According to veteran media reporter Jon Nicosia, his sources are telling him that Brian Stelter’s “days are numbered” with CNN now that the merger with Discovery has gone through.
Nicosia writes:
“Brian Stelter’s days are numbered with the network.” Discovery management “very much considers him a Zucker henchman and embarrassment” and believes he is “a negative partisan lighting rod and distraction going forward” /more to come.”
SOURCE(S): "Brian Stelter's days are numbered with the network." Discovery management "very much considers him a Zucker henchmen and embarrassment" and believes he is "a negative partisan lighting rod and distraction going forward" /more to come.
— Jon Nicosia (@NewsPolitics) April 15, 2022
So, if true, where does he end up?
https://t.co/nb9aCuPTPE pic.twitter.com/8qRWuO0F8U
— jimtreacher.substack.com (@jtLOL) April 15, 2022
Stelter also tried to defend Jenn Psaki’s awful comments we told you about on Friday when she attacked Fox News’ Peter Doocy with one foot out the door on her way to MSNBC:
John Roberts TORCHES Jenn Psaki in savage ‘note’ for calling Peter Doocy a stupid son of a b*tch since he works at Fox News https://t.co/PwkbGRkHSg
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) April 16, 2022
Stelter claimed on his show that he “didn’t really criticize [Doocy] directly” so it was okay:
CNN's @BrianStelter defends Jen Psaki saying Peter Doocy is "a stupid son of a b****" because he works for Fox News, saying "it does come with the territory" and "Fox pushes storylines that are sometimes nonsense."
"She didn't really criticize him directly." pic.twitter.com/jLbddwraVD
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) April 15, 2022
But. . .
He DID criticize her directly “you dishonest hack”;
.@BrianStelter you are a dishonest hack. Psaki obviously criticized Doocy directly, just like I am directly criticizing you now. Difference is, you absolutely earned it. https://t.co/VaRmstDqfb
— Jerry Dunleavy (@JerryDunleavy) April 15, 2022
It’s different now, Brian?
Four years ago, the media were calling comments like this a chilling attack on the free press that put the 1st Amendment and democracy itself in mortal danger.@brianstelter adjusts his standards based on which political party controls the White House. https://t.co/JUEOd17M5V
— Media Research Center (@theMRC) April 15, 2022
He went on to justify it, saying “There have been other times…where I think Doocy does advance right-wing talking points in the briefing room but that’s his right”:
CNN's @BrianStelter on Psaki agreeing Doocy is an SOB b/c he works for Fox: "There have been other times…where I think Doocy does advance right wing talking points in the briefing room but that's his right." pic.twitter.com/P91k8zViqz
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) April 15, 2022
Stelter even went as far as blaming “senioritis” for the comments, because the voice of the president is totally like a high school senior who has checked out for the year.
“[R]emember in senior yr, spring of your senior yr, you’re about to graduate and you’re just tired of all this? I think we’re seeing that from Jen Psak”:
Sidenote — in the first video, Stelter actually defends Psaki as merely having a case of senioritis before going to MSNBC: "[R]emember in senior yr, spring of your senior yr, you're about to graduate and you're just tired of all this? I think we're seeing that from Jen Psaki."
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) April 15, 2022
Just to clear one thing up:
1,) He was agreeing Psaki should understand that Doocy being adversarial comes w/the territory of HER job, not that Doocy should suck it up.
2.) That doesn't save Stelter at all, really, because all the rest of his argument is rote cant. https://t.co/YfArhwXXCA
— Jeff B. is *BOX OFFICE POISON* (@EsotericCD) April 15, 2022
And:
He is correct here. I should have worded it better.
The overall message is, as evidenced by both videos, the same https://t.co/xZXspgZNjs
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) April 15, 2022
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