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FLASHBACK: NewsBusters Exposed Fareed Zakaria’s Plagiarism Scandal

August 12th, 2023 8:45 AM

Twelve years ago, NewsBusters exposed an act of plagiarism by CNN host and Time columnist Fareed Zakaria. Here's a look back at how the story unfolded, and the reaction from Zakaria's fellow journalists.

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Washington Week Skips GOP Hearings Entirely, Lusts Over Trump in Jail

July 23rd, 2023 12:34 PM

The PBS journalist roundtable Washington Week would never put on a Fox News correspondent or a Washington Times reporter -- they're too opinionated? But on July 21, as they obsessed over a potential third Trump indictment, they brought on Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, whose partisanship knows no bounds.

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Atlantic Mag Editor Touts Disinformation Talks, Skips Hunter's Laptop

April 8th, 2022 2:52 PM

The editor-in-chief of Atlantic magazine memory holes the Hunter Biden laptop story disinformation while one of its writers dismisses the story because she conveniently doesn't find it "interesting."

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PBS's Isaacson Drops Nazi Comparison on GOP's 'Quisling Enablers'

December 18th, 2020 5:51 PM

On Tuesday's Amanpour and Co. on PBS and CNN International, Walter Isaacson treated viewers of the taxpayer funded show to hyperbole as he likened Republican supporters of President Donald Trump to those who collaborated with Adolf Hitler during World War ii, deriding them as "quisling enablers of the undermining of democracy."

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Obama's Echo Chamber at MSNBC Worries About Trump Echo Chambers

November 18th, 2020 12:54 PM

The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg and PBS White House reporter Yamiche Alcindor joined MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell on Monday to long for the days of Barack Obama because those were the days when the president cared about the truth.

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Chuck Todd Fears Media Losing Their ‘Power’ to ‘Shame a Politician’

September 13th, 2020 5:40 PM

After boasting about the “deluge” of anti-Trump books (7) published in the last 10 days (with more to come ahead of the election), NBC political director and moderator of Meet the Press, Chuck Todd was worried. He was concerned that the media were losing their “power” to “shame” President Trump and politicians as a whole.

Column: The Hyperbolic, Hyperpartisan Atlantic Magazine

September 9th, 2020 6:23 AM

As they launch a fall-campaign fusillade with anonymous sources claiming President Trump callously trashed America’s war dead as “losers” and “suckers,” The Atlantic magazine is being celebrated by the pro-Biden news media. They are “respected,” and “venerable,” and “at the zenith of their influence." Editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg lauded his magazine bosses as “excellent owners who…

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Goldberg Continues Digging His Own Grave Despite GLOWING Praise

September 9th, 2020 12:10 AM

Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg must have thought early Tuesday evening that he was making matters better when he appeared on CNN’s The Situation Room to discuss his hit piece against President Trump, but despite host Wolf Blitzer’s gushing praise for his “amazing” “bombshell” we all should be “grateful” for, he continued to undermine the central claims of his tale…

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Stupid! Stelter Pretends 'Write a Letter to the Publisher' Is a THREAT

September 8th, 2020 7:33 AM

CNN just gets desperate trying to say everything the president says is dictatorial. On Sunday's Reliable Sources, host Brian Stelter pretended it was "ominous" and threatening for the president to tell his supporters on Twitter to call or write the publisher of The Atlantic to object to their nasty story. If that's a threat, then NewsBusters threatens media outlets…

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Goldberg Defends Anonymous Sources: They Feared 'Angry Tweets'

September 4th, 2020 6:20 PM

On Thursday, The Atlantic ran a truly damning piece accusing President Trump of saying that a cemetery of marines who died at the Battle of Belleau Wood, one of the most important battles of World War I and in the history of the Marine Corps, is "filled with losers" and that they were "suckers" for getting killed. However, there was a problem. Editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg's…

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McEnany Wipes the Floor with Atlantic Over ‘Fake News’ ‘Propaganda’

September 4th, 2020 5:17 PM

On Friday afternoon, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany continued the full court press from the Trump administration and campaign to debunk, deny, and dispose of Thursday’s hit Atlantic piece against President Trump from liberal hack editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, calling it “conspiracy-laden propaganda” and “fake news” that abandoned “all journalistic integrity.” And in…

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Go Figure: Nets Treat ‘Explosive,’ ‘Staggering’ Atlantic Story as Fact

September 4th, 2020 2:58 PM

On Friday morning, the “big three” broadcast network newscasts treated the anonymously sourced Atlantic piece claiming President Trump called fallen U.S. soldiers “losers” and “suckers” as fact, huffing about how “explosive,” “staggering,” and “stinging” the allegations were that have put the President on “…

Cowards: ‘The Atlantic’ Fires Conservative Writer Kevin Williamson

April 5th, 2018 3:29 PM

In another sign of extreme cowardice and censorship of conservatives, The Atlantic and editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg decided to fire conservative and former National Review writer Kevin Williamson on Thursday after just over two weeks since the announcement following vicious backlash to the hiring. The excuse was holding a pro-life position about women aborting children facing the death…

Atlantic’s Trump-Hating Contributor Also Hits Press for Overreaction

September 15th, 2017 5:05 PM
The October 2017 issue of The Atlantic was devoted to “The Trump Presidency – A Damage Report,” part of which has already been covered at Newsbusters. Editor Jeffrey Goldberg introduced the issue’s theme in his opening Editor’s Note, “The Autocratic Element,” while one of his contributors also blamed the liberal press for (in Bob Woodward’s phrase) “binge-drinking the anti-Trump Kool-Aid.”