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The House launched an impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden, and the press promptly repeated the ridiculous but mandatory line that Republicans have “no evidence” of Biden being involved in his son’s influence-peddling. Plus: the cops captured the escaped murderer in Pennsylvania who couldn’t be tagged as an illegal alien.
Joe Biden oddly skipped commemorating 9/11 in New York or at the Pentagon because he was traveling back from Vietnam. He didn't have to go to Vietnam. As usual, there was no so-called mainstream media criticism of this, about the optics.
Hot off the presses! On this episode of the NewsBusters Podcast, Associate Editor Nick Fondacaro and Managing Editor Curtis Houck discuss a brand new Rich Noyes on NewsBusters about the broadcast networks omitting the political party connections of the prosecutors going after former President Trump. Hint: They’re connected to Democrats. They also talk about the return of The View after their summer vacation.
ABC, CBS, and NBC all skipped an August 7 hearing where grieving Gold Star families lamented how their family members were killed in the botched Afghanistan withdrawal. After another hearing on August 29, at least NBC decided to air a story -- balanced with Team Biden's self defense. ABC and CBS covered Amazon prices and Manhattan water main breaks instead.
Leftists gathered to mark the 60th anniversary of Martin Luther King's March on Washington. As usual, the "objective" media picked up the hot talk about the conservatives "gutting" abortion rights, "affirmative action," and "student debt relief." The organizers were leftists, but the reporters touted a diverse "spectrum" of activists.
The media's Trump indictment obsessives engaged in all kinds of glee out of Team Trump mugshots from Georgia and suggested Trump-less debates were pointless. George Stephanopoulos was an angry elf with Nikki Haley for suggesting Biden won't finish a second term.
On the cusp of the first presidential debate, the "news" media have two partisan spins. They obsess over Trump's arrest in Georgia and play up his legal jeopardy, while their coverage of President Biden avoids all gaffes and blunders and touts the "Empathizer in Chief" in Maui.
Is the GOP campaign coverage in 2023 turning out a lot like 2015? Is Trump dominating the media? A new MRC evening-news study by Rich Noyes found that Trump's share of Republican media coverage is twice as big a share of the overall percentage as the last time the primary was open eight years ago.
CNN's Jake Tapper sent a savage tweet over Laura Ingraham's segment on the leftist media "humiliating themselves" and reveling in Trump indictments and mug shots. Fox was wildly unfair to CNN!
ABC, CBS, and NBC have already done an hour of stories on the fourth Trump indictment -- from Georgia DA Fani Willis. Nick Fondacaro discusses "indictment fatigue" and the "white noise" of the endless cable chatter about Trump.
Republicans were angry that the Biden Justice Department "promoted" David Weiss to Special Counsel in the Hunter Biden probe. But PBS (and NPR's legal reporter) didn't think House Republicans were worth quoting or mentioning.
CNN's John King talked to Republicans in Iowa and lamented they would break CNN's "fact check machine." Dana Bash added they held crazy conspiracy theories from conservative media.
No one gets censored on social media for describing all conservatives as a “hate group,” as one TikTok user maligned a “dominant group of dangerous bigots.” Tierin-Rose Mandelburg of “Woke of the Weak” describes the latest disturbing turns in the “Qweer” corners of culture.
Journalists like ABC's George Stephanopoulos and NBC's Dasha Burns get belligerent when Republican presidential candidates carefully talk about Donald Trump without the harsh "Liz Cheney tones." They get accused of failing to answer the question when interviewers just don't like the answer.
On this episode of the NewsBusters Podcast, Associate Editor Nick ‘Night Train’ Fondacaro and Managing Editor Curtis Houck look at the media’s obsession with former President Trump getting arraigned on Thursday. As they flood the zone with coverage, they also fill the airwaves with flaming hot takes proclaiming their anticipation of Trump behind bars or even exiled.
NewsBusters Managing Editor Curtis Houck and Associate Editor Nick Fondacaro dove right in with reaction to the unprecedented third Trump indictment, including the astounding totals of coverage on ABC, CBS, and NBC. Spoiler alert: This has given the networks the perfect excuse to wave goodbye to any and all Biden scandals for an indefinite period of time. The fellas also dove into the early hot takes as well as how the media are framing the ongoing immigration crisis.
On this episode of the NewsBusters Podcast, Associate Editor Nick “Night Train” Fondacaro hosts with Senior Research Analyst Bill D’Agostino by his side. They rip apart NBC’s praise for a garbage “study” that claims conservatives consume more fake news and misinformation (as labeled by so-called “fact-checkers”) than liberals. They also examine and call out the liberal media’s scant coverage of President Biden finally acknowledging his 4-year-old granddaughter.
The New York Times and The Washington Post really demonstrated a double standard this month. CNN's screaming Jim Acosta was a heroic screamer in the briefing room, while screaming African reporter Simon Ateba should sit down and shut up.
A new MRC study of evening-news coverage of immigration underlines the network engage in blatant advocacy for illegal immigration. Bill D'Agostino reviews the coverage and then includes recent coverage of border buoys in Texas blocking access on the Rio Grande.
The network Sunday shows largely skipped talk about the House hearings into the Biden scandals, but they were very excited to tout Kamala Harris slamming Ron DeSantis and the Florida experts writing a black history curriculum for schools.
It was a week of big GOP hearings, so it was a week of media "professionals" trying to avoid them. Dan Schneider of Free Speech America discusses the House Weaponization Subcommittee hearing on Big Tech and the House Oversight hearing with the IRS whistleblowers on the Bidens.
Breaking news of another Trump indictment wiped out other news stories on CNN and MSNBC. CNN loves special counsel Jack Smith so much they filmed and celebrated his lunch trip to Subway and declared it a "message for Donald Trump."
Radical-left billionaire George Soros announced his son Alex would be taking control over his "Open Society Foundations." Joseph Vazquez explains why that makes things worse for capitalism and free speech.
ABC and NPR couldn't bother to care about the Secret Service concluding they couldn't find any suspects on the baggy of cocaine found in the White House. PBS did a bland 20 seconds. The networks just can't find any energy on Biden scandals.
In his latest piece for The Messenger, Fox News contributor Joe Concha discussed how Biden scandals are getting the "silent treatment." We discuss the pro-Biden media and how Biden has been less giving to the press than Donald Trump was.
The people who could never tire of the Stormy Daniels-Avenatti show are now decrying that it's "ugly" and "tacky" to focus on Biden family scandals centered around Hunter Biden. Plus: CNN is the latest network to gush over President Biden in an interview.
A new MRC study found White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre was asked 252 scandal questions over the last six months, and offered a substantive response on only six occasions. MRC's Bill D'Agostino performed the study, and discusses the findings and how they contradict Biden's promises to "bring transparency and truth back to government."
It's your tax dollars at work, National Public Radio conducting another softball interview with Vice President Kamala Harris, with questions such as "what's your message?" and "what does an event like this mean to you?" Kamala gets to unspool ponderous long answers with zero fear of hardballs or interruptions.
Since the last NewsBusters Podcast, three major rulings have come down from the Supreme Court: affirmative action, free speech, and student loan forgiveness. Associate Editor Nick “Night Train” Fondacaro and Managing Editor Curtis Houck discuss how the liberal media shrieked in horror at fair admissions processes and free speech for the religious.
Curtis Houck and Nick Fondacaro reunited to break down the NewsBusters team's new time counts of network coverage (or lack thereof) on the Trump indictment and allegations of impropriety from the Biden family. While the Biden numbers surprisingly aren't zero, the Trump numbers still dwarf them like a skyscraper-sized tsunami.
On this episode of the NewsBusters podcast, Associate Editor Nick “Night Train” Fondacaro and Senior Research Analyst Bill D’Agostino breakdown the liberal media’s mournful remembrance of for Roe v. Wade one year out from it being overturned. We examine their unhinged meltdowns and their rare admission that the liberal position of abortions any time and for any reason was something to “extreme” for most Americans.
