Morning Shows Spend 16x More on Cohen Claim Than N.K. Remains Transfer

July 27th, 2018 5:20 PM
If you were watching one of the Friday morning cable or broadcast networks, chances were you didn’t hear about news late Thursday into Friday that the North Koreans handed over what purported to be remains of U.S. soldiers who went Missing In Action (MIA) during the Korean War. A NewsBusters analysis found that 16 times more coverage was dedicated to former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen’s unverified…
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CNN Breaking News: Trump Caught on Tape Politely Asking for Coke

July 27th, 2018 3:30 PM
In an age where the media has come under unprecedented levels of scrutiny for slanted reporting and bias, CNN has chosen to stick to the issues. Particularly, that of a video where President Trump politely asks for a Coca-Cola.
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'New Day' Hosts Stuck in 'CNN Land' Despite 'Good Week for Trump'

July 27th, 2018 2:40 PM
On Friday’s edition of New Day, hosts Alisyn Camerota and John Berman spent most of the three-hour program discussing former Trump lawyer, Michael Cohen and his willingness to turn on President Trump. During the third hour of the program, the two hosts invited president of the Eurasia group, Ian Bremmer to add his take to the nauseating amount of coverage of this topic.
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CNN, MSNBC, ABC Assail Donald Trump as a 'Dictator'

July 26th, 2018 8:46 PM
If there’s one thing the media doesn’t seem to specialize in, it’s originality. They all read from the same script. On five different programs broadcast Monday and Tuesday on three different networks, the media went off the rails; repeatedly calling President Trump a dictator and in some cases comparing him to Turkish Dictator Recep Tayyip Erdogan. At least they didn’t compare him to Hitler.
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CNN Touts Voter Who Regrets Voting Trump After Relative Deported

July 26th, 2018 8:30 PM
On Wednesday's CNN Tonight, host Don Lemon devoted an entire segment to a family in which a woman who voted for Donald Trump now regrets voting for him because her daughter-in-law has since been deported to Mexico. After the segment began by heavily suggesting that she had no criminal record, Lemon finally informed viewers that she had been arrested several years ago for a DWI. The CNN host also…
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Nets Mostly Ignore Good Guys With Guns, But Hype One Bad Case

July 26th, 2018 3:45 PM
Over the past several days, the broadcast networks and CNN have shown a blatant double standard in showing more interest in a concealed carry holder who may have abused his right to self-defense by picking a fight with a man before shooting him, in contrast with several other cases from recent weeks in which gun owners more sympathetically used their weapons to defend themselves against…

‘Occupy ICE’ Protesters Terrorize Portland, Assault Feds; Media Yawn

July 26th, 2018 2:45 PM
As of July 25, network newscasts have completely ignored the violence caused by the Occupy ICE PDX antifa group in Portland, Oregon, despite their usual penchant for covering pro-immigration protests. MSNBC has been equally silent on the leftwing group’s attempted occupation of an ICE facility since the protest began on June 19. 

NYT: Reality Equals CNN? 'Spotting CNN...Trump Rages Against Reality'

July 26th, 2018 2:14 PM
New York Times reporters Katie Rogers and Maggie Haberman were offended that President Trump doesn’t like to watch CNN, using a leaked anecdote from Air Force One for a full-page story Wednesday: “A Bit of a Stir’ Aboard Air Force One: A TV Tuned to CNN.” The headline writers went overboard. The text box: “A president who rages against reality wants to keep the remote control for himself.” The…
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MRC’s Bozell: CNN ‘No Longer a News Network,’ Just ‘Propaganda’

July 26th, 2018 1:24 PM
Appearing on Fox Business Network’s Varney & Co. on Thursday, Media Research Center President Brent Bozell hammered CNN for abandoning any pretense of objective journalism and devoting all of its air time to attacking President Trump on issue after issue. Host Stuart Varney, a CNN alum, lamented that it was “sad to see” the cable channel had fallen so far.
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CNN Conflating Legal Asylum Seekers With Illegal Immigrants

July 26th, 2018 1:07 PM

On Thursday morning, CNN's New Day show displayed the latest classic example of why journalists should generally not be considered reliable sources of accurate information as the Cable News Network continued to conflate legal asylum seekers who go through the proper procedure with those who cross the border illegally and seek asylum when they are apprehended. And, as Alisyn Camerota…

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Vega Melts Down Over ‘Shocking’ ‘Unprecedented’ Ban of CNN Reporter

July 26th, 2018 8:56 AM
As reported yesterday, the White House is facing backlash after banning CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins from a presser in the Rose Garden yesterday, after she had yelled questions to the President during a pool spray about the leaked Michael Cohen tape. Thursday morning the journalists on ABC’s Good Morning America melted down over the news complaining that this was a “shocking” and “unprecedented”…
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WH Bans CNN’s Kaitlan Collins from Event in ‘Unprecedented’ ‘Attack’

July 25th, 2018 8:25 PM
On Wednesday afternoon, the White House took the step of banning CNN White House reporter Kaitlan Collins from a Rose Garden announcement about tariffs following what the Trump administration believed were inappropriate questions shouted by Collins hours earlier about Michael Cohen and Vladimir Putin to the President. In reacting to this move, however, CNN’s Situation Room host Wolf Blitzer…
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CNN, MSNBC Flip Over Sessions Laughing Along With 'Lock Her Up' Chants

July 25th, 2018 3:59 PM
For much of Tuesday afternoon into Wednesday morning, various CNN and MSNBC hosts and contributors were seen freaking out over Attorney General Jeff Sessions playfully laughing along with audience members as they broke into a "Lock her up" chant at a Tuesday morning speaking event.
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Trump Calls Out Media Bias, CNN & MSNBC Fear Orwellian Dictatorship

July 25th, 2018 1:13 PM
Over an 18-hour period spanning two days, anchors on MSNBC and CNN all read from the same script as they warned viewers that President Trump’s typical criticism of the liberal media during a Tuesday address was akin to the authoritarian regime described in George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984.