CNN Changing Name to PNN: Propaganda News Network

Some things you cannot make up. 

I mean, who would believe it if you told them that CNN would turn an Islamist terrorist attack on New York City into a tale of two brothers minding their own business until they were forced to protest the injustice of white supremacists who were committing an Islamophobic hate crime?

Whenever the topic is something the media doesn’t like, journalists all become creative writing professors. The press has done everything possible to obfuscate the facts of this story—and it has done so deliberately. pic.twitter.com/YnwnyRwXLe

— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) March 10, 2026

It was a beautiful day. A crisp spring air, the sun poking between towers, the cacophony of chirping birds and honking horns blending together to create a New York melody.

Two young tourists would soon see their lives changed forever.

Confronted by insurrectionists protesting…

— Billboard Chris 🌎 (@BillboardChris) March 10, 2026

It was a beautiful day. A crisp spring air, the sun poking between towers, the cacophony of chirping birds and honking horns blending together to create a New York melody.

Two young tourists would soon see their lives changed forever. 

Confronted by insurrectionists protesting their God, IEDs were thrown. The men ran for safety.

They now face lengthy prison sentences for practicing their religion.

At least Billboard Chris wrote that as parody. CNN basically did it as "news."

Don’t put it anywhere else 😏 pic.twitter.com/j2ATUVFKxI

— ΡοδτηGhοδτ (@PostNGhost76) March 10, 2026

It's an amazing piece of writing about an event that was unambiguous in its nature. Two ISIS-inspired young Islamists build multiple IEDs based on an ISIS design using an ISIS-style explosive mix—the FBI is still finding more and destroying them—and deliberately try to kill anti-Islamist demonstrators exercising their First Amendment rights, and CNN turns it into an almost romantic story that implies that they were trying to kill Zohran Mamdani. 

Muslim terrorists threw a nail bomb at anti-Islam protestors outside the mayor's office. It failed to detonate.

If you just read this article and saw this picture you would think white racists had tried to kill the mayor. pic.twitter.com/ZULVGh8nWy

— Josh (@XJosh) March 8, 2026

A vast number of people have been led to believe, by CNN and other "news" outlets, that Mamdani was the target of an attack. Many even believe it is the right-wingers who did it, because many of the stories slyly imply that they did. CBS showed a picture of the VICTIMS as if they were the perpetrators. Because, after all, they were Islamophobic, and hence incited the violence against them or something. 

I almost can't believe this is real. They showed a completely unrelated image to the attack to continue to push their narrative. You don't hate the media enough https://t.co/vWeExDSJ2F

— Kevin Sorbo (@ksorbs) March 9, 2026

It's hard to say which media outlet was the worst in portraying an actual terrorist attack in the heart of New York City as just another "confrontation" between groups of protesters, but I think, given CNN's record in this recent conflict in the Middle East, they may take the prize. 

I’m sorry but I just cannot let this one go.

These men were not protesters. They are Islamic extremists who threw homemade bombs into a crowd of Americans.

This was an attempted terrorist attack. And it’s so irresponsible for media to minimize and twist headlines like this. pic.twitter.com/2Xi61xiYdk

— Kristen Mag (@kristenmag) March 9, 2026

The creative writing they have done to whitewash a terrorist attack is matched by their creative reporting from Tehran, where they have turned over their cameras and a journalist to the Iranian regime so that the IRGC can get its propaganda out to the world, laundered by a once-respected "news" channel. 

The Iranian regime killed 30,000 of their people for wanting freedom just a few weeks ago. But CNN wants you to believe that America is the bad guys because some windows were blown out.
This is why Iran was happy to allow CNN into the country. The network backs the regime. https://t.co/PnhfAkmhMK

— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) March 7, 2026

"News" journalists are, or were, supposed to give readers and viewers the basic facts of a story so that we can be at least minimally informed about important issues. But our once-"mainstream" media doesn't even try. It's not even "misinformation," it's actually anti-information, because the whole point is to ensure that nobody knows what is really going on. 

The story is still live and unedited. https://t.co/tcSuRnsTyb pic.twitter.com/lDBG87z1SI

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) March 10, 2026

"Chaos." "Protests." "Young men." "Outside Mamdani's house." "Smoking jars of metal and fuses." Everything but the important fact that ISLAMIST ISIS TERRORISTS TRY TO KILL PEACEFUL ANTI-ISLAMIST DEMONSTRATORS" in the heart of New York City, the site of 9/11. 

It's a version of the Norm Macdonald joke, where the media and the left is trying desperately to make an Islamist attack about how awful Islamophobics are, and how they are inciting Muslims to kill them. 

Spoiler alert: The 'white supremacist' rally had NOTHING to do with the explosive devices, which were hurled at police. https://t.co/FZ3fp65Zln

— Mike LaChance (@MikeLaChance33) March 9, 2026

Is it any wonder that so many people are now convinced that America is bad? Because that is what has happened in the US. The more you trust the media, the worse you think of your own country. 

After 250 years as a nation, do you believe the United States continues to be a force for good in the world?

Force for good: 56%
Not a force for good: 39%
——
Net force for good
🟤 Dem: (-43)
🟢 GOP: (+84)
⚪ Indie: (even)
🟢 White: (+26)
🟤 Black: (-24)
🟢 Hispanic: (+9)
🟤… pic.twitter.com/aG4NVDRJe8

— InteractivePolls (@IAPolls2022) March 9, 2026

After 250 years as a nation, do you believe the United States continues to be a force for good in the world?

Force for good: 56%

Not a force for good: 39%

——

Net force for good

🟤 Dem: (-43)

🟢 GOP: (+84)

⚪ Indie: (even)

🟢 White: (+26)

🟤 Black: (-24)

🟢 Hispanic: (+9)

🟤 Female < 55: (-11)

🟢 Female 55+: (+23)

🟢 Male < 55: (+15)

🟢 Male 55+: (+44)

@cygnal

  (A) | 3/3-4 | 1,500 LV

CNN is at the leading edge of propaganda. CNN International has been for decades, but in recent years—since the election of Donald Trump—the network does little more than trash the United States and spew the propaganda of our enemies. 

Zohran Mamdani asistió a las oraciones del viernes en una mezquita donde el imán oró por la muerte de todos los infieles.

Esto no recibió la suficiente atención.pic.twitter.com/pc63PPWKTP

— Isaac (@isaacrrr7) March 9, 2026

Enemies of the people. Trump was right again. 

“The majority of the country longs for news that is balanced and fact-based….Wolf, that sure sounds a lot like CNN!"

- Brian Stelter, two weeks agopic.twitter.com/8cTd1Bjn2C https://t.co/2D2GrHytTf

— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) March 10, 2026

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