A well-funded media ratings firm that partners with Big Tech giant Meta and seeks to influence students heavily favors Left-leaning media outlets while giving conservative media poor grades, a media watchdog group found. 
Ad Fontes, founded in 2018 as a media analysis organization, has become known for its “<a href="https://adfontesmedia.com/interactive-media-bias-chart/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Media Bias Chart</a>,” which rates over 3,000 media outlets on bias and accuracy. The organization says on its website that it partners with Meta, along with eight advertising agencies and software companies, and advertises “media literacy” lesson plans “for your classroom or school.” Ad Fontes claims to reach a non-partisan result by having three people with differing ideological leanings review news stories before giving them a rating, but Ad Fontes founder Vanessa Otero also claims that the three reviewers agree on a single score for a news outlet “99% of the time,” nearly perfect agreement from a supposed diverse set of reviewers. 
Ad Fontes has gained media traction recently after publishing its latest media bias chart with Otero <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmRdfJao46E" target="_blank" rel="noopener">appearing</a> on Fox 5 Washington, D.C., to boost her organization’s media ratings. Mediaite also reported on Ad Fontes’ new chart earlier this month, and the organization has <a href="https://www.bizjournals.com/denver/inno/stories/fundings/2023/07/24/ad-fontes-media-raises-series-a.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> raised $4.2 million ahead of the 2024 presidential election. According to <a href="https://cdn.mrc.org/static/pdfuploads/Media%20Literacy%20Firm%20Rigged%20to%20Favor%20Left-Wing%20Media_MRCReport_FINAL.pdf-1695244193394.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">findings</a> by the Media Research Center, however, Ad Fontes appears to have a bias problem of its own.
The watchdog&#8217;s study found that Ad Fontes gave 64% of the media outlets it considered to be on the Left a reliable mark, while giving only 32% of Right-leaning outlets the same label. 
“This so-called media literacy firm seems to have worked overtime to make its rating system look benevolent, but when you look deeper into the real data, it’s not. The chart offered to students and advertisers is clearly deceptive and tailor-made to create a veneer of objectivity,” said MRC Free Speech America Vice President Dan Schneider. “I can see why advertisers would be induced to direct their advertising dollars to the left and why kids would be influenced not to read another article critical of liberal policies.”
Most of the mainstream outlets Ad Fontes labels on the Left, including CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, and The New York Times, received reliability grades above 40 on a 64-point scale. Meanwhile, the more Right-leaning outlets such as Fox News (36.22), The Washington Examiner (34.73), The Daily Wire (32.79), and Newsmax (30.73) received less flattering reliability ratings. 
Ad Fontes gave The Washington Post a 38.37 reliability rating while “The Ben Shapiro Show” scored one of the lowest reliability ratings at 24.61, just above the 24-point mark that Ad Fontes considers “Selective or Incomplete Story/Unfair Persuasion/Propaganda.” 
&#8220;No honest American believes the Washington Post is reliable while Ben Shapiro and the Daily Wire are not to be trusted,&#8221; Brent Bozell, founder and president of the Media Research Center, told The Daily Wire. &#8220;Ad Fontes&#8217; whole ranking system is a lie aimed at telling Americans to trust the leftist media and not to trust anyone on the right.&#8221;
It&#8217;s ratings appear to be due to the fact that it falls on the liberal side of many news events, even when the facts tell a different story. Ad Fontes embraced Left-leaning talking points during crucial times in the past three years, saying the Wuhan lab leak theory was a “baseless” “fringe theory” and joined Big Tech platforms in censoring the Hunter Biden laptop story at the height of the 2020 election. The group also continues to give “reliable” scores to a 2021 article from Left-leaning NPR that fact-checked Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and claimed masking children was effective in stopping the spread of COVID-19. Since that time, a CDC <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7021e1.htm?'" target="_blank" rel="noopener">study</a> of over 90,000 elementary students <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2021/08/24/desantis-vindicated-theres-no-science-behind-masks-on-kids/?fbclid=IwAR02ynqOqnmB-P-A13rnKqswIZ0L1x-GboW693n6-saf9Xdr4ZREygtAVwE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">showed</a> that masking children wasn’t effective. 
This bias could be a result of the political views of its own leadership. One of Otero’s top advisers, Brad Berens, actively supports Left-wing causes and Democratic candidates while advocating for former President Donald Trump to be banned from social media platforms. 
Berens, who also writes for Ad Fontes’ website, <a href="https://twitter.com/bradberens/status/1566952718471610368?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> in 2022, shortly after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, that he hoped the decision, along with former President Trump’s “latest hijinks” would help the Democratic Party “keep both houses and extend the majority in the Senate.” Otero told The Daily Wire that Berens is &#8220;not involved in the day-to-day operations or the analysis of the individual articles.&#8221; 
But disdain for Trump at Ad Fontes seems to go beyond its advisers. The ratings firm sent out a celebratory email after Trump and his 18 Republican co-defendants were indicted in Georgia, praising the &#8220;wheels of justice.&#8221; 
“The process of bringing those at the center of a conspiracy to defraud the American people and misrepresent the good work of the officials responsible for mounting a free and fair election in Georgia had been identified by Georgia District Attorney, Fani Willis, and indicted for their alleged actions. The wheels of justice, however slow, had turned in the general direction that they are supposed to turn,” the email said. 
Otero confirmed in a phone interview with The Daily Wire that the majority of those advising and investing in the organization are Leftists but stressed that the analysts doing the day-to-day work of rating news outlets and articles are evenly divided among liberal, centrist, and conservative thought. She also said that Ad Fontes has some conservative investors, advisors, and analysts.
&#8220;The only thing &#8230; I could point you to that might allay the concerns of [conservatives]: we are really in good faith trying to mitigate our biases as much as possible,&#8221; Otero said.
