Captain Truth? Brian Stelter Toasted by Columbia Journalism Review
May 6th, 2018 8:54 AM
Every one would love a puff piece written about them, and Pete Vernon wrote a very puffy piece on CNN's Brian Stelter for the Columbia Journalism Review. The article's theme was Stelter was a strictly fact-based objective journalist forced into editorializing by Donald Trump's war on the facts and truth. It's like one of those Apple vs. Banana ads, a perfect CNN infomercial. Vernon virtually…
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CNN Gives Hogg & Kasky Forum to Bash NRA, Pro-Gun Candidates
May 6th, 2018 12:03 AM
After President Donald Trump spoke to the National Rifle Association convention on Friday, CNN has not surprisingly reacted by bringing on liberal gun control activists and given them a mostly unchallenged forum to promote their agenda and bash gun rights supporters. On Friday night, Anderson Cooper spoke with Parkland student activists David Hogg and Cameron Kasky, and, the next morning, host…
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CNN Highlights Police Brutality Video After Ignoring Attacks on Cops
May 5th, 2018 8:56 PM
On Saturday, CNN was true to form in showing more interest in stories that reflect negatively on how police officers do their jobs while ignoring those that show law enforcement work sympathetically. After ignoring two cases of attacks on law enforcement that were covered by other networks, CNN did find time today to run two reports on video showing a Miami cop kicking a suspect in the head after…
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Hemingway on Fox & Friends: Media Errors Are 'All in One Direction'
May 5th, 2018 4:14 PM
TheFederalist.com's Mollie Hemingway appeared Saturday morning on Fox & Friends: Weekend to discuss NBC's botched "Michael Cohen was wiretapped" story, which is only the latest in a long line of establishment press stories subsequently requiring major corrections or retractions. Hemingway observed that the errors "always go in one direction."
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CNN Ignores Attack on Fed Agent After Promising Updates; FNC Covers
May 4th, 2018 10:14 PM
On Friday, after its early morning anchors promised "details throughout the day here on CNN" regarding a federal agent being attacked in Chicago, CNN dropped all interest in the story after spending only 21 seconds on the tragic event. By contrast, FNC repeatedly updated viewers on the ATF agent who was shot in the face while trying to help local police fight against gang activity.
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Media Mostly Ignore Autopsy Bolstering Cops in Stephon Clark Shooting
May 4th, 2018 3:25 PM
At the end of March, after a private autopsy on police shooting victim Stephon Clark was conducted at his family's request which alleged that the police mostly shot him in the back and lied about him charging at them, the dominant media pounced on the story, with all three broadcast networks opening their March 30 newscasts with full reports on the development. But, since the Sacramento county …
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CNN Interviews Valerie Jarrett, Fails to Disclose Daughter as Reporter
May 4th, 2018 2:38 PM
There are few things more damaging to the liberal media’s credibility than conflicts of interest and false/fake stories. For CNN, it was the latter on Friday’s New Day as co-host Alisyn Camerota treated former Obama senior adviser Valerie Jarrett to a softball interview, but failed to disclose that Valerie’s daughter (Laura Jarrett) is a CNN Justice correspondent.
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CNN Goes Nuclear on Sanders; ‘She Has Lost Credibility’ with Americans
May 3rd, 2018 4:33 PM
Conditions reached DEFCON-1 over at CNN on Thursday afternoon following a tense White House press briefing filled with questions about the administration’s credibility. These frenzied inquiries were sparked by Rudy Giuliani's stunning admission that the President reimbursed Michael Cohen for the Stormy Daniels hush payment.
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Colbert Applauds Avenatti for ‘Using the Media’ to Trash Trump
May 3rd, 2018 11:54 AM
During an interview with Stormy Daniels attorney Michael Avenatti on Wednesday’s CBS Late Show, aired early Thursday morning, host Stephen Colbert congratulated the porn star’s legal counsel for effectively “using the media” to attack President Trump and even alluded to a Media Research Center study finding that Avenatti has made 59 appearances on CNN in less than two months.
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Worst of the Month: Freaking Over Fox and Trump’s Threat To Democracy
May 3rd, 2018 8:30 AM
This past month has seen liberal journalists freak out over Fox New’s growing influence and whine about Donald Trump’s shots at leftist members of the press. They also worried they weren’t fair enough to Hillary Clinton during the campaign, even though one reporter admitted to having “spent a year” on writing a “great story” for the Democratic nominee. The following are the worst attacks against…
Weekly Standard Thumps 'Our Self-Obsessed Parochial Press Corps'
May 2nd, 2018 5:14 PM
Kelly Jane Torrance of The Weekly Standard wrote a startling article on "Our self-obsessed parochial press corps" in the magazine's May 7 edition. The setting was an April 20 State Department briefing on its report on human-rights abuses in other countries...but the reporters wanted to focus on the horrors of America.
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CNN's Hill Suggests Wearing Trump Hat Worse Than Saying 'F the Police'
May 2nd, 2018 4:13 PM
On Tuesday's CNN Tonight, during a discussion of rapper Kanye West recently making a provocative suggestion that black slaves were partially to blame for their own enslavement, liberal CNN political commentator at one point hinted that wearing a pro-Donald Trump MAGA hate was worse than rappers pushing an "F the police" message. He also suggested that it was racist for conservatives to discuss…
CNN Hosts Porn Star's Lawyer 59 Times in Less Than Two Months
May 2nd, 2018 9:05 AM
CNN has exhibited a fetish for the Stormy Daniels story, particularly for her Trump-smacking lawyer, Michael Avenatti. In less than two months (from March 7 to April 30), Avenatti has been a guest on CNN a total of 59 times – an average of more than once per day.
CNN’s Stelter Silent on NBC Pressuring Female Reporters to Back Brokaw
May 2nd, 2018 2:04 AM
Early last month, CNN senior media correspondent Brian Stelter was apoplectic that Sinclair Broadcasting Group dared to have anchors on its network of local television outlets read a scripted corporate statement railing against fake news and promising to remain factual in their reporting. Flash forward to Tuesday, May 1, and the latest instance of a media corporation pressuring its journalists…