Your source to mainline a year's worth of mainstream media misdeeds and malarkey.
Holy hell, CNN has certainly been on a heater this week. If a network were intentionally seeking to ignite its reputation, it is not clear how that might look any different. Not once, but repeatedly, the news channel had to issue follow-up editorial messages, mea culpas, and other forms of repair. Amazingly this was over the same flawed stance about the New York City bombing attempt, a sign of a network narrative being in place.
It was enough to justify a tagline change for the sake of accuracy. Maybe just adjust the logo, so it reads “Correction News Network”.
That needs to be the new CNN promotional tagline: https://t.co/EMuO7HKjhq pic.twitter.com/nAAknVVP0P
— Brad Slager: CNN+ Lifetime Subscriber (@MartiniShark) March 12, 2026
Over at ABC News, on its top-rated “World News Tonight,” host David Muir had a tough go of things, mainly in denying news reality. As he covered the long lines seen at airport TSA check-in lines, somehow he never got around to mentioning it was due to staff shortages, brought about by the Democrats partially shutting down the DHS agencies. Then he gave an economic report, claiming that the numbers from February were impacted by the Iranian attacks…which did not begin until March.
And finally, we have Ken Dilanian from MS NOW, suddenly turning pro-deportation when covering the Dominion University shooter. As he looked to blame President Trump, he managed to overlook how he was released from prison and who was behind that.
Now, crack one open and savor some outmoded media malpractice and misinformation
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After the network was shamed into a retraction, Abby Phillip followed with her own denial of the bombers and their target, and her retraction was hardly better.
Even with those glaring foul-ups, a senior reporter was also caught pushing the lie about the bombers.
After proclaiming that the network, when covering Iran, was delivering independent journalism, CNN literally turned over its airwaves to air four minutes of an Iranian state-run news broadcast.
At the Pentagon press conference, Secretary Hegseth called out CNN, and while trying to defend its honor the network had to correct its reporting.
Not once, but twice, Brian Stelter was defending “solid” journalism, which then had to be corrected.
At ABC News, things are not much better. David Muir delivered a pair of screwed-up news reports.
After the Dominion University shooting, Ken Dilanian is notably deflecting reality in order to blame this on the president.
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