lib Media Blamed Trump
Five years ago, as left-wing riots gripped the nation, the liberal media championed the lawless protesters and condemned President Trump.

CNN’s Ward Blames Trump for Any Regime Retaliation Against Iranians
Minutes after President Trump announced that U.S. airmen had safely left Iranian airspace following successful strikes on Iran’s nuclear weapon enrichment facilities Saturday night, CNN’s Clarissa Ward took to CNN Newsroom to gripe about how Trump threw a “curveball” into the plans of European leaders who wanted to negotiate with the regime. She went further and suggested that…

NewsBusters Podcast: Is CNN Coming Down To Earth Or Going to Seed?
Newsletters on the media are channeling gloom inside CNN after Warner Bros. Discovery spun them off, much as Comcast spun off MSNBC. Insiders are worrying about CNN being able to exist. There's panic at Anderson Cooper's disco, and his pay will probably shrink. Meanwhile, Fox quadruples CNN in the ratings.

CNN Somehow Misses Obvious Culprit in Washington Post Hacking
The blog discusses CNN's cautious coverage of a cyberattack on Washington Post journalists, allegedly linked to China, highlighting CNN's reluctance to directly accuse the Chinese hackers due to concerns over losing its Beijing bureau. In contrast, the New York Post explicitly connects the hack to China's government, suggesting that some news outlets are more straightforward when not…

CNN Finds Trump’s Birthday Suspicious, Upset Speech Was Non-Political
After complaining beforehand that Trump was politicizing the military by hosting an alleged dictator-style military parade in the Nation’s capital, CNN was so desperate to keep finding things wrong with the Army’s 250th Anniversary Parade, that they then complained that Trump didn’t politicize the parade enough. And then there was their apparent suspicion of how the Army and Trump…