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CNN Columnist: Let's Not Use 'Terrorism' For Non-Directed Attacks
August 9th, 2016 10:54 PM
Last month, yours truly, with the help of commenters (and in a supplemental post found here), shredded the idea proposed in a column at Slate.com that journalists should eliminate the words "terrorist" and, by extension, "terrorism," to describe genuine acts of terrorism committed by terrorists (unless those words are uttered in quoted remarks by interview subjects). Sadly, in the course of…

CNN: Lesbian Proposal ‘As Dramatic As Olympic Final’
Culture
August 9th, 2016 11:06 AM
Brazilian women’s rugby player Isadora Cerullo got engaged to a female manager at the Deodoro Stadium after the manager Majorie Enya gave an “emotional speech.” The online media, including CNN, ABC, and The Huffington Post, saw the opportunity to resurrect the “love wins” slogan.

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Graham Beckel Offers Odd Defense of Clint Eastwood 'Esquire' Interview
August 8th, 2016 5:19 PM
During a recent interview with Clint Eastwood -- and his son, Scott -- on the Esquire magazine's website, the popular actor and director criticized the current atmosphere of political correctness, telling writer Michael Hainey that when he was growing up, people could say a lot more and not be called a racist.
When the Cable News Network decided to discuss that topic, one of the panelists…

CNN Reveals 'Surprising Secret' Behind Clintons' 'Modern' Marriage
August 1st, 2016 6:09 PM
As the Democratic National Convention drew to a close in Philadelphia last Thursday, the website of the Cable News Network posted an article written by psychologist Peggy Drexler regarding the “surprising secret” behind the marriage of former Democratic President Bill Clinton and wife Hillary, the party's current candidate for occupant of the White House.
“Marriage, like many jobs, is tough work…

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CNN Airs Socialism-Free Story on Venezuelan Pediatric Hospital Crisis
July 15th, 2016 12:03 AM
It would be far too kind to give three cheers to CNN for exposing the disastrous conditions in a children's hospital in Caracas, Venezuela caused by over 15 years of Bolivarian socialism in a July 13 broadcast report.
The network gets one hearty cheer for the detailed report's existence. It lost a chance for a second cheer when it failed to mention the country's socialist form of government…

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Media Out To Lunch on Fraud Indictment of Democratic Congresswoman
July 11th, 2016 1:26 PM
Democratic Rep. Corrine Brown was indicted on 24 federal charges on Friday related to a "fraudulent education charity," as CNN.com put it on Friday. However, viewers of CNN's on-air coverage, as well as those who watch MSNBC and the Big Three networks' morning and evening newscasts, would know nothing of this indictment, as these TV outlets have yet to cover it, as of Monday morning.

CNN Celebrates African 'Transgender Hero' Against 'Ignorant Church'
July 11th, 2016 7:09 AM
It’s not just NBC Out that’s pushing the LGBT gospel in network TV-land. CNN is competing in the culture wars as well against “ignorant church” folk. Thomas Page at CNN.com pushed this article last week: “Tchinda Andrade: Cape Verde's transgender hero.” A man is the “mother hen” of the trans community in that African island country.

AP: Thanks Only to U.S., UK's 'Leave' Vote Won't Lead to Its 'Demise'
July 6th, 2016 9:38 PM
Saturday at the Associated Press, aka the Admininstration's Press, Josh Lederman ran interference for President Barack Obama's conveniently timed Brexit vote flip-flop. Obama has now reversed his Aoril threat — and yes, it was a threat — that the United Kingdom would go to the "back of the queue" to get a U.S. trade deal if "Leave" supporters won the June 23 vote there on remaining in the…

CNN Producer Bizarrely Claims Obama's America Is a New Jim Crow Era
July 1st, 2016 11:07 AM
CNN’s John Blake perfectly encapsulated one thing that outrages white Americans in the Obama era. The country elects a black president, and yet this only proves that racism is just as bad now...as when Emmett Till was beaten to death and then shot in the Jim Crow era for allegedly whistling at a white woman.
Blake, a "CNN Enterprise writer/producer," wrote a very tendentious commentary titled…

CNN Editor Bemoans 'Un-British' Brexit Vote Spawning 'Racist Abuse'
June 29th, 2016 1:03 PM
CNN Money associate editor Charles Riley deeply lamented British voters' decision to "exile themselves from the European Union" in a Wednesday piece on CNN.com. Riley played up "reports of racist abuse," and underlined that "it's not easy to dismiss some of the darker forces that were conjured during the [Brexit] campaign." He later cited a U.K.-based American writer who asserted that "the…

Disney CEO Slams ‘High’ Corporate Taxes, ‘Complex’ U.S. Tax Code
Business
June 9th, 2016 4:22 PM
Disney’s CEO apparently doesn’t sing “Hakuna Matata” when reviewing his company’s taxes. The Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Iger slammed the U.S. tax system as “ridiculously complex,” and said the country’s high corporate rate was “anti-competitive.”

CNN's Bourdain In Vietnam: Obama's 'Chopstick Skills Are On Point'
May 23rd, 2016 6:24 PM
CNN recently admitted that it's "no longer a TV news network," but that apparently isn't going to stop the network from setting aside some of its non-news air time to President Obama. Chef Anthony Bourdain sat down with the Democrat in a restaurant in Hanoi on Monday, and shot footage for an upcoming episode of his Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown program on the cable channel. Bourdain posted a…

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Press Loves Stewart's 'Man-Baby' Trump Tag, Downplay His Hillary Hits
May 13th, 2016 12:02 PM
In an appearance at the University of Chicago on Monday, Jon Stewart, as NewsBusters' Scott Whitlock noted the next day, mocked those who think highly of this country's ideals and history, and particularly GOP frontrunner Donald Trump and his supporters, when he asked, "When was American great?"
In that interview with former Obama presidential campaign chief David Axelrod, the former fake Comedy…

CNN and NY Times Fail to Label This Convicted NY Democrat
May 6th, 2016 3:16 PM
Forner New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, a Democrat, was sentenced to 12 years in prison Monday after being convicted last year "in a $5 million corruption case alleging he traded favors to enrich himself and then lied about it."
Perhaps cognizant of the fact that media watchers are looking over their shoulders, the primary dispatch and several other news stories at the Associated…