Five Grievous SINS Brian Stelter Should Confess Before Rejoining CNN

September 4th, 2024 12:00 PM

Amid the less-than-shocking news that post-Chris Licht CNN is bringing Brian Stelter back as "Chief Media Analyst," we at NewsBusters insist that the sequel Stelter 2: Electric Boogaloo be accompanied by some small measure of repentance.for all of the remarkable arrogance that made him the poster boy of the philosophy that liberal tilt is mandatory, and at the same time, we're not on…

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BREAKING: Brian Stelter and ‘Reliable Sources’ Returning to CNN

September 3rd, 2024 7:10 PM

You read that correctly. The liberal media’s janitor, Brian Stelter will be returning to CNN two years after being canned amid network-wide shake ups under the leadership of since-ousted boss Chris Licht. That’s according to a Tuesday scoop by Stelter’s former CNN media beat buddy Dylan Byers, and later confirmed by Stelter on X and in a post from the resurrected Reliable Sources Newsletter.…

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CNN Harris Documentary Lauds Her Abortion Activism

September 3rd, 2024 12:24 PM

For its Labor Day evening programming, CNN ran hour-long documentaries on Kamala Harris and Donald Trump that sought to explain where each candidate stands on the issues and their records. If Harris wants to campaign on abortion, she might not need to anymore because the Harris episode heaped copious amounts of praise on her for her abortion activism.

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CNN Sets Up Randi Weingarten to Trash J.D. Vance for Calling Her Out

September 2nd, 2024 6:22 AM

On The Source on CNN, fill-in host Pamela Brown brought on left-wing teachers union leader Randi Weingarten as a guest so she could bash GOP vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance for criticizing her in a three-year-old clip liberals have recently been hyping.

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The Sunday Shows Defend Biden-Harris Against Abbey Gate Families

September 1st, 2024 10:37 PM

Across the Sunday TV dial, the political affairs shows sought to provide political cover for the Biden-Harris Administration’s neglect of the families of the 13 service members killed during the ISIS-K attack at the Hamid Karzai International Airport on August 26th, 2021. The four major shows did this by continuing to scandalize former President Donald Trump’s visit to the Arlington National…

The Aggressively Anti-Trump Media STILL Insist They’re Not Biased

September 1st, 2024 10:05 AM

In the last eight years, the media have left their biased fingerprints all over the news, starting with their hostile coverage of Trump. Yet our archives are full of quotes from journalists insisting that they have no partisan axe to grind.

NPR Pundit: Harris Did Fine on CNN Because Conservatives Trashed Bash

September 1st, 2024 6:32 AM

On their regular "Week In Politics" chat on NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday, host Scott Simon asked NPR senior Washington correspondent Ron Elving how Kamala Harris and Tim Walz performed in their sit-down CNN interview. Elving said you knew they were fine because conservatives trashed CNN and Dana Bash after it aired.

The Third Party Under Campaign Scrutiny: The Media

August 31st, 2024 4:00 PM

Popular wisdom has it is that there are two candidates on the election ballot this fall: former President Donald Trump for the GOP, and for the Democrats, Vice President Kamala Harris. But the Media Party is also under scrutiny.

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‘Joyful,’ ‘Happy’ Harris-Walz Vs. ‘Dark,’ ‘Dangerous’ Trump-Vance

August 31st, 2024 9:00 AM

The following are the most egregious examples of leftist journalists holding up the Harris-Walz ticket, while trashing Trump-Vance over the last month.

NewsBusters Podcast: Dana No-Bash Lets Harris & Walz Talk, Talk, Talk

August 30th, 2024 10:00 PM

Kamala Harris finally submitted to an interview after 39 days as Biden's sudden replacement. There were a few tough questions, but then came really long answers without much follow-up. Jorge Bonilla sat through it all and has thoughts. 

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Defamation Judge Pushes Back on CNN’s Use of Sharia Law for Defense

August 30th, 2024 6:20 PM

In a public hearing exclusively recorded and streamed by NewsBusters, on Friday, CNN defended their use of Taliban Sharia law in the courtroom. CNN’s lead counsel Deanna Shullman (of Shullman Fugate PLLC) repeatedly argued that the network was correct to suggest Plaintiff and Navy veteran Zachary Young took part in an illegal “black market” because he was getting women out of Afghanistan “…

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CNN's Bash Asked Harris And Walz Just FIVE of Our 30 Questions

August 30th, 2024 3:45 PM

Prior to CNN’s Thursday interview with the Democratic ticket of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, we suggested 30 questions that Dana Bash might ask the duo in their much hyped first interview. Bash only asked five of them.

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Media Beg Kamala Not To Talk Policy, Declare 2024 a ‘Vibes Election’

August 30th, 2024 2:56 PM

Kamala Harris did her CNN interview, so now the legacy media would appreciate it if we could all please stop asking her to speak in public again. The journalists are terrified of her talking policy, lest she alienate her base, independents, or both.

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'Soaring Rhetoric'! NYT's Jeremy Peters Praises Kamala's CNN Interview

August 30th, 2024 2:45 PM

Was that David Plouffe? Brian Fallon? Maybe the Second Gentleman himself? Surely no one from outside the inner circle of Kamala Harris' campaign would have the chutzpah to use the term "soaring rhetoric" to describe Kamala Harris' pedestrian-at-best performance during her CNN interview last night! But no! It was actually Jeremy Peters, an MSNBC contributor and New York Times "reporter…