Bill D'Agostino
Bill D'Agostino | April 16, 2020
To read the full article, visit NewsBusters. CNN and MSNBC on many days repeatedly cut in and out of the daily White House briefings of the coronaviris pandemic, with CNN the most eager to replace remarks from President Trump, Vice President Pence or any number of medical and logistical experts with derisive commentary by its anchors and reporters. MSNBC carried a little more than CNN, but its…
Bill D'Agostino | April 14, 2020
To read the full article, visit NewsBusters. For the past several weeks, TV journalists have been unrelentingly nasty in their coverage of President Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic (see here, here, and here for examples). But they've also found a liberal Democratic politician to rally around: New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. Cuomo has become a darling of the liberal media thanks to…
Bill D'Agostino | March 29, 2020
To read the full article, visit NewsBusters. Whether motivated by ratings or by some political agenda, liberal TV news networks on Sunday acted as though the coronavirus figures from the Chinese Communist Party were trustworthy enough to be reported on American national television. Throughout Sunday morning and into the afternoon, journalists on both cable and broadcast networks proclaimed that…
Bill D'Agostino | March 29, 2020
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Bill D'Agostino | March 23, 2020
To read the full article, visit NewsBusters. TV journalists have yet to go a day without crying “racist” in the nearly two weeks since President Trump accurately stated that the current coronavirus outbreak originated in China. But although President’s continued assertions that the virus is “Chinese” or “foreign” have so thoroughly upset the media, most of them are unable to explain what exactly…
Bill D'Agostino | March 22, 2020
CNN’s Brian Stelter on Sunday spent a full interview with AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson lobbing softballs, even as Congressional talks over a coronavirus stimulus package were faltering due to, among other things, concerns about whether corporations would use the aid responsibly. However, the Reliable Sources host’s decision to genuflect rather than ask anything meaningful isn’t much of a shock…
Bill D'Agostino | March 18, 2020
Is there anyone out there who didn’t expect cable pundits to turn the coronavirus outbreak into a “Trump ruins everything” story? For the last few weeks, CNN and MSNBC’s talking heads have taken cheap political shots at the Trump administration’s handling of the pandemic, with their characterization of the situation ranging from “dangerous” to “the worst” government response, “ever.”
Bill D'Agostino | March 4, 2020
For more than four months, you couldn't watch TV news without hearing journalists talk about how impeaching Donald Trump was necessary for the health of the Republic. But since the liberal attempt to remove the President ended in failure, the same media talking heads are fretting about how Trump's acquittal has created an “emboldened” Chief Executive who threatens the rule of law “like never…
Bill D'Agostino | February 28, 2020
To read the full article, visit NewsBusters. During national emergencies such as natural disasters or outbreaks of disease, the news media can serve as a valuable source of information for the public. Yet when it came to their coverage of the coronavirus on Thursday, CNN largely put their Trump-bashing agenda ahead of that important role.
Bill D'Agostino | February 17, 2020
When the Trump Administration deployed elite Customs and Border Patrol forces to round up violent offenders in ten sanctuary cities, CNN and the big three broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) largely ignored the topic. The only network to devote more than two news briefs to the story over the weekend was MSNBC, which somehow managed to report fewer details in over 16 minutes of coverage than…