James Comey to Teach 'Ethical Leadership' Course; Press Notes No Irony
January 24th, 2018 7:38 AM
On Friday, the College of William & Mary announced that former FBI Director James Comey, a 1982 graduate, will "will teach a three-credit course on ethical leadership" beginning this fall. Establishment press coverage of Comey's assignment, coinciding with being named "an executive professor in education," has mostly avoided the myriad reasons why having him teach such a course is a horrible…
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Nets Ignore NFL Quashing ‘Please Stand' Super Bowl Ad by Vets Group
January 23rd, 2018 11:51 PM
With the protest-filled 2017 NFL season set to come to an end in a couple of weeks, the league found itself engulfed in controversy Tuesday when they banned an ad from a veterans group asking people to “please stand” for the national anthem. It was a truly sad story, but the none of the major network news outlets (ABC, CBS, and NBC) felt the need to report it to their viewers during their evening…
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CNN's Cuomo Pushes to Help Illegals Without Border Security First
January 23rd, 2018 10:10 PM
As Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney appeared as a guest on Tuesday's New Day, CNN host Chris Cuomo repeatedly lobbied for DACA to be extended to help illegal immigrants without tying it to improving border security, even as his GOP guest repeatedly made the argument against doing so.
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ABC Still Not Covering Missing Texts, Nets Silent on 'Secret Society'
January 23rd, 2018 9:32 PM
The revelations concerning missing FBI text messages continued to snowball on Tuesday as news trickled out that, via the remaining 50,000 texts, the FBI was home to a so-called “secret society” that began meeting after President Trump was elected. And despite how the revelations have been reported by other major news outlets, the three major network news outlets have been reluctant to cover…
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Looniness: Schmidt Denounces FBI Concerns as ‘Snake Oil’ ‘McCarthyism’
January 23rd, 2018 8:55 PM
Just think, this is who MSNBC considers to be one of its best and brightest Republicans. On Tuesday’s Hardball, political analyst and 2008 McCain campaign manager Steve Schmidt tore into Republican questions about the FISA memo and Strzok-Page texts as “snake oil” “McCarthyism” being “abetted” by the Fox News Channel serving as “state-run TV in an autocratic society.”
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CNN Guest Wasserman Schultz Claims ‘Trump Shutdown’ Was ‘Insane'
January 23rd, 2018 5:44 PM
It didn’t take long after the three-day federal government shutdown ended for liberals in the Democratic Party and the mainstream media to do all they can to assign blame for what is being called the “Trump Shutdown” by CNN Newsroom guest and Democratic Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Fla.), who branded it as “insane” and was a result of the “complete ineptitude of this president and…
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Amanpour Gives Forum for Libs to Fret GOP 'Hardliners,' 'Shocking' Ad
January 23rd, 2018 1:29 PM
On the Monday edition of CNN International's Amanpour on PBS, it was a night of all liberal guests who were given an unchallenged forum to push their views against President Donald Trump and Republicans. After starting off with Planned Parenthood's Cecile Richards, host Christiane Amanpour moved to a segment with E.J. Dionne and Norman Ornstein to discuss DACA, with the guests bemoaning "…
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Oh Dear: Nets Fret as ‘Buckling’ Dems ‘Blasted By Left-Wing' Liberals
January 23rd, 2018 12:00 PM
ABC, CBS and NBC on Tuesday spun the end of the government shutdown from the perspective of angry liberals, hyping that Democrats are being “blasted by left-wing,” “progressives” who are unhappy about how the party bungled the impasse.
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Cuomo Complains Trump ‘Insulted’ Women’s March With Economy Tweet
January 23rd, 2018 10:22 AM
While the media loves when Democrats “burn” the president with a clever comment, they can’t handle it when he does the same back at them.
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Nets Censor Revelation FBI Lost Texts from Two Shady Anti-Trump Agents
January 22nd, 2018 11:41 PM
There were disturbing revelations out of the FBI over the weekend when it was learned that the bureau had somehow lost roughly five months of text messages between an anti-Trump investigator and a lawyer he was romantically involved with. Since then there have been calls from Republican members of Congress for another special counsel to investigate the FBI’s shady handling of the Clinton e-mail…
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CBS/NBC Downplay GOP Victory in Shutdown, ABC Guilts Democrats
January 22nd, 2018 9:21 PM
Congressional Republicans and President Trump declared victory on Monday over the Democrats in the government shutdown, as the Resistance could hold out no longer and voted on the continuing resolution to fund the government. In exchange, they received a promise to negotiate and vote on DACA in the next few weeks. The three major network news outlets were notably disappointed and frustrated that…
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Trump’s First Year Headlined as ‘Horror Show’ on Telemundo
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January 22nd, 2018 8:46 PM
The tendency to exaggerate how ‘bad’ things are has long plagued the practice of journalism. This common failing of the profession, however, was further compounded by Telemundo, when at the top of a national newscast coinciding with the first year anniversary of the Trump presidency the sister network to NBC made several highly irresponsible – and patently false – characterizations.
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Awww: CNN's Jim Acosta Suffers Serial Self-Humiliation During Shutdown
January 22nd, 2018 6:11 PM
CNN's Jim Acosta has had a rough four days. It's hard not to take some pleasure in that situation, given the Chief White House Correspondent's habitual rudeness and petulance with President Trump, and with his representatives during White House press briefings.
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Update: Nets Cover Women’s March Nearly 7X More Than March for Life
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January 22nd, 2018 6:08 PM
Time is everything, especially when it comes to understanding the media’s priorities. At the end of January, there were two marches the same weekend both claiming to stand for women. But the network coverage was anything but similar.
