Former Vice President Joe Biden stopped himself from giving out his personal phone number on live television while discussing grief during the coronavirus pandemic in a moving highlight of CNN’s town hall Friday night. After an hour in which the former veep took questions from CNN viewers across the country about the Covid-19 crisis and laid out his own vision for managing the catastrophe, host Anderson […]
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Speaking to listeners on his radio show Friday, Sean Hannity briefly addressed the controversy surrounding cable news networks’ decisions to air President Donald Trump’s daily coronavirus press briefings. But while producers and journalists at CNN and MSNBC have expressed concern about Trump daily spreading misinformation to the American people, the Fox News host has another idea about why they might not want to give free airtime […]
CNN’s Brianna Keilar and White House National Trade Council Director Peter Navarro held an intense, lengthy clash on whether the Trump administration was actually prepared to deal with the coronavirus. Navarro gave an interview to Keilar on Thursday, where the discussion started with stories from health officials around the country who say COVID 19 is overwhelming their hospitals and draining them of essential resources. When Keilar […]
White House trade adviser Peter Navarro found himself on the receiving end of a verbal buzzsaw Thursday afternoon when CNN anchor Brianna Keilar relentlessly grilled him on the administration’s lack of preparedness for the coronavirus pandemic, explicitly telling him he was “wasting everyone’s time.” With casualties from the deadly coronavirus surging across the nation and hospitals running out of needed supplies as they become overrun with […]
CNN senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen ripped doctors and dentists who are “hoarding” unproven coronavirus treatments like chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine by improperly self-prescribing the medications. On Thursday morning’s edition of CNN Newsroom, anchor Jim Sciutto asked Cohen about reports of doctors and dentists hoarding the experimental treatment that President Donald Trump has repeatedly hyped as a potential “game-changer” against COVID-19. “Elizabeth, what are you learning here, […]
President Trump and the administration have forcefully denied reports that Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute for Allergies and Infectious Diseases and member of the White House Task Force dedicated to fighting the novel coronavirus and COVID-19, has been ‘sidelined’ by the administration after contradicting Trump last week. When reporters noted Dr. Fauci’s absence during Monday’s briefing, the administration had a plausible explanation: […]
The nation’s television news outlets, especially the three major cable-news networks, are grappling with a nagging paradox as President Donald Trump continues to orchestrate his White House briefings on the novel coronavirus pandemic. On the one hand, their ratings have never been higher, and viewers’ appetites for the live sessions have shown no signs of dwindling. On the other hand, journalists and executives at MSNBC, CNN […]
After saying President Donald Trump needs to better listen to his medical advisors, Joe Biden proceeded to cough into his hand, prompting CNN host Jake Tapper to give him a lesson about germs. Another day, another gaffe for presidential hopeful Biden, who has been doing his best to stay in the spotlight amid the coronavirus spread through television interviews where he’s criticized the Trump administration and […]
CNN’s Reliable Sources panel heaped praise on Andrew Cuomo on Sunday, calling the New York governor a model of political leadership amid the coronavirus pandemic. Brian Stelter devoted most of his show to Cuomo’s latest press conference, during which, the governor called for increased federal aid on the distribution of medical supplies and price gouging prevention. Stelter remarked that “Cuomo is clearly trying to ratchet up […]
Alex Wong/Getty Images CNN was tops in the advertiser-coveted adults 25-54 demographic on Wednesday. According to data from Nielsen, CNN — during the daytime hours of 9 p.m. to 5 p.m. — bested rivals Fox News and MSNBC in the key demo, pulling down 652,000 viewers in that category. Fox News trailed behind with 586,000 viewers in the demo — although they did top the overall […]
UCLA Health Emergency Medical Physician Dr. Lisa Dabby on CNN ripped a new guideline from the CDC that recommended medical professionals use, as a last resort, a scarf or bandana instead of a face mask when dealing with coronavirus patients. “The number of cases continues to rise every day,” said Jake Tapper on Thursday. “How long do you think it will be until hospitals are overrun? […]
Veteran CNN reporter Dana Bash furiously backpedaled on Twitter after getting praise from conservatives – and heat from the Resistance – for calling President Donald Trump’s coronavirus press conference “remarkable.” “He is being the kind of leader that people need, at least in tone, today and yesterday, in tone that people need, and want, and yearn for in times of crisis and uncertainty,” Bash, CNN’s chief […]
