Reluctant Warrior Bombs Yet Another Country
Can a president who has launched military strikes on seven countries really be called a ‘reluctant warrior?’
CNN Host Sticks Up for the Biggest Bank
Before she was a reporter, CNN host Erin Burnett worked on Wall Street. Evidently she still sees things from that perspective. On October 21, Burnett took time on her show OutFront to criticize the Justice Department’s reported $13 billion settlement with JPMorgan Chase. The bank is apparently ready to settle over a variety of claims […]
Corporate Media Lose Their Favorite ‘Warrior Scholar’
There’s no doubt that the sex scandal that prompted CIA director David Petraeus’s sudden resignation late last week is a big story. New details–verified or not–seem to arrive almost by the hour. But the reason it seems to have shaken so many media figures is because Petraeus was uniquely beloved by many in the corporate […]
Worst Media Moment on Hurricane Sandy?
CNN reporter Erin Burnett‘s comment (10/29/12) that it was “kind of neat” to see New York City break its flooding record as the storm surge from Hurricane Sandy flooded Battery Park was bizarre, to say the very least: I just want to give everyone an update of where we are right now in terms of […]
NYT Buries Occupy Wall Street
The Paper of Record has spoken: We didn’t think much of Occupy before, and now what we think is that it’s over. The day before Occupy activists were gathering to mark the movement’s one-year anniversary, Times columnist Joe Nocera wrote (9/16/12): “For all intents and purposes, the Occupy movement is dead.” Before the collapse of […]
CNN Pushing Alarmist Tales of Hezbollah Sleeper Agents
With discussions of a military attack on Iran circulating among U.S. and Israeli political elites, CNN has added fuel to the fire with a series of alarmist reports about supposedly Iranian-linked terrorist operatives inside the United States who are ready to strike. On the March 21 broadcast of the Situation Room, anchor Wolf Blitzer announced […]
Erin Burnett Hears the Critics—But Still Misses the Point
Last night (10/4/11) CNN host Erin Burnett noted that her fact check of the Occupy Wall Street protests had drawn some criticism. But she still doesn’t seem to get it. “Well, our story got noted documentarian Michael Moore, who watched the show last night,” she reported before playing a video response from Moore: I just […]
Action Alert: Factchecking CNN’s Occupy Wall Street Factcheck
CNN‘s newest show–OutFront, featuring Erin Burnett–did a “factcheck” of the protest in Lower Manhattan that was long on attitude and short on accuracy. If you’d like the network to take another look, see FAIR’s latest Action Alert. Please leave copies of your messages to CNN, or responses to the alert, in the comment thread below.
New CNN Host a Rush Limbaugh Favorite
A full-page ad in USA Today reminded me that today is the debut of Erin Burnett’s CNN show OutFront. Burnett gained a following at CNBC, and came to the attention of many conservatives with a report on the Today show (7/17/07) that managed to touch on almost every conservative myth about the economy, earning praise […]
A Benefit for Half of America—but Mostly the Top 0.2 Percent
CNBC‘s Erin Burnett discussing the tax deal on the Today show yesterday (12/7/10): “With capital gains and dividend taxes staying low, the half of Americans that own stocks get a benefit there as well.” Oh, really? Here’s some figures from the Center on Budget & Policy Priorities (1/30/06): Over half—54 percent—of all capital gains and […]
Erin Burnett Sticks Up for the Little Guy
The roundtable on Sunday’s Meet the Press (2/1/09) sure didn’t look promising: Republican flat tax enthusiast Steve Forbes, former McCain economic adviser Mark Zandi and CNBC reporter Erin Burnett. It was Burnett, though, who delivered a head-scratching defense of the$18 billion bonuses recently doled out at Wall Street firms (many of which are still standing […]
