Alex Christy
[See NewsBusters for more.] On Monday's installment of At This Hour, CNN chief media correspondent Brian Stelter joined host Kate Bolduan to assert that people can trust CNN to be truthful and accurate because, unlike Joe Rogan, it is a real news operation that cares about facts and information.
Responding to Bolduan wondering if Neil Young has anything to do with Spotify's decision to put…
[See NewsBusters for more.] While hosting the scary sounding Democracy in Peril on CNN on Thursday, Jim Acosta blasted the "hard-right" Supreme Court for possibly overturning Roe v. Wade, which would increase democracy in the country, lamented that Democrats won't get rid of the filibuster in response to this, and decried their "life's a Mitch" attitude towards the situation.
Acosta began by…
[See NewsBusters for more.] On Thursday's CNN Newsroom, Trumper-turned-Never Trumper Joe Walsh took the opportunity to portray himself as one of the good Republicans who is not like the other Republicans who allegedly want a dictator who will prohibit American children from learning about the Holocaust. Thursday was also International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Walsh had just condemned "Trump's…
[See NewsBusters for more.] MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell spent her Thursday show plotting strategy with Democratic Sens. Patrick Leahy and Mazie Hirono on President Biden's upcoming Supreme Court nominee. The senators also blamed Sen. Mitch McConnell and Republicans for why Supreme Court confirmations have become politicized and instead of pushing back on that talking point, Mitchell wholeheartedly…
[See NewsBusters for more.] During ABC's Wednesday breaking news coverage that Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer plans to retire, senior national correspondent Terry Moran reacted to the news by hailing Breyer's "moderate tone" and downplaying his liberal ideology and portraying him as a "pragmatic liberal." Moran argued that Breyer relied more on political rather than legal arguments in his…
[See NewsBusters for more.] MSNBC's Joy Reid joined Stephen Colbert on The Late Show's Tuesday installment on CBS and as Colbert tried to learn more about the news industry, Reid claimed that the media is not hard enough on democracy-destroying Republicans.
Reid claimed that the media's supposed timidity in this comes from the fact that, "the media will gravitate towards change and conflict. But…
[See NewsBusters for more.] On Tuesday morning's installment of Amanpour and Company on PBS, your tax dollars funded a segment where Hari Sreenivasan welcomed senior fellow for Data For Progress Matthew Cortland to declare that lifting COVID restrictions is a form of ableism.
Sreenivasan asked Cortland, who suffers from Crohn's disease, "What you're describing is what New York might have gone …
[See NewsBusters for more.] Ginni Thomas is the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and she has opinions about the controversies of the day and for that, the New Yorker's Jane Mayer thinks Clarence Thomas should recuse himself from upcoming affirmative action cases that the Court announced on Monday that it would hear.
Mayer was on with Deadline: White House host Nicolle Wallace on…
[See NewsBusters for more.] MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle and Harvard Institute of Politics Polling Director John Della Volpe were optimistic on Monday that Gen Z will save America from the horribleness that is Republicans and their "voter suppression" efforts and that they actually care about other people, unlike other generations.
Ruhle began with the premise that "voter suppression" is a real…
[See NewsBusters for more.] The late night "comedy" hosts did not appreciate Sens. Joe Manchin and Krysten Sinema voting to uphold the filibuster with The Daily Show's Trevor Noah on Comedy Central and Late Night's Seth Meyers being particularly aggrieved that the duo does not truly support "voting rights."
Noah, as part of his cringe-inducing "votegasm" segment, sarcastically declared, "Which…