The Ad Fontes founder, who started the organization after becoming disillusioned by the vitriol among friends and family members during the 2016 election, said she receives criticism from both the Right and the Left for how Ad Fontes rates media outlets.
&#8220;The nature of this work is that we&#8217;re going to get criticism from both sides,&#8221; said Otero. &#8220;You know, it&#8217;s important to us. We receive it, especially when it&#8217;s in good faith.&#8221;
The most reliable and least biased news reporting overall comes from NPR News Now (49.33), according to Ad Fontes, while the most reliable reporting on the Right comes from The Wall Street Journal (43.63). The media ratings firm punished Right-leaning outlets far more than those on the Left when considering unreliability. Only 2.9% of the media considered to be on the Left received an “unreliable” mark compared to 29% of media outlets on the Right.

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According to first-hand accounts, President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> treated U.S. Gold Star families, whose loved ones passed away during the disastrous 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal, with a remarkable lack of compassion — even for Biden. Former President Donald Trump, on the other hand, honored those same families with the utmost respect and dignity on a recent night to remember.
Don&#8217;t take this author&#8217;s words for it, listen to the mothers and fathers of the brave American soldiers who died in 2021 after a bomb detonated at the Kabul airport, killing 13 of America&#8217;s bravest. Trump hosted relatives of those heroes at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey on August 31.
For example, per a <a href="https://thespectator.com/topic/gold-star-families-trump-bedminster-jake-tapper/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from The Spectator&#8217;s Matthew Foldi, Paula Knauss Selph — the mother of Army Staff Sergeant Ryan Knauss — was moved to tears as Trump wrote on her son&#8217;s photo, &#8220;You are My Hero.&#8221; Knauss Selph told Foldi that those are the exact same words she uses to describe her son.
Now, contrast that moment with Biden&#8217;s treatment of the anguished parent.
Knauss Selph, who now serves as the executive director of the Respect and Remember Foundation, met with Biden in the Oval Office at an event for Gold Star families in Washington, D.C., on Memorial Day 2022, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/afghanistan-gold-star-mom-i-wept-wanted-comfort-from-biden-he-suggested-a-photo-with-him-instead" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previously reported</a>.
At first, Biden said to her, “I can understand if you’re angry,&#8221; when they were face to face.
“I stood face-to-face with him, eyeball-to-eyeball. I began to weep,&#8221; she said, saying that she told him, “It should have never happened this way.”
“He stood there stoically,” she said of Biden. “Nothing out of his mouth except — well would you like to get a photo with me?&#8221;
Knauss Selph told Biden she would only agree to a photo if it was of her and the president at her son’s tombstone at Arlington National Cemetery.
He declined, claiming that the Secret Service would not let him do so.
After that experience, Knauss Selph blasted the current president, saying, &#8220;It’s a moral disgrace for a president not to have mercy on the people that he serves. It is a moral disgrace.&#8221;
She wasn&#8217;t alone in her sentiments toward the two presidents.
Christy Shamblin, the mother-in-law of the late Sergeant Nicole Gee, told Foldi, &#8220;Trump was way more than I expected.&#8221;
&#8220;The contrast is stark with the president we met at [Dover Air Force Base],&#8221; she added.
Recently, Shamblin testified before Congress, &#8220;The administration didn&#8217;t seem to know our story,&#8221; while adding that &#8220;when it came to the people in suits, it felt disingenuous and hollow.&#8221; 
Biden, readers will also remember, checked his watch repeatedly at Dover Air Force Base while there to welcome home to the 13 caskets of the deceased Americans.
That national embarrassment enraged the nation, but the families of those brave men and women were — understandably — particularly stung by the commander-in-chief&#8217;s lack of empathy.
“In reference to the checking of his watch, that didn’t happen just once,” Darin Hoover, who lost his son, Marine Staff Sgt. Taylor Hoover, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gold-star-fathers-blast-biden-for-looking-at-watch-during-dignified-transfer-most-disrespectful-thing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in 2021. &#8220;That happened on every single one that came out of that airplane. It happened on every single one of them. They would release the salute, and he would look down at his watch on every last one – all 13 – he looked down at his watch.&#8221;
He added, &#8220;As a father, you know, seeing that and the disrespect, and hearing from his former leaders, one of his master sergeants said exactly what you just said, that this was avoidable, that they left them over there. They let them down, we can’t have that. It can’t happen ever again.&#8221;
Hoover also testified before Congress the same week after meeting Trump in late August.
&#8220;Between Congress and Trump, it turned into a really good week,” he told Foldi. “Lots of emotion and good times.”
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NEW from me <a href="https://twitter.com/TheSpectator?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TheSpectator</a>:
Donald Trump spent an evening privately hosting some of the Gold Star families whose kids were killed in Biden&#39;s failed Afghanistan withdrawal
&quot;He knew our names, he knew our kids&#8230;He took the time to honor our 13.&quot;<a href="https://t.co/LlZ152HBU8">https://t.co/LlZ152HBU8</a>
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Marlon Bateman, an executive advisor to the Utah attorney general, was also in attendance and provided more details as to what the night was like — again drawing a sharp distinction from Biden&#8217;s treatment of the families.
