CNN Misleads on IRS Controversy, Takes 17 Hours to Report GOP Side
17 hours after CNN first reported that the IRS targeted liberal groups as well as conservative groups, it finally offered the Republican side of the story, that Tea Party groups received even more...
View ArticleNothing to See Here: CNN Largely Omits Tainted Eliot Spitzer Was Once Its...
CNN mentioned Eliot Spitzer's prostitution scandal in every single report on his comeback bid in politics on Monday and Tuesday, but hid that he was recently a CNN prime-time host in five of the seven...
View ArticleDouble Standard: CNN Airs GOP Dirty Laundry But Cleans Up After Democrats
CNN's Early Start should have been re-named "DNC TV" on Tuesday. Anchors omitted almost every controversial detail about Democrats, showing no such love for Republicans. While CNN reported charges...
View ArticleCNN Drops Its Own Scoop on Benghazi; Networks Fail to Even Pick It Up
[UPDATED BELOW] CNN's Arwa Damon scored an exclusive interview with a suspect in the Benghazi attacks, yet CNN chose to air it only once. Aside from a brief mention of it on Thursday morning, the...
View ArticleCNN Gives Obama a Pass Amidst Major Coverage of His Leno Interview
CNN had extensive coverage on Wednesday of President Obama's interview with NBC's Jay Leno, but only two CNN hosts actually challenged some of the President's claims during the 11 different news hours...
View ArticleObamacare Security System 'Months Behind,''Might Open With Security Flaws';...
Alarm bells are ringing over the status of Obamacare's privacy protection system, which is scheduled to start October 1 despite missed deadlines in getting it ready to operate. CNN has made no mention...
View ArticleOne Year After Benghazi, No Arrests Made; CNN Largely Mum
On the one-year anniversary of the Benghazi attacks, only three CNN shows bothered to hold the Obama administration accountable for not having made any arrests of suspects. Hosts Jake Tapper and Erin...
View ArticleCNN All But Ignores Big New Report on IRS Scandal
CNN has all but ignored a new report that according to IRS documents, the agency gave extra scrutiny to 162 political groups – 80 percent of them conservative– that were seeking tax-exempt status. A...
View ArticleCNN Glosses Over ObamaCare Failings Amidst Debt Ceiling Coverage
Lost in the midst of CNN's debt ceiling coverage was its own list of ObamaCare's shortcomings. Investigative correspondent Drew Griffin authored a report on "ObamaCare woes" that aired only three...
View ArticleCNN's Pereira Bemoans Chicago Violence 'Taking A Back Seat in the Headlines;'...
On Tuesday's This Hour, Michaela Pereira endorsed guest L. Z. Granderson's take on the media's extensive coverage of the ongoing turmoil in Ferguson, Missouri in the wake of the shooting death of...
View ArticleCNN Covers Sex Abuse Case Against Obama 'Friend,' As Big Three Censor Story
CNN stood out on Sunday and Monday for actually covering the sex abuse charges against Terry Bean, a "major fundraiser for President Obama," as correspondent Erin McPike labeled him. The cable network...
View ArticleCNN Wonders If Ferguson Prosecutor Should 'Overrule the Grand Jury'
Two CNN anchors channeled the supporters of Michael Brown's family on Tuesday's Early Start, as they played up how St. Louis County, Missouri Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch presented the Brown...
View ArticleCNN Boosts NY Daily News's 'Provocative' Anti-Prayer Front Page
Three CNN programs on Wednesday night and Thursday morning promoted the anti-prayer front page of the New York Daily News: "God Isn't Fixing This." Unsurprisingly, pro-gun control anchor Carol Costello...
View ArticleCNN Buries Criminal History of Charlotte Police Shooting Victim
After giving a substantial amount of attention to the case of Keith Lamont Scott being shot and killed by Charlotte police, with his wife disputing police accounts that he was holding a gun when he was...
View ArticleFLASHBACK: CNN Didn’t See GOP Winning Governor Races in 2009 As Referendum On...
As journalists rejoice over Republican defeats in New Jersey and Virginia, hyping them as a referendum on President Trump, we at the MRC dove into our archives to remind them that just 8 years ago they...
View ArticleCNN's 'New Day' Only Gives 1 Min to Murdered Cop, Spends 3 Min on Corrupt Cop
Since word broke early Thursday morning that a black police officer in Baltimore was shot in the head and then died, CNN has conspicuously buried the story, in contrast with the liberal news network's...
View ArticleCNN Hosts Freak Out Over Trump Mocking Global Warming During Cold Wave
On Friday morning, CNN anchors were freaking out as President Donald Trump used the occasion of record-low temperatures on the East Coast to take a jab at global warming theory. On CNN's Early Start...
View ArticleCBS Highlights Police Officer Killed on Duty in Detroit
Over the weekend, a Detroit police officer, Glenn Doss Jr., passed away after being shot while doing his duty late last week, leaving behind his girlfriend, their nine-month-old baby, and his father...
View ArticleCNN Inserts David Duke Into Discussion of Illegal Immigration
On Friday morning, on two different shows, CNN hosts inserted David Duke into the illegal immigration discussion by reading a tweet in which the former KKK leader praised President Donald Trump for...
View ArticleCNN's Briggs Lauds 'Eloquent' Anti-Gun Activist After Slam on 'Terrorist' NRA
On Tuesday's Early Start, there was one more example of the contempt that journalists have for the NRA as CNN anchor Dave Briggs praised gun control activist Cameron Kasky as "an eloquent young man"...
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