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Media Scandals
FLASHBACK: The Many Fractured Fairy Tales of Brian Williams
Eight years ago this week, the highest-rated news anchor in America — NBC’s Brian Williams — was taken off the air for the wild exaggerations and outright falsehoods he’d been telling for at least a decade.
Editor’s Pick: Hot Air on AP Saying Zucker’s Secrecy Was the Problem
On Tuesday, Hot Air Senior Editor Ed Morrissey reported on the Associated Press concluding that the only thing disgraced CNN chief executive Jeff Zucker did wrong was to keep his affair with a subordinate a secret. As Morrissey observed: “Huh. And here I thought the lesson would be to not conspire with your paramour to turn your media outlet into a propaganda outlet for a leading politician…
Editor’s Pick: NY Post on Palin’s Defamation Suit Against NY Times
On Monday, the New York Post’s Ben Kesslen reported on how “Sarah Palin will square off against the New York Times Monday when her defamation case against the paper goes to trial in Manhattan.” He explained: “At the center of the 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee’s federal suit is a 2017 editorial that incorrectly linked Palin to the 2011 mass shooting in Arizona where six people…
Goodbye Golden Globes: Woke Ceremony Replaced by Bizarro Tweets
Hollywood is eating its own and it is glorious. You may have noticed that network television did not show the Golden Globes Awards ceremony this year -- or maybe you didn't since notice nobody ever really watches the show anyway.
Bozell: ‘CNN’s Reputation Is Completely Shot’ After Cuomo Scandal
Appearing on Newsmax’s Eric Bolling The Balance Wednesday afternoon, Media Research Center President Brent Bozell blasted suspended CNN host Chris Cuomo for his “deplorable” behavior of lying about being a political advisor for his disgraced brother, ex-New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. In addition, Bozell hammered the cable channel for “pretending to be a news network when it’s…
Editor’s Pick: Fox on CNN's ‘Meaningless’ Suspension of Chris Cuomo
On Tuesday, Fox News senior editor David Rutz and media reporter Joseph Wulfsohn reported on “Shelley Ross, the veteran TV producer who accused Chris Cuomo of sexual harassment, suggested CNN’s suspension of its star anchor isn’t enough to hold him accountable for his involvement in his brother’s scandals.” The ABC News producer told Fox News: “There is more to accountability than a…
MSNBC and The Arrogance of Left-Wing Media Power
In Kenosha, Kyle Rittenhouse has now been found not guilty on all counts. Not content with setting a wildly error-filled left-wing narrative that Rittenhouse is a white supremacist, a racist, a vigilante – yada yada yada as Jerry Seinfeld use to say – MSNBC took things a step further.
Editor’s Pick: Fox on Stelter Skipping Discredited Steele Dossier
On Monday, FoxNews.com’s Brian Flood reported on CNN’s Reliable Sources host Brian Stelter completely ignoring The Washington Post deleting and correcting reports about the discredited Steele dossier. “Americans who rely on CNN’s media program ‘Reliable Sources’ for information would be clueless because ratings-challenged host Brian Stelter shockingly ignored it,” Flood noted…
Guthrie to Couric: RBG Cover-Up ‘Violates Cardinal Rule of Journalism’
During a Tuesday interview with former Today show co-host Katie Couric, current NBC morning show host Savannah Guthrie scolded her predecessor for censoring comments made by late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in a 2016 Yahoo News interview. Guthrie told Couric that the decision to edit out those remarks “violates a cardinal rule of journalism.”
King Impressed By ‘Thoughtful’ Portrayal of Harassing Morning Host
During a Friday interview with actress Reese Witherspoon about season two of AppleTV+’s The Morning Show, real-life CBS Mornings host Gayle King was impressed with the “thoughtful” and “very interesting” way the fictional series dealt with the all-too-real topic of a network news anchor being fired for sexually harassing co-workers. Without mentioning her disgraced former co-…
Nets Ignore CNN’s Cuomo Doing PR for Predatory Brother
While all three broadcast networks thoroughly covered the damning investigative report detailing the disturbing pattern of sexual harassment perpetrated by New York Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo, none of the coverage on Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning mentioned CNN anchor Chris Cuomo’s active role in running defense for his scandal-plagued brother. Apparently the media corruption…
Censorship Explainer Video: Tech Oligarchs Don’t Like to Laugh
What ever happened to laughter being the best medicine? Big Tech’s ever-vigilant information watchdogs have no sense of humor and consistently attack any and all information they disagree with. The Babylon Bee has been on the censorship chopping block as of late but luckily, are not backing down.
John Cleese Is Right: Cancel Culture Is DUMB
Twitter has become more entertaining than reality television as of late. Today’s episode: Winnie the Pooh narrator shows he’s not putting up with any cancel culture in the hundred acre Twitter woods.