&#8220;We did not expect President Trump to join us, but to my surprise, he came up and joined us for dinner,&#8221; Bateman said. &#8220;Everyone erupted in cheers as he walked in. Lee Greenwood&#8217;s &#8216;God Bless The U.S.A&#8217; was blaring on the speakers. He proceeded to spend another couple of hours with us and even busted out an iPad to play songs for couples to slow dance to. He even went into his all-time favorite wrestling intros! At that moment I could see the anxiety, stress, and anger that these parents had carried for so long disappear from their faces. It was a moment of peace. They were there to celebrate the heroes they raised. Their babies grew up to be the best our country had to offer, and they were getting some of the recognition they deserved.&#8221;
Bateman added, &#8220;[Trump] did something for these families that the current administration has refused to do, and was incapable of doing — giving an overdue moment of recognition and solidarity for their children. Not a bullshit statement from the White House, not John Kirby sending his deepest condolences on CNN, not Joe Biden continually glancing at his watch while the bodies of their children were carried off the tarmac. He gave them hope that accountability and justice will be coming.&#8221;
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Last week, I had the honor to accompany several Gold Star parents to meet with President Trump in Bedminster. These parents lost their children when Abbey Gate was bombed in the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, which was orchestrated by Joe Biden.  
While Biden continues… <a href="https://t.co/wOJEKVG4r2">pic.twitter.com/wOJEKVG4r2</a>
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Meanwhile, President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration recently released a report calling the withdrawal a &#8220;success&#8221; and Biden has said the withdrawal <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/08/14/1027696241/biden-said-the-u-s-withdrawal-from-afghanistan-would-be-safe-then-chaos-ensued" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was</a> &#8220;responsible, deliberate and safe.&#8221;
Of course, readers know the lapdog media will never cover this story — it paints too much of a black-and-white difference between Biden and Trump. Thank goodness for conservative press and social media to get the story out there.
The names of the 13 Americans killed during the withdrawal can be read here:
<ul>
<li>Sgt. Johanny Rosario Pichardo, 25 </li>
<li>Sgt. Nicole L. Gee, 23 </li>
<li>Staff Sgt. Darin T. Hoover, 31 </li>
<li>Cpl. Hunter Lopez, 22 </li>
<li>Cpl. Daegan W. Page, 23 </li>
<li>Cpl. Humberto A. Sanchez, 22 </li>
<li>Lance Cpl. David L. Espinoza, 20 </li>
<li>Lance Cpl. Jared M. Schmitz, 20 </li>
<li>Lance Cpl. Rylee J. McCollum, 20 </li>
<li>Lance Cpl. Dylan R. Merola, 20 </li>
<li>Lance Cpl. Kareem M. Nikoui, 20 </li>
<li>Navy Corpsman Maxton W. Soviak, 22 </li>
<li>Staff Sgt. Ryan C. Knauss, 23</li>
</ul>
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/get-used-to-it-georgie-tammy-bruce-mocks-abc-anchor-stunned-by-biden-trump-poll" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a>, who has been indicted four times this year, is once again shocking legacy media outlets as he polls in a statistical tie with President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-speech-showcases-president-forgetting-when-he-was-inaugurated-where-he-served-in-the-senate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a>.
The latest polls on a hypothetical rematch between Biden and Trump show Trump gaining ground in the past two weeks, closing the gap to just seven-tenths of a percentage point, <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2024/president/us/general-election-trump-vs-biden-7383.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the Real Clear Politics average. The latest <a href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/bidens-age-economic-worries-endanger-re-election-in-2024-wsj-poll-finds-67a7bba8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">poll</a> from The Wall Street Journal stunned legacy news anchors and commentators, showing Biden and Trump in a dead heat at 46% each. 
“It is kind of shocking in a way that despite all of the baggage that Donald Trump carries, he’s tied with Joe Biden right now,” ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/news/shocking-abcs-george-stephanopoulos-stunned-by-new-poll-showing-trump-and-biden-deadlocked-despite-trumps-baggage/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">commented</a> on the poll. 
“With every passing month, with every new indictment, Donald Trump seems to be consolidating his control over the Republican Party,” Stephanopoulos added. 
The WSJ poll was also a cause for concern for Biden, showing that two-thirds of Democrats believe the president is too old to run for re-election. Voters strongly disapprove of the way Biden is handling the economy, inflation, border security, and dealing with China, according to the poll. Meanwhile, Trump scored higher ratings than Biden on being “mentally up for the job,” having “a vision for the future,” and “has a strong record of accomplishments as president.” Biden received better marks than Trump on honesty and being “a likable person.” 
Former Democratic Party Chair Donna Brazile was also alarmed by the WSJ survey, telling Stephanopoulos, “When I looked at that recent poll, the Wall Street Journal, I said, ‘this could keep me up at night.’” 
Hosts of the Left-wing daytime talk show “The View” were also surprised by Trump’s numbers. Alyssa Farah Griffin, who worked in the Trump administration as the White House director of Strategic Communications and assistant to the president in 2020, wondered why Republicans would still support the former president despite his legal battles. 
&#8220;Donald Trump is still polling near 60% in the GOP primary and I’ve been asking myself how is that possible? We’re the party of law and order and I put the blame at the feet of some of the GOP candidates running against him,&#8221; Farah Griffin <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/view-hosts-disbelief-trump-close-biden-polls-why-hell-happening" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. 
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Leftist host Sunny Hostin added that Trump’s tie with Biden represented a deeper problem within the GOP, accusing Trump supporters of putting “power before country” and “party before country.” 
Trump’s numbers against Biden aren’t exclusive to the WSJ poll. <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2024/president/us/general-election-trump-vs-biden-7383.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Polls</a> conducted at the end of August by the Economist/YouGov, Morning Consult, Emerson, and the Messenger/HarrisX show Biden up by a single percentage point or Trump leading the race. With the latest polls factored into the RCP average, Biden stands at 44.7% to Trump’s 44.0%. 
Trump has also held his massive lead in the Republican primary, staying above 50%, according to <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2024/president/us/2024_republican_presidential_nomination-7548.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Real Clear Politics</a> and <a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-primary-r/2024/national/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FiveThirtyEight</a>. GOP candidates haven’t moved much since <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/latest-presidential-polls-trailing-candidates-get-slight-post-debate-boost-trump-still-dominates" target="_blank" rel="noopener">last week’s report</a> on the RCP average as they try to chase Trump for the Republican nomination. 
