CNN tries and fails to cover for NPR’s fake reporting on Supreme Court ‘mask feud’
Brain Stelter and Oliver Darcy claimed CNN “matched key parts” of NPR’s SCOTUS mask story, themselves.
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Brain Stelter and Oliver Darcy claimed CNN “matched key parts” of NPR’s SCOTUS mask story, themselves.
CNN’s Brain Stelter was spotted on Tuesday running cover for NPR after a botched story about Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor refusing to attend in-person conferences remotely because Justice Gorsuch refused to mask up.
He claimed one of the network’s own hosts corroborated NPR’s original reporting, only to have the whole thing completely debunked by multiple US Supreme Court Justices the following day.
Stephen Miller of The Spectator points out how the newsletter propped up NPR’s Nina Totenberg as "incredibly well-sourced." CNN tried to alienate Shannon Bream of Fox News as having a "single source" for disputing NPR.
Well done guys @brianstelter @oliverdarcy pic.twitter.com/acJ7zfiq2t
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze)
On Tuesday night, Shannon Bream had said the following on Bret Baier’s show:
"A source at the Supreme Court says there have been no blanket admonition or request from Chief Justice Roberts that the other justices begin wearing masks to arguments. The source further stated Justice Sotomayor did not make any such request to Justice Gorsuch. I’m told, given that fact, there was also no refusal by Justice Gorsuch."
This newsletter was published hours later, before the pair of statements made by Supreme Court justices on Wednesday.
An archived copy of the Reliable Sources newsletter by Brian Stelter and Oliver Darcy is available for review here.
(CNN on Tuesday put out a call for job offers for their misinformation department.)
While CNN’s Stelter hasn’t made a formal tweet about the latest developments at the time of writing, he’s been liking the remarks of others who are continuing to demonize Fox News, anyway.
Stelter already liking the “Republicans pounce” takes pic.twitter.com/apwcXtTVc7
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott)
On Tuesday morning, NPR’s original story was that Justice Neil Gorsuch was not masking up when listening to SCOTUS arguments earlier this month. The outlet alleged that the circumstances, including Sotomayor’s diabetes, left her more susceptible to COVID.
Now we’re learning that this article’s claims of Justice Sotomayor being forced to participate in her work remotely are not true.
Elsewhere in reaction to this story, Glenn Greenwald noted the behavior of Clara Jeffery at Mother Jones.
Liberal editors like @ClaraJeffery spent the day re-tweeting supporting for the NPR story even after Sotomayor and Gorsuch jointly debunked it.
Then, when Roberts denied it, she and they ignored that, just moved to other things.
However much you hate the media, it's not enough.
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald)
Greenwald’s claims check out seeming as how the last acknowledgement Clara Jeffrey made about the story was a retweet of someone criticizing him for something that turned out to be true.
"Welp, you're certainly free to believe the Chief Justice over the reporter on this," said Elie Mystal (of The Nation and MSNBC) in response to Stephen Miller.
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