NewsBusters Podcast: CNN Slaps Decency, Welcomes Toobin Back to Air

June 11th, 2021 4:29 PM

In a move that showed CNN’s refusal to have anything close to admirable ethics, the Jeffrey Zucker-led network welcomed back chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin on Thursday after a seven-month absence following a Zoom call in which he pleasured himself in front of colleagues at The New Yorker. Yes, that was the main topic of Friday’s NewsBusters Podcast, so listener discretion is…

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Tube-Ban Over: Jeffrey Toobin Returns to CNN in CRINGE Interview

June 10th, 2021 4:27 PM

CNN showed its aversion to decency, ethics, and journalistic principles on Thursday afternoon as the Jeffrey Zucker-led network officially welcome back chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin for an absolutely cringeworthy interview seven months after he was caught masturbating on a Zoom call with fellow journalists.

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Surprise! On Israel, CNN Paints Picture of Feckless, Golfing Biden

May 17th, 2021 11:56 AM

What got into CNN this morning? We're accustomed to the network's unrelenting coverage of how the Republican Party is endangering America, but when it came to the current conflict between Israel and Hamas, New Day painted a surprisingly negative picture of a feckless Biden lacking the relationship with Bibi Netanyahu that President Trump enjoyed, and incapable of making any real…

Will the Media Revisit Cuomo Smearing His First Accuser?

March 13th, 2021 10:55 PM

If the media has enough of a conscience to revisit what they did wrong in covering (or ignoring) sexual harassment allegations against Andrew Cuomo, they could start with Eric Lach of The New Yorker, who asked: "Who Ordered The Smear Campaign Against Cuomo's First Accuser?"

Smeared: The New Yorker Links Pro-Lifers to Kooks and Fringe Racists

Culture
March 12th, 2021 4:04 PM

To nice liberals like the staff of The New Yorker, the January 6 Capitol Riot is a green screen onto which they can project all kinds of right-wing stuff they hate. They then use the grotesque image they create to smear conservatives. So, because QAnon kooks and alleged white supremacists breached the Capital, and some QAnon kooks and white supremacists believe abortion is some sort…

New Yorker Contributor: Nuked Keystone XL Is Landmark in Climate Fight

Business
January 27th, 2021 2:14 PM

The leader of a radical eco-extremist group celebrated President Joe Biden canceling the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline, even as the move killed thousands of jobs. Co-founder of 350.org and New Yorker contributor Bill McKibben bellowed in a recent op-ed.

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Fearmongering CNN Talks Up Biden Fighting off 'Climate Crisis'

December 6th, 2020 8:05 PM

On CNN's New Day Sunday, fill-in host Martin Savidge devoted a segment to fearmongering over an alleged "climate crisis" and expressed his hopes that a Joe Biden administration will to action to prevent disaster. The New Yorker contributor and environmental alarmist Bill McKibben hyperbolically likened global warming to the threat of fascism during World War II.

New Yorker Compares Trump to Segregationist George Wallace

December 6th, 2020 4:43 PM

The New Yorker dedicated a full article to attempting to compare President Donald Trump to George Wallace.

Your Move, CNN: New Yorker Fires Jeffrey Toobin for Exposing Himself

November 11th, 2020 10:17 PM

On Wednesday afternoon, The New Yorker did the right thing in formally firing longtime staff writer Jeffrey Toobin for having exposed himself during an early October staff Zoom call simulating Election Day with New York’s NPR affiliate WNYC. Unfortunately, there was no word on his employment status at CNN (where’s currently on leave) other than an article from conservative media…

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FLASHBACK: CNN Guy Who Exposed His Penis Called Clarence Thomas Weird

November 7th, 2020 1:30 PM

Thirteen years ago this week, CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin trashed Clarence Thomas as an isolated, “eccentric” weirdo on the Supreme Court. This coming from the guy who, in 2020, would expose his penis during a Zoom call. 

Jeffrey Toobin Suspended After Exposing Himself on Zoom Call

October 19th, 2020 3:49 PM

Cue the jokes, NewsBusters readers. On Monday, The New Yorker announced that staff writer Jeffrey Toobin had been suspended for having exposed his genitalia and allegedly engaging in a sex act during a Zoom call last week between New Yorker staff and journalists with New York City-area NPR affiliate WNYC. Toobin, who’s also CNN’s chief legal analyst, was “granted” permission …

Beyond Depraved: Media Defend Child-Exploiting ‘Cuties’ Movie

Culture
September 10th, 2020 5:50 PM

Several big name publications have decided to go on the defensive for a Netflix movie that hypersexualizes little girls. And to think, some of us are unsure about calling the media the “enemy of the people.”

New Yorker Promotes Study: ‘95% of Women’ Happy With Their Abortion

Culture
September 4th, 2020 1:41 PM

Just in time to benefit the radical pro-abortion policies of a Biden/Harris ticket – which many have called the most pro-abort political platform in American history – lefties at The New Yorker published a piece on a study saying the “95% of women” who had abortions said it was the “right decision” thing for them.

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'Absurd' Query to McEnany: Is Trump Sad the South Lost the Civil War?

June 29th, 2020 5:08 PM

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany had to deal with what she called "absolutely absurd" questions at Monday's press briefing. Ryan Lizza of The New Yorker asked the president believed "it was a good thing that the South lost the Civil War?"