The former president’s closest GOP challenger, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, marked a slight rebound in the latest polls following his performance at the first GOP presidential debate. DeSantis, now at 14.8%, remains the only other Republican candidate in double digits.

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I used to support the gays. In fact, when I was in high school and college, I was outspoken about being all for the LGB community. My high school’s drama club put on a production of The Laramie Project, a play about a boy named Matthew Shepard who was brutally murdered for being gay. It was an emotionally impactful story. The play opened a national conversation about why people should be able to be gay without being killed in America. After seeing this production, I couldn’t understand how any human being could not want legislation to be pushed forward to protect these people from hate crimes simply because of an attribute like being gay. Looking back on this now, I recognize this was likely a propagandist effort to prompt us to talk about gay and lesbian issues. As it turns out, the story in the play is not the whole story.
The actual happenings of the event occurred on October 6, 1998. Matthew Shepard went to Fireside Bar in Laramie, Wyoming, a local gay-friendly hangout. Russell Henderson and Aaron McKinney arrived shortly thereafter, and the three men hung out before leaving in McKinney’s father’s truck. After leaving together, Shepard was robbed, beaten, pistol whipped, tied to a fence, and set on fire. Henderson and McKinney left him unconscious, and 15 hours later, a student riding his bike found Shepard, barely alive, with tear streaked cheeks. Shepard did not survive. 
There was much progress for gay rights because of the Matthew Shepard story. Once the story came out, politicians and celebrities pledged their support to combat anti-gay hate crimes, which, at the time, didn’t even exist. It was President Obama who signed the Matthew Shepard Act in 2009, a law which defined attacks motivated by victim identity as hate crimes. The Shepard family, his devastated parents, became campaigners for gay rights. Numerous more dramas, books, and documentaries followed, telling Matthew Shepard’s story. 
While the events of Shepard’s murder are true, there was more to the story. We were told that he was killed simply because he was gay. That was the media’s spin — and it was quite the spin. In 2013, Steven Jimenez, an award-winning writer and TV producer, published a book titled “The Book of Matt: Hidden Truths About the Murder of Matthew Shepard.” Jimenez had spent years investigating Shepard’s murder, initially believing it to be a story about homophobia like everyone else. What he found out was, Matthew was addicted to and dealing crystal meth and had dabbled in heroin. He had also been pimped as a prostitute alongside Aaron McKinney, one of his convicted killers, who he had occasional sexual encounters with. And he was HIV positive at the time of his death. Shepard’s killers also apparently knew he had access to a shipment of crystal meth with a street value of $10,000, which they wanted to steal. After Henderson and McKinney left Shepard tied to the fence, they headed to his home but encountered two young Hispanic men, Emiliano Morales and Jeremy Herrera, who were slashing tires (just for fun). The four got into a fight, McKinney cracked Morales’ head open, and the police arrived on the scene. That is the full story.
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Shepard came from an affluent family, spent part of his childhood in Saudi Arabia, spoke three languages, and was a straight-A student when he enrolled at Laramie. Yet somewhere along the line, he got mixed up in drugs, always looking for his next high, and there is nothing a drug addict won’t do to get that next high. But this new information did not help make the perfect poster boy for the gay rights movement — part of the reason why the book was trashed. Obviously, McKinney wouldn’t have attacked Shepard because he was homophobic. But Shepard’s narrative had already been decided. He was a celebrated figure in the public eye, so they went with the story of a hunky dory town in the middle of America that wanted him dead. 
This is just another example of why we do not let facts get in the way of an emotional story in America — and a story to further our own causes. It is also an example of how easily we are brainwashed into believing whatever the media want us to believe. We want to think the media are committed to telling us the truth, but what they really do is intentionally remove the truth and sell us a lie. 
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/cnn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN</a> appears set to name a new CEO in the coming days after the leftist network fired their last CEO over the summer following a damning profile piece and a town hall debacle involving former President Donald Trump.
Puck News <a href="https://archive.ph/09h6T#selection-40947.0-41100.0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that as early as tomorrow, CNN is expected to name former New York Times Company CEO and BBC director general Mark Thompson to be the network&#8217;s next chairman and CEO.
The report said that Thompson has a reputation for &#8220;restructuring legacy media assets and pursuing innovative growth strategies&#8221; and that he could not be more different than the network&#8217;s last CEO, Chris Licht.
Thompson &#8220;deftly architected a plan that rescued the business&#8221; at The New York Times &#8220;from its darkest financial hour in generations,&#8221; the report added. &#8220;His various restructurings and reorgs repositioned the Times Co. as a product-first company that successfully built out a portfolio of lifestyle businesses that supported the news gathering organization.&#8221;
Licht was fired from the company by Discovery CEO David Zaslav just 16 months after being picked for the position.
“For a number of reasons things didn’t work out and that’s unfortunate,” Zaslav said. “It’s really unfortunate. And ultimately that’s on me. And I take full responsibility for that.”
Zaslav told employees that CNN is “in the process of conducting a wide search” for a new leader that could “take a while.”
Licht’s tenure at CNN was rough from the start. Weeks after Licht took over the reins, the cable news giant’s attempt at launching a streaming service <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/warner-bros-discovery-is-shutting-down-cnn-after-new-streaming-service-struggled-to-attract-viewers-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">failed</a> after a month in operation, attracting fewer than 10,000 daily users. The CNN executive also faced criticism from his employees and poor ratings performances in the news channel’s primetime slots.
