At this point it’s almost cliché to say so, but what Stelter meant when he used words like “misinformation” was right-wing. For all the Reliable Sources anchor’s garment-rending about declining trust in the media, he spent a disproportionate amount of time covering for his industry’s egregiously biased, activist behavior over the course of the past few years. He defended his colleague Chris Cuomo’s unethical role as an adviser to his brother, the disgraced former New York governor Andrew Cuomo. He regularly offered up his show as a platform for Biden officials to repeat White House propaganda. On Jussie Smollett, he argued: “We may never know what happened.” And he himself regularly engaged in “misinformation,” including championing the fraudulent “Steele dossier” narrative. (When new details about the dossier’s fraudulent nature emerged, Stelter protested: “I’m a media reporter, and I’m not a Steele dossier reporter.”)
Via Jon Nicosia: “Once the coming shakeup at @CNN is done, don’t expect John Berman, Alisyn Camerota, Jim Acosta, Brianna Keilar, Jake Tapper, John King, and Don Lemon to still be at the network OR have their current show assignments.” (Sorry, forgot the link)
Steve Krakauer: A change is coming…
In the Trump years, Brian and his show, Reliable Sources, became emblematic of the Jeff Zucker Era of CNN. The office politics subsided, overtaken by the national politics that slowly, then rapidly, became intertwined with the media coverage. Fairly or unfairly – and, in reality, probably somewhere in between – Brian became a stand-in for Zucker himself, both in criticism of the network by places like Fox News, and internally among those who viewed the output as directly from Jeff’s brain.
When Jeff Zucker ran the network, that meant there was no one more untouchable at CNN. But Jeff was fired, and Chris Licht took over. In the new regime, being a stand-in for the old boss was perhaps the worst place to be. Yesterday it was announced Stelter would be leaving CNN, and Reliable Sources was canceled. The last episode airs Sunday, and Stelter’s last newsletter was sent last night. (Longtime media watcher Jon Nicosia’s sources said it was happening back in June.) […]
His exit marks a perception shift at the network, but is also quite obviously a reality check to those still in the building – the rumors about what Chris Licht, and David Zaslav, and John Malone plan to do with CNN are in fact true. The network will not be making small changes. It’s a full-scale overhaul. Jeffrey Toobin was gone last week. Brian Stelter is gone this week. Jim Acosta, Don Lemon, Brianna Keilar, Alisyn Camerota – you are on notice. The changes may have started small and subtle, but then the floodgates open and start coming all at once. (Licht signaled as much in his 9am comments this morning.)
New CEO Tells Employees, ‘You Might Not Like or Understand’ What’s Coming
Fox has the right and much of the centre tied up. Everyone else in cable news has a tiny sliver of the lefty audience and are likely hemorrhaging cash. Maybe some executive opened up his daughter’s marketing text to page one and decided to segment the market. Fire all the communist hacks and carve out a niche right down the middle. Amazing things can happen in business when you pull your head out of your ass.
All you need to watch on FOX is Tucker, Levin and Gutfeld (highest rated late night comedy)…
Kate, thanks for posting this type of good news; it sells.
I recently announced to my CNN mother who couldn’t believe at the time that her favorite, Chris Cuomo got cancelled, that big changes were coming starting with Stelter, she asked me why and I told her it was for ratings and that parent company Warner was bleeding money…she looked at me as if to say (like she did out loud so many times) “ you got that fake news from the internet again”…
Poor mom, I love her dearly.
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Really, are you that devoid of ability to assess news out lets. I researched faux news in mid 90T’s , and they were leftist back then. I did the research because there was a lot of”but even Fox” being mewled by the lefties. Read a faux article recently, and 6-7 time it stated or insinuated that there was NO election fraud in 2020. Also CGTV (china global TV) uses unedited faux clips for their propaganda clips. As with the Uke Russia war, you have NO damn clue!
Man the view is going to get crowded.
The View, CNN, ELTA all the other Zoom Masterbait-spitters, mentally ill, brain dead commentaries start invading one or two TV shows, the Socialist FCC Might not allow Human Canales to eat each other.
The one fan Steven King would be delighted.
People of character refuse to be viewed it will die.
KATE,
I miss your news Dinosaurs being struck by an Astorid, Astrid, Astoria.
SCREW SPELL CHECKER
ARTHRITIS,
Asteroid ?