On this episode of the NewsBusters Podcast, Associate Editor Nick Fondacaro and Senior Research Analyst Bill D’Agostino try to contain their rage over the liberal media’s morbid and disturbing coverage of the OceanGate submersible: chiding the CEO, who was on board, because he donated to Republicans. Meanwhile, one outlet threw up a countdown timer until they
would have presumably run out of breathable air.
On this episode of the NewsBusters Podcast, Nick “Night Train” Fondacaro and video editing wiz Bill D’Agostino line up and sniff out the liberal media’s crack coverage of Hunter Biden’s plea deal. The loud Italians sound off on Hunter getting away with a felony gun charge average Americans would be locked up for given the evidence, and call out CNN for their lazy research into Fox News coverage of Hunter’s scandals.
ABC's Jonathan Karl couldn't even spit out poll results showing Donald Trump's favorability went up among
Republicans after the Jack Smith indictment. NBC's Chuck Todd wouldn't let Mike Pence finish a sentence on our "two-tier justice system."
This president can scowl at (conservative) reporter questions and call them dumb, and now it's not an authoritarian moment. Curtis Houck joins the show to discuss the pro-Biden press corps and Republicans getting harassed about the Trump indictment.
We counted 291 minutes of Trump indictment coverage on ABC, CBS, and NBC over four days. But as usual there were zero seconds of the latest allegations that Joe and Hunter Biden took bribes from corrupt Ukrainians at Burisma. "Ten percent for the Big Guy" remains largely untouched by the Big Three.
Regardless of the final result of Donald Trump's indictment over classified documents, it feels like the Jack Smith prosecution Is Mueller the Sequel, that the prosecution is the purpose, regardless of the eventual verdict. Trump scandals get thousands of minutes, and Biden scandals get zero seconds. Plus: why would the RNC want to discuss letting Democrat media outlets moderate GOP debates?
"Public" broadcasting is for liberals. PBS and the Voice of America offered softball questions to Biden on his Pride Month activities at the White House. NPR set up House Democrat leader Hakeem Jeffries to denounce "extreme MAGA Republicans," and attacked the "far right" on election integrity.
CNN CEO Chris Licht is out. But was he ever really in? Or did his predecessor Jeff Zucker still rule the radical roost? Licht was savaged for a "non-existent vision" of restoring some balance and fairness. The Zucker camp deeply admired themselves and their ranty editorializing, confusing it with "truth" and "facts."
June is Pride Month, so sanity and truth will take a back seat to celebrating untruth, like transgenderism and its demands. The Los Angeles Dodgers are using Pride Night to honor the "Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence," a LGBT group that mocks Jesus, nuns, and the Catholic Church.
The liberals would like to claim that conservative web sites don't report news, but that's not true at all. Washington Free Beacon executive editor Brent Scher explains how they report many stories the leftist press won't, how "fact checkers" have attacked them, and how the Biden administration doesn't usually return their phone calls.
In a truly puzzling piece of clickbait, Washington Post columnist Jason Rezaian -- who reported from Tehran for the Post until he was taken hostage by Iran for 544 days -- proclaimed he was rooting for Iran to beat the USA in the World Cup soccer tournament....since it would keep the focus on Iran's dismal human-rights record. But Iranian dissidents were rooting for the USA! Plus Nick Fondacaro shares the latest silliness on "The View."
On MSNBC, Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt discussed how the Left should "get the reins" on Twitter and stop this "free speech" business. The leftist media line up with the "defamation" censors to pressure the social-media giants to punish conservatives.
The chorus of "I told you so" broke out after public defenders of the alleged mass shooter in Colorado explained their client was "non-binary" and used "they/them" pronouns. So much for the notion that Tucker Carlson and GOP politicians were somehow responsible for the violent crimes.
The horrid mass shooting at a Colorado nightclub is causing ladies at "The View" to say Jesus would be the grand marshal of a Gay Pride parade, and that conservative rhetoric and legislation against "trans rights" spurred these murders.
The horrid mass shooting at a Colorado nightclub is causing ladies at "The View" to say Jesus would be the grand marshal of a Gay Pride parade, and that conservative rhetoric and legislation against "trans rights" spurred these murders.
Now that the election season is over, it's that special time where the Obamas come out of their mansion and bless their adoring media with their presence. Barack Obama discussed how Fox News has turbocharged divisions, and Michelle Obama is running around calling herself "honest and vulnerable." They're honestly super-wealthy elites.
We're on the Wednesday after the Election Day, and the liberal media still won't proclaim the House is going Republican. They're stuck on 217. Six of the nine outstanding races are in California, which has an obvious competence issue. Bill D'Agostino shares the differing media spins on vote-counting delays, depending on who is affected.
On MSNBC, ex-Republican Stuart Stevens proclaimed at the Lincoln Project, “We’re not trying to save the Republican Party, but we’re trying to burn the Republican Party to the ground.” That's how you become the darling of our Republican-hating "mainstream" media, touted as a "Republican strategist." They say they love "democracy," but despise an oppositional party!
President Biden held a press conference at the White House after the midterms, and some reporters unloaded diatribes about Biden's agenda being ruined and "affirmative action" taking a severe hit. CNN asked about the return of decency and civility, as if Biden or CNN was civil to Republicans on a daily basis.
The media's Election Night routine was slightly blander when there was no obvious tilt toward Republicans, but instead a tilt toward all incumbents. Curtis Houck and Jorge Bonilla review results in Florida, Pennsylvania, and several other races. What will happen in Georgia now?
ABC's Jonathan Karl pummeled Gov. Glenn Youngkin on Sunday with questions signaling his loathing of Republican plans to hold oversight hearings into the Bidens and perhaps prepare impeachments for Biden or his cabinet secretaries. They spent all of 2022 adoring Democrat investigations, and now they flip-flop!
The network medical dramas have sunk into melodramatic propaganda in the week before the elections, on both NBC's "New Amsterdam" and ABC's "Grey's Anatomy." Both railed against the overturning of Roe v. Wade. LIberals are such sore losers. In this episode, MRC staff offer some dramatic readings of some of our favorite sore-loser meltdowns from the liberal news and entertainment media.
On this episode of the NewsBusters Podcast, managing editor Curtis Houck and associate editor Nick Fondacaro discuss how the liberal media aren’t letting a good crisis go to waste as they use the heinous attack against Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband as a prop to help Democratic chances in midterm elections. They also break down a new NewsBusters study exposing how the liberal broadcast networks have given the Pelosi attack 11 times the airtime of the assassination attempt of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
Social-media networks are a hot topic going into the midterms. Leftists are losing their minds over Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter and a Free Speech America study shows Google's search algorithm suppresses some of the hottest Republican Senate candidates. Joseph Vazquez joins the show to explain the Big Tech developments.
The network shows leaped on a second anonymous woman claiming Herschel Walker paid for her abortion. It's a weird take, since they love abortions and don't think they're scandalous, unless a Republican pays for one. The media simply hate minority Republicans, who can't truly be minorities unless they're fully Democrat.
The one and only debate between Pennsylvania's U.S. Senate candidates was a debacle for Democrat John Fetterman. But the post-debate coverage lauded Fetterman's "courage," downplayed his disabilities (or made them a virtue), and hammered Republican Mehmet Oz for his allegedly "heinous" remarks in favor of making abortion legislation up to the states.
The ABC and NBC Sunday shows expressed disgust at "election denier" Kari Lake running for governor of Arizona. When ABC's Jon Karl pressed her on being Trump's running mate in 2024, she said she's staying home to be "the fake news's worst nightmare."
MSNBC host Joy Reid is smearing Florida under DeSantis as a "Jim Crow state" and spreading the bizarre notion that white Republican men don't know how babies are made. Kevin Tober has the download.
