Back in the early 1980s when cable TV was bursting on the scene, there were four channels everybody wanted. ESPN was one. The USA Network was another. HBO was worth paying extra for. And then there was CNN. You didn’t…
As someone who teaches media ethics — a course that seems increasingly divorced from real-world journalism — I am ever on the lookout for examples of coverage corrupted by spin. In particular, I look for unconscious bias, a concept I…
Last night at a CNN town hall in Cincinnati, President Biden peddled outright falsehoods about the economy, spewed COVID misinformation, lied again about so-called voter suppression, randomly started shouting when answering a question about DACA, delivered awkward jokes that left…
A little unintentional humor on the part of Don Lemon, one of CNN’s relentlessly leftist newsreaders. The kind of humor that follows when someone really doesn’t consider the different ways what they’re about to say can be taken. Lemon jumped…
You can’t make it up. The other day, Fox’s Tucker Carlson had the nerve — the nerve! — to make the points quoted below in a discussion with Mark Steyn. The topic: replacement of voters and one culture with a…
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo won’t resign (yet). The new line from New York Sens. Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand is that Gov. Cuomo should resign because (how disingenuous, but convenient!) he has “lost the confidence to govern.” Translation: (a)…
Liberalism is an ideology that obsesses over past evils while overlooking present evils. As their own institutions collapse, liberals preoccupy themselves with the condition of ancient ones. Meghan Markle’s interview with Oprah Winfrey has given the woke iconoclasts a new…
CNN finally got around to condemning the fiery but mostly peaceful riots earlier this week. The arson and looting and murders in the streets were all fun and games, but now Don Lemon is worried that the violence is “showing…
Don Lemon made news this week, although he did it by accident and almost nobody noticed. CNN is the least-watched of the three cable-news networks, and Lemon’s program “CNN Tonight” typically gets a little more than a million viewers, or…
