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CNN Seeks to Improve Trust in the Media … Among Democrats
January 6th, 2019 4:36 PM
It’s a new year, so CNN media reporter Brian Stelter decided to dedicate a lot of Sunday’s Reliable Sources (the first episode of the year) to starting things off on the right foot by trying to improve the liberal media’s trust with the public. Unfortunately, he was only interested in improving it with only half the country. The left half to be precise. Throughout the program, he queried his…
NewsBusters Time Machine: First Speaker Pelosi Was a 'Moment to Savor'
January 5th, 2019 1:30 PM
Here at the Media Research Center’s NewsBusters, we have hundreds of thousands of hours of liberal newscasts in the vault here at MRC headquarters. In a new series the NewsBusters Time Machine we’re going to pull out some of that bias and show how yesterday’s liberal spin connects with the bias of today. Nancy Pelosi is Speaker of the House... again. The New York Times hailed the returning…
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Berman: Imagine the Outrage If GOPer Said What Tlaib Did About Obama!
January 4th, 2019 4:02 PM
The morning after Democratic Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (MI) made some vulgar comments about the need to impeach President Trump, ABC’s Good Morning America refused to cover it, but CNN’s New Day offered a welcome contrast as not only as Tlaib’s tirade covered, but it was covered heavily across the show’s three hour duration. Most notably, co-host John Berman repeatedly wondered about what…
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CNNers: Trump Held ‘Fake Briefing’ Partially Because of Our Reporting
January 4th, 2019 12:44 AM
Still irritated by President Trump taking no questions during his first press briefing in the White House press room on Thursday, CNN Tonight host Don Lemon was so exasperated that he started making up words. “Can you believe this day? Oh, my gosh. April, before we get into any of this, were you there when the fake briefing … The ‘friefing’ [was called],” he asked CNN political analyst April Ryan…
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Watch CNN Go DEFCON-1 Over Trump Pulling a Fast One on the Press
January 3rd, 2019 9:23 PM
This is what the liberal media not being able to control the narrative and what you, the public, know and don’t know. On Thursday afternoon, CNN’s The Lead threw a full-blown conniption after President Donald Trump appeared and then took no questions at a last-minute White House Press Briefing alongside National Border Patrol Council members. Fill-in host Brianna Keilar immediately seemed…
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Nets Barely Touch Mob of Illegals Attacking Border Agents
January 3rd, 2019 7:14 PM
In the aftermath of about 150 migrants attacking Border Patrol agents and trying to break across the border from Mexico late New Year's Eve night, the broadcast networks have barely given attention to the story as ABC ignored it entirely, CBS gave it 24 seconds Wednesday morning only, and NBC gave it a half minute at the beginning of the same day's Today with a brief followup later, while an…
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CNN Goes Gaga Over ‘Powerful' but 'Non-Partisan' Pelosi's 'Girl Power'
January 3rd, 2019 3:25 PM
CNN’s all-female panel couldn’t contain their excitement over Democrat Nancy Pelosi being elected again as House Speaker, after she last assumed that role in 2007. CNN’s Dana Bash in particular provided over-the-top feminist commentary on how amazing the swampy liberal politician was, despite her low favorability ratings and partisan record.
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Record 102 Women in House, But CNN's Camerota Carps: 'Baby Steps'
January 3rd, 2019 7:59 AM
On CNN, New Day co-host Alisyn Camerota notes that the composition of the newly-installed House of Representatives includes a record 102 women. But she adds: "if it really reflected the United States, it would be twice that many. Not to be a wet blanket this morning, okay? But, baby steps."
Where Are Media Demands for Democrats to Cooperate With Trump?
January 3rd, 2019 7:20 AM
Democrats take control of the House of Representatives today, but you don’t hear journalists instructing them to “show that they can govern” by finding ways to “compromise” with President Trump, as you do when Republicans are poised to gain power. “Opposing the President is not a policy,” NBC’s Matt Lauer lectured New Jersey Governor Chris Christie on the November 5, 2014 Today.
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CNN’s Don Lemon: Dems 'Salivating' at Idea of 'Eating' Trump 'Lunch'
January 3rd, 2019 12:16 AM
Fresh from his drunken New Year’s Eve bender with colleague Brooke Baldwin, CNN Tonight host Don Lemon was excitedly looking forward to California Representative Nancy Pelosi becoming Speaker of the House on Thursday. During his Wednesday night show, he boasted about how “Democrats are salivating at the idea that they could eat [President Trump’s] lunch”, and flaunted his own salivation.
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CNN Suggests Trump to Blame for Illegals Attacking Border Patrol
January 2nd, 2019 10:05 PM
On Wednesday's New Day, during a report about a group of more than 100 illegal immigrants trying to rush the border from Mexico into California that threw rocks at Border Patrol agents, CNN correspondent Leyla Santiago suggested that President Donald Trump was to blame for the violence as she cited complaints by illegal immigration advocates about the administration making it more difficult to…
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CNN Upset Marine Captured in Russia Called Them ‘Fake News’
January 2nd, 2019 6:26 PM
The Daily Caller’s Benny Johnson flagged down quite the exasperating exchange on Wednesday from CNN’s New Day as co-host Alisyn Camerota took issue with a social media post by detained American Paul Whelan that called CNN “fake news.” Camerota was interviewing Whelan’s brother David about Paul’s December 28 arrest for what the Putin regime claims was espionage.
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CNN Plays Up Shutdown Sob Stories: Can't Afford Wife's Tombstone?
January 1st, 2019 9:21 PM
It's not hard to imagine federal workers are concerned about the length of the current shutdown. But CNN's New Day Saturday really larded up the airwaves with Twitter sob stories, and then let a federal employee union leader claim one worker can't afford a tombstone for his wife now.
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Hot Story: CNN Pushes Hotel Guest Evicted for 'Breathing While Black'
January 1st, 2019 6:07 PM
Since Friday morning, CNN has devoted a substantial amount of time to hyping the story of a black man who has charged racial discrimination after he was evicted from a Double Tree hotel in Portland, Oregon, apparently for refusing to prove to a security guard that he was, in fact, a paying guest before the police arrived.