Whether it's in the midterm debates or the forthcoming Republican presidential debates, conservative and Republican voters should never have to accept "moderators" that debate with Republicans or toss gentle softballs to Democrats. Moderators should work hard to appear neutral and not make Republicans debate two Democrats.
A review of the Sunday morning shows demonstrated they're doubling down on defending Democrats, on everything from Defund The Police to Biden's failure to communicate. CBS preposterously suggested talk radio was uniquely divisive and terrible for America.
The final pre-election hearing of the Pelosi-picked January 6 Committee was overtly designed as midterm messaging for the Democrats -- including in fundraising emails. The media coverage suggests one party is in favor of democracy, and the other one is a mortal threat to democracy. We discuss the patterns with NewsBusters Managing Editor Curtis Houck.
There were two big TV interviews on October 11. CNN kicked off their primetime Jake Tapper show with a softball interview with Biden, while NBC sternly questioned John Fetterman. Kevin Tober joins the show to analyze it all.
The networks (in English and Spanish) loathe Republican Govs. Greg Abbott and Ron DeSantis for busing or flying migrants to "sanctuary cities" and making them live up to their rhetoric. Martha's Vineyard couldn't tolerate the influx for more than a day or two. We discuss migrants and Republicans and Spanish-language "disinformation" with MRC Latino Director Jorge Bonilla.
Just when the liberal media hoped and prayed that the Hunter Biden story would stay dead in 2022, The Washington Post reported the feds may have the goods on Hunter's tax evasion. How did the networks greet this story? (Hint: PBS and NPR pretended it didn't happen.)
The Daily Beast dumped out allegations that Georgia's black Republican Senate nominee Herschel Walker paid for an abortion in 2009, and now is running as an anti-abortion candidate. The women on "The View" came unglued about Walker and dumped on conservative talker Dana Loesch for suggesting this story isn't going to shake GOP support for Walker. We discuss this and the new Chris Cuomo TV show with our Associate Editor Nick Fondacaro.
Sunday's Washington Post Magazine carried a cover story titled "Why I'm Leaving America" by Post reporter DeNeen Brown. "As a Black woman, I want freedom from oppression." She wants to "move among people who look like me," and not have to debate America's incurable racism.
Many journalists tried to ignore President Biden asking on camera where the late Rep. Jackie Walorski was (others spun furiously). Liberal reporters couldn't resist throwing their anti-Republican/anti-DeSantis talking points into the coverage of Hurricane Ian as it furiously touched down in Florida. Curtis Houck joins us to discuss it all.
Many journalists tried to ignore President Biden asking on camera where the late Rep. Jackie Walorski was (others spun furiously). Liberal reporters couldn't resist throwing their anti-Republican/anti-DeSantis talking points into the coverage of Hurricane Ian as it furiously touched down in Florida. Curtis Houck joins us to discuss it all.
This week, PolitiFact is hosting "United Facts of America," a so-called "festival of fact-checking. But the conference, like their website, betrays that they identify strongly with the liberal media, hosting journalists from NPR, PBS, and CNN. Our new study shows they're six times more likely to "fact check" people or websites criticizing Biden than "fact checking" the president.
A Washington Post book review of the umpteenth anti-Trump book says "Fox News became the closest think to state TV the United States has ever had." Did liberals miss the gush over Bill and Hillary Clinton, and then the love tsunami for Barack and Michelle Obama? Liberals still claim the dominant "character issue" of 2016 was Hillary's email server. That's just false.
Stephen Kruiser of PJ Media said it was "ludicrous" for liberal media outlets to have "fact checkers" when they sound like "flying monkeys" for the Democrats (like "The Wizard of Oz.") Glenn Kessler of The Washington Post "Fact Checker" tried in several ways to defend Democrats on late-term abortions and the beating hearts of young unborn babies.
As we celebrate the 35th anniversary of the Media Research Center, we recall our list of the types of media bias that we take into account in our "news busting." MRC's Brent Baker put our list in his 1994 book titled "How to Identify, Expose, and Correct Liberal Media Bias."
CBS journalist Scott Pelley was as firm as jelly in his "60 Minutes" interview with President Biden. His "questions" were often like "what did you think?" and "I wonder why you think that is." Kevin Tober joins the show to analyze all of the sappy passages that sound like the White House wrote them.
Suddenly, when Gov. Ron DeSantis sends about 50 illegal immigrants to Martha's Vineyard, the networks discover an "immigration crisis" in America. They denounced this "audacious stunt" -- but they prefer to avoid the border crisis entirely. DeSantis is forcing this into the "news."
As Joe Biden turned to James Taylor to croon about "inflation reduction," we discuss the dregs of the Cultural Left with MRC's Tierin-Rose Mandelburg. We talk the lesbian moms on "Peppa Pig," a drag queen on "Dancing with the Stars" on Disney-Plus, and Hillary Clinton applauding "WAP" rapper Megan Thee Stallion.
On Sunday, September 11, Democrats spread across the weekly talk shows implying that the mass-murdering terrorists who killed almost 3,000 Americans are comparable to the "terrorists" who rioted at the Capitol on January 6. Chuck Todd asked the Vice President if the 1/6 threat was "greater or equal" to 9/11. How about "lesser"?
To publicize their new Apple TV series titled "Gutsy," Hillary Clinton and her daughter Chelsea did a tour of fawning, flattering interviews, because that's what the liberal media can be counted on to provide. CBS, NBC, and ABC all polished their pumps. These women weren't "gutsy" enough to go on Fox News.
On this episode of the NewsBusters Podcast, associate editor Nick “Night Train” Fondacaro and managing editor Curtis Houck discuss the Cackling Coven of The View returning for their 26th season on ABC “News.” In only two episodes this week, the cast proved they’re as ignorant and partisan as ever, with Whoopi Goldberg cursing out Republicans and defending Democratic denials that former President Trump won the 2016 election.
President Biden gave a nasty primetime speech on how 'MAGA Republicans' are a threat to American democracy, and the media celebrated it as "reclaiming patriotism." Meanwhile, Geoffrey Dickens joins the show to discuss his latest chronicle of how the network news skips each and every juicy tidbit of Hunter Biden's shady business dealings, and especially the ones which involve meeting with "The Big Guy."
When they announced the death of the last dictator of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, the liberal media elite broke out the valentines, giving Gorbachev all the credit for tearing down the Iron Curtain of communism. Ronald Reagan dared Gorbachev to tear down the all, and Gorbachev is painted as a “towering international hero” for just letting it happen.
The liberal media are desperate to motivate their base to turn out and vote in November to stem a red wave from sweeping the country from House and Senate races down to the state and local levels. As NewsBusters editors Curtis Houck and Nick Fondacaro discussed on the show, it’s the latest manufactured narrative to steer public discourse away from the economy, gas prices, inflation, and even the anniversary of the deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan.
On this episode of the NewsBusters Podcast, Associate Editor Nick "Night Train" Fondacaro and Managing Editor Curtis Houck examine the media's scattered coverage of President Biden's constitutionally dubious student loan bailouts as different factions voice outrage. We also speak with Research Director Scott Whitlock about the lack of coverage of the anniversary of the botch withdrawal from Afghanistan, which killed 13 service members and left hundreds of Americans behind.
On this edition of the NewsBusters Podcast, Associate Editor Nick “night train” Fondacaro and Managing Editor Curtis Houck breakdown a new NewsBusters study of the media’s silence about how Census Bureau errors largely hurt red state representation. We also look at Snopes playing word games with misleading “fact checks” about lies against Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) and more on Brian Stelter leaving CNN.
NewsBusters managing editor Curtis Houck and video editor Bill D’Agostino were at the helm for boss Tim Graham and the fellas didn’t waste any time reflecting on Brian Stelter’s infamous tenure at CNN and breaking down the final episode of ‘Reliable Sources.’ Always claiming to be interested in explaining how the news was made and serving as an almost ombudsman of the press, Stelter instead served as their janitor and chief defender.