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Familiar faces on the network, such as longtime journalist Brian Stelter and host Don Lemon, were axed under Licht’s reign. The tumultuous leadership of Licht came to a boiling point when the network hosted a town hall with former President Donald Trump in May. Leftist critics ripped the company for giving Trump a platform. Politicians and media personalities from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to Joe Scarborough were angered by CNN’s decision to host Trump on the platform that has consistently offered friendly coverage to Democrats.
Zach Jewell contributed to this report.

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Warner Bros. Discovery said it will attempt to get <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-praises-bidens-maui-speech-where-he-compared-historic-fire-to-small-kitchen-fire" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN</a> back into the streaming game a little more than a year after its streaming service CNN+ bombed after a month in operation. 
The media conglomerate is calling its second try at a news streaming platform “CNN Max,” which is slated to launch on September 27. CNN Max will feature some of the network’s existing shows, including “Amanpour,” “Anderson Cooper 360,” “The Lead with Jake Tapper,” and “The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer,” The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/business/media/warner-bros-discovery-adds-cnn-live-news-service-to-max-streaming-platform-9b87e4f2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. CNN Max will also launch new shows “CNN Newsroom with Jim Acosta, Rahel Solomon, Amara Walker and Fredricka Whitfield” and “CNN Newsroom with Jim Sciutto.” 
Warner Bros. Discovery said the new streaming service would be different from the subscriber-based CNN+ in that it will be included in the MAX (formerly known as HBO MAX) streaming package at no additional cost to MAX subscribers.
“We have the broadest and highest quality entertainment offering, and now will include world-leading news as a meaningful addition for all Max subscribers, at no extra charge,” said JB Perrette, WarnerBros. Discovery CEO and president of Global Streaming and Games, <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/media/4168779-cnns-parent-company-to-launch-new-streaming-news-service/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to The Hill.
In April 2022, Warner Bros. Discovery <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/warner-bros-discovery-is-shutting-down-cnn-after-new-streaming-service-struggled-to-attract-viewers-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shut down</a> CNN+ after less than a month in operation after the streaming service failed to attract subscribers. Fewer than 10,000 people were streaming CNN+ daily, <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/12/cnn-plus-low-viewership-numbers-warner-bros-discovery.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to CNBC, even after it signed former Fox News anchor Chris Wallace and gave him a show on the platform.
Then-incoming CEO Chris Licht said the “decision [to shut down CNN+] is in line with WBD’s broader direct-to-consumer strategy. In a complex streaming market, consumers want simplicity and an all-in service, which provides a better experience and more value than stand-alone offerings.”
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Licht <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ceo-chris-licht-out-at-cnn-after-tumultuous-year-controversial-trump-town-hall" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stepped down</a> from his position as CEO in June as the media company continued to struggle with attracting a large audience. The former CNN executive faced criticism from his employees after canceling CNN+. The past year for the legacy media outlet has been a rollercoaster. Familiar faces on the network, such as longtime journalist Brian Stelter and host Don Lemon, were axed under Licht’s reign, and the tumultuous leadership of Licht came to a boiling point when the network hosted a town hall with former President Donald Trump in May.

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Members of the Trump campaign were spotted dining with a handful of top legacy media reporters ahead of the first Republican presidential debate that Trump is skipping. 
Top reporters from outlets including CNN, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and NBC were seen rubbing shoulders with Trump advisers Chris LaCivita, Jason Miller, and Steven Cheung at a Milwaukee steakhouse called “Rare,” according to a POLITICO Playbook <a href="https://www.politico.com/playbook" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a>. Team Trump was also passing out items poking fun at Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, the former president’s top rival within the GOP. 
Trump’s team reportedly handed out pudding snack packs — a jab at DeSantis based on a Daily Beast story — and bingo cards with squares that included phrases such as “dismisses polls,” “wipes snot,” and “woke.” Some members of DeSantis’ team were also reportedly at the restaurant when the pudding and bingo cards were handed out. 
The report triggered a response from conservatives who said they were surprised that members of Trump’s team would “wine and dine” with the same media that continues to attack the former president. 
Radio host Steve Deace, who recently endorsed DeSantis, took to X to express his disgust with team Trump’s tactic. 
“Trump campaign meeting with corporate media who hates us all, but they’re conspiring together to destroy Ron DeSantis,” Deace <a href="https://twitter.com/stevedeaceshow/status/1694323532090515763?s=46&amp;t=XGiUuNPiSLBSXsXhdarMAQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>. “The same media that tried to impeach Trump and is trying to put him in prison now, nevertheless toasting his campaign. All the same people the Trump campaign is schmoozing now will of course go all in to defeat him in the general.”
Deace said a source who was at the restaurant told him that “not a single conservative media outlet was there. All corporate and left-wing media.” 
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“They accused you of being traitor and Russian asset. They stole an election from you. They impeached you. They&#8217;re trying to imprison you now,” Deace said. “And your people are wining and dining them? Are you freaking kidding me? What will it take to take this all seriously?”
Curtis Houck, managing editor of NewsBusters, also posted a stunned response to the report.  
“Team Trump ‘wining and dining with a number of top reporters.’ Amazing. Coordinating with the liberal media,” Houck said. 
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Team Trump &quot;wining and dining with a number of top reporters&quot;.
Amazing. Coordinating with the liberal media. <a href="https://t.co/eWvsZMY4gQ">https://t.co/eWvsZMY4gQ</a>
&mdash; Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href="https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1694385214825365641?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 23, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The Trump campaign has not responded to a Daily Wire request for comment on the report. 
Trump announced last week that he would skip the debate, opting for a sit-down interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson instead. The former president was criticized by many of his GOP opponents who believe Trump should attend the debate and explain how he can defeat President Joe Biden and the Democrats in 2024, but Trump has maintained that his sizable lead in the polls makes his participation in any debates unnecessary.

