Despite Daily Rumbles, Stelter Squeals Trump's 'Self-Isolating' at Fox

Tim Graham
March 31st, 2020 8:49 AM
CNN Reliable Sources host Brian Stelter spent many months complaining about the lack of White House press briefings...then when Trump took questions on the lawn, it was the lack of "formal" press briefings. Now there are daily briefings in the James Brady Briefing Room, and Stelter's complaining "Trump is self-isolating at his safe space: Fox News." Stelter should be quite physically fit after…
 

Column: Press Briefings and Ego Bruisings

Tim Graham
March 25th, 2020 6:44 AM
One of the more tiresome partisan polkas we’ve witnessed in the Trump years is the herky-jerky dancing around the White House briefing. First, journalists insist it’s a dangerously undemocratic practice to avoid a daily briefing. Then when suddenly there are daily briefings for a public-health crisis, journalists insist it’s a dangerous practice to air these briefings live because the president…
 
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CNN's Stelter Sucks Up to AT&T CEO in Simpering Softball Interview

Bill D'Agostino
March 22nd, 2020 3:56 PM
CNN’s Brian Stelter on Sunday spent a full interview with AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson lobbing softballs, even as Congressional talks over a coronavirus stimulus package were faltering due to, among other things, concerns about whether corporations would use the aid responsibly. However, the Reliable Sources host’s decision to genuflect rather than ask anything meaningful isn’t much of a shock…
 

Stelter's HBO Straw Man: Toxic 'Right-Wing' Liars vs. Heroic Old Media

Tim Graham
March 20th, 2020 5:27 PM

Anyone who heard Brian Stelter was producing a documentary on "fake news" for HBO titled After Truth can imagine what they would receive. Anyone watching it finds nothing in it that’s very surprising. Stelter’s employers (current and past) at CNN and The New York Times are the Verifiers of Fact, fighting against a shameless “right-wing” army of misinformation profiteers.

 

Stelter to Surgeon General: Stop Lecturing About Media 'Partisanship'

Tim Graham
March 15th, 2020 8:19 AM
In his latest newsletter, CNN Reliable Sources host Brian Stelter echoed Trump-bashing Los Angeles Times reporter Chris Megerian in being upset at Surgeon General Jerome Adams for daring to call out partisan bickering from reporters. He also tweeted "He needs to spend his time educating the public about how to protect each other, not lecturing the press about what's newsworthy."
 
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Brian Stelter Destroys His Own Arguments In Puffing Biden and Sanders

Tim Graham
March 9th, 2020 7:56 AM
Two of Brian Stelter’s routine arguments against Donald Trump crumbled yesterday on his show Reliable Sources. "Mental fitness" for office is only a serious issue when it's used against Trump, apparently, and saying "don't believe the media" isn't a horrendous attack on reporters -- and begging for anti-media violence -- when Bernie Sanders says it. 
 

Brian Stelter, Other Reporters Caught Partying With Katie Hill

Kristine Marsh
March 2nd, 2020 10:06 AM

CNN host Brian Stelter and his network go after Fox News, just about every week, claiming their hosts and analysts are cronies working for President Trump. But Stelter has been caught in his own conflict of interest dilemma. The Reliable Sources host, along with two of his reporter colleagues, was seen socializing with disgraced Democrat congresswoman, Katie Hill in New York over the weekend,…

 
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Stelter: Liberal Bias on Coronavirus Is a 'Crazed Conspiracy Theory'

Tim Graham
March 2nd, 2020 7:51 AM

For days now, the CNN Media Unit has been flailing away at the bizarre notion that the liberal media is NOT trying to use the coronavirus problem to damage President Trump’s standing in an election year….even as CNN and other media outlets are trying to do exactly that. On Sunday, CNN Reliable Sources host Brian Stelter opened with a lecture about how coronavirus is a “nonpartisan illness,” by…

 
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Stelter Whines Fox Is ‘Reprehensible’ for Calling Out Media Virus Bias

Randy Hall
February 28th, 2020 8:34 PM
It’s easy to predict how Brian Stelter, host of the Sunday Reliable Sources program on CNN, will respond to any disagreements with President Trump and the anchors on the Fox News Channel. He simply dismisses anything they say as simply being wrong. That was obviously the case on Friday, when the network’s chief media correspondent was a guest during a segment of the At This Hour program as hosted…
 
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Stelter's Sunday Smear: 'Authoritarian Creep in Trump's America'

Tim Graham
February 17th, 2020 7:51 AM
On Sunday's so-called Reliable Sources, CNN host Brian Stelter uncorked a six-minute lecture on one of his favorite topics: How Trump is dragging America into authoritarianism. Stelter led off his show Sunday with another six-minute lecture about how Trump represents something called "democratic backsliding," as he read from the book How Democracies Die and an article titled "10 Ways to Tell If…
 
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Stelter: Was I ‘Stupid’ to Say Avenatti Was ‘Serious’ 2020 Contender?

Nicholas Fondacaro
February 16th, 2020 3:23 PM
Well, it may have taken a while, but CNN host Brian Stelter finally admitted that praising lawyer Michael Avenatti (A.K.A creepy porn lawyer) as a “serious” contender for 2020 wasn’t a smart move. The admission came during the latest Reliable Sources as he was speaking with writers form the left-wing Daily Beast, Lachlan Markey and Asawin Suebsaeng about their new book about how the DC swamp…
 
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CNN: No Such Thing as Right-Wing Media, Just a 'Propaganda Apparatus'

Nicholas Fondacaro
February 2nd, 2020 3:16 PM
In exercising projection, CNN’s so-called “Reliable Sources” sought to decry President Trump’s “imperial presidency” on Sunday by emphasizing how there was no such thing as “right-wing media” vs. “liberal-media,” but, in fact, it was a “propaganda apparatus” vs. a “media apparatus.” Yes, it was the same show that said Trump had killed more people than Hitler, Stalin, and Mao combined, claimed the…
 
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CNN: Fox Audience ‘Inoculated’ From Democrat Impeachment Arguments

Kristine Marsh
January 27th, 2020 10:16 AM

CNN is grasping at straws to explain away Americans waning interest in the impeachment trial. On Reliable Sources Sunday, host Brian Stelter and his CNN colleagues Oliver Darcy and John Avlon blamed it on the “Fox firewall” which apparently keeps the right ignorant of Democrat arguments. Besides dismissing conservatives as indoctrinated, the liberal panel also attacked the Trump administration…

 

Stelter Praises Schumer's Impeachment 'Strategy' of Bashing Fox News

Alex Christy
January 24th, 2020 6:52 PM
Friday, CNN media correspondent and self-appointed defender of the free press Brian Stelter joined the network's pre-game panel discussion to talk the latest impeachment developments and to applaud Sen. Chuck Schumer for going after Fox News.