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Stelter Credits China-Owned App Users for Trump Rally ‘Sabotage’

June 21st, 2020 4:00 PM

It wasn’t long ago that CNN media reporter Brian Stelter was decrying social media platforms like Facebook who weren’t going full bore against President Trump. But during Sunday’s so-called “Reliable Sources,” Stelter found a social media platform he loved: the China-owned video platform TikTok. According to Stelter, one TikTok user’s plan to “sabotage” or “prank” the Trump campaign…

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Stelter Cries Trump 'Abuse of Power,' Forgets His Own Obama Reporting

June 15th, 2020 7:14 AM

Brian Stelter insisted President Trump tweeting harsh words on Comcast was an egregious "abuse of power," and an aberration of American history. Stelter can't seem to remember his own history, because he reported on Team Obama trashing Fox News as not a "legitimate news organization."

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Stelter Lashes Out, Tells Trump Lawyer Her Kids Will Be Ashamed of Her

June 14th, 2020 2:43 PM

Towards the end of a very heated and contentious argument with Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis during Sunday’s Reliable Sources, CNN host Brian Stelter was so triggered by being called “fake news” that he angrily lashed out at his guest; telling her that in 10 to 20 years her kids and grandkids were long to look back on her work for President Trump with disgust.

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NYT Writer: Treating ‘Rogue’ GOP Fairly ‘Doesn’t Actually Work’

June 7th, 2020 4:47 PM

Journalism is dead. That fact was made abundantly clear by New York Times staff writer and founder of the factually-inaccurate 1619 Project, Nikole Hannah-Jones in an appearance on the CNN’s so-called “Reliable Sources” Sunday, where she argued that the media couldn’t legitimately treat the Republican Party fairly because they were a “rogue” organization and being fair would…

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Stelter Blames Trump for Press Being Targeted By Police, Rioters

May 31st, 2020 2:23 PM

In the past few days, we’ve seen disturbing videos and reports of journalists getting brutalized from both sides of recent clashes: rioters beating them, damaging and stealing equipment, and police arresting and shooting reporters with rubber bullets or pepper spray balls while they just try to report. But according to CNN’s media analyst and Reliable Sources host, Brian Stelter,…

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Stelter Insists Media Acts in 'Good Faith,' As He Proves He Doesn't

May 25th, 2020 10:44 AM
CNN Reliable Sources host Brian Stelter said something fascinating on his show Sunday. He complained to New York Times media columnist Ben Smith that "I don't know how to show folk that journalists are mostly acting in good faith. Here's how a show allegedly focused on journalism fails to show good faith. Stelter had on a writer from The Atlantic to discuss the coronavirus and never whispered a…
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Brian Stelter Lectures About 'Basic Decency,' But Fails To Show It

May 17th, 2020 4:37 PM
CNN Reliable Sources host Brian Stelter is so robotically repetitive in his anti-Trump speeches that he actually boasted on Sunday that he was repeating word-for-word a 2017 lecture on Trump’s anti-media rhetoric being “poison.” He began by declaring “The American press is stronger than any demagogue, but President Trump’s attacks present real challenges.”
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Stelter: Right-Wing Media Downplaying Virus Deaths By Covering Flynn

May 10th, 2020 1:10 PM
In kicking off Sunday’s un-Reliable Sources, host and liberal hack Brian Stelter tried to distract from the corrupt FBI officials exposed via the revelations in the General Michael Flynn case by suggesting: “right-wing” coverage of the case was an attempt to “downplay” and “normalize” the massive death toll from the Chinese Coronavirus.
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Stelter Throws Hardballs at McEnany, Softballs at Harsh Olivia Nuzzi

May 3rd, 2020 4:46 PM
On Sunday's Reliable Sources, CNN host Brian Stelter cued up New York magazine reporter Olivia Nuzzi to defend herself for asking Trump if he deserves re-election after he "lost" more Americans than died in the Vietnam War. Nuzzi's boyfriend Ryan Lizza of Politico claimed it's "never been the case" that reporters showboated in the briefing room. Has he never watched Jim Acosta?

YouTube CEO Relies on WHO Mistakes to Fight Misinformation

April 27th, 2020 12:45 PM
Big Tech platforms have taken it upon themselves to police misinformation, but why are they glorifying the mistakes at the World Health Organization? YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki made a special appearance on Brian Stelter’s Reliable Sources podcast where she explained how YouTube has been fighting misinformation with what Big Tech considers to be more reputable sources. “We also talk about removing…
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Stelter Shellacks Trump, Ignores Biden In Softballs to NYT Top Editor

April 13th, 2020 9:47 AM
On Sunday's Reliable Sources on CNN, host Brian Stelter typically attacked President Trump and his "ignorance on sad display," but never mentioned the names Cuomo or Biden -- even as he asked New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet about the paper's new Trump expose -- and totally ignored the paper's story on the woman accusing Joe Biden of sexual assault.
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Hysterics on CNN: ‘People Are Dying' Because Trump 'Acting a Fool'

April 12th, 2020 2:31 PM
CNN’s so-called “Reliable Sources” was known for being a place where professional journalism was shunned in favor of hysterics and theatrics. During Sunday’s edition of the show, frequent guest David Zurawik, a media critic for The Baltimore Sun newspaper, was unhinged from the get-go as he blamed the over 20,000 Wuhan Virus deaths in the U.S. on President Trump, who was “acting a fool” according…

Media Lefties Loved al Jazeera. Will Phoenix TV Be Their New Squeeze?

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April 7th, 2020 1:56 PM
Just a week after conservative outlet One America News was kicked out of the press room for “violating social-distancing” rules, Phoenix TV, a Hong Kong-based Chinese language news network, somehow had a reporter there. She got to knock out some ChiCom talking points in a “question” for President Trump. 
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Stelter and Guests 'Loved' Cuomo's 'Fantastic' Briefings, Hate Trump's

April 6th, 2020 7:19 AM
CNN’s Reliable Sources demonstrated the usual partisan tilt on Sunday. Host Brian Stelter came out of the latest briefing from Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York championing his “glass half-full” approach. Then he turned to CNN medical contributor Dr. James Phillips, and they both gushed over Cuomo’s briefings as so much better than President Trump’s.