NewsBusters Podcast: The Media Counts Down to Demise of Titanic Sub

June 23rd, 2023 6:00 PM

TGIF! On this episode of the NewsBusters Podcast, Senior Research Analyst Bill D’Agostino and I try to contain their rage over the liberal media’s morbid and disturbing coverage of the tragic OceanGate submersible disaster: chiding the CEO, who was on board, because he donated to Republicans. Meanwhile, one outlet threw up a countdown timer until they presumably ran out of breathable are.

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DARK: NewsNation Displays ‘Countdown’ to Titanic Sub Passengers Dying

June 22nd, 2023 1:29 PM

On Wednesday night, NewsNation producers placed a curious graphic in the bottom right corner of the screen: a timer counting down the hours before passengers trapped in the OceanGate submersible ran out of oxygen.

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Cuomo, Taibbi SLAM Trump Indictment: Reminiscent of the ‘Third World’

June 8th, 2023 10:52 PM

Former President Trump dropped a bombshell on the race for president Thursday night, an announcement that he had been indicted for willfully holding onto classified documents. But while many of his detractors in the liberal media were doing their happy dance, Chris Cuomo was on his eponymous NewsNation show with independent journalist Matt Taibbi, where both men cast doubt on the charges and…

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Cuomo: GOP Debt Position Is ‘Political Terrorism,’ Made Debate ‘Rabid’

May 26th, 2023 1:52 PM

Despite President Biden’s very public refusal to negotiate with Republicans on the debt ceiling for weeks until the 11th hour, NewsNation’s faux centrist Chris “Fredo” Cuomo opened his eponymous show Thursday night falsely suggesting it was GOP “brinksmanship” that was endangering the global economy and America’s credit rating. He equated it to “political terrorism” and suggested it was the…

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NBC Takes Credit for Scoop Reported by NewsNation... ONE Month Ago

May 23rd, 2023 10:46 AM

As our friends at places like the Daily Caller can tell you, bigger news outlets frequently claim scoops the Caller had reported days, weeks, or even months prior. Such was the case with NewsNation when NBC’s Dateline claimed on Friday it had breaking news about the alleged murderer of four University of Idaho students. The only problem was it was aired nearly a month ago on…

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‘Teen Takeover’; Lefty Nets Refuse to Cover New Lawlessness in Chicago

April 17th, 2023 1:46 PM

Over the weekend, Chicago was the site of further unrest as mobs of teenagers terrorized some of the city’s busiest streets, sending both residents and tourists fleeing amid gunfire that left two teens shot, 14 people arrested, city transportation disrupted, and cars smashed. None of this interested the broadcast networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC or lefty cable network CNN on their flagship Sunday…

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NewsNation’s Vittert Destroys Inept Lefty on Twitter’s New NPR Label

April 6th, 2023 4:57 PM

Wednesday night on NewsNation, On Balance host Leland Vittert battled woefully unprepared liberal strategist Kaivan Shroff on whether it was appropriate for Twitter to slap National Public Radio (NPR) Tuesday night with a “US state-affiliated media” label with Vittert noting it does, in fact, derive part of its budget from the U.S. government. Shroff hilariously denounced the label,…

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Chris Cuomo: GOP Not Serious About Getting to Bottom of COVID, I Am!

February 28th, 2023 4:32 PM

In something resembling then-Senator John Kerry’s infamous ‘I was for it before I was against’ bungle, NewsNation primetime host Chris “Fredo” Cuomo opened Monday’s edition of his eponymous show by touting how he had reported on the lab leak origin theory of COVID in 2020, before The Wall Street Journal reported the Energy Department’s findings in 2023. But he omitted how he bashed…

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Nets Ignore AZ Officials Charging Rancher With Murder of Illegal Alien

February 24th, 2023 10:08 AM

This week, Arizona rancher George Allen Kelly was hit with additional charges of aggravated assault in addition to first degree murder for allegedly killing an illegal immigrant on January 30 who may have been part of a drug-running operation and was trespassing on his property only 150 feet from the porous U.S.-Mexico border. He was released Wednesday after posting the $1 million bond. Not…

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CBS, NBC Refuse to Update Viewers on New Twist in Biden Docs Scandal

February 16th, 2023 12:49 PM

Late Wednesday, CNN’s Paula Reid revealed the FBI had conducted multiple searches of President Biden’s records at the University of Delaware from his Senate tenure (and “documents...sent...in recent years) that have been held in secret since their donation in 2012. While they reportedly didn’t find any classified documents, it was worth sharing as it marked another chapter in his classified…

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Networks Abandoned Ohio Train Disaster Despite Continued Fallout

February 14th, 2023 11:58 AM

The data of network coverage from the East Palestine, Ohio trail derailment tells the story of an incurious media who were too eager to declare the issue resolved.

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Censorship Deniers: Networks Ignore Massive Twitter Files Development

December 8th, 2022 12:50 PM

Journalist Matt Taibbi published a 10-tweet thread Tuesday afternoon as a supplement to last Friday’s first batch of the Twitter Files, explaining its rollout was hamstrung by meddling from Twitter Deputy General Counsel, former CNN analyst, and Swamp creature Jim Baker. In conjunction with the thread, Musk said Baker was fired upon being alerted to the fact that Baker had (somehow) stuck…

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Cuomo: Florida Is Bad Standard for Counting Votes, Goal Is Low Turnout

November 11th, 2022 3:11 PM

It’s been days since Election Day and we’re still waiting on the results from a number of places, meanwhile, Florida had everything counted in a few hours. But according to NewsNation’s Chris “Fredo” Cuomo Thursday night, Florida should not be the standard because of the hanging chad situation 22 years ago. He also suggested things would be better with an all-digital system like our hackable…

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Dan Abrams: Kanye’s Anti-Semitism Meant to ‘Create Right-Wing Brand’

October 18th, 2022 6:45 PM

In an appearance with Chris Cuomo on NewsNation on Monday, singer Kanye “Ye” West doubled down on anti-Semitic comments about what he called “the Jewish underground media mafia.” But in the following hour, during his eponymous show, host Dan Abrams suggested that West’s disgusting comments and interest in buying the social media company Parler were strategic movies to “create a right-wing…