After a (questionable) Quinnipiac poll generated headlines calling Barack Obama the worst president since World War II, presidential historian Julian Zelizer joins Brian Stelter to go beyond the media hype and place the poll results in context.
Here's how the university summarized the poll: "President Barack Obama is the worst president since World War II, 33 percent of American voters say in a Quinnipiac University National Poll released today. Another 28 percent pick President George W. Bush."
Zelizer said the poll "fuels a conversation about the problems with President Obama, and it will create some political problems for him potentially as people make these comparisons. But I don't think it tells us much about his presidency or how his presidency compares to those who came before him."
He cautioned that "the reputation of a president changes over time, very dramatically."
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Filed under: Barack Obama • Reliable Sources |
Christy Hoppe of The Dallas Morning News joins Brian Stelter to examine why journalists weren't more critical of rocker Ted Nugent's incendiary comments about President Obama.
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Filed under: Barack Obama • Blog • Reliable Sources |
Sally Kohn, Will Cain and Brian Stelter on the Kentucky senator’s blistering attacks on Bill Clinton, Bill O’Reilly’s lengthy sit-down with President Obama and NBC's questionable Olympics edit.
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Filed under: Barack Obama • Bill Clinton • Bill O'Reilly • Blog • Fox News • Hillary Clinton • Reliable Sources |
Brian Stelter runs down some of the week’s top media stories including President Obama’s comments about Fox News, a controversial CNN.com headline, a mistake by The Five and a papal critique of the media.
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Filed under: Barack Obama • Blog • CNN • Fox News • Pope Francis • Reliable Sources • The "B" List • The New Yorker |
Legendary actor and Sundance Film Festival founder Robert Redford talks to Brian Stelter about his festival, President Obama and how the media covers the environment.
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Filed under: Barack Obama • Blog • Environment • Reliable Sources • Robert Redford • Sundance |
Rosie Gray, Christina Warren, Hunter Walker and Brian Stelter discuss the year’s biggest media stories from the world of politics.
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Filed under: Alpha House • Barack Obama • House of Cards • Photojournalism • Politics • White House • White House Press Corps |
Amy Holmes, Christina Bellatoni, Peter Hamby and Brian Stelter on the feud between the White House and the White House press corps, who want more access to President Obama.
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Filed under: Barack Obama • Media • Reliable Sources • White House Press Corps |
Tune in to "Reliable Sources" this Sunday at 11 a.m. Eastern! Here's a preview from the program's host Brian Stelter:
In 2010 the Associated Press reporters Matt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman learned that the United States government had been lying about Robert Levinson, an American who had disappeared in Iran three years earlier. Levinson was not, as government officials claimed, a private investigator who had been in Iran on business. He was a contractor for the C.I.A. The Associated Press and several other news organizations refrained from reporting what they knew about Levinson's identity until this week. Why now?
That's where we will begin "Reliable Sources" this Sunday. The White House says that the publication of stories about Levinson has been "highly irresponsible." The A.P. obviously disagrees. Apuzzo will be on set with me in Washington to discuss.
Before the show, I'd like to know what you think about the C.I.A. spy stories - add a comment at the bottom of this blog post.
Then we'll pivot to this week's Santa controversy. (What an odd thing to write.) Aisha Harris, a culture blogger for Slate magazine, wrote a blog post on Tuesday titled "Santa Claus Should Not Be a White Man Anymore." By now you've probably heard about the Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly's reaction — "Santa just is white" — and the reactions to her reaction, etcetera.
But someone was missing from Kelly's much-talked-about segment on Wednesday: the blogger who started it all. Harris says "Fox didn't bother reaching out to me personally to debate the issue at hand." Maybe Fox reached out to someone else at Slate; I don't know. But when a CNN producer emailed Harris on Friday morning, she replied right away; she'll join me live from New York. (For what it's worth, Fox also apparently tried to book her on Friday; Kelly said on Friday night that Slate "denied our request.")
Later on in the show, we'll look at the recently reignited debate between the White House and the press corps over access with CNN’s national political reporter Peter Hamby, Roll Call's new editor-in-chief Christina Bellantoni and The Blaze's "Hot List" host Amy Holmes. The political panel will also discuss Hamby's exclusive report on Republican plans to overhaul the 2016 primary process.
Republicans are quietly advancing a new set of rules to condense and reform the 2016 primary calendar http://t.co/uDrJBL7NfD
— Peter Hamby (@PeterHambyCNN) December 11, 2013
Here's a segment we have been planning for weeks: the "Anchorman 2" marketing assault. Some analysts have said that Ron Burgundy is showing us the future of movie marketing. I'll ask Adweek's Sam Thielman if he agrees.
[Post-show update: I'd mentioned a segment here about Comcast and a new technology that lets Twitter users tune their TV sets and start watching shows on their mobile devices straight from Twitter. We held the segment for time constraints, so look for it on a future edition of the program.]
See you Sunday!
–Brian
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Posted by CNN's Brian Stelter Filed under: Anchorman • Barack Obama • CIA • Comcast • GOP • Politics • Reliable Sources • Robert Levinson • Santa Claus • Sneak Peek • Twitter |
Eric Deggans, Paul Farhi, Jane Hall and Brian Stelter discuss President Obama’s swipe at the media and a possible conflict of interest for CNN.
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Filed under: Amazon • Andrew Cuomo • Barack Obama • Chris Cuomo • I Want Media • Jeff Bezos • Media • Media Criticism |
Ana Marie Cox, Manu Raju and Ryan Lizza join guest host Brian Stelter to discuss the media's coverage of the potential government shutdown and the controversy over defunding Obamacare.
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Filed under: Barack Obama • Blog • Government shutdown • Politics • Reliable Sources |
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