New Deckchair for the Titanic: Ex-BBC, NYT Tapped to Lead Divisive CNN
August 31st, 2023 11:44 AM
Publicly revealed on Wednesday, WarnerBros. Discovery tapped former BBC Director-General and former CEO/president of The New York Times Company to lead CNN as it continues to struggle not only with ratings, but improving its image from the days of the Jeffrey Zucker-led circus that lived for spewing venom at Donald Trump and the GOP writ large.
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MSNBC Guest Claims 2nd Amendment Created to Stop Slave Insurrections
April 17th, 2023 11:34 PM
As NewsBusters has documented over the years, frequent MSNBC guest Mark Thompson frequently twists reality and often outright makes stuff up in order to fit whatever ideological point he's trying to make. It appears he's moved on from being a theological historian when he claimed baby Jesus would've died if he was alive due to then-President Trump's immigration policies. He now pretends to be…
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AWFUL: Late-Night MSNBC Praises Obama for Bashing, Insulting Voters
August 18th, 2020 3:56 AM
Early Tuesday morning on MSNBC after night one of the 2020 DNC, host Ari Melber’s panelists hailed former First Lady Michelle Obama’s speech for having sternly condemned and rebuked Americans for not only putting Donald Trump in office, but for causing rampant divisions and warning of dire consequences if they voted incorrectly. While not as captivating (albeit from a bias perspective), silly…
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On MSNBC, Mark Thompson Claims Baby Jesus Might Have Died Under Trump
January 3rd, 2019 7:14 AM
On Wednesday's MSNBC Live with Stephanie Ruhle, liberal talk radio host and frequent MSNBC guest Mark Thompson declared that baby Jesus, as an immigrant, would have been separated from his parents and might have died in detention if he had lived under President Donald Trump's rule.
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MSNBC's Ruhle Blames ‘Sick’ ‘Scary’ Hyde-Smith for Nooses Hung by Libs
November 27th, 2018 11:34 AM
Cable news and the networks have been hard at work trying to demonize Mississippi’s GOP Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith as a callous racist who wants to bring back the KKK’s reign of terror in the South from decades past. After liberal activists added to the drama by putting nooses on the state legislature lawn, MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle and her liberal guests tried to blame Hyde-Smith for the stunt,…
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MSNBC Pundit: ‘Absolutely Racist’ DeSantis Must Quit Florida Campaign
August 30th, 2018 10:36 AM
At the top of the 11:00 a.m. ET hour on Wednesday, MSNBC anchor Ali Velshi gave his left-wing guests free rein accuse Florida Republican gubernatorial nominee Ron DeSantis of being “blatantly racist” due to a poor choice of words he used in a Fox News interview. One of the pundits, left-wing SiriusXM host Mark Thompson, a regular on the cable channel, even demanded that the GOP congressman…
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MSNBC Republican Fails to Counter Claims Kavanaugh 'Radical'
July 30th, 2018 10:54 AM
On Monday's MSNBC Live with Stephanie Ruhle, viewers got to see another case which demonstrates that the purpose of a Republican or right-leaning MSNBC contributor is to avoid disagreeing too aggressively with the more stridently liberal commentators as contributor and former Ted Cruz aide Rick Tyler failed to counter claims that Judge Brett Kavanaugh has "radical" views on abortion and gun…
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MSNBC Slams ‘Sleazy,’ ‘Evil’ McConnell for Blocking Merrick Garland
July 11th, 2018 5:03 PM
During a panel discussion on her 9:00 a.m. ET hour show on Wednesday, MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle agreed with left-wing SiriusXM Progress radio host Mark Thompson that it was “evil” for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to block Barack Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court in 2016. Thompson further warned that “women’s lives are on the line” with President Trump’s…
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Hilarious: NYT CEO Thinks Paper’s News Coverage Isn't Biased
February 3rd, 2017 1:15 PM
On Thursday, New York Times CEO Mark Thompson stopped by CNBC’s Power Lunch to discuss the paper’s subscription numbers since the election and hilariously argued that the newspaper doesn’t display a liberal bias because “we aim to be objective and to tell people straightforwardly what's happening.”
NY Times CEO: Social Media Should Subsidize 'Real Journalism'
December 15th, 2016 7:40 PM
The day after Election Day, Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner met with President Barack Obama. The primary takeaway from that interview, published in late November, was, as Tim Graham at NewsBusters noted, how Obama partly blamed Hillary Clinton's election loss to Donald Trump on “Fox News in every bar and restaurant in big chunks of the country.” Additionally, Wenner, in what seemed at the…
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MSNBC Guest: Trump's Picture Should Be Next to Slaveholders
September 19th, 2016 1:58 PM
During a panel discussion on birtherism last Friday night on MSNBC’s The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell, guest Mark Thompson suggested Donald Trump’s response to President Obama’s citizenship was racism on the level of slavery. Thompson, a liberal SiriusXM host and contributor to the Huffington Post, called Trump one of “the most despicable candidates in history” who’s “trying to re-litigate…
Padded New York Times Opinion Piece Equates Trump With Hitler
August 29th, 2016 5:43 PM
Mark Thompson, chief executive of the New York Times, has written a highly padded opinion piece that boils down to one important thing he wants to get across to you rubes: Trump = Hitler. Oh yeah, he includes one very slight caveat so you don't think of him as your usual leftwing loon. The rest of his piece is mostly yawn inducing padding which serves as filler for his basic premise.
So let us…
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MSNBC Guest: ‘Voter Suppression’ ‘More Sophisticated Form of Lynching'
June 23rd, 2015 9:25 AM
During a panel discussion on racism in America on MSNBC’s Last Word w/ Lawrence O’Donnell Monday night, Mark Thompson, a host on SIRIUS XM, argued that “voter suppression” is a new and “more sophisticated form of lynching” taking place in America today.
Dear New York Times: Your BBC Scandal Coverage Is Slipping, Conflict o
October 28th, 2013 8:54 AM
Last August, The New York Times hired former BBC director-general Mark Thompson as its president and CEO, despite a massive pedophilia scandal around the late BBC star Jimmy Savile. The Times is renowned in liberal media circles for its aggression in crusading against the Vatican on pedophlia, but the BBC? MRC president Brent Bozell asserted that the facts show Thompson was at the very least "…
