Brian Stelter
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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…
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Stelter: Trump and Fox Coronavirus 'Drug Pushing' Endangered Lives
April 24th, 2020 9:44 AM
The recent VA study that showed that hydroxychloroquine failed to show any benefit in treating and may even harm COVID-19 patients has led many in the media to say "told you so." Some, such as CNN's Brian Stelter, have gone even further, who claimed on Wednesday's CNN Newsroom that President Trump and various Fox News personalities' advocacy of it has been dangerous.
Eric Weinstein BLASTS Big Tech for Censoring Content, Protecting WHO
April 23rd, 2020 2:20 PM
The man who coined the term “Intellectual Dark Web” blasted Big Tech executives for censoring content related to COVID-19 and warned: “Don’t even think about silencing responsible dissent.” Just “[p]ut it out of your mind,” Managing Director of Thiel Capital and host of The Portal Eric Weinstein warned in a tweet thread. “Stop fantasizing about being N Korean.” Weinstein’s remarks came in…
Column: Manipulating Steele's Dossier of Disinformation
April 22nd, 2020 6:47 AM
Washington Post media blogger Erik Wemple recently issued the 13th article in a series on the partisan liberal media promoting the Clinton-funded “dossier” assembled by ex-British spy Christopher Steele. Newly declassified notes from the report of Justice Department inspector general Michael Horowitz reveal Steele’s “findings” were part of a Russian disinformation campaign. “It’s ironic that the…
CNN Fact-Checker Ignores Biden Flubs Despite Vow to Cover 'Both Sides'
April 15th, 2020 10:04 AM
Being a “fact-checker” should be easy work. First, you go through a speech or an article while defining certain items as “facts.” After that, you turn your attention to verifying whether those items are correct by “checking” them. CNN's latest motto is “Facts First,” and the checker has promised to cover candidates on both sides of the political aisle. But in the last three months, it's…
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MELTDOWN: CNN Rages at WH 'Propaganda' Video Calling Out Media
April 14th, 2020 12:38 PM
Hell hath no fury than a journalist confronted with his own hypocrisy. That was evident Monday evening into Tuesday morning as just about every CNN host and correspondent raged at President Trump for playing a video during Monday’s coronavirus task force briefing that called out the media for their hypocritical coverage of COVID-19.
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CNN UNHINGED: Trump and ‘Conservative Media’ ‘Created’ This ‘Mess’
April 14th, 2020 12:32 AM
CNN couldn’t stand the heat so they bailed out of Monday’s Coronavirus Task Force press conference and dove right into some unhinged hot takes. While they insisted President Trump was the one who was raging, the OutFront panel was clearly irate as they threw out a flurry of insults and unsupported accusations all in an effort to blame the over 23,000 coronavirus deaths in the U.S. on the…
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Stelter Shellacks Trump, Ignores Biden In Softballs to NYT Top Editor
April 13th, 2020 9:47 AM
On Sunday's Reliable Sources on CNN, host Brian Stelter typically attacked President Trump and his "ignorance on sad display," but never mentioned the names Cuomo or Biden -- even as he asked New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet about the paper's new Trump expose -- and totally ignored the paper's story on the woman accusing Joe Biden of sexual assault.
