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The NY Times With the Most Tone-Deaf 'No Kings' Coverage, and Israel Cancels an Iranian News Network

Brad Slager
Brad Slager  |  Jun 16, 2025
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Prose & Contradiction – THE NEW YORK TIMES

  • How did no one at the paper see this contradiction?!

This weekend, we saw the supposedly important and trenchant No Kings protest movement in dozens of cities. (The dumbest location of all was those organizing in London…ENGLAND!)

With all of the hype seen in the press, it defies reason and common sense that The Times would cover the marriage of Alex Soros and Huma Abedin and at the same time declare it was a gathering of “Liberal Royalty.”

Absolute tone-deaf reporting.

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Low-Octane Gaslighting – THE ATLANTIC

  • Any evidence of this “success,” Johnny, or do we just take your word on the matter?

In the wake of the No Kings protests, we are left with a decidedly baffling reality: What exactly was accomplished by this display?!

Well, the deep thinker at The Atlantic, Jonathan Chait, has come out to declare the results have come in. It was a smashing triumph!

Only problem – looking over the results shows a few issues that would likely fall into the “Negative” column.

Legalized Press-titution – CBS NEWS

  • This will go far to establish the bias, geniuses.

Just as the network is enduring a lawsuit from President Trump regarding the partisan way that “60 Minutes” edited the Kamala Harris interview, leading to internal upheaval between the executive suites and the news division, the news crew thought it was a grand idea to stoke anti-Trump protests.

CBS posted as a news item the way for people to obtain “No Kings” day merchandise ahead of the Saturday protest.

Pre-Written Field Reports – CBS NEWS

  • Margaret should have earned her doctorate by now from being schooled by Republicans.

In the latest edition of “The Education Of Maggie,” Tom Cotton visited “Face the Nation” to be challenged by hostess Margaret Brennan, and it leads to us seeing there was not much of a challenge.

Brennan leaned into the topic of the dispatching of troops to Los Angeles and dared to bring up Cotton’s supposedly controversial column in The New York Times years back saying bringing in troops to deal with urban riots was a needed effort. It was clear Margaret had her prepared questions and no comprehensive intelligence on the topic as Cotton ran circles by delivering simple clear facts.

Matching Media Memorandum – CNN / MSNBC

  • We are a bit unclear on their position on these riots…

As the coverage of riots being described as “mostly peaceful” has fallen to the dismissive level of an automatic punchline it is amazing to see outlets still trying in vain to recalibrate violent mobs described in this fashion. And yet it persists.

At NewsBusters, they looked into the number of times this pathetic reframing was tried at CNN and MSNBC and found over 200 instances of these two outlets resorting to that claim. Making this even more desperate is that was the tally they found in just a 24-hour period.

Glossary Over Things – ABC NEWS

  • Did anyone hurt themselves as you strained to make that definition?

The primary reason the media have recalibrated the riots in L.A. as anything else is because they needed to sell the concept that Trump acted impetuously to bring in National Guard troops. As a sign of how much the press wanted to avoid describing riots and attacks on law enforcement as anything but violent, here we have ABC News bring up the imposition of a curfew (um, any reason that was needed?) and then describing the locations affected would be “in the protest-impacted parts of downtown.”

Be careful now, ABC, be sure to stretch after making that strained effort.

Reporting on the Mirror – IRIB NETWORK, TEHRAN

  • GOOD NEWS: The station has gone viral. BAD NEWS: It may be for the last time.

During a live broadcast on Iran’s state-sponsored news network IRIB, there was footage as Israeli rockets hit the headquarters of the network in an effort to blunt the propaganda being spread by the government.

It could be a long while before IRIB is back on the air as we see this compare and contrast of the after-effects of the targeted hit by Israel. This was what the network campus looked like before the strikes.

And here is the field report from outside the smoldering headquarters.