Brian Stelter
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Stelter Blames Trump for Press Being Targeted By Police, Rioters
May 31st, 2020 2:23 PM
In the past few days, we’ve seen disturbing videos and reports of journalists getting brutalized from both sides of recent clashes: rioters beating them, damaging and stealing equipment, and police arresting and shooting reporters with rubber bullets or pepper spray balls while they just try to report. But according to CNN’s media analyst and Reliable Sources host, Brian Stelter,…
Column: New York Media Corona-Coddle Cuomo
May 27th, 2020 6:33 AM
A bevy of bloggers on the right have highlighted one of the most dramatic examples of comparative coronavirus bias: Those reckless southern Republican governors in Georgia or Florida who allegedly love commerce more than human lives, versus New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, our apparent national lodestar of competence. One side gets the heat, the other gets his press conferences broadcast live…
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Stelter Insists Media Acts in 'Good Faith,' As He Proves He Doesn't
May 25th, 2020 10:44 AM
CNN Reliable Sources host Brian Stelter said something fascinating on his show Sunday. He complained to New York Times media columnist Ben Smith that "I don't know how to show folk that journalists are mostly acting in good faith. Here's how a show allegedly focused on journalism fails to show good faith. Stelter had on a writer from The Atlantic to discuss the coronavirus and never whispered a…
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Brian Stelter Lectures About 'Basic Decency,' But Fails To Show It
May 17th, 2020 4:37 PM
CNN Reliable Sources host Brian Stelter is so robotically repetitive in his anti-Trump speeches that he actually boasted on Sunday that he was repeating word-for-word a 2017 lecture on Trump’s anti-media rhetoric being “poison.” He began by declaring “The American press is stronger than any demagogue, but President Trump’s attacks present real challenges.”
CNN Cheers CNN Poll Saying CNN Is 'Most Trusted!' CNN Very Excited!
May 15th, 2020 10:30 AM
CNN has some very exciting news to tell you about CNN. According to a CNN poll, CNN is the "most trusted news source" on cable TV. Who better to trust than CNN when talking about how great CNN is? In order to boost its prestige, the cable news channel had to conduct its own poll, which of course produced good numbers and a high percentage of “trust” among those surveyed.
Forthcoming Anti-Fox Book from Stelter Shifts to Coronavirus Shaming
May 13th, 2020 3:03 PM
Under the less than complimentary web address HoaxTheBook.com, Simon & Schuster is promoting Brian Stelter's "urgent" Fox-hating book Hoax, now scheduled for release in August. The book has shifted to zero in on coronavirus, with the natural assumption that Fox News "misinformation" enhanced sickness and death.
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Blitzer, Stelter Nail Trump as Racist for Exchange With Weijia Jiang
May 12th, 2020 10:21 PM
Over the course of 24 hours, CNN personalities have all accused President Trump of racism over the course of three shows for telling CBS News White House correspondent and Chinese-American Weijia Jiang to “ask China” her question about why he sees the battle to contain Coronavirus as a “global competition.” It appears as if the media believed that their Trump Derangement Syndrome has given them…
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Stelter: Right-Wing Media Downplaying Virus Deaths By Covering Flynn
May 10th, 2020 1:10 PM
In kicking off Sunday’s un-Reliable Sources, host and liberal hack Brian Stelter tried to distract from the corrupt FBI officials exposed via the revelations in the General Michael Flynn case by suggesting: “right-wing” coverage of the case was an attempt to “downplay” and “normalize” the massive death toll from the Chinese Coronavirus.
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CNN, Trump Campaign Clash Over Ad with CNN Footage In It
May 8th, 2020 1:40 PM
A lawyer for CNN’s parent company Warner Media sent a cease-and-desist letter to the Trump re-election campaign claiming a new advertisement is misusing CNN news coverage in a way that's "false, misleading and deceptive." They didn't want Dr. Sanjay Gupta sounding in any way positive about President Trump. But CNN also thinks Trump should never "punch down" and complain about negative ads.
The Eight Worst ‘Fake News’ Stories of the Trump Years
May 5th, 2020 9:00 AM
Journalists bristle when President Trump criticizes them as “fake news,” and they complain that such criticism erodes the public’s faith in the news media as an independent watchdog on the powerful. But Trump’s critiques wouldn’t have nearly as much impact if news organizations refrained from behaving as sloppy partisans, carelessly jumping on one false story after another if they think it will…
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Stelter Throws Hardballs at McEnany, Softballs at Harsh Olivia Nuzzi
May 3rd, 2020 4:46 PM
On Sunday's Reliable Sources, CNN host Brian Stelter cued up New York magazine reporter Olivia Nuzzi to defend herself for asking Trump if he deserves re-election after he "lost" more Americans than died in the Vietnam War. Nuzzi's boyfriend Ryan Lizza of Politico claimed it's "never been the case" that reporters showboated in the briefing room. Has he never watched Jim Acosta?
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Tucker: YouTube ‘Officially Banned Dissent’ Deleting Medical Opinions
April 29th, 2020 12:41 PM
A popular video featuring California emergency doctors Dan Erickson and Artin Massihi was taken down by YouTube for “violating YouTube’s terms of service.” Based on their own research, the hour-long conference asked, “Does this make sense? Are we following the science?”
YouTube CEO Relies on WHO Mistakes to Fight Misinformation
April 27th, 2020 12:45 PM
Big Tech platforms have taken it upon themselves to police misinformation, but why are they glorifying the mistakes at the World Health Organization? YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki made a special appearance on Brian Stelter’s Reliable Sources podcast where she explained how YouTube has been fighting misinformation with what Big Tech considers to be more reputable sources. “We also talk about removing…
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CNN Abandons Tara Reade After One Story; Network Sunday Shows Skip
April 26th, 2020 4:10 PM
CNN offered one single story on a Saturday afternoon on Tara Reade’s allegation of sexual assault against Joe Biden – soon after NewsBusters unearthed a video clip of a woman she says is her mother calling into CNN saying a “prominent senator” had wronged her daughter. CNN’s Sunday shows went back to ignoring the story today – there was nothing from Jake Tapper on State of the Union, or from…
