SPECIAL REPORT: A Tale of Two Inflation Rates and Media Spinmasters
If you were paying attention, you would notice a glaring case of two logically incoherent media narratives at play. Specifically, skyrocketing inflation under Biden during a midterm election year was considered a “transitory” blip, but a more tempered inflation rate under Trump during another midterm election year, despite a major war, was cast as setting the economy on the precipice of a…
Alexander Concerned for CNN After ‘What Has Happened at CBS News’
At the start of the second week of his new MS NOW daytime show, former NBC White House correspondent and current State of Play host Peter Alexander worried for the future of CNN amid a possible merger between Warner Bros. Discovery, which currently oversees CNN, and Paramount, which oversees CBS.
AWFUL: Tapper Uses the Fall of Kabul to Hit Trump, Hegseth on Iran
Today’s terrible end-of-show editorial by Jake Tapper on CNN’s State of the Union is a desecration of the memory of the Fall of Kabul at the expense of The Current Thing. Tapper took duct tape and baling wire and tied the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan to the ongoing operation in Iran and the current narrative over conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln.
JOURNALISTIC EOD: Sunday Shows Help Dems Defuse AOC’s ‘Woke One’ Quote
The Elitist Media had a narrative bomb on its hands after Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said last week that “Woke One is crazy.” This week, several Sunday shows enabled Democrats as they tried to defuse that bomb and scurry away unscathed.
CNN Guest Claims Mangione Held Back Tears, Showed Empathy In Courtroom
On Friday, Luigi Mangione pleaded guilty to stalking and killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson by shooting him in the back at point blank range in Manhattan. Even the liberal media almost unanimously reported that Mangione had showed no remorse while admitting his guilt, or said nothing at all about his demeanor, but on Friday night CNN's Erin Burnett OutFront found an exception.
CNN's Sanchez Describes Mangione Fans As Merely 'Controversial'
CNN likes to think of itself as a network that knows that there is an objective difference between an apple and a banana, but on Friday, The Source guest host Boris Sanchez chose a bizarre news story to claim the people who think an apple is actually a banana are merely “controversial.” Those people would be supporters of Luigi Mangione, the man who pled guilty in federal court on Friday to…
CNN Dems Say ICE 'Murdered' Renee Good & Alex Pretti, Jennings Objects
On Tuesday, a cellphone and dashboard video started going viral, with ICE opponent Carolina Molina taping an ICE officer pointing a gun at her as she circled him in her car. The left wing media sprinted to Molina's defense on Wednesday's NewsNight, and pundits Bakari Sellers and Sarah Matthews claimed ICE "murdered" Renee Good and Alex Pretti. Scott Jennings objected.
CNN's Ex-ESPN Guest Says There's a Race Issue in the WNBA
Ever since Sophie Cunningham of the WNBA's Indiana Fever told ESPN, last month, that she does not favor biological men playing in woman's sports, the league has been involved in one controversy after the other, almost all of them self imposed. Tuesday on CNN's The Situation Room, Host Pamela Brown brought on CNN Contributor Cari Champion, formerly of ESPN, to discuss some of what was going on…
CNN Blames 'Political Agitators' For WNBA-Transgender Fiasco
With the WNBA attempting and failing at its attempt to explain why it can’t simply come out and say a women’s sports league is for women, CNN sports anchor Don Riddell joined Thursday’s News Central to explain it is actually “a non-issue” that is being exploited by “political agitators” who are pushing “divisive agendas in the culture war.”
Daniel Dale Whines About GOP Ad Portraying El-Sayed As 'Dangerous'
CNN chief fact-checker Daniel Dale is not pleased with Senator and National Republican Senatorial Committee chairman Tim Scott. On Wednesday, Dale penned an article attacking Scott for a “misleading” ad that “snipped key context” from a Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed speech, but Dale’s criticism seems to be that Republicans didn’t put an entire paragraph from that speech in their 30-second…
CNN Complains Patriot Games Kids 'Appear To Be Overwhelmingly White’
On Wednesday’s CNN This Morning, between coverage of the previous night’s primary elections, the show dedicated a segment to bash the Patriot Games youth sports event and complained that the event seemed like a “MAGA Olympics.” Host Audie Cornish cited a CNN article that complained about the event, and said “many” youth participants “attend private Christian schools” and “appear to be…
Fox Just Beat CNN (Again). Pay Attention to Why.
Something remarkable just happened in the digital news business. For the first time since the Media Research Center launched our Digital News Tracker in November 2025, FoxNews.com has overtaken CNN.com in monthly U.S. web traffic.
Ex-CNN Pentagon Reporter Wonders How Trump Plane Deception Was Legal
Former CNN Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr returned to the network on Tuesday to imply on The Source that the Secret Service getting President Trump out of Turkey in July was illegal because it put civilian members of the press at risk.
CNN's Pamela Brown Not Happy As Marc Short Calls El-Sayed Anti-Semite
On Monday at the White House, President Trump signed an Executive Order on children's vaccines, and afterwards, while taking questions, said that Democrats had been able to get jihadists elected as we head into the mid terms in November, and as you can imagine, that did not sit well with many in the left wing media who, since his primary victory, have gone out of their way to protect the likes…