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CNN Is Striving to Sink Its Entire Credibility Within a Week, and Journos Struggle With Reading Calendars

Brad Slager
Brad Slager  |  Mar 12, 2026
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Legalized Press-titution – CNN

  • From that network that is offended that you would suggest to push Iranian propaganda…

CNN has been battling the backlash since it announced that it would be permitted to report from inside Iran. As the lone Western news outlet granted permission by government officials, it seemed suspect, and the type of news seen from their correspondent has lived up to the skepticism. Now comes the capper.

Not only have the sanitized reports been lukewarm, and that reporter Fred Pleitgen also gave a tepid and friendly interview with a top official, but now we get the most absurd, pathetic, and offensive display yet. CNN actually turned over its airwaves to Iranian state-run news for a minutes-long segment. This was not even a journalistically vital passage, as it was allegedly going to deliver words from the new Supreme Leader, when in fact all they did was read quotes allegedly made by the still-missing replacement for the Ayatollah. 

Gilded Reframe – CNN

  • The fiascos continue to pile up.

Following an embarrassing day of being scorched on social media, many were waiting to see if, and at what level, Abby Philip would apologize for her deeply errant comments that the two ISIS-inspired would-be bombers from Saturday were targeting Mayor Zohran Mamdani. 

She did manage to come clean on the air, but it was still a matter of disgraceful “journalism” from the woman who loves to claim her job is to combat the alleged “MAGA misinformation” that she insists only exists on the Right.

Low-Octane Gaslighting – ABC NEWS

  • Calendars…how do they work?

On World News Tonight, host David Muir gave an economic report and declared that the inflation rate last month, which was relatively flat month over January’s rate, was higher than a year ago. That was already a biased approach, but in selling this alleged rise in prices in February, he implies the cause was the attacks on Iran – which began on March 1.

News Avoidance Syndrome – MS NOW

  • Another one with a curious condition involving dates.

After the attack seen on the campus of Old Dominion University, Ken Dilanian takes a decidedly convenient approach to the matter.

First, he is surprisingly in favor of deportations, suggesting the current government is somehow culpable for this, given that this known ISIS attacker was not shipped out of the country.

But there is a rather glaring blind spot in Ken’s outrage here, as he acknowledged that this attacker had been released from prison in 2024, yet he harbors no concern for who was in charge of things at that time. 

Arisanally-Crafted Narratives – MS NOW

  • We’ll chalk up the lazy reporting to it being early in the morning.

There is no surprise that at MS NOW they are opposing basically any and every effort made by the Trump administration. The latest to be criticized is the ongoing pressure being made to remove the authoritarian leadership in Cuba. 

Reporter Britt Miller delivered a segment saying “policy experts” were critical of this effort. Despite her use of the plural form, she relied entirely on a lone “expert,” the very biased Obama fixture Ben Rhodes. Benny was given full reign to slam the attempts to change Havana, and then, ever the journalist, Ms. Miller closes with a prediction that this could lead to the next Bay of Pigs disaster.

BlueAnon – ABC NEWS

  • Another example of going from demanding two sources for a story, to not even needing a single credible source.

Another news item that has the media on fire at the moment is the supposed threat that Iran poses by sending drones into California as a retaliation for Operation Epic Fury. Some have gone so far as to suggest Sunday’s Academy Awards might be a target. ABC News has been the initial source of this wildfire reporting.

But instead of just reading headlines and repeating the hysterical claims, once you begin actually looking into the story, it becomes a mystery why anyone took it seriously – beginning with the fact that it came from ABC News. It turns out all of this is based solely on a tip that was sent in to the FBI, and even the Bureau has acknowledged that this was completely unverified. Yet the network chose to remove that word that had been included in the FBI alert upon which it based its entire report.