CNN followed through on its threats to dismiss some fervently biased personalities. Brian Stelter''s "brand" was too toxically anti-Trump? We review some scraps between Stelter and NewsBusters and laugh at the lefties who think Stelter's dismissal is "a win for all the wrong people." Who will be next?
Rep. Liz Cheney was clobbered by 37 points in her Wyoming Republican primary, but the media broke out their praises as she compared herself to Lincoln and Ulysses Grant. They asked her if she would run for president in 2024, ignoring all proof that she drove her political car off a cliff. Scott Whitlock joins the show to assess the contrast between today's Glorious Liz and yesterday's Odious Liz.
In the wake of the FBI raid on Trump's Florida home, liberal journalists are turning to "extremism experts," "violence researchers," and "scholars" to support their narrative that hot right-wing talk about the raid is going to lead to violence, and connect it to the shooter outside the FBI office in Cincinnati. But who are these experts? Democrats, progressives, and Obama advisers, presented as nonpartisans.
As the networks try to present Merrick Garland as reasonable and nonpartisan, Wall Street Journal columnist Kimberly Strassel predicts that if Republicans take Congress, "The Payback Will Be Brutal."
Biden's Attorney General approved an unprecedented raid on a former president's home, and we still don't know why. The newscasts are mostly calm, but not so for the Colberts and Scarboroughs.
The Senate passing a pared-down climate and health-care spending bill inspired all kinds of aggressive sales language from the network "news" manufacturers. It was sold as huge and tremendously consequential to make Biden look good.
This week, ABC's "The View" announced new permanent co-hosts Alyssa Farah Griffin and Ana Navarro. This only underlines that the show is going to sound very one-sided next season. Will anyone seriously question a liberal guest now?
The New York Times reports CNN's ratings are terrible and their financial picture looks rough, but they said absolutely nothing about liberal tilt. Meanwhile, Fox was touting strong ratings for July.
Washington Post Magazine columnist Damon Young wrote about the panic he and his wife had when his six-year-old daughter played for a few days with a white doll. They were triggered!
When the fact emerged that we've had two quarters of negative economic growth, marking a recession, the so-called "reality-based press" suddenly folded and let the Biden people "push back" at reality.
"Tacogate" ended with Jill Biden's press secretary Michael LaRosa putting in his walking papers, adding to a large outflow of White House communications staffers. MRC Latino Director Jorge Bonilla joins us to discuss this and the growing Latino support for Republicans.
In a maddening round of Sunday interviews, network anchors gushed all over Al Gore and Liz Cheney, and each were asked if they would run for president. Gore compared "climate deniers" to Uvalde cops, and Chuck Todd didn't blink.
Big Tech can be easily triggered into shutting down “hateful conduct” on their websites. A new study by Free Speech America exposes how social-media giants banish posts or videos that are deemed as harmful to “marginalized” groups. FSA’s Brian Bradley lists the top issues where the American people suffer from “secondhand censorship.”
Conservative Twitter pounced on the news that NPR was creating a "disinformation" team, noting NPR puts out its own factually fractured "news." But their avoidance of the Kavanaugh assassination attempt remains stunning.
A PBS NewsHour anchor claimed Republicans "made hay" out of the outrageous story that a ten-year-old child in Ohio sought an abortion in Indiana after being impregnated in a rape. But Democrats and liberal jerks like CNN's Dana Bash exploited it first, before it was fully confirmed. Republicans questioned its authenticity....until it was confirmed by prosecutors.
CNN host Don Lemon appeared on their morning show to rant about how Republicans are "very dangerous to our society" and journalists have to constantly warn people or "we're not doing our jobs." Just put on a pink pussy hat and be done with it.
A new set of surveys underlines that public trust in the media has reached a historic low, and engagement with "news" content has plunged in the first half of this year. People don't like news of mass shootings and terrible inflation, and so they are tuning out in droves. CNN and MSNBC viewership has dropped....but Fox News viewership is still climbing.
The liberal media paint themselves as the forces of Truth, and the conservatives as an army of misinformation. On his Sunday show, CNN host Brian Stelter brought on former "Disinformation Governance Board" leader Nina Jankowicz and asked softball questions about her feelings, and questions that insisted the Department of Homeland Security didn't fight the conservatives hard enough.
The shocking news of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe being shot dead was matched by the shock that oh-so-civil National Public Radio would tweet out in the aftermath that Abe was a "divisive arch-conservative" and an "ultra-nationalist." Fidel Castro won warmer treatment from taxpayer-funded NPR.
Liberal radio host Thom Hartmann uncorked a wild-eyed conspiracy theory on Twitter where Ron DeSantis would steal the 2024 election from Joe Biden and then Republican militias would murder thousands of protesters in the streets.
It's been 31 years since President George H.W. Bush nominated Clarence Thomas for the Supreme Court, and the media have hated him the entire time, from the first press conference. Today, the media -- in English and Spanish -- don't want to talk about Mayra Flores, the newly elected Mexican-born Republican congresswoman from Texas. Jorge Bonilla of MRC Latino gives the lowdown on all the "Latin-X" bias.
MSNBC named Alex Wagner to host the Maddow hour from Tuesday to Friday. We discuss why MSNBC thinks she's somehow their Cronkite. She's been boosted as a "high-powered intellect" whose show is more facts than opinions.
It was a weekend of wailing and teeth-gnashing over the Supreme Court overturning Roe vs. Wade. One anchor even embarrassed herself by lamenting that millions of people believed an abortion ban saves babies.
Most of the political junkies were surprised with a Friday decision overturning Roe vs. Wade, and the liberals were wailing and gnashing their teeth. But let's have a little joy before we chronicle the media meltdowns. Scott Whitlock talks about the media omission of "Jane's Revenge."
Nancy Pelosi says she's "very Catholic" and very pro-choice, and Kamala Harris says pro-choice positioning has no bearing on your faith. The media nod along.
New polls show few people are "very closely" watching the live coverage of January 6 Committee hearings, and NBC found Republicans are doubling down in opposition.
Excerpts from a new memoir from Kathleen Buhle, Hunter Biden's ex-wife, were posted by People magazine on June 1, but ABC and CBS hosted softball interviews just this week. Hunter's still getting off the hook.
There are signs in the polls that Democrats are not going to do well in the midterm elections. But the direst numbers are President Biden's approval ratings and his terrible numbers on handling inflation. CNN says they're worse than Jimmy Carter's!
Liberal haters of Fox News (like NPR's media reporter) shame Fox for ignoring "unwelcome facts," even as NPR couldn't do one story on the failed Brett Kavanaugh assassin.
Democrats talked all the networks (except Fox News) into a breathless hearing (or retelling) of January 6. But it felt like a summer rerun. The network morning and evening news shows heavily promoted this show before and after, but were comparatively bored by the assassination attempt on Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Curtis Houck helps assess the amount and the tone of all the coverage.
As news broke of a man approaching the home of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh hoping to kill him, CNN tried to downplay the leftist and suggest "both sides" might be a threat after the Supreme Court's abortion ruling. The media doesn't like covering fire-bombing pro-life offices and vandalism at crisis pregnancy centers and Catholic churches.
Brian Stelter is upset that Fox and Newsmax will not commit to airing hours of live propaganda from the liberal-stacked House January 6 committee. You're not a "news channel" unless you follow Stelter's orders. It's a "broken" media system if he's not obeyed.
In the heated environment after two mass shootings, we review all the calls for banning "assault weapons" and AR-15s, and Nick Fondacaro picks apart the "facts" the gun-grabber media gets wrong.
Special counsel John Durham's first trial in his investigation of the origins of the Russian collusion probe was ignored by the networks....until the accused Hillary Clinton lawyer was found Not Guilty. Then it was a "stinging defeat" and "major blow"!
