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Chart of the Day

Jeff Zucker’s new CNN is leading the pack in white guys according to a new report from Media Matters. It’s astonishing that CNN is now even whiter and more male-dominated than Fox News but not completely surprising following the purge … Continue reading
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The Most Busted Name in News

In case you missed it, Jon Stewart annihilated CNN last night. And now we know that the primary Boston marathon bombing suspects reported to be “dark skinned males” are in fact not dark skinned males. Not even close. Continue reading
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Journalism

In case you missed CNN’s horrible, awful, terrible, hilarious, train-wreck circus of coverage in Boston today, Talking Points Memo has the recap CNN announced that they had “breaking news” this afternoon shortly after 1 p.m. eastern time, and as of … Continue reading
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Jake Tapper is Totally On It

Wow. Check this hard-hitting Tapper segment in which he totally nails Obama and Bloomberg for mistaking automatic weapons and semi-automatic weapons. And Tapper thinks this is somehow worthy of a debunking? It’s entirely irrelevant to the debate about gun control. … Continue reading
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CNN is Horrible

Mallory Ortberg of Gawker nails CNN for their coverage of the guilty verdict in Steubenville, Ohio. For readers interested in learning more about how not to be labeled as registered sex offenders, a good first step is not to rape … Continue reading
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Is Rand Paul Still Your Hero?

Watch Rand Paul agree with Eric Holder less than 24 hours after his 13 hour filibuster. On what constitutes an imminent threat: “Anybody bringing a weapon to a place, assembling a weapon, using a weapon…” What Eric Holder has enunciated, … Continue reading
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‘Elite or Liberal Issues’

Why does CNN devote so little time to covering serious topics such as climate change while spending hours covering a befouled Carnival Cruise? According to a new report from Media Matters, CNN became hyper-focused on challenging Fox News and this … Continue reading
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Super Stupid

The following exchange really happened on CNN. Anchor Deb Feyerick thought that perhaps global warming caused that asteroid to pass close to the Earth. Seriously. Because ‘meteor’ and ‘meteorology.’ “We want to bring in our science guy, Bill Nye, and … Continue reading
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CNN: Ted Nugent Is Very Serious

Ugh. CNN is way off the rails. Last night, Josh Marshall reported: I don’t know if anyone else is watching CNN from about 6:05 to about 6:10 eastern. But my God, they’re covering the possibly-Beyonce-related Super Bowl blackout investigation as … Continue reading
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CNN: Ted Nugent Is Very Serious

Ugh. CNN is way off the rails. Last night, Josh Marshall reported: I don’t know if anyone else is watching CNN from about 6:05 to about 6:10 eastern. But my God, they’re covering the possibly-Beyonce-related Super Bowl blackout investigation as … Continue reading
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