Staff Reports
President Trump didn’t mince words at the White House this week — he told reporters that CNN should be sold and blasted the people running the network as “either corrupt or incompetent,” a sharp and long-overdue rebuke to a news machine that has spent years demonizing conservatives. For hardworking Americans tired of one-sided narratives, that bluntness was a breath of fresh air; the president is right to call for accountability when a media institution repeatedly acts more like a political arm than a watchdog.
The remark came amid high-stakes corporate drama over Warner Bros. Discovery, where streaming suitors are carving up assets and CNN’s fate is suddenly on the table — exactly the moment to ask whether a taxpayer-serving nation should tolerate a cable channel that treats truth as optional. The market, shareholders, and the public should demand that any buyer who cares about journalistic integrity actually put up a plan to fix the rot at CNN instead of rewarding its culture of bias.
Adding insult to injury, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller publicly said the administration offered him up to CNN — “from the first hour of air to the last” — and the network purportedly told the White House it would not take him “period.” If true, it’s proof CNN prefers monologues to debate and would rather shield its hosts from someone who can actually dismantle their false narratives in real time.
CNN’s attempted rebuttal — that they make editorial decisions based on “news priorities” and would welcome Miller when “the news warrants” — reads like a dodge, not an answer. The network’s spin here only proves the point: they’ll posture about openness while quietly protecting their favored narratives and guests, which is precisely why ordinary Americans no longer trust legacy outlets.
Meanwhile, Karoline Leavitt and the White House press team stood tall in the briefing room, calling out the inflation double-speak that the legacy press once swallowed whole and now weaponizes selectively. Leavitt reminded the room that inflation has come down since the administration took office and pushed back on the predictable media spin — a good reminder that the press’s role is to question power across the aisle, not to function as its handmaiden.
This episode should be a wake-up call for every patriot who still believes in honest journalism: the so-called mainstream press has become an echo chamber of left-wing narratives, and when men and women of conviction offer to go on-camera to defend policy, they are turned away. If the media won’t allow challenge and scrutiny, they are no longer serving the public they claim to inform — they are simply shaping opinion for one party.
Americans deserve outlets that show both courage and balance, not safe rooms for partisan talking points. It’s time to support independent journalism that will actually hold power to account, and to stop subsidizing institutions that act as partisan organs under the guise of news.
The choice is clear: either reform CNN and networks like it, or let the marketplace and the public move on to media that value truth and fair play. For conservatives who love this country, standing up to a collapsing false-news empire isn’t optional — it’s patriotic duty.
