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CNN's Jake Tapper has requested that people "stop being awful" in a scathing X post. Resharing a video of people yelling "r----d" at Governor Tim Walz's house, Jake took to X on December 27, to condemn those bullying the politician, by writing, "Everyone really needs to take a breath and stop being awful, stop rewarding awfulness, and stop promoting awfulness with your algorithms. Happy & fulfilled & confident people don’t spend time doing any of this." The video, which had originally been posted on December 26, shows a man standing outside the governor's home shouting the ableist slur as two...

If CNN’s show The Lead With Jake Tapper were a dinner party, you’d cancel it because so many guests bailed out. Just look at the viewership numbers. Tapper’s weekday show, which was just expanded to two hours in April has already lost 75% of its viewers. Worse, the viewership shrunk by 49% from the first to the second quarter of this year. Wait, the news gets even worse – or better, depending on your point of view – than that. Fox News reports that losing 3/4 of the audience is bad enough, but in the crucial demographic 25-54, CNN’s viewership...

CNN anchor Jake Tapper took a veiled shot at Fox News during a Sunday morning discussion about media polarization with former national security advisor H.R. McMaster. McMaster and Tapper were discussing President Donald Trump’s impeachment for inciting the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. After McMaster expressed his belief that the president was largely responsible and shouldn’t consider running again in 2024, he went on to lament the media’s role in the current political divide.