NewsBusters managing editor Curtis Houck and deputy managing editor Nick Fondacaro filled in for boss Tim Graham on Friday’s podcast as they named and dismantled the tiresome and vicious lies about conservatives and the Second Amendment following Tuesday’s school shooting in Texas. The left’s falsehoods have poisoned the well of our body politic when it comes to guns and it’s past time that more people get the facts.
Talking about Biden's bad economy should remind us the networks were highly allergic to reporting the good news under Trump. Record-low unemployment rates (including for women and minorities) and record stock-market highs were routinely skipped by the network "news" shows.
The horrible supermarket shooting in Buffalo is only the latest in a long string of occasions where liberal-media stars blamed conservative 'rhetoric' for violent deaths.
Liberal media corporations seem eager to pressure other large corporations to speak out and financially support liberal crusades, especially for abortion. CBS pushed two CEOs about providing travel money for abortions and for "speaking out" for the Left. Plus a fond farewell talk with Kyle Drennen.
It felt like a shocking victory when the Washington Post reported the Department of Homeland Security has "paused" its Disinformation Governance Board. They blame "bad-faith right-wing actors."
Bill Maher attacked the notion that government would run an effort against "disinformation" broadly defined. When a racist teen shot up a Buffalo supermarket, disinformation broke out as liberal outlets raced to connect it somehow to Tucker Carlson and Fox News.
In this episode of the NewsBusters Podcast, Nick “night train” Fondacaro and Curtis Houck are joined by special guest Kristan Hawkins, the president of Students for Life. Together we discuss the ghoulish arguments against the pro-life movement and dispel them. We examine the nonsense from the insufferable cast of The View, such as Whoopi Goldberg claiming “it doesn’t matter” when an unborn child gets their rights. And we look at how the pro-life movement is energized by the possible overturning of Roe v. Wade.
Briefing Room scribe Curtis Houck was rejoined by his usual fill-in co-host Nick “Night Train” Fondacaro to reflect on the end of an era with Jen Psaki’s departure from the White House Briefing Room. The guys offered their thoughts on Team Biden’s chief spin agent and shared a few highlights on her successor. They also discussed the team’s latest study on the liberal media’s bias against pro-lifers, The View’s support for harassing Supreme Court justices, and the MRC’s inaugural Bulldog Awards.
NewsBusters managing editor and Briefing Room expert Curtis Houck fills in for boss Tim Graham and takes on the liberal media’s sudden change in tone when it comes to threats against political organizations and public officials because they support protecting the lives of unborn children. From Politico to The View, they certainly seem to have decided that one’s safety should be contingent upon whom you vote for and what views you hold.
The leak of a Supreme Court draft curtailing Roe vs. Wade created a long liberal media freakout. Everyone from the Founding Fathers to today's Republicans were ripped for "extreme" hatred of women.
Why would the New York Times publish almost 20,000 words inveighing against "apocalyptic" Tucker Carlson and his "racist" show? Because they want to destroy his show on Fox. MSNBC is happy to help.
The media made a big deal out of the White House Correspondents Dinner being back with Biden, baby! At least he joked the press is less popular than he is.
Biden’s Department of Homeland Security is creating a “Disinformation Governance Board” and the liberal media doesn’t find it interesting...because it’s not directed at them. The new board’s boss is a theatrical partisan who said Hunter Biden’s laptop was a “Trump campaign product.”
Former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany answers our questions on sassy TV reporters building their “brand,” nasty anti-Trump hit pieces, the Twitter takeover, briefing binders, and the White House Correspondents Dinner.
Sunday's Washington Post looked like a partisan rag with a collection of hit pieces (and a cartoon) on House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy after he lied to reporters about what he said about Trump and the 1/6 riot. Three years ago, the Post was feeding bon-bon questions to Democrat leader Nancy Pelosi.
After roughly $300 million invested and just 23 days in operation, the new owners of CNN quickly and publicly pulled the plug on their streaming serving CNN+. Brian Stelter tried to claim that they didn't have enough time to prove they were a failure, but the weak 10,000 daily viewership numbers underlined it would be a financial sinkhole. Kyle Drennen joins the show to discuss how many strange things outlasted this venture and to discuss some of the lowest recent moments on MSNBC, like how conservatives would denounce Jesus if he came back to Earth today as a groomer, as woke, and as a socialist.
The Washington Post rolled out a 2,200-word expose on the maker of the Twitter account "Libs of Tik Tok" by their social-media columnist Taylor Lorenz. They lamented how it "emerged as a powerful force on the internet, shaping right-wing media" with their "incendiary framing." The Post can't see itself as a powerful force in left-wing media.
TV "news" stars are now insisting that there is "nothing" Biden can do to fix inflation, immigration, and crime. So why did they all suggest "the adults were back in charge?"
The New York Times posted an op-ed on killing God on Good Friday, while NBC displayed a woman in a shirt reading "THANK GOD FOR ABORTION." This doesn't feel like a day of respect for the Christians or the Jews. But PBS did advocate for parental rights in the schools...for Muslim parents.
In this episode, the guest is Christopher Phillips, who is now the toast of all conservative media for throwing a rip-roaring hardball question on Brian Stelter at the recent so-called “disinformation” conference at the University of Chicago. He asked if journalistic ethics is dead? Stelter’s answer seemed to say Yes.
While "fact checkers" have rushed to critique humor sites like The Babylon Bee, no one expects they will touch liberal "comedy" shows like "Saturday Night Live" as they smear Republicans as creeps or Nazis.
The networks insisted that every American should rejoice that Ketanji Brown Jackson was confirmed, and lament that Republicans were rude to her. Kevin Tober joins in as we discuss a Chicago "disinformation" conference getting a strong dose of conservative questions about liberal media suppression.
For fun, we made a list of what kind of nasty attacks the Left can uncork without any fear that the "independent fact checker" community will object and evaluate them. And "PunditFact" underline the silliness.
Just when most people could agree what Putin is a deeply evil man, CNN and Brian Stelter touted the idea that Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch is "the most dangerous man in the world."
The "Transgender Day of Visibility" became a day of completely one-sided promotional news coverage, complete with clips of President Biden's celebration speech. The avoidance of any criticism was especially galling on taxpayer-funded PBS and NPR. Plus a discussion of the "fact checkers" coming to Biden's defense on gas prices with Joseph Vazquez.
The network morning and evening silence on Hunter Biden was broken by NBC, but only because they wanted to slam Trump for suggesting that war criminal Putin should give us the dirt on Hunter.
President Biden's gaffes in Poland about the red-hot Russian war on Ukraine have not gone over well among the European allies. Our media elites wanted to compare Biden to JFK or Ronald Reagan speaking boldly about Russia, but they ended up trying to insist these gaffes weren't really gaffes. Either they soft-pedaled them or ignored them entirely.
In his Apple TV series, Jon Stewart surely caused jaws to drop with a strong critique of how the media were guilty of "relentless hyperbole" in describing every mini-scoop as a "bombshell" during the Mueller collusion investigation.
The media arrived at Ketanji Brown Jackson's confirmation hearings and took the position that it was horrible for Republicans to ask critical questions and launch "personal attacks," which were "bad optics" and maybe even racist.
As the Hunter Biden blackout continues on the liberal networks, liberals have argued that you could never trust any Hunter scandal scoops because they came from pro-Trump sources. Even now, they can't admit there's a scandal here.
Mollie Hemingway, editor-in-chief of The Federalist and Fox News contributor, shares thoughts on how her books on the 2020 election and the Kavanaugh hearings are resonating today on Hunter Biden's suddenly "legit" laptop and the pre-game of Ketanji Brown Jackson's confirmation hearings.
As liberal journalists lament how some in the conservative media "have routinely repeated Russian talking points on TV," Scott Whitlock joins the show to recall how the media elites over many years have lauded Soviet communism and its egalitarian dreams.
