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CNN’s “Reliable Sources” Fixated on Right-Wing Media

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CNN’s Reliable Sources team purports to cover the entire press, but it overwhelmingly discusses and criticizes conservative and right-wing media and personalities, a Free Beacon analysis finds. Over a six-month span from Jan. 22 to July 21, the media newsletter published by Brian Stelter and Oliver Darcy mentioned “right-wing” or “far-right” media, personalities, or elements 172 times, while it mentioned “left-wing” or “far-left” just 8 times, a ratio of 21.5 to 1. 

MSNBC Promotes Homophobic Blogger to Replace Misogynist Creep

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MSNBC is no stranger to controversy. Nevertheless, the decision to mark the end of Pride Month by promoting a former homophobic blogger was unusually transgressive even for the middling left-wing network. The network’s 7:00 p.m. weekday slot—once occupied by Chris Matthews, who resigned suddenly in March amid allegations of creepy misogynist behavior—was awarded to Joy Reid.

Barack Obama Can’t Stop Trashing His Wife’s Writing Ability

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Former president Barack Obama has been “working” on his third memoir for several years. In that time, his wife, nutrition extremist Michelle Obama, has authored and published her own internationally best-selling memoir, Becoming. For whatever reason, Barack appears unable to tolerate his wife’s literary success. He has expressed an almost pathological level of annoyance at Michelle’s ability to complete a memoir in under two years.

New Gun Owners Could Sway Future Elections

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The record-breaking gun sales during the coronavirus pandemic could bolster candidates that support the Second Amendment in 2020 and alter the course of American gun politics for the foreseeable future. Several of the country’s leading gun-rights groups are working to convert many more first-time owners into new gun-rights voters in the run-up to the 2020 election.

Incoming Journalism Dean Out After Microaggression Complaint

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Arizona State University revoked a job offer from its incoming journalism school dean after students and faculty accused her of “microaggressions,” including a tweet that called some police officers “good.” Sonya Forte Duhé was due to take over as dean of ASU’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism on July 1, but her offer was revoked after former students lodged complaints about comments they perceived as rude. 

The Media’s Riot Defenders

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If peaceful armed protesters are voicing frustration with a lockdown, as happened in Democratic darling Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s state of Michigan, they see anarchy. But when smashed windows and mutilated civilians can be contorted into an issue of “racial justice,” then fealty to their hard-left ideology trumps any concern for safety or sanity.