The latest chapter in the decades-long tradition of the news media blaming the U.S. for Communist Cuba’s problems was written on Friday’s CNN This Morning when host Audie Cornish and New York Times writer and podcaster Lulu Garcia-Navarro tried to blame President Trump’s seizing of Cuba-bound Venezuelan oil tankers for the country’s ever-increasing economic disaster.

Status founder Oliver Darcy lost his noodle Thursday night in his newsletter over Netflix backing out of its proposal to purchase Warner Bros. Discovery and its litany of properties that include CNN, paving the way for the bid from David Ellison’s Paramount Skydance (which includes CBS). Darcy argued “CNN staffers have every reason to be worried” and predicted it’ll undergo a “MAGA-fication” akin to what he said has happened at CBS.
Near the end of Thursday’s edition of The Lead, host Jake Tapper boosted an election theft conspiracy pushed by The Washington Post, which erroneously claimed President Trump was going to issue an emergency declaration to steal the midterm elections. Tapper even brought on the senior White House reporter to wrote the story, Isaac Arnsdorf to help give the accusations weight. But Republican commentator Shermichael Singleton blew up the accusations with a phone call.
On Wednesday,
The State of the Union reveals that our country isn't unified. The media thrive on division, on trying to divide Trump from the public. The "fact checkers" pounce on Trump and leave the Democrats untouched. Their comedians and actors speak in the most hateful terms, and then Democrats accuse Republicans of being the ones who divide people.
For months, critics on the left have accused Jeff Bezos of nudging the Washington Post in a more conservative direction — citing the paper’s decision not to endorse Kamala Harris and Bezos’ remarks about emphasizing free-market principles on the opinion page.
The State of the Union speech is an effective annual exercise to measure how journalists feel about a long speech on national TV by Donald Trump. They hate it intensely, like most children hate broccoli. They would like to scrape that steaming plate into the garbage.
Near the end of Wednesday’s Katy Tur Reports, Slate writer Mark Joseph Stern absurdly claimed the recent Supreme Court Ruling in United States Postal Service vs. Kanan could lead to mail-in ballots in a “liberal enclave” being destroyed through an apparent Department of Justice and USPS conspiracy.