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She’s Back: WH Press Briefing with Jen Psaki Today
Join us for Monday’s White House Press Briefing with Jen Psaki. The live discussion will begin at 1:45 p.m Central — see you there.
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Op-Ed: CBS News giving Mick Mulvaney a paid contributor gig is an act of journalistic malpractice
From mid-December 2018 through early March 2020, Mick Mulvaney, a former member of Congress from South Carolina, served as President Trump’s acting chief of staff. On Mulvaney’s watch, the White House took a wrecking ball to checks MORE
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Biden Makes No Apologies For Putin Remarks
President Biden on Monday said he makes no apologies for the ad-libbed remarks made in Poland stating that Putin “cannot remain in power.” Biden’s “no apologies” statement comes on the heels of multiple media outlets MORE
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Judge to Throw Out Sarah Palin’s Libel Suit
A U.S. District Court judge ruled that a libel lawsuit filed by Sarah Palin against the New York Times should be thrown out. The judge says lawyers failed to reach the high standards required for public MORE
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CNN screenshot altered to add fake chyron about Putin and Biden
And look who’s getting his news from Reddit and spreading it as Truth? CLAIM: A screenshot shows a CNN chyron reading: “Sources: Putin to delay invasion until Biden delivers weapons to Ukraine for Russia to MORE
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The Moment Sarah Palin’s Testimony Fell Apart
At the New York Times trial, the former governor was impressive at first. It didn’t last. Sarah Palin took the stand Thursday morning—on day six of her libel trial against the New York Times—clad in MORE
Sports
NBC’s Melodramatic Coverage of American Olympians Does Athletes and Viewers a Huge Disservice
As has become Olympics tradition, NBC has spent every night of its primetime coverage unveiling the stories of top U.S. athletes like it’s selling a weepy drama about their lives. Figure skater Nathan Chen came to Beijing to banish bad memories MORE
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Should the Press Be Interviewing Trump at All?
Serious question: How do you cover a candidate (if he ends up running in 2024) who’s running within the system but also trying to destroy it? Politics is usually seen as a party-on-party fight, with MORE
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Jen Psaki and Dr. Fauci: WH Press Briefing today, Dec. 1, at 12:30 p.m.
Join us today for the White House Press Briefing with Jen Psaki and ‘Dr. Anthony Fauci. We will have a live discussion concerning the Omicron Variant and other Covid related developments.
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Two Fox News contributors quit over Tucker Carlson’s “Patriot Purge” Indoctrimentary
A pair of Fox News contributors have quit their roles at the network, saying prime-time host Tucker Carlson‘s recent documentary series examining the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was a breaking point. Stephen Hayes and Jonah MORE
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Media Spitballs 2024 Democratic Candidates for President
From the Washington Post, a headline reads “Harris and Buttigieg under the spotlight amid uncertainty over Biden’s future.” Some quotes from the article: The prospect of former president Donald Trump making another White House bid MORE
2022 Election
FBI raids homes of Project Veritas associates as part of probe into theft of Ashley Biden’s diary
Federal agents carried out at least two search warrants at locations associated with the conservative media company Project Veritas as part of a larger investigation into the theft and subsequent public disclosure of a diary written by MORE
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Police Say They Know Who Rushed NBC News Reporter and Yelled at Him to Report ‘ACCURATELY’
Police say they figured out who rushed an NBC News reporter during a segment on Hurricane Ida. He is Benjamin Eugene Dagley, of Wooster, Ohio, officers said in a statement. Officers are after him on MORE
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Taliban members visit homes of two female journalists in Kabul, source tells CNN
The homes of two female journalists were visited by Taliban fighters on Sunday, a contact of the women told CNN, adding that both women were severely shaken psychologically. According to the source, one of the MORE
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Tucker Carlson Outed as Secret Source to Mainstream Media
A New York Times report says that Fox News host Tucker Carlson trades intimate details with mainstream reporters when he’s not publicly denouncing them. “He’s the go-to guy for sometimes-unflattering stories about Donald J. Trump MORE
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Kayleigh McEnany whines about Jen Psaki Photoshoot; Calls Press “sycophantic.”
Kayleigh McEnany took to Fox News on Friday to complain that famed photographer Annie Leibovitz had never photographed her or Melania Trump, a fact that she described as evidence of the entire press corps’ moral MORE
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CNN Producer Arrested While Covering Minnesota Protests: “Do You Speak English?”
Carolyn Sung, a CNN producer, was among the media covering protests in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, last week following the fatal shooting of Daunte Wright. Sung was trying to leave the area in compliance with a MORE
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Biden Isn’t Giving Daily Podium Performances or Helipad Shout-outs to the WH Press Corps. . . .for a Reason
Joe Biden is hardly in hiding. Barely a week passes when he doesn’t tour a factory or host a meeting in the Oval Office. He gives interviews and takes questions from time to time as MORE
News
Fox Corp CEO Lachlan Murdoch: Fox is the loyal opposition’ to Biden
Lachlan Murdoch believes it’s Fox News job to oppose the Biden administration to improve their ratings. Speaking at the Morgan Stanley TMT Conference on Thursday, he said “the main beneficiary of the Trump administration from a ratings MORE
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MAGA media looks to turn White House briefing room into a battlefield
Eric Bolling, the conservative host of Sinclair Broadcast Group’s “America This Week,” would travel regularly to Donald Trump’s White House, interviewing the former president seven times and occasionally attending press briefings. Trump’s now gone and MORE
Politics
Trump grants clemency to 143 of the corrupt, the rich and the lucky. Guiliani would have made 144. . . .
President Trump on Tuesday granted clemency to 143 people, using a final act of presidential power to extend mercy to former White House strategist Stephen K. Bannon, well-connected celebrities and nonviolent drug offenders — but MORE
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Tucker Carlson Slammed For ‘Vile And Vicious’ Attack On Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
“The Fox News personality ridiculed the New York Democrat for saying she feared for her life during the U.S. Capitol riot.“ Fox News’ Tucker Carlson faced backlash and accusations of hypocrisy on Thursday after he MORE
News
How Right Wing Media Covered the Insurrection at the Capitol
“In the early stages of the siege, Newsmax chose to pretend that nothing unusual was happening on Capitol Hill; that, in fact, those who had shown up in D.C. to express their displeasure with the election MORE
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Newsmax Tries to Outfox Fox; Lures Trumplicans with Far Right Fake News
The 24-hour news network Newsmax aims to run to Fox News’s right does something subtle to make it seem as though Trump has all but won. Along the bottom of the screen, it perpetually runs MORE
Politics
FOX News is at war with itself over 2020 election results
While Maria Bartiromo and Jason Chaffetz spout conspiracy theories about election theft and insist Donald Trump is ahead, others on the network have attempted to tamp down on the crazy—much to the president’s displeasure. In MORE