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Are we being pranked?
Over the weekend, NBC News <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/race-change-to-another-trend-online-rcna93759" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ran a story</a> casting doubt on individuals who believe that they can change their race while at the same time, supporting people who think they can change their sex and gender.
Logically, it makes no sense at all. If you can identify as a different sex or gender, there should be no problem in identifying as a different race.
&#8220;Inside the online world of people who think they can change their race,&#8221; read the headline.
&#8220;Practitioners of what they call &#8216;race change to another,&#8217; or RCTA, purport to be able to manifest physical changes in their appearance and even their genetics to become a different race,&#8221; NBC News explained. &#8220;They tune in to subliminal videos that claim can give them an &#8216;East Asian appearance&#8217; or &#8216;Korean DNA.'&#8221;
Those who practice RCTA are in for a rude awakening, NBC reports.
&#8220;But experts underscore that it is simply impossible to change your race,&#8221; the legacy media outlet wrote.
How is this any different from transgenderism?
To figure that out, NBC News spoke to &#8220;Tiq Milan, a Black transgender activist and writer,&#8221; who said the two aren&#8217;t similar at all.
“When it comes to who we are as racialized people, it is how we present to the world, but it’s also how people treat you,” Milan said. “It’s not just putting on the hair and the makeup and talking and walking [in] a kind of way. That is fetishizing, and it’s objectifying, and it reduces the beautiful and complicated cultures of people of color.”
For some reason, Milan doesn&#8217;t see that being a woman is &#8220;not just putting on the hair and the makeup and talking and walking [in] a kind of way.&#8221;
To steal Milan&#8217;s phrase, that&#8217;s &#8220;fetishizing, and it’s objectifying, and it reduces the beautiful and complicated&#8221; culture of womanhood.
The article offers other explanations for why you can&#8217;t change races, best summarized by The Babylon Bee founder Seth Dillon.
&#8220;This article argues that your race is fixed from birth and can&#8217;t be changed,&#8221; he tweeted. &#8220;It also argues that race isn&#8217;t real — it&#8217;s just a social construct. It also argues that the reason you can&#8217;t change your race is because race isn&#8217;t real.&#8221;
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This article argues that your race is fixed from birth and can&#39;t be changed.
It also argues that race isn&#39;t real — it&#39;s just a social construct.
It also argues that the reason you can&#39;t change your race is because race isn&#39;t real. <a href="https://t.co/uVoWuWdWJv">https://t.co/uVoWuWdWJv</a>
&mdash; Seth Dillon (@SethDillon) <a href="https://twitter.com/SethDillon/status/1685701458463789056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 30, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) 2024 Rapid Response Director Christina Pushaw sarcastically tweeted, &#8220;This is crazy. Next thing you know, people will attempt to change their sex!&#8221;
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This is crazy. Next thing you know, people will attempt to change their sex! <a href="https://t.co/IQyoVBeHUI">https://t.co/IQyoVBeHUI</a>
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&#8220;Sex and race are both are biological physical traits of an organism rooted in unique and immutable DNA, why is it celebrated to change one and ridiculous to change the other?&#8221; The Redheaded Libertarian asked.
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Sex and race are both are biological physical traits of an organism rooted in unique and immutable DNA, why is it celebrated to change one and ridiculous to change the other?
&mdash; The Redheaded libertarian (@TRHLofficial) <a href="https://twitter.com/TRHLofficial/status/1685688256262778880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 30, 2023</a></blockquote>
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One so-called expert said that anybody feeling as if they want to change their race should be asked a simple question:
“I would say the same thing that I would say to somebody who’s struggling with any part of their identity,” Professor Kevin Nadal said. “Talk about what it is that makes you want to change that part of you.”
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That&#8217;s good advice to gently ease into helping those who believe in transracialism.
If you suggested saying that to individuals suffering from gender dysmorphia, who want to undergo sex rejection and gender-denial care, then you would branded a bigot by legacy outlets like NBC News.
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NBC News Mocked After Saying You Can’t Change Your Race, But You Can Change Your Gender And Sex

NBC News Mocked After Saying You Can't Change Your Race, But You Can Change Your Gender And Sex 

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-york-times">New York Times</a> reported on Monday that it has &#8220;long been known&#8221; that President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden">Joe Biden</a> interacted with his son Hunter&#8217;s business partners, sparking a wave of ridicule and teasing on social media.
Critics of the Gray Lady contended that the newspaper was <a href="https://twitter.com/jasonrantz/status/1686359526478647296">&#8220;gaslighting&#8221;</a> the public after lawmakers began to share what they heard from Devon Archer, a former business partner of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hunter-biden">Hunter Biden</a>, during <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-oversight-members-confirm-president-biden-was-present-during-sons-foreign-business-phone-calls">a closed-door interview</a>.
&#8220;I&#8217;m guessing most NYT readers did not know this,&#8221; Washington Free Beacon investigative reporter Chuck Ross said in a <a href="https://twitter.com/ChuckRossDC/status/1686194642511876096">post</a> to X with a screenshot of the passage. New York Post columnist Miranda Devine <a href="https://twitter.com/mirandadevine/status/1686211834695540736">replied</a>, &#8220;This takes the cake! Something Joe Biden denied for three years and the NYT defended him on. Now it’s old news. You have to laugh.&#8221;
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&mdash; Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChuckRossDC/status/1686194642511876096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 1, 2023</a></blockquote>
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As attested by members of Congress, Archer told the House Oversight Committee that Hunter Biden put his father — then the vice president — on speaker phone roughly 20 times during meetings with business associates to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/devon-archer-confirms-joe-biden-lied-about-knowledge-hunters-business-dealings-comer-says">sell the &#8220;brand&#8221;</a> and the <a href="https://www.axios.com/2023/07/31/devon-archer-testify-hunter-biden">&#8220;illusion of access.&#8221;</a> For years, Joe Biden claimed to have never spoken to Hunter about his business dealings, but lately, the White House has taken to <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12335725/White-House-fire-changing-answers-Joes-involvement-Hunters-shady-deals-Karine-Jean-Pierre-says-Biden-never-business-son-months-insisting-never-discussed-it.html">saying the elder Biden never did business</a> with his son.
