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Frequent consumers of political news may be aware of Gallup's annual poll measuring the "most admired man" in America which is typically announced a few days before New Year's. The poll was done yearly from 1946 through 2020, with 1976 the only year that was skipped. This year, a Google search shows no sign that Gallup did a poll for 2021.

This was CNN cognitive dissonance on steroids -- with a booster shot of hypocrisy. In its 7 am hour, New Day brought on CNN medical analyst  Dr. Jonathan Reiner who called the Times Square New Year's Eve celebration a potential "superspreader" event that is "completely unnecessary" and "unwise." Reiner called omicron "the most contagious pathogen that any of us have ever seen." And he…

While guest hosting Inside Politics on CNN on Thursday, Phil Mattingly wondered how President Biden's approval rating could be so low, after all he has signed major pieces of legislation and the economy is "robust." To alleviate his confusion, Mattingly welcomed CNN historian Tim Naftali to explain that Biden's numbers will eventually go up because at the current moment he is being…

Continuing what’s become a staple of our year-end packages, NewsBusters used our Google Analytics to compile our ten most-read stories from 2021, which saw four writers from our News Analysis Division seeing stories crack the top ten along with one from MRC Culture and two from MRC’s Free Speech America.

CNN is ending 2021 the same way they spent most of it: in the gutter. Late Wednesday, news broke that yet another CNN producer was under “criminal investigation” for sexually preying on minors. This time it was the producer for Jake Tapper’s weekday show The Lead, Rick Saleeby.

Lumping Donald Trump with Osama Bin Laden? That's going too easy on the former president! On New Day, CNN's "national security analyst" and former Obama aide Juliette Kayyem said that when a year ago in an Atlantic article she depicted Trump as being "the leader of a terror movement," she was, as she recently tweeted, actually being "too kind" to him!

On Tuesday night it was announced that former Democratic Senate Leader Harry Reid passed away at age eighty-two. Although even the passing of one of their beloved party leaders didn’t stop CNN and MSNBC from ghoulishly exploiting his death to push for repealing the Senate filibuster.

All throughout Sunday and Monday, CNN featured several top 10 year in reviews to recap the year's biggest stories. Climate correspondent Bill Weir was responsible for the climate edition as he warned that the world is "close to a point of no return" when it comes to the "code red for humanity" of "planet-cooking pollution."

Reacting to President Biden telling governors regarding the COVID pandemic that "there is no federal solution, this gets solved at the state level," CNN's John Harwood says: "I think that was a throwaway line from Biden . . . I don't think he was actually signaling it's not my job anymore, it's your job . . . So I think somewhat more has been made of that little, sort of polite beginning of…

Filling in for boss Tim Graham, NewsBusters deputy managing editor Nick “Night Train” Fondacaro and I were back in our saddles for Monday’s post-Christmas edition of the NewsBusters Podcast and, while it’s often a slower time of the year in the news business, we still had plenty to talk about.

In a stark example of just how detached from reality folks in the liberal media can be, CNN media beat reporter Brian Stelter actually tried to place America among a list of the world’s worst press jailers for 2021. The list included the likes of China and Belarus and was presented on his Reliable Sources Sunday show by Committee to Protect Journalism executive director, Joel Simon.…

Today we present the WORST OF 2021: The Craziest Analysis Award.

On the last so-called “Reliable Sources” of 2021, CNN media apologist Brian Stelter set out to bust some of the “misconceptions” the public had about the media. The misconceptions that needed to be battled included the idea that they have “malicious intent” when they publish fake news and that the media’s political biases were being actively offset internally, resulting in balanced…

China is responsible for every American Covid death. But if you’re going to try to parse out blame to a particular president, at least get the simple math right. On Christmas Eve, CNN Newsroom fill-in host Boris Sanchez had some trouble doing that as he definitively claimed it was “fake news” to accurately say that more Americans have been killed by Covid under President Biden than…