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CNN Buries Ferguson Shooting Audio

CNN Buries Ferguson Shooting Audio

UPDATE: About an hour after this piece posted, CNN breathlessly reported that there is evidence (see the update at the bottom of the piece) that the Ferguson shooting audio might not be fake. So the big news today is that

Mitch McConnell: No More Government Shutdowns

Mitch McConnell: No More Government Shutdowns

CNN’s Dana Bash extracted a promise from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell not to shut down the government ever again. McConnell explained that Congress did have the responsibility to direct spending and warned that he would not just send a

CNN goes crazy with unverified Ferguson gunshot audio

Media bias doesn’t consist entirely, or even primarily, of outright falsehoods.  It’s expressed through the stories our media herd chooses not to tell, because they don’t fit easily into preferred narratives… and which stories they lavish saturation coverage upon, because

CNN Now Worried Ferguson Shooting Audio Is Hoax

CNN Now Worried Ferguson Shooting Audio Is Hoax

When CNN first broadcast the unverified audio of the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO, it was with all the sturm and drang of breathless breaking news. The audio led almost every hour and was the biggest story of

CNN Guest on Ferguson Audio: 'Someone's Trying to Punk CNN'

CNN Guest on Ferguson Audio: 'Someone's Trying to Punk CNN'

On CNN’s Wednesday broadcast of “New Day,” host Michaela Pereira interview two so-called experts, former Los Angeles Police Officer David Klinger and former FBI assistant director Tom Fuentes, on the potential authenticity audio the cable news outlet had been airing

CNN: Rubio's 'Sister Soulja' Moment with Dreamers

CNN: Rubio's 'Sister Soulja' Moment with Dreamers

Note from Senior Management: CNN’s Peter Hamby captures Sen. Marco Rubio’s mea culpa for participating in the ‘Gang of Eight’ among the grassroots in the key primary state of South Carolina. We reprint here. Marco Rubio came to South Carolina

CNN Airs Alleged Audio from Ferguson Shooting

CNN Airs Alleged Audio from Ferguson Shooting

On Monday’s broadcast of “CNN Tonight,” anchor Don Lemon, reporting live from Ferguson, MO, aired a clip of what is purported audio of the shooting of Michael Brown earlier this month. The audio is allegedly an accidental recording of the

Glenn Beck Ripped Conservatives While Trying to Get CNN Deal

Glenn Beck Ripped Conservatives While Trying to Get CNN Deal

Glenn Beck was bashing Americans opposed to illegal immigration, decrying partisan politics, and positioning himself toward the center just as he was reportedly trying to strike a deal to get his programming on CNN. CNN’s Brian Stelter reported that “the

Report: Ebola Contacts in Africa Go Missing

Report: Ebola Contacts in Africa Go Missing

CNN’s Elizabeth Cohen reported on the “fear and skepticism” that is making it challenging to create Ebola contact tracing lists which track anyone who comes in contact with an infected person. According to a World Health Organization (WHO) press release issued

Bloodbath at CNN, HLN: Axing of 550 Jobs 'Imminent'

Bloodbath at CNN, HLN: Axing of 550 Jobs 'Imminent'

Today’s news of a coming bloodbath at CNN and HLN is a reminder that while CNN has been able to use the unrest in Ferguson to race-bait its way to better ratings, everyone knows that’s temporary. Without something that allows

Ebola Kills Liberian Doctor Despite Receiving ZMapp Drug

Ebola Kills Liberian Doctor Despite Receiving ZMapp Drug

Liberian doctor Abraham Borbor died from Ebola, though he received ZMapp, the experimental Ebola drug.  Borbor was one of three Africans who took ZMapp. There is no word on the conditions of the other patients. Information Minister Lewis Brown told

CNN Admits: Ferguson a 'Media Spectacle'

CNN Admits: Ferguson a 'Media Spectacle'

CNN anchor Don Lemon referred to the events in Ferguson after the shooting of Mike Brown were a “media spectacle” during his live coverage from Brown’s funeral on Monday’s “CNN Newsroom.”  “It’s important … that this turns into something other

Elizabeth Warren Disavows 'Ready for Warren' 2016 Group

Elizabeth Warren Disavows 'Ready for Warren' 2016 Group

Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-MA) lawyer disavowed a super PAC that formed to draft Warren to run for president in 2016. The Ready for Warren PAC has had a presence at left-wing conferences like Netroots Nation, but Warren’s lawyer, according to

Ferguson On Steroids: 10 Shot Overnight In Chicago

Ferguson On Steroids: 10 Shot Overnight In Chicago

How many nine-year-old Antonio’s need to die in Chicago before the national media will park its satellite trucks in front of Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s City Hall and demand answers and action. How many black people, including black children, need to