Newsbusters By Tim Graham
It’s amazing that CNN CEO Chris Licht once came to the Capitol to meet with congressional Republicans in an effort to rebuild trust, as if CNN was going to change. It hasn’t.
You can’t just claim anything’s changed. Well, you can if you want to look like you haven’t watched five minutes of CNN. Mediaite’s Michael Luciano just claimed, “Licht has moved the network away from what CNN’s critics regarded as a liberal partisan slant and instead has emphasized straight news programming.”
One of the many ways to prove the ongoing slant is CNN’s chief “Fact Checker,” Daniel Dale. Don Lemon spurred unintentional laughter a while back when he boasted, “if you’re a person in power, you better believe your expert fact checker Daniel Dale is watching your words.”
A Nexis search of Dale’s on-air appearances over the last six weeks located fourteen on-air appearances. Thirteen were “fact checking” one person who’s out of power: Donald Trump. The other one targeted Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on the fentanyl crisis. The president actually in power faced no on-air corrections at CNN.
Most of Dale’s energy was invested in CNN’s favorite story, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s indictment of Donald Trump. On the night of Trump’s arraignment, CNN host Anderson Cooper rolled out the usual barrel. “In the former President’s rambling appearance tonight, he repeated a whole slew of lies.”
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