As the news turns dark under Joe Biden, CNN's Media Unit of Brian Stelter and Oliver Darcy is aggressively spinning in defense of the liberals. Darcy cannot stand the Project Veritas expose of The New York Times, describing it as a right-wing "harassment and intimidation campaign." Stelter claimed conservative media outlets like Fox are "exaggerating" terrible gas prices, as if CNN didn't spend the Trump years wildly exaggerating everything, like the kooky notion that Trump was comparable to murderous dictators and mass-suicide cult leaders.
Curtis Houck and Nick Fondacaro were joined by NewsBusters associate editor Kyle Drennen as the guys closed out another packed news week with some gloating about Jussie Smollett, the media’s complicity in his lies and the Biden administration’s disinformation campaign about gas prices and inflation. Simply put, the aversion to more domestic energy production is intentional.
On this episode of the NewsBusters Podcast, Nick "Night Train" Fondacaro and Curtis Houck discuss the new Quinnipiac poll showing a majority of Democrats would give up and flee the country if America was invaded like Ukraine. We also look at the media defending President Biden's disastrous energy policies that have struggling Americans paying over $4 at the pump. And the media are also upset that gender crazies can't indoctrinate young kids in Florida.
Briefing Room scribe Curtis Houck and Nick "Night Train" Fondacaro began their week of guest hosting by hitting the ground running with the downfall of Kremlin-funded RT and why no one should be shedding tears. Also, the guys discussed where the liberal media have failed (hint: it has to do with energy) and succeeded in reminding people of what honest journalism should look like.
NBC spent not one, but two nights trying to make a scandal out of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis telling high-school kids behind his podium at an event that they didn't have to wear masks, since that was "ridiculous." NBC found an outraged parent and that completely nonpartisan head of the CDC for rebuttal. Even after the CDC relented on mask requirements, the networks are still ripping Republicans.
Nick Fondacaro and Kevin Tober discuss the live coverage of Biden's State of the Union address. CNN's Van Jones gushed "Uncle Joe is back," but other pundits like Chuck Todd felt the speech didn't hit right, and it won't "age well."
From Ukraine to the Supreme Court, Democrat-promoting reporters like George Stephanopoulos are pushing the Biden line and then protesting the idea that anyone would call them Democrats. They’re still pushing Trump as the center of the foreign-policy universe and insisting Biden’s SCOTUS pick should be confirmed immediately without anyone talking about the left wing.
As Russia brutally invades Ukraine, columnist Gabriella Hoffman explains how extreme Western climate policies are giving Vladimir Putin more power in global politics. Plus a note about the global rarity of gun-rights guarantees.
It's more than a little odd when the same media that won't say the Pledge of Allegiance suddenly demand everyone needs to be "patriots" and support President Biden as Russia invades Ukraine and underlines Biden's failure and weakness on the world stage. The hounded House Republicans for mocking Biden walking away refusing to answer questions from the press.
The Left thinks their most effective messengers are comedians. But John Oliver's latest rant against Ted Cruz, complete with profane poetry borrowing a page from Dr. Seuss, shows comedians are better at angrily emoting than they are at enlightening.
Hillary Clinton didn't take the conservative media attacks lying down, tweeting out a "good debunking" of their "nonsense" from Bess Levin in Vanity Fair. That magazine is an anti-Trump hothouse in dire need of debunking. Levin has written up florid fantasies about punishing Donald Trump and wild suggestions that Trump's "beaten a few homeless people to death."
The media cheered a judge and jury dismissed Sarah Palin's lawsuit against The New York Times over their smears claiming she incited a mass shooting in Arizona. The media feared that John Durham's probe of the origins of the Trump-Russia obsession would ruin their narrative.
Over the weekend, a "bombshell" was released by special counsel John Durham, revealing the Clinton campaign was spying on Donald Trump (even into his White House years). The networks and major papers avoided touching this news like Durham was a leper.
The Olympics are an athletic event, but they can't help but be political when the host country is an abusive dictatorship like China. Geoffrey Dickens discusses his recent blogs on China and Olympic coverage, as well as a bit on hip-hop's halftime at the Super Bowl, and the Best Picture Oscar nods.
The liberal media have been truly hostile to Canadian truckers protesting vaccine mandates with a convoy in Ottawa. They've called it an "insurrection" and touted locals saying they're being held "hostage" by protests. They suggested they were populated by Nazis, Q-Anon, and Confederate flag-wavers. and stole food from the homeless. A real hatchet job.
In the angry aftermath of Jeff Zucker's dismissal, Brian Stelter is offended that anyone thinks CNN is more opinion than news, saying anyone who claims that doesn't watch CNN. And he cried "BS" that Zucker was out due to poor ratings.
CNN people should never refer to anyone else as a "cult" after listening to them talk about their departed boss Jeff Zucker. One employee even suggested that members of the congressional January 6th committee felt "devastated for our democracy" over Zucker's dismissal.
There’s breaking news at two network news divisions. CNN boss Jeff Zucker abruptly resigned over failing to disclose a romantic relationship with a fellow CNN executive. Whoopi Goldberg was suspended by ABC News for two weeks for mangling the racial animus behind the Holocaust. Our Nick Fondacaro was the first journalist to put Whoopi’s bungling into the news cycle, and helps analyze the aftermath.
The pro-Biden media claim to be for “free speech” while they play up left-wing protests demonizing Spotify for airing Joe Rogan’s podcast. CNN is claiming that there’s too much division and conflict in society – just as Biden nominates a black woman for the Supreme Court...apparently everyone should sing Kumbaya and vote Yes.
Seventies pop star Barry Manilow sided with Neil Young in pulling his songs from Spotify over Joe Rogan. That lines up with our interview with Christian Toto about his new book on politically correct entertainment, "Virtue Bombs: How Hollywood Got Woke and Lost Its Soul."
When President Biden dismissed an inflation question from Fox's Peter Doocy by calling him a "stupid son of a bitch," many reporters suggested the poor president was "frustrated" and "it's not easy being president." Chuck Todd and Jim Acosta said nothing.
The network polls on Biden are so bad that Chuck Todd is warning of the danger of a Democrat "shellacking" in the midterms. From NBC to NPR, you can hear the media suggesting strongly that Team Biden needs to fix it.
Biden's second formal press conference of his one-year presidency underlined why he avoids them. Curtis Houck shares just how Biden's questioners did, starting with Peter Doocy getting razzed and called nonsensical by the president.
Even as Joe Biden's approval ratings have collapsed, you can't blame the liberal media for his unpopularity. Scott Whitlock is here to describe just how aggressively the network evening newscasts downplayed or skipped stories that would put bad news on Biden's plate.
Martin Luther King birthday celebrations could be unifying, but that’s not how media liberals use it. It’s just another occasion to trash Republicans as “Jim Crow” racists trying to keep blacks from voting and laboring to stop school kids from learning anything about MLK. What a sorry set of smears.
Between Joe Biden's ranting Atlanta speech and Kamala Harris's bumbling interview with Craig Melvin on NBC, the White House had a terrible week...even though the liberal TV networks energetically promoted their failing arguments.
President Biden gave a “fiery” speech in Atlanta attacking anyone who disagreed with him on current Democrat “voting rights” bills as akin to southern segregationists of the 1960s. The networks lined up to promote his “appeal to the lessons of history,” like competing candidates for president of his fan club.
Since when does Brian Stelter borrow hot slang from Ben Shapiro on the COVID pandemic? Suddenly Stelter and Oliver Darcy are worrying out loud that the media is out of touch with the public....oh really?
As the liberal media devoted many hours to commemorating the 1/6 riot, it was considered horrible to "minimize" it, but it's apparently never objectionable to exaggerate it beyond belief -- an event where five died doesn't match the terrorist murder of 3,000.
NewsBusters rings in 2022 with stand-in host Nick “Night Train” Fondacaro alongside Research Director Scott Whitlock to discuss the media's New Year resolution to make every day -- and the upcoming midterm election season -- about January 6 in an attempt to swing the election for Democrats.
