It was an amazing display of ineptitude when CBS News ran a report on the DOJ making a court filing for the Department Leaker Jack Teixeira. The claim was they found him with a cache of weapons and tactical gear in his bedroom – then showed a picture where his arsenal was made up of toy Airsoft rifles. (Just as bad, CNN followed suit and did the same thing.) But CBS was not finished with the fiascos, as the outlet next ran a deeply flawed report about basketball great Dwyane Wade leaving Florida due to DeSantis.
Then we cover the collusion seen at the White House as it was seen reporters are feeding President Biden pre-written questions. I also have some Tucker updates, fact-checker failings, and then some coverage of this weekend’s Nerd Prom, the White House Correspondents Dinner.
Now crack one open and savor some mainstream media mayhem and malpractice.
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- CBS News has an embarrassing report showing a number of toy guns and calling it a “weapons cache”.
- CNN, not having learned the lesson, follows suit with its own embarrassment on the same story.
- CBS report on Dwyane Wade moving because of Ron DeSantis passing the parental rights law – except Wade and the family moved in 2019.
- Fox News sees a rapid decline with Tucker Carlson’s departure; Newsmax sees a ratings lift as a result.
- Politico reports how the intel community claims Tucker “destroyed” the Department of Defense.
- Tucker posts a video to his Twitter account which so far has drawn 77 million views.
- Biden is found being fed reporters’ questions, and the press scrambles to deflect.
- As Jose Biden tells more falsehoods during his campaign announcement Glenn Kessler runs a fact-check – on Trump’s response.
- After becoming indignant about being called “state-run media,” NPR reporter raves about Biden and Kamala Harris coming to their prom.
- My look into the WHCA canceling one of its historic journalism heroes over modern woke sensitivities.
With D.C. vibrating over Saturday's Correspondents Dinner I look at a decision by the @WHCA to remove the name of a historic journalist from one esteemed award.
This was a decision made over sensitivities, falling prey to emotion-driven revisionism.https://t.co/B0eLtobOfM— Brad Slager: Canceled My CNN+Lifetime Subscription (@MartiniShark) April 25, 2023