Babylon Bee offers Stetler a job.
https://mobile.twitter.com/SethDillon/status/1560330245915512838
So very sad. On Mars.
Get woke, go broke.
Say what you want, but I am going to miss the sweet irony of professional liar Brian Stelter hosting a show called “Reliable Sources”.
I see the term “clown world” used a lot by conservatives/centrists lately, but when referring to leftards and their vacuous faux-virtue-signaling while throwing around terms like ‘inclusive’, ‘anti-fascist’ and ‘woke’, I think “opposite world” is much more accurate.
I think that like me, you’ll miss the comedy, I sometimes watch CNN for a chuckle…ahhhh, it’s so nice to be truly well informed to the point where you can enjoy lies made up and retained through the prism of constant speculation and presented by presstitute actors with their total end of the world frowns…the Mar-A-Lago “search” (lol…not “raid”) will be carried out until the midterms guaranteed…this Thursday is part three: “the redacted affidavit”….ooahhhh, I can’t wait…
Oh, no!
Anyways,
I am updating my boycott list what with all of my betters coming out to support dear Brian. I was shocked to see Stephen King’s tweet is praise and admiration for this guy.
This just reinforces my patronage of the underground economy and black markets.
Stephen King has a case of TDS so bad that it even rivals the level of hatred and insanity displayed by De Niro. King made my “boycott list” about 3 yrs ago.
I read one of King’s books. Didn’t care for it at all. Some years later I tried another. Got about 30 pages in and said this is garbage.
I’m now wondering if King taught Stettler to write fiction
Must agree, my boycott of Stephen King is already 100% because I don’t read his books and don’t watch the movies made from them. Finding out that he’s a TDS whacko is no surprise. Hollywood insider, right? What else would he be?
Predicting a rocky future for Mr. King and Hollyweird both, given what’s going down at Netflix, Warner and now CNN. It’ll look good on them.
Well, I have a great deal of respect for Stephen King as a writer, and I do regard what he’s done to himself as a very sad form of mental illness. That said, he did it to himself. I didn’t twist his arm.
King had a long phase in which he realized that his writing was so good, that it didn’t matter if the book was any good, and he put out a large number of poor-to-disgraceful books that nonetheless made excellent reading. The extreme example is that Kennedy assassination novel, which has sustained passages of wonderful writing and the stuff of a first-rate straight novel, presented in a grotesque mess of a scenario and plot that no respectable 1950’s comic book would have considered adequate. Before you give up on Stephen King the writer, at least check out Pet Sematary, which I think may be the one properly constructed novel he ever wrote, as well as being profound and indeed humane, if only in an extremely weird way. As to Stephen King the man, well, I’ve given up on him so you might as well.
Fox may have to turn a little further right also by dumping Baer and a few others, as well as a bunch of their daytime weekend saps!
Won’t happen tho, given the owners.
“Reliable sources”. A chuckle worthy phrase.
I mean, if you’re trying to garner credibilty through an appeal to authority would you ever say “unreliable sources”. It’s like, never say, “To be perfectly honest” as it suggests that you’re usually economical with the truth.
“Reliable Sources” is not reliable, and as for sources, I suspect Stettler makes them up.
Speaking of garbage media, check out Andy Ngo’s feed for a back and forth with some twit from Global.
Not only was Potato Stelter fired, but Licht laid off the entire “Reliable Sources” staff / crew too.
Astonishing CNN would fire a piece of eye candy like Brian Stelter.
Did they not consider their female viewers or, it must be said, their gay audience?
Killer
The BBQ crowd got burnt!
Weigh anchor and get underway.. Brian served his purpose.. He and his 10 million dollar net worth will be fine..
I remain unconvinced about Chris Licht who I believe is a raging Liberal with end stage TDS which means his idea of a rock ribbed conservative might be Romney, Cheney and other establishment, squishy Rhinos.
We’ll see.
And am I the only one who’s surprised Stelter is only 37???? What an odd looking gnome.
For a feel good story of the week I read that for the first time ever…yes, for the very first time folks, there are more people streaming rather than viewing garbage via cable and satellite. I guess pissing off a large segment of your viewers wasn’t a great business model after all.
The television model is finished. Networks everywhere are cutting their losses. The day of the big anchor is over.
Always considered him nothing more than a common tater.
Breaking CTV news! Shelter in his final show says CNN must hold the media accountable!
https://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/stelter-says-cnn-must-hold-media-accountable-as-show-ends-1.6036251
Yeah, right.