NPR recently suggested the Beatles signified how the rock band was a white-male institution. They also explained that "yacht rock" like Steely Dan, Toto, and the Doobie Brothers is culturally appropriated black music.
Briefing Room scribe Curtis Houck and Nick “Night Train” Fondacaro discuss CBS editing out comments one of their own reporters made about school closures and CNN claiming there’s no “malicious intent” when journalists make “innocent” mistakes.
On Wednesday’s podcast, newly minted early bird Curtis Houck and Nick “Night Train” Fondacaro discuss the Covid crazies in the media who are desperately trying to get America to reinstitute mass lockdowns. We also do a rundown on fun project I worked on “2021’s Top Dirty Dozen Fredo Moments from CNN’s Former Wise Guy.” And chatted with the newest member of the NewsBusters night crew, former intern Kevin Tober about his first few days of analysis.
On Monday’s NewsBusters Podcast, deputy managing editor Nicholas Fondacaro and I took a look at just some of the bad headlines that enveloped the Biden administration surrounding its doomed Build Back Better agenda, but before that, we went through a new documentary by liberal sports network ESPN that fawned over NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace.
Harvard's Nieman Lab looked ahead to the "news" business in 2022 and promoted an end to objectivity as a journalism ideal. "Solidarity for social justice" is the new fad, but solidarity with whom? The "marginalized" get a major boost, and if you're not "marginalized," you're going to get lectured about your advantages. They think the media's job is to create "transformational change" for the Left.
The networks suggested that the House Democrats (on a mostly party-line vote) issued a "historic rebuke" of Trump by charging Mark Meadows with contempt of Congress. The same outlets were deeply bored when a GOP Congress held Eric Holder in contempt back in 2012.
Chris Wallace announced he was leaving Fox News, and then he joined CNN’s new streaming service. He even said he was “delighted to join Jeff Zucker and his great team.” But leaving Fox for CNN is like leaving the Super Bowl champs to join the Detroit Lions (or the Lions practice squad?)
Thursday marked a harmonic convergence as we wave farewell to the careers of Brian Williams and Jussie Smollett, two fabulists who counted on the Left to promote their misinformation.
The broadcast networks were reluctant and slow in covering the Jussie Smollett trial. ABC's been almost non-existent after boosting Smollett two years ago. CNN found another problem in Don Lemon texting Smollett about how the cops weren't believing his story.
Only after Chris Cuomo was suddenly fired did CNN's Brian Stelter discover he'd crossed an ethical line "many times," that there were "so many headaches here, so many journalistic fouls." Then he had a guest tout Cuomo as a wonderful "talent" and "performer" who was "competitive" in the ratings. The only thing more ridiculous was the Washington Post columnist claiming he had proof the media were rougher on Biden than on Trump.
The toughest part of Jen Psaki's White House briefing is dealing with respectful hardballs from Fox's Peter Doocy. Curtis Houck discusses how Doocy made Psaki's spin too lame to take seriously.
Chris Cuomo lied to CNN about just how extensively he was helping his brother Andrew try to survive a wave of sex-harassment allegations. So he's been suspended "indefinitely," but Stelter is already hinting it might just be a month.
CNN's "Reliable Sources" host Brian Stelter can't accept that there is bad news under Biden, and if you blame Biden, that is relying on "feelings over facts." Plus: CNN and The Washington Post get ratioed on Twitter for suggesting the murderer in the Waukesha rampage was an automobile.
How energetically did MSNBC smear Kyle Rittenhouse as a white supremacist, white nationalist, or racist? Quite a bit. Joy Reid led a pack of smack talkers about Kyle being a little racist coward with an AR-15 menacing a violent neighborhood.
Despite a slow news week, the networks did nothing (or barely anything) on a front-page New York Times story underlining the guilt of ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York. A New York Assembly committee probe found "overwhelming evidence" that Cuomo engaged in repeated sexual harassment in office, doctoring COVID death numbers, and exploiting staff in the creation of a $5 million memoir on his COVID heroism.
On the Sunday after Kyle Rittenhouse was found not guilty for using his gun in self-defense, the network shows lamented all the alleged racism in the verdict and let liberals lie about Rittenhouse's supposed criminal acts, like bringing an illegal gun across state lines. Teen vigilantes might even haunt prayer vigils!
Breaking news of five "Not Guilty" counts in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial led to media complaints of a "vindication of vigilantism" and an indictment of how America was "designed to work"....for white people.
Newspapers across America use Washington dispatches from the Associated Press on their front pages. But sometimes those AP articles are badly disguised press releases for Bidenites or worried pieces of sociology about "gun culture."
On this episode of the NewsBusters Podcast, Nick “Night Train” Fondacaro and White House briefing scribe Curtis Houck are hanging around to discuss the liberal media’s open disdain for average Americans as they scoff at those struggling to make ends meet because of inflation, with one even suggesting people were lying about their struggles.
Nick Fondacaro and Curtis Houck dive into the latest lunacy from MSNBC’s Joy Reid following a joint effort from her and a team of guests hurling more dangerous invective against anyone who opposes them, including parents wanting to remove pornographic material from schools. They also tackle the liberal media’s disinformation campaign against Kyle Rittenhouse as his murder trial comes to a close.
Nick Fondacaro and Curtis Houck examine the sneaky way the media cover elections. They elevate state elections they like, but relegate others to ‘local story’ status when they want to bury them. Research Director Scott Whitlock joins the show to call out their almost total silence about the close governor’s race in New Jersey.
It’s funny when Tim Graham is accused of having a problem with “Democracy and Truth” by a New York Times opinion editor in a pundit panel on media coverage of Biden. Joseph Vazquez of MRC Business discusses MRC being placed in the “Toxic Ten” of sites “denying the climate crisis” by a British anti-“hate” group.
You know it's a good night for Republicans when it's a terrible night of bitterness at MSNBC and CNN. They routinely lied that Critical Race Theory is never taught, a ghost, a fakery.
Several CNN pundits and an AP reporter were extremely triggered by an alleged use of the phrase "Let's Go Brandon" at the end of a Southwest Airlines flight from Houston to Albuquerque. People wanted the pilot summarily fired. One CNN pundit bizarrely compared "Let's Go Brandon" to "Long Live ISIS."
A black professor told The Root that white people are villainous and should be removed from Earth. And we explore the farce of "independent fact checking" with Brad Slager of RedState and Townhall.
Liberals and their media enablers have a bad habit of complaining conservatives have started "phony trumped-up culture wars." But in reality, the left almost always starts a cultural revolution, and then attacks anyone who resists as a phony.
MSNBC host Brian Williams told black leftist Baratunde Thurston that the press corps live in "blue dots" and don't understand the country "beyond the last exit for a Whole Foods." But they never change!
CNN's pre-scripted, pre-screened "town hall" with Joe Biden felt like bumper bowling, protecting the president from gutter balls and gaffes. Then: what's going on with Dave Chappelle and cancel culture and comedy with Christian Toto of HollywoodInToto.com and the Right On Hollywood Podcast.
Politico reported President Biden has granted 10 interviews as president, none since Labor Day. At this point, Trump had done 57, and Obama 131. The media haven't found democracy dying in darkness, even with only three interviews with print outlets.
CNN's Brian Stelter was unhappy on Sunday morning that Mollie Hemingway was promoting her book "Rigged" on media bias and Big Tech censorship in the 2020 campaign. In the same hour, Hemingway was on Fox News underlining that the Democrats haven't really accepted a loss in the presidential campaign since Dukakis in 1988.
The networks that are still obsessing over January 6 weren't talking about leftist climate protesters "occupying" the Interior Department this week and fighting with police. (The cops aren't heroes any more.) Plus Geoff Dickens discusses all the Hunter Biden scandal stories the networks are ignoring.
