Bill D'Agostino
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With Special Counsel Robert Mueller expected to deliver his report on alleged Russian collusion as early as this week, it’s worth a look back at how the news media greeted the results of another presidential investigation two decades ago. Unlike today’s media depiction of Mueller as an authoritative, non-partisan fact-finder, when Independent Counsel…
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Justifying the gargantuan amount of Cohen coverage they provided yesterday, media talking heads continuously claimed that former Trump attorney Michael Cohen was a contemporary version of Nixon lawyer John Dean, and that his testimony constituted the Watergate hearing of our time.
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On Thursday, CNN broke an incredibly startling claim by Michael Avenatti, the former lawyer of adult film star Stormy Daniels, who claimed to possess a tape of R&B singer R. Kelly engaging in sexual acts with an underage girl. Perhaps equally surprisingly CNN host Ana Cabrera claimed some at her network had watched the tape, though she offered no explanation as to…
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It’s been two days since NBC’s exclusive reporting that the Senate Intelligence Committee has found no material evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, and as of yet none of the three major broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) have given it even a single second of airtime in their evening newscasts. Considering these networks…
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Wednesday’s New Day on CNN almost managed to close out with a lighthearted piece about the Westminster Dog Show – until the segment devolved into a Trump bash-fest in which correspondent Jeanne Moos compared and contrasted the President with a dog.
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Bill Kristol dubbed the event “a ludicrous stunt with some union officials who endorsed [Trump].” Stand-in host Brianna Keilar agreed: “This is a stunt. I mean, this isn’t a briefing.” A conversation about the definition of a briefing ensued, and Keilar closed the segment with a poll suggesting the majority of Americans opposed the wall.
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With border wall funding back at the forefront of Washington politics, CNN and MSNBC hosts have resumed howling about the nameless “experts” who’ve supposedly deemed the project “an ineffective waste of money” designed to solve a “manufactured crisis.” But in January, broadcast networks NBC and CBS actually took the time to interview some veteran…
CNN and MSNBC have stubbornly refused to inform viewers about the derogatory comments that embattled Virginia Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax reportedly made about his accuser. On Wednesday morning, NBC reported via tweet that in a private discussion about a woman accusing Fairfax of sexual assault, the Democratic Lieutenant Governor exclaimed, “F*** that b*****.”
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Show hosts and analysts alike were in a panic over at CNN Thursday evening, as all present struggled to spin a new development in the ongoing Trump/Russia saga that dealt a death blow to one of their pet narratives.