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…
CNN Executive Admits: 'We're No Longer a TV News Network'
April 27th, 2016 12:41 PM
CNN's senior social media director, Samantha Berry, made an unsurprising admission about her network on Tuesday: "We're no longer a TV news network." Instead, Berry touted CNN as a "24-hour global multiplatform network" during a presentation at the annual Collision conference in New Orleans.
On CNN.com, BET Editor Hypes 'Political Goddess' Beyonce
April 26th, 2016 5:26 PM
BET's Clay Cane touted Beyonce's "transformation" and "musical revolution" in a Tuesday op-ed piece on CNN.com. Cane gushed over the pop singer's new album as her "most important piece to work to date," and asserted that she has become a "political goddess" who has "shattered the limits" of expression for black women.
George Clooney Endorses Clinton, Bashes Trump in Email Endorsement
March 22nd, 2016 2:05 PM
Hillary Clinton’s latest fundraising email sent out Monday revealed an endorsement from another Hollywood backer: George Clooney. In the email, picked up by several media outlets, like the Los Angeles Times, Variety and the Huffington Post, Clooney bashed Trump while praising Clinton as “the only grown-up in the room” and the “voice of tolerance” in the 2016 race.
CNN Hails Journey From 'Obamacare Kid' to 'Transgender Teen'
March 22nd, 2016 10:26 AM
In the latest breaking Obamacare news, Amanda Terkel of The Huffington Post tweeted that Marcelas Owens, “The cute little kid who stood next to Obama for signing of ACA now is 17, identifies as transgender.” CNN.com’s John Blake brought the usual political correctness to the task. The headline was "I'm not the Obamacare kid anymore."
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Univision Anchor on 'War Footing' with Donald Trump
March 17th, 2016 4:42 PM
Univision's María Elena Salinas gives us some more bellicose rhetoric and CNN rehashes an old narrative.
CNN: 'Hillary Can't Kill Coal; It's Already Dying' (Because of Obama)
March 16th, 2016 10:19 PM
In a Monday afternoon post which gets close to taking pleasure in the serious economic decline in the heart of the coal mining industry in West Virginia, CNN Money's Patrick Gillespie observed, based on Hillary Clinton's recent remarks about coal miners' jobs, that she "has no love for coal companies."
But in Gillespie's world, what Mrs. Clinton said doesn't matter, because "Clinton won't have…
CNN Money: Voter Anger Has 'Some Rationale,' But Decades in the Making
March 12th, 2016 7:45 PM
From reading most establishment press news, especially their economy-related reports, you'd think that those who are complaining about the current U.S. economy are outliers — especially the millions of Americans who are angry about it. Though they sometimes acknowledge that forward progress since the recession hasn't been robust, the media's meme-makers have mostly told us that "overall job…
CNN Tags Killer of American in Israel as Palestinian in 20th Paragraph
March 10th, 2016 8:08 PM
Those not well-versed on events in the Middle East and how the international press routinely distorts its coverage there might think from the following headline at CNN.com yesterday — "American fatally stabbed in Israel terror attack that wounds 10 others" — that the state of Israel carried out the brutal attack which killed Vanderbilt Universtity student and U.S. Army veteran Taylor Force. Of…
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Rubio Comms Director Unloads on CNN After Post on Rubio Quitting Race
March 7th, 2016 10:19 PM
Less than an hour after CNN published an article by special correspondent Jamie Gangel alleging that top Marco Rubio advisers are pushing for him to drop out before the March 15 Florida primary, Rubio communications director Alex Conant took to CNN’s The Situation Room to excoriate the outlet for its “utter nonsense” and “fiction” that didn’t even seek public comment from the campaign.
Only CNN Asks: What Happened to Trump Rally's Donations for Veterans?
March 4th, 2016 4:43 PM
It's been more than six weeks since Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump chose not to attend a GOP debate hosted by the Fox News Channel to put on a rally he said raised $6 million for veterans, and since then, only the Cable News Network has asked the crucial question: “What happened to Trump's donations to veterans?”
According to an article by CNN investigators Drew Griffin,…
AP Twice Fails to Tag Convicted Calif. Senator Leland Yee as a Dem
February 25th, 2016 11:38 AM
The political career of California State Senator Leland Yee, a Democrat who had been running for Secretary of State, came to an abrupt end in March 2014 when the strident gun-control advocate was arrested and charged with "six counts of depriving the public of honest services and one count of conspiracy to traffic in guns without a license."
Last week, Yee, who pled guilty last year to "one…
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Tapper to Sanders: 'Never Considered You a Fringe Candidate' (UPDATED)
February 21st, 2016 8:49 PM
On CNN's State of the Union show Sunday morning, Jake Tapper appeared to try to carve out an exception for his network in how it has covered Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. After Sanders went into his "(we) started off as a fringe campaign" schtick, Tapper reassured the Vermont socialist: "For the record, sir, as you know, we never considered you a fringe candidate."
Well, that…
Former ESPN VP Rips 'Out of Touch' Critics of Beyonce's Halftime Show
February 9th, 2016 5:16 PM
Roxanne Jones sang the praises of Beyonce in a Tuesday op-ed on CNN.com for her "perfectly timed, bold, Black Panther-inspired halftime tribute." Jones touted how the "pop icon used her star power to shine a light on the problem of race in America," and how the Super Bowl halftime show forwarded "a vision of an America that I aspire to live in one day." She later attacked the singer's critics for…