The Daily Wire broke it, and Fox News put it on television. A 9th-grade girl was allegedly raped in a Loudoun County (Virginia) high school by a "gender-fluid" male in a skirt. A month later, a contentious Loudoun County school board meeting on transgender policy included a denial that anything happened in their schools.
CNN and MSNBC lament the media's role in Biden's polling decline. Brian Williams claimed "really crappy reporting" is to blame. Brian Stelter claimed it was irresponsible to push the message "Democrats in disarray" when they can't pass their agenda.
A new Quinnipiac poll showed Joe Biden's approval rating at a dismal 38 percent. Naturally, the networks responded to this bad news by either ignoring it or mentioning it for ten seconds.
The liberal media never tire of anti-Trump "tell all" memoirs, so ex-Melania aide Stephanie Grisham is a hot guest on "news" shows. Plus Katie Couric's forthcoming memoir underlines she's really Catty Katie.
Fox News Channel debuted on October 7, 1996, so they're celebrating 25 years. But CNN host Brian Stelter trashed Fox as a network full of "darkness," a badly clogged heart of the GOP.
The news media have done through dramatic changes since the 1980s, through the rise of the internet and social media and Fox News. Rich Noyes shares his thoughts on his last day as research director for the MRC.
Generals used to specialize in fighting wars. But it seems like under Trump, Gen. Mark Milley was speaking to every liberal journalist writing an anti-Trump book. You wonder if Afghanistan would have turned out better if our top general wasn’t so busy “exposing” the president to help the liberals own the best-seller lists.
President Biden claimed in a tweet that "My Build Back Better agenda coasts zero dollars." Since they plan to raise taxes to pay for it, somehow it costs "zero dollars." Journalists like Washington Post economics columnist Catherine Rampell picked up this lame argument.
The media are in the tank for Black Lives Matter, as they energetically disguise how radical they are. Heritage Foundation senior fellow Mike Gonzalez rips away the facade in his new book "BLM: The Making of a New Marxist Revolution."
The hottest recent topic at NewsBusters is the Fake News about border agents whipping illegal Haitian immigrants at the southern border. There are no whips, only reins for horses. Where are the fact checkers to correct the media?
The New York Times reported less than 100 protesters at a "Justice for J6" rally that was hyped for days in advance by CNN and MSNBC. How embarrassing for people who describe themselves as the "reality-based press."
Fox reporter Bill Melugin reported over dramatic drone footage about 10,000 illegal immigrants surging into Texas. Team Biden responded by banning drones in the area. Will anyone in the liberal media object?
Bob Woodward is offering a third anonymously-sourced trashing of Team Trump, and the networks are lapping it up and cheering the people who allegedly undermined this allegedly nutty president. Don't believe everything you read.
Team Biden underlined the president would be "deliberately staying in the background" of 9/11 ceremonies, but he still managed to say some wacky stuff on camera. Like implying all the 9/11 victims would despair at people putting "F Biden" on a protest sign.
Instead of discussing his failed Afghanistan policy on the weekend of 9/11, President Biden tried to change the subject and please the Democrat base by getting out the "hammer" of vaccine mandates for government, and even for businesses of more than 100 employees. Much of this might be overturned, but the media celebrated it anyway.
Too many "mainstream" media voices fell for another hoax from Rolling Stone magazine, that somehow "horse dewormer overdoses" were "overwhelming Oklahoma hospitals." The "fact checkers" went soft, and the "misinformation" reporters went missing.
ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, and MSNBC all avoided mentioning a Reuters story on a phone call between President Biden and then-Afghanistan president Ashraf Ghani where Biden implored Ghani to project victory over the Taliban, whether it was "true or not."
Curtis Houck and Nick Fondacaro discuss the litany of liberal journalists that have provided admirable and stinging coverage holding the Biden administration to account on Afghanistan. But will it last? The turn has already begun. Plus: the new Geoff Dickens study on the media covering the crime wave in big Democrat cities.
The news environment for President Biden is bad right now, but it could be a lot worse...if President Trump had won a second term. Every crying war widow and dissenting colonel would be magnified intensely.
Politico reported Team Biden gave the Taliban a list of Americans and Afghan allies to help them get evacuated. Does that sound smart? Maybe not, because the media tried to ignore that story.
On Sunday's "Meet the Press," NBC's Chuck Todd noted Biden's approval rating was sinking. But NBC's evening newscast and morning news show didn't offer one peep about the bad news.
The media are trying to hold Biden accountable on Afghanistan, but some people like Brian Stelter are crying this is "over the top" negative. He wants the "Everything is fine" sound to the news...like you can hear on NPR.
Seth Meyers at NBC and Stephen Colbert at CBS often sound more like liberal talk-show hosts than comedians. Meyers touted Biden as just the "salty grandpa" to insist we had to leave Afghanistan.
Mediaite and Vogue magazine both wrote up glowing interviews with White House press secretary Jen Psaki and how she earned the hashtag #PsakiBomb for letting Peter Doocy have it. Curtis Houck discusses the latest rough briefings about Afghanistan.
The ABC, CBS, and NBC evening news shows almost totally skipped the border crisis in July. They're tougher on Afghanistan...but when did they push Biden on this in 2020?
A new Washington Post TV critic evaluated Meghan McCain's role on "The View" as the "love-to-hate reality villain." And CNN's Media Unit thinks the new hosts of 'Jeopardy' are 'so, so wrong."
CNN devoted an hour to the special "Being AOC," and Dana Bash energetically celebrated her uncompromising (socialist) confidence. Plus: NB's Mark Finkelstein on the worst breaking bluster of "Morning Joe."
Glenn Kessler, the chief "Fact Checker" at The Washington Post, was exposed as he attempted a hit piece on Chris Rufo, the leading critic of Critical Race Theory, He asserted to one potential source on LinkedIn that Rufo was ripping her off and her anonymous tipster. Then he got exposed, and had to give up the "fact check." Facts weren't helpful.
The Washington Post has "honored" Fox White House reporter Peter Doocy by highlighting his exchanges with Biden press secretary Jen Psaki in the briefing room. Doocy gets "fact checked"....but in 2018, the Post didn't check on CNN's Jim Acosta as he told them he was all about the facts, not about damaging Trump.
The New York Attorney General's report on sexual harassment by Gov. Andrew Cuomo included new details into how extensively CNN prime-time host Chris Cuomo advised his brother. CNN seems to have no problem with this massive conflict of interest.
Sunday turned Reliably Kooky when CNN's Brian Stelter discussed the "Cult of Trump" and asked a liberal California Democrat about how much Trump resembled Jim Jones, the cult leader who led 900 followers into a mass suicide in 1978.
Nick Fondacaro and Curtis Houck discuss the coming reimplementation of the dreaded mask mandates, President Biden snapping at a Fox News reporter, and CNN’s Chris “Fredo” Cuomo getting called out on his own show. They also examine CNN’s double standard on the COVID safety of protests as they chide pro-freedom gatherings in Cuba.
On today’s podcast, Curtis Houck and Nick Fondacaro discuss the return of the mask. No, not the 90’s R&B hit Return of the Mack by Mark Morrison, but the return of the CDC’s demand that everyone return to wearing facemasks including those of us who have played by the rules and have gotten vaccinated already. We also cover the theatrical proceedings known as the January 6 Select Committee hearings.
The night crew makes it return as Curtis Houck and Nicholas Fondacaro will be serving as co-hosts for the week with Tim Graham out of the office. On today’s episode, the guys went through the liberal media’s silence on Hunter Biden’s latest escapade, Carl Bernstein calling Trump a “war criminal,” Tucker Carlson being harassed in public, and the rest of the past week’s news that Fondacaro missed out on during his week off.
CNN's latest softball "town hall" was a big target for top fact checkers. PolitiFact came rushing to Biden's defense on his loose talk on banning guns, tagging a tweet from the House Republicans as "False". But Biden was given a "Mostly True" and a "Half True" that was false.
The Tokyo Olympics are underway, so how will NBC cover