Jake Tapper
Dems Blame CNN Moderators After Biden Debate Disaster: “Unforgivable”
You can always tell who lost a presidential debate by which party is slamming the moderators afterwards. And in the wake of Joe Biden and Donald Trump’s first 2024 presidential debate, many progressives are focusing their fire on CNN’s Jake Tapper and Dana Bash, calling out the duo for not fact-checking Trump in real time […]
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Critic’s Notebook: CNN’s Biden-Trump Presidential Debate Was a Depressing and Distressing Display
Biden failed badly at optics, Trump was outrageously but calmly dishonest, and moderators Jake Tapper and Dana Bash barely bothered to do their job.
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Jon Stewart Mocks Media for Trump Trial Coverage: “What the F*** Are We Doing?”
The gloves came off on The Daily Show on Monday night, as host Jon Stewart excoriated the news media for its overly extensive and, at times, incredibly dramatic coverage of former President Donald Trump’s New York criminal trial. In the segment, titled “America’s Most Tremendously Wanted,” Stewart began by saying that “this trial will obviously […]
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Jake Tapper on His New Novel and Taking His Talents to Tinseltown With a TV Adaptation
The news never stops, but for Jake Tapper, it does occasionally share time with other creative pursuits. Today, what’s lured him away from the CNN studio (temporarily) is the promotion of his new book. He’s seated on the patio of The Pendry, a West Hollywood social club meets hotel, drinking the first of several iced […]
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Jake Tapper, Alisyn Camerota and Laura Coates Snag Primetime CNN Roles in Temporary Lineup Shake-Up Ahead of Midterm Elections
CNN is shaking up its programming lineup, albeit only on a temporary basis ahead of November’s midterm elections. The biggest changes are happening in primetime, where CNN CEO Chris Licht is giving anchor Jake Tapper the 9 p.m. hour, with anchor Alisyn Camerota and legal analyst Laura Coates sharing the 10 p.m.-12 a.m. hours. 9 […]
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Midterm Mayhem: Washingtonians to Watch in Fall 2022
Primaries are now well underway, and the 2022 midterm elections are a focus for news organizations already preparing for what’s certain to be a contentious 2024 presidential campaign. With that in mind, THR highlights some of the Beltway-based news personalities and executives poised to play a leading role in the months (and years) ahead. YAMICHE […]
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CNN Shakes Up Daytime Lineup
Jake Tapper will get an additional hour on weekdays, as Dana Bash is named co-anchor of 'State of the Union'
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‘The Outpost’ Director Rod Lurie On Grappling With Loss, Portraying Death In War (Guest Column)
My son was declared dead at exactly the second that I had the creative epiphany of my my life. A few minutes earlier, after his mother and I decided to disconnect the myriad machines keeping him alive, one to every organ in his body, we stood there, all of us, and waited for the last […]
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Seth Meyers on Hosting in the Fast-Moving Trump Era: “You Have to Be Agile”
At a conference hosted by CNN on Thursday morning, 'Late Night' host Seth Meyers assured the audience that he wasn't sacrificing the night's show by appearing for an interview with Jake Tapper: "I'm betting what we're talking about tonight hasn't even happened yet."
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Chris Wallace Once Dinged Jake Tapper’s Question to Steven Mnuchin as “Fake News,” Email Reveals
"As much as I hate the expression 'fake news' — this is a perfect example of it," Wallace said of Tapper in a late 2017 email obtained through a FOIA request.
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Journalists and Public Figures Pay Tribute to Cokie Roberts
Katie Couric, Jamie Lee Curtis, Maria Shriver, Kellyanne Conway and more journalists, public figures and celebs took to social media Tuesday to pay tribute to Cokie Roberts.
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Social Climbers Charts: ‘America’s Got Talent’ Hits No. 1 After Viral Kodi Lee Performance
Dwayne Johnson holds on to No. 1 on The Hollywood Reporter’s Top Actors chart for a second week in a row after scoring the three most-engaged-with social media uploads by an actor in the May 29-June 4 tracking week.
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