CNN Officially Axes 200 Jobs, Blitzer to AM, Acosta Dead Man Walking

January 23rd, 2025 11:49 AM

As first reported last year by Puck’s Dylan Byers and then confirmed last week in detail by former CNN media reporter Oliver Darcy, CNN pulled the trigger Thursday on massive layoffs — to the tune of roughly 200 people — at the once proud network-turned-Resistance-hive-turned-ratings gadfly. CNN boss Mark Thompson announced the six-percent workforce cut would be accompanied by a massive…

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Mika's Surprise Take On Pardons: Trump Kept His Word, Biden Did Not!

January 23rd, 2025 11:27 AM

On Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski gave a surprisingly candid take on the Trump pardons versus the Biden pardons. She recognizes that granting the pardons is Trump's right, and whereas Trump kept his promise of pardoning J6 participants, Biden did not keep his word that he would not pardon Hunter or other family members.

'Fact-Based' AP Hypes Hoax of Elon Musk Offering 'Nazi Salutes'

January 23rd, 2025 11:19 AM

The Associated Press claims to bring "fact-based, nonpartisan information to the world." Fact check? Pants On Fire. In two stories, AP hyped Democrats and leftists (and "right-wing extremists") claiming Elon Musk made a Nazi salute on Inauguration Day. It's a hoax.

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Colbert: Vance Hated Woke Sermon Since He Didn't Have Sex With The Pew

January 23rd, 2025 10:04 AM

It was an eventful evening for CBS’s host of The Late Show, Stephen Colbert. First, during his monologue, Colbert praised Episcopal Bishop Mariann Budde’s plea to Trump that repeated several left-wing grievances and claimed Vice President JD Vance was upset during the sermon because he could not have sex with the pew. Second, Colbert later welcomed CBS News’s John Dickerson to give a…

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PBS Biden Fans Warn of ‘Rising Tech Oligarchy' at Trump Inauguration

January 23rd, 2025 5:59 AM

During Monday afternoon’s coverage of President Trump’s second inauguration, the co-anchors of the coverage, PBS News Hour hosts Geoff Bennett and Amna Nawaz, were disturbed on ex-President Biden’s behalf by the prominent seating of corporate tech chieftains, and repeated Biden’s hypocritical warning about a rising Trumpian “oligarchy."

NewsBusters Podcast: Will Media Coverage of Trump Sound Like a Rerun?

January 22nd, 2025 10:20 PM

It's a cruel winter for the liberals, and the media are not taking it well. Will coverage of Trump's second term sound like a rerun? Curtis Houck talks about inauguration coverage and Nick Fondacaro wraps up all the revelations from the CNN defamation trial.

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MSNBC’s Joyless Reid Joins Elon Musk Nazi Salute Hoax

January 22nd, 2025 8:55 PM

No dumb media hoax is complete until MSNBC’s resident bitter race arsonist jumps into the pile-on. Thus, Joy Reid has entered into the debunked and defamatory narrative suggesting that Elon Musk performed a Nazi salute during President Trump’s inaugural festivities.

Clock Ticking on Doctor’s $30 Million Defamation Trial Against MSNBC

January 22nd, 2025 6:46 PM

Holding media outlets accountable seems to be a theme in 2025. As NewsBusters previously reported, left-wing MSNBC was staring down a $30 million defamation trial after they allegedly spread lies about a Georgia doctor they labeled “the uterus collector.” The trial is set to begin in late April and is taking place in rural Georgia at the federal courthouse for the Southern District of Georgia…

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ABC, CBS Celebrate Lefty ‘Bishop’ Using Church Service to Chide Trump

January 22nd, 2025 6:06 PM

On Wednesday, ABC’s Good Morning America and CBS Mornings fawned over the far, far, far-left Episcopal Church and Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde using a Tuesday prayer service at the National Cathedral to deliver a progressive scolding disguised as a sermon about God’s Word and prayer over President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance.

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Mitchell Labels Debunked Allegations Against Hegseth 'Uncontested'

January 22nd, 2025 3:20 PM

MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell loves spreading fake news about Defense Secretary-designate Pete Hegseth, and on Wednesday she was at it again. Despite court testimony and NBC’s own reporting that showed that Hegseth’s ex-wife denies their reporting about Hegseth being abusive, Mitchell claimed such allegations remain “uncontested.”

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The View Praises Bishop Who Tried to Troll Trump on Deporting Illegals

January 22nd, 2025 3:06 PM

The star guest for the Wednesday episode of ABC’s The View was Episcopal “bishop” Mariann Edgar Budde, the same sermon leader who tried to troll President Trump the previous day during a service he attended at the National Cathedral, calling into question his plans for the mass deportation of illegal immigrants (which the vast majority of Americans supported). Of course, that resulted…

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ABC, NBC Join CBS in Desperate New Smear Against Pete Hegseth

January 22nd, 2025 3:05 PM

With Wednesday’s Today (and ABC’s Good Morning America), an NBC flagship newscast covered a smear perpetuated by its own website that Democrats on the Senate Armed Services Committee have a sworn affidavit from secretary of defense pick Pete Hegseth’s former sister-in-law alleging he abused his second wife. The problem? Said ex-wife denied it.

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CBS Comedians Further Elon Musk Nazi Salute Hoax

January 22nd, 2025 2:00 PM

CBS’s comedic duo of Stephen Colbert and Taylor Tomlinson repeated the dishonest talking point that Elon Musk did a Nazi salute at a Trump inaugural celebration on their respective Tuesday installments of The Late Show and After Midnight.

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The Media HIDE the Stripping of Security Clearances from ‘Dirty 51’

January 22nd, 2025 11:23 AM

The returning Resistance Media have begun to report on the Trump Administration very much the same way they reported on the previous Trump Administration: with glaring omissions in service of a narrative. In this case, half-reporting on the initial executive orders signed by President Donald Trump.