NewsBusters Podcast: Nick Fondacaro on CNN Found Guilty of Defamation
A jury in Panama City, Florida found CNN guilty of defamation in the case of Zachary Young, who worked to rescue people from Afghanistan after America withdrew. CNN must pay $5 million in damages (not counting punitive damages). Associate Editor Nick Fondacaro has been in the courtroom to explain it all.
Zachary Young Speaks Out to NewsBusters About His Defamation Victory
Panama City, FL – The defamation case brought by Navy veteran Zachary Young has left CNN permanently marked as “fake news” after his victory in court on Friday. As NewsBusters previously reported, the jury of six found CNN did defame Young, that they did it with malice, and they should be punished for it. The ruling spurred CNN to seek an undisclosed settlement. And in the…
Wolf in the AM, Acosta to the Dungeon? CNN Mulling MASSIVE Changes
Former conservative reporter-turned-liberal-media apologist Oliver Darcy spent the last few days leaking out news from his former employer about a new direction for the TV side of CNN that, while not radical in changing its liberal ideology, would be radical in personnel movement with Wolf Blitzer poised to host mornings and Jim Acosta possibly being banished to midnight Eastern.
DIARRHEA FROM ZAKARIA: CNN Host Tells Dems Forget the Working Class
CNN host Fareed Zakaria tried to claim (a) Bidenomics was mind-boggling genius, and also (b) white working-class voters hated it and rejected it in November. So forget those unwashed, uneducated white voters. Democrats should stop trying for those voters and stick to college-educated women and minorities.
Trump Issues SURPRISE Response to SCOTUS Decision on TikTok Ban
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against communist Chinese government-tied TikTok, meaning a ban takes effect on Jan. 19. Meanwhile, President-elect Donald Trump has his own ideas for the platform.
Megyn Kelly Schools WashPost Lib, Ex-Colleague for Smearing Hegseth
Washington Post economics columnist Catherine Rampell lashed out Thursday afternoon at SiriusXM host Megyn Kelly and blamed her for threats and ugly words being hurled her way after Kelly shelled her for smearing Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth as merely a “TV host” and thus tossing aside his 20 years of boots-on-the-ground military service. This, dear readers, is what one…
NYT's Front-Page Panic: 'MAGA Forces Push Message Across Europe'
New York Times’s Berlin bureau chief Katrin Bennhold made Tuesday’s front page with the “news analysis” “MAGA Forces Push Message Across Europe.” Bennhold’s reporting focuses solely on the dangers of the “far right” in Germany, or at least groups and personalities which she identifies as such. This time, Bennhold’s designated villain out to disrupt the world is well-known to Americans…
ICYMI: Petty Prick KJP Allegedly Barred Kirby From Last Briefing
On Thursday afternoon, the great Steven Nelson of the New York Post put more meat on the bone regarding reports bumbling, fumbling, stumbling White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre barred national security advisor and spokesman John Kirby from speaking to reporters about the Israel-Hamas ceasefire and hostage deal because she didn’t want arguably the only adult in the Biden…
REGIME TO RESISTANCE: The Media Run With Fake ‘Oligarchy’ Narrative
President Joe Biden’s denunciations of an emerging “oligarchy” and “tech-industrial complex” appear to be, beyond a ham-handed attempt at an Eisenhower moment of his own, a clarion call to the media in the waning days of his presidency. If network news is to serve as a guide, it appears that the media have heeded the call.
'Go Lower': The View Applauds Michelle Obama Skipping Inauguration
Michelle Obama may have skipped Jimmy Carter’s funeral in order to stay on vacation, but the Friday cast of ABC’s The View cheered the former first lady’s decision to also skip Donald Trump’s inauguration. Sunny Hostin claimed such pettiness was a needed correction from Michelle’s “when they go low, we go high” mantra, while Joy Behar wondered why the former presidents will dignify…
Morning Joe: There's Skepticism Hostage Deal Will Hold--Because Bibi!
On Morning Joe, Jonathan Lemire says there's skepticism the hostage deal will hold because Netanyahu -- not Hamas! -- might "submarine" it.
Amanpour Sets Up Leftist to Slam 'Undeniably Racist' GOP on Illegals
On The Amanpour Hour, CNN host Christiane Amanpour gave a sympathetic forum to left-wing film maker Errol Morris and MSNBC reporter Jacob Soboroff to promote their documentary attacking the GOP's opposition to illegal immigration, with Morris even declaring that then-President Donald Trump's family separation policy from 2018 was "unmistakably racist."
BREAKING: CNN Found Liable for Defamation of Navy Vet Zachary Young
Panama City, FL – On Friday, a jury of six in Florida’s 14th Circuit Court in Bay County has found CNN liable for the defamation of Navy veteran Zachary Young and that he was entitled economic and emotional damages, a ruling that proved CNN was not worthy of their moniker “the most trusted name in news.” They also found that CNN’s reporters had demonstrated expressed malice,…