To some, particularly those steeped in conservative politics and media, it seemed to be a major concession that The New York Times published a line that said it has &#8220;long been known&#8221; that the elder Biden had exchanges with his son&#8217;s business partners.
&#8220;Folks, just look at this sentence from the NYT,&#8221; Fox News contributor Guy Benson <a href="https://twitter.com/ChristinaPushaw/statu">said</a> in a post to X.
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&#8220;&#8216;It has long been known. We just hid it from you,'&#8221; Christina Pushaw, rapid response director for Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis&#8217;s 2024 presidential campaign, <a href="https://twitter.com/ChristinaPushaw/status/1686365369835909120">quipped</a> in response.
The verified account for the House Judiciary Committee GOP shared a meme of people moving a soccer goalpost.
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&#8220;As others have pointed out, the progression is perfect,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/mattdizwhitlock/status/1686217825151586304">said</a> Republican operative Matt Whitlock. &#8220;1. Joe has never spoken to his son about his business dealings 2. Joe has never spoken to Hunter&#8217;s business partners 3. We all have known all along that Joe spoke to his son&#8217;s business partners.. duh.&#8221;

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NYT Reports It’s ‘Long Been Known’ Biden Interacted With Son’s Business Partners. Mockery Ensues.

NYT Reports It's 'Long Been Known' Biden Interacted With Son's Business Partners. Mockery Ensues.

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President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> finally addressed and acknowledged his seventh grandchild in a Friday night news dump exclusive with PEOPLE Magazine after four years of refusing to do so.
“Our son Hunter and Navy’s mother, Lunden, are working together to foster a relationship that is in the best interests of their daughter, preserving her privacy as much as possible going forward,&#8221; Biden said in an exclusive statement to <a href="https://people.com/president-biden-first-statement-granddaughter-navy-roberts-exclusive-7567196" target="_blank" rel="noopener">PEOPLE</a>.
Lunden is the former stripper whom Hunter impregnated and then put through a lengthy legal battle to lower his child support payments and take away the Biden family name. Throughout Biden&#8217;s presidency, he has repeatedly claimed that he only had six grandchildren, despite Navy&#8217;s existence.
A source told PEOPLE that the Bidens were simply following Hunter&#8217;s lead.
&#8220;You have to remember there were some fairly contentious legal proceedings between Navy’s parents happening until just a few weeks ago. As grandparents, the Bidens are following Hunter’s lead,&#8221; the anonymous source told the magazine. &#8220;They are — and have been — giving Hunter and Lunden the space and time to figure things out.&#8221;
Based on that, Hunter apparently told them to pretend his daughter does not exist.
Of course, it seems more likely that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/even-more-evidence-legacy-media-is-getting-ready-to-dump-joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Legacy Media&#8217;s newfound criticism</a> of Biden is what forced the president to change his tune.
For example, New York Times opinion columnist Maureen Dowd wrote, &#8220;The president’s cold shoulder — and heart — is counter to every message he has sent for decades, and it’s out of sync with the America he wants to continue to lead.&#8221;
In other words, he was exposed as a fraud. This was already obvious to everybody except those in Legacy Media and their readers — but better late than never.
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Biden maintains that his decision to pretend she never existed was not political.
&#8220;This is not a political issue, it’s a family matter,&#8221; Biden said. &#8220;Jill and I only want what is best for all of our grandchildren, including Navy.”
Just not the family name, apparently.
They finally recognized their youngest granddaughter in an online article at 5:00 p.m. ET on a summer Friday night right before Joe <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-to-take-a-break-from-doing-nothing-hits-the-beach-for-10-days" target="_blank" rel="noopener">heads to the beach</a>?  Classy bunch, those Bidens.
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‘Our Son Hunter And Navy’s Mother’: Joe Biden Finally Acknowledges His Seventh Grandchild In Friday Night News Dump

'Our Son Hunter And Navy’s Mother': Joe Biden Finally Acknowledges His Seventh Grandchild In Friday Night News Dump

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There&#8217;s a saying that when the pirate ship starts to sink, the rats are the first to jump. That&#8217;s bad news for President Joe Biden because it looks like the rats in legacy media are starting to bail overboard.
Over the weekend, the typically lapdog press ran several stories bashing Biden for a change. None of it was necessarily new information, but the media&#8217;s decision to cover the story was surprising. Biden was hit by <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/08/opinion/hunter-biden-child.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a> for his maltreatment of Hunter&#8217;s daughter in Arkansas. Axios ran a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/get-the-f-out-of-here-harrowing-stories-of-bidens-meanness-emerge-in-new-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">detailed</a> report about how Grandpa Joe is actually Mean Joe. One writer at The Atlantic even <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/07/biden-2024-reelection-age/674634/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> on Biden to step aside in 2024 outright.
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All from this weekend. 
They&#39;ve activated the hive mind to finally take out this bumbling fool. <a href="https://t.co/rr2H79ycV9">pic.twitter.com/rr2H79ycV9</a>
&mdash; Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) <a href="https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1678392870921977859?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 10, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The president&#8217;s refusal to acknowledge his seventh grandchild is well documented. That Biden is a fraud has been known since at least the 1980s. His temper has been seen with nearly every voter or reporter who has challenged him. The fact that Biden&#8217;s poll numbers are anemic and his cognitive ability seems to be declining by the day is nothing new for those who read conservative media.