If you were watching CNN this morning and thought “wait, was that Shrek?” no you weren’t having a fever dream, that really happened. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has received serious criticism for his leadership amid the worldwide pandemic. CNN’s Phil Black reported Tuesday morning that the UK was “implementing almost no restrictions” like many other nations, but now they’re “suddenly” shifting to take stronger action. During […]
Joe Biden has raised quite a few eyebrows after he compared the coronavirus outbreak in the US with “being attacked from abroad,” prompting many to wonder if he is to be held to the same standard by liberal media as Donald Trump. The first one-on-one debate between former VP Joe Biden and Senator Bernie Sanders was largely overshadowed by the coronavirus crisis raging in the US, […]
Fox News won in the overall ratings Thursday night, but CNN’s coronavirus town hall pulled in the most viewers between the ages of 25 and 54 for the 10 p.m. to 12 a.m. cable news slots. The 10 a.m. to 12 a.m. town hall pulled in 785,000 viewers in the 25 to 54 demo against 2,066,000 viewers overall. Though shows on Fox News and MSNBC at […]
Drew Angerer/Getty Images Fox News announced Thursday that it will be reducing staff at their New York headquarters and urging those who can work from home to do so starting Monday as the coronavirus spreads. “First and foremost, we are reducing the staff footprint at our headquarters in New York and some of our bureaus and will be instituting telecommuting starting Monday, March 16th for all […]
Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News, While many leftists are accusing President Trump of politicising the coronavirus, CNN devoted a whole segment to daydreaming about how the potential pandemic could help Democrats win the election. As part of its primary night broadcast Tuesday, CNN’s anchors and guests discussed how the panic over the spread of the virus will hinder Trump’s relection. Democrat dropout Andrew Yang […]
Democratic candidate turned CNN contributor Andrew Yang has thrown his support behind party frontrunner Joe Biden, citing “the math” after the former vice president was projected to win Michigan, but his fans aren’t happy. “I always said I was going to support the nominee…I hereby am endorsing Joe Biden,” Yang announced on Tuesday night on CNN. “The math says Joe is our prohibitive nominee…I believe he […]
Former presidential candidate Andrew Yang endorsed Joe Biden live on CNN Tuesday night, noting how difficult a decision it was, and saying Biden must do the work of uniting the party, particularly the disappointed young people who buoyed Sen. Bernie Sanders’ candidacy. Yang said that Biden asked him for his endorsement last week and it was difficult to say no to him, but he wanted to […]
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer had to awkwardly correct in real-time his own network’s graphics snafu, when it incorrectly showed Bernie Sanders as the projected winner of the Mississippi Democratic primary. As soon as the polls closed at 8:00 p.m. EDT in Mississippi, CNN began its top-of-the-hour election coverage with its first projection of the night. But as Blitzer turned to the giant screen behind him, he only […]
Fox News’ 8 p.m. show Tucker Carlson Tonight was the big cable news winner on Monday with 3,604,000 total viewers and 612,000 in the 25-54 age demo. Hannity came in at a close second with 3,577,000 viewers and 558,000 in the demo, followed by The Five at 5 p.m. with 3,181,000 and 503,000 respectively. The winner at MSNBC was Rachel Maddow at 9 p.m., who reeled in […]
President Trump’s re-election campaign has sued CNN over “false and defamatory” statements about seeking Russia’s help to win the 2020 election, according to Fox News. “The complaint alleges CNN was aware of the falsity at the time it published them but did so for the intentional purpose of hurting the campaign while misleading its own readers in the process… the campaign filed this lawsuit against CNN […]
During his interview with Hillary Clinton, CNN’s Fareed Zakaria asked if she would campaign for Bernie Sanders if he became the Democratic nominee for president. Clinton has let loose on Sanders, even saying “nobody likes him” at one point, in the past few months, including in a newly-released Hulu documentary. She told Zakaria she would “support the nominee of the Democratic party.” “Will you campaign for […]
CNN’s Brian Stelter closed out his show on Sunday by reacting to the libel lawsuit President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign filed against his network. The Trump campaign is already facing an uphill battle with their attempt to sue The New York Times over an opinion piece, but on Friday, the campaign sued CNN over another op-ed which argued that Robert Mueller should’ve charged Trump’s team for […]