Gawker Remnant Lashes Out At Univision Execs' Meeting With Trump
January 11th, 2017 5:11 PM
Univision rushed to frame its executives' meeting with President-elect Donald Trump as "productive". However, that framing is quickly coming undone from within the organization.
Media Critics Slam 'Ridiculous' BuzzFeed Hurting 'Journalistic Ethics'
January 11th, 2017 4:32 PM
Conservative media critics (and even some considered to be neutral) lashed out on Wednesday at BuzzFeed’s recklessly unsubstantiated report about President-elect Donald Trump as they lashed out at BuzzFeed, calling their decision a “ridiculous” one that “violated journalistic ethics.”
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NBC: Intel Officials ‘Don’t Believe’ Trump Dossier; ‘Political Junk'
January 11th, 2017 3:41 PM
During NBC’s special live coverage of Donald Trump’s press conference on Wednesday, reporter Cynthia McFadden revealed that U.S. intelligence officials deemed rumors of a Russian dossier of damaging information about the President-elect to not be credible. She explained to NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt: “...as far as they are concerned, and I’m going to quote now, ‘Intel and law enforcement…
MSM Nightmare: 'Fake News' Invoked 10 Times at Trump Press Conference
January 11th, 2017 3:21 PM
So who has a bigger headache today: Margaret Sullivan of the Washington Post or CNN's Jim Acosta? Last week media columnist Sullivan requested that the term "fake news" be retired and today President-elect Donald Trump threw that term against Acosta when he shut him down during his press conference. At the press conference "fake news" was used 10 times thus dashing the hopes of the MSM folks…
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CBS Grills Conway Over BuzzFeed's Unsubstantiated Trump Reporting
January 11th, 2017 1:57 PM
On Wednesday, CBS This Morning's anchors hounded Kellyanne Conway over an appendix to a recent intelligence report given to Donald Trump that supposedly highlighted Russia's attempts to compromise the President-Elect, as well BuzzFeed's unsubstantiated document dump related to it. Charlie Rose, Norah O'Donnell, and Gayle King repeatedly tried to get Conway to verify something that she wasn't…
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Nets Jump on BuzzFeed Sleaze; Russia Dominates Press Conference
January 11th, 2017 1:53 PM
The unverified claims pushed by BuzzFeed on Tuesday dominated Donald Trump’s press conference on Wednesday with numerous reporters pouncing on what the President-elect attacked as “fake news.” NBC reporter Hallie Jackson demanded to know about the allegations of Russian blackmail: “Does Russia have any leverage over you, financial or otherwise, and if not, will you release your tax returns to…
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Trump Blasts ‘Fake News’ CNN, Spars With Reporter
January 11th, 2017 12:42 PM
Donald Trump on Wednesday blasted CNN as "fake news" and hit the cable network for repeating and promoting unverified information out of BuzzFeed. During a press conference heavily dominated by BuzzFeed’s unverified claims about the President-elect, reporter Jim Acosta attempted to shout out a question: “Since you are attacking our news organization ---"
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Stephanopoulos Scoffs When Conway Says Media Tried to Help Hillary Win
January 11th, 2017 11:55 AM
Wednesday’s Good Morning America had anchor George Stephanopoulos struggling to regain control of the interview after Trump’s senior advisor Kellyanne Conway called the media out for for their pro-Clinton bias. After repeated attempts to get Conway to answer whether or not Trump accepted that Russia hacked the election, Conway hit back, accusing the media of being the ones who tried to sway the…
NYT's ‘Radical Suspicions’ About Betsy DeVos, Trump’s Education Pick
January 11th, 2017 8:55 AM
The front page of the New York Times on Tuesday featured a hit-job against Betsy DeVos, Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Education, by reporter Noam Scheiber, “Trump Education Pick Plays Hardball With Her Wealth.” Scheiber, formerly of the left-wing New Republic magazine, is a passionate fan of a $15 minimum wage, and his left-wing leanings are evident in this long hostile profile of DeVos…
Surprise! Obama FCC Quietly Enables Univision's Foreign 'Bailout'
January 11th, 2017 8:00 AM
Much of our reporting on Univision's institutional biases centered around the fact that the network required certain regulatory relief that was likeliest to come in a Clinton administration. But it appears that the Obama administration has already provided some of that relief on the way out.
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CNN Laments Being Unable to Hear a Good Speech ‘Like This’ from Trump
January 10th, 2017 11:38 PM
Almost minutes after President Barack Obama concluded his farewell address Tuesday night, CNN jumped into whining about not being able to hear such deep speech from President-elect Donald Trump. “Also as we think about the next president about to take office, I mean, their speaking styles could not possibly be any more different,” noted moderator, Anderson Cooper, as unseen members of his panel…
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CBS, NBC Go Numb in Obama Farewell Preview; ‘The Embodiment of Hope'
January 10th, 2017 8:19 PM
To the surprise of probably no one who visits NewsBusters, CBS and NBC went soft in their Tuesday evening newscasts previewing President Obama’s farewell address, touting Obama as having been “the embodiment of hope and the personification of change.”
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Colbert Proposes 'Million Meryl March' After Streep Slams Donald Trump
January 10th, 2017 6:37 PM
During Monday's edition of CBS's Late Show program, host Stephen Colbert chimed in on actress Meryl Streep's six-minute speech slamming President-elect Donald Trump at the Golden Globe Awards the night before, and he gleefully let his liberal perspective come shining through.
Bozell & Graham Column: Fawning Farewells? Not for Republicans
January 10th, 2017 6:11 PM
For weeks, the liberal media have celebrated all that Barack Obama means...to them. CNN produced a two-hour documentary on the Obama legacy that never mentioned things like annual trillion-dollar deficits. Fareed Zakaria wrapped up the show: “He ran an administration that was largely scandal-free and did it all the while under a microscope. Because he looked different.”