Yet, for legacy media&#8217;s audience, this could come as quite a surprise. New York Times opinion columnist Maureen Dowd wrote, &#8220;The president’s cold shoulder — and heart — is counter to every message he has sent for decades, and it’s out of sync with the America he wants to continue to lead.&#8221;
In The Atlantic, Eliot Cohen wrote, &#8220;Joe Biden had the leading role in a crucial act in the grand story of America, and he played it with grace and honor. It is time for him to take a bow, accept the thanks of a grateful nation, and exit to well-deserved applause.&#8221;
In Axios, Alex Thompson effectively wrote a scathing profile of Biden as somebody with a short temper who belittles and bullies his staff. Again, Biden is the guy who got in a shouting match about his IQ with one voter, called another fat, and challenged him to a push-up contest, and has always been quick to snap when pressed against thorny issues by members of the press. He even told a blue-collar worker he was &#8220;full of s***.&#8221;
That he is a jerk is nothing new.
But consider that on January 20, 2021 — Biden&#8217;s first day in office — Axios effectively <a href="https://www.axios.com/2021/01/21/biden-fire-staffers-disrespecting-others" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published</a> a press release lauding Biden for bringing back respect to the White House. The president told his team that if he caught anybody treating each other with disrespect, he would &#8220;fire you on the spot. On the spot. No ifs or buts.&#8221;
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At the time, Axios said that the &#8220;Big Picture&#8221; was that &#8220;Biden&#8217;s comments reinforce <a class="gtmContentClick" href="https://www.axios.com/biden-inauguration-speech-25c2c307-1585-481c-81e8-bfa02de25785.html" target="_self" rel="noopener" data-vars-link-text="his vision of unity and equity" data-vars-click-url="https://www.axios.com/biden-inauguration-speech-25c2c307-1585-481c-81e8-bfa02de25785.html" data-vars-content-id="48f1211c-794d-48e5-91ee-9b490aaec426" data-vars-headline="Biden to staffers: &quot;I will fire you on the spot&quot; for disrespecting others" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link">his vision of unity and equity</a> for the U.S. as expressed in his inauguration address earlier in the day — starting with his very own administration.&#8221;
Now, it seems the &#8220;Big Picture&#8221; is that the president is a jackwagon.
Consider also that in late June, the White House press showed its first real sign of interest in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/is-legacy-media-getting-ready-to-dump-biden-coverage-of-irs-whistleblower-suggests-so" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden&#8217;s alleged family crime corruption</a> in the wake of Hunter&#8217;s lenient plea deal. That was the first time it was evident that something had changed in the press.
That about-face has now continued. Perhaps the press believes lurkers such as California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom would be the best candidate in 2024. But first, they have to get rid of Biden.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Even More Evidence Legacy Media Is Getting Ready To Dump Joe Biden

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fox-news" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a> has reportedly fired television veteran Geraldo Rivera from the network&#8217;s &#8220;The Five.&#8221;
&#8220;Bumpy day on the North Atlantic. Anyway, I got fired from @TheFive so I quit Fox,&#8221; Rivera wrote on Twitter. &#8220;After 23 years tomorrow &#8216;Fox and Friends&#8217; could be my last appearance on the network. Thanks for the memories.&#8221;
In a video posted Thursday afternoon, Rivera said that he would have more to say about the matter during his expected appearance on &#8220;Fox &amp; Friends&#8221; on Friday morning.
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Bumpy day on the North Atlantic. Anyway, I got fired from <a href="https://twitter.com/TheFive?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TheFive</a> so I quit Fox. After 23 years tomorrow Fox and Friends could be my last appearance on the network. Thanks for the memories. <a href="https://t.co/74Qgalz8sF">pic.twitter.com/74Qgalz8sF</a>
&mdash; Geraldo Rivera (@GeraldoRivera) <a href="https://twitter.com/GeraldoRivera/status/1674503200576098304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 29, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Rivera announced last week that he was leaving the show, although he did not say at the time that he had been fired.
&#8220;Morning, it’s official, I’m off @TheFive,&#8221; he wrote on Twitter at the time. &#8220;My last scheduled show appearances are Thursday and Friday June 29th and 30th. It’s been a great run and I appreciate having had the opportunity. Being odd man out isn’t always easy. For the time being, I’m still Correspondent at Large.&#8221;
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Morning, it’s official, I’m off <a href="https://twitter.com/TheFive?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TheFive</a>. My last scheduled show appearances are Thursday and Friday June 29th and 30th. It’s been a great run and I appreciate having had the opportunity. Being odd man out isn’t always easy. For the time being, I’m still Correspondent at Large.
&mdash; Geraldo Rivera (@GeraldoRivera) <a href="https://twitter.com/GeraldoRivera/status/1671507338975494145?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 21, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Rivera <a href="https://apnews.com/article/fox-geraldo-rivera-five-gutfeld-6e0c60a67deedb1736a61592a8229046" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the Associated Press last week that he was leaving &#8220;The Five&#8221; amid “a growing tension that goes beyond editorial differences and personal annoyances and gripes.”
“It has been a rocky ride but it has also been an exhilarating adventure that spanned quite a few years,” he said. “I hope it’s not my last adventure.”
He said that leadership at the company “didn’t race after me to say, ‘Geraldo, please come back.’”
The 79-year-old ex-friend of former President Donald Trump said that “under no circumstances do I think Donald Trump should be president of the United States again, and that’s an important message I am committed to bringing to the American people between now and November 2024.”
He said that his views about Trump caused &#8220;friction&#8221; on the show.
“I’m 80 years old,” he said. “I don’t want the friction. ‘The Five’ is too intimate a place and it gets too personal.”

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