The Media Research Center continued raging at any media outlet that failed to peddle the Trump Regime Media narrative on President Trump’s bombing of Iran:
- Bozell Slams Elitist Media’s Anti-American Coverage of Operation Epic Fury
- FAKE NEWS: ABC News Falsely Ties February Inflation Data to Iran War
- David Bozell Joins Larry O’Connor to Break Down the Media’s Late-Night ‘Meltdown’ Over Iran
- Kimmel Tells Iran ‘He Might Even Bomb Us Himself And Blame It On You’
- Chris Matthews: Iran ‘Decapitated’ Jimmy Carter, Now They’re Trying to ‘Decapitate’ Trump
- On PBS, Reza Aslan Says U.S. ‘Has Been Doing The Tyrant’s Work For’ Iran
- Fired ABC Reporter Terry Moran: Trump’s In a ‘Terrible Spot,’ Iran’s Got…Speedboats!
- On MS NOW, Ben Rhodes Says Iran’s Foreign Minister Is More Credible Than Steve Witkoff
Nicholas Fondacaro spent a March 6 post being mad that CNN has a reporter in Iran:
CNN once again finds itself being the only American, and possibly western, news outlet to have one of its major reporters able to get behind enemy lines and embedded with a Middle Eastern country; with the expressed permission of its brutal and murderous dictatorship. If you’re having Deja vu it’s because we’ve seen this before when CNN sold their soul to operate in Iraq pre-2003. And in their so-called “Reliable Sources” newsletter, on Friday morning, CNN chief media analyst Brian Stelter whined that the criticism was “unfair” and stemmed from “a misunderstanding of foreign reporting basics.”
“Just crossed the border into Iran. Will be reporting from here in the coming days,” senior international correspondent Fred Pleitgen announced in a March 5 post on X. In a later post he highlighted, “Poster‘s commemorating the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Northern Iran. Have already seen several similar ones.”
[…]The tidbit that really tipped people off to something fishy with CNN’s on-the-ground access came in an X post from CNN’s main account where they admitted: “CNN is operating in Iran only with government permission.” An admission that accompanied other reports.
This obviously threw any notion that CNN was operating objectively out the window. The admission drew criticism from many corners, including from other media outlets and the Trump administration, which accused CNN of spreading “pro-Iran regime propaganda.”
We don’t recall Fondacaro criticizing the newly biased Pentagon press corps who are effectively operating with government permission because they accepted new coverage restrictions.
Tim Graham followed up with a March 10 post:
The leftists who cry “state-run TV” at any outlet that isn’t at an MS NOW level of boiling Trump hatred never see the irony at the media’s softball service of an Islamic dictatorship in Iran. In all of the American media interviews with Iranian officials since this war began, none of them ever ask about the estimated tens of thousands of protesters killed by that regime.
On Monday’s PBS News Hour, anchor Amna Nawaz granted ten minutes to Iranian foreign minister Abbas Aragchi and offered the typical softballs, such as: “Can I ask you, what do you believe that the U.S. and Israel are trying to achieve or trying to change with this war?”
Has anyone from Fox News or any other Trump Regime Media outlet questioned the Trump administration even remotely harshly about the war? Graham didn’t say.
Jorge Bonilla whined in a March 15 post:
CNN’s Jake Tapper ended today’s edition of State of the Union with an editorial defending the Elitist Media’s coverage of the ongoing military operation against the Iranian regime. Tapper took exception to social media posts by President Donald Trump and former Bush White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer. In the process, he reminded us that those who live in glass houses should abstain from throwing stones.
[…]This is some nice misdirection, as Tapper fails to mention the fact that his network’s own chief global affairs correspondent and London bureau chief were caught palling around with the Khomeinist regime at its London embassy. And he wasn’t there to cover the event.
Bonilla curiously failed to mention the fact that Sky News — founded by and owned for nearly three decades by Rupert Murdoch — also had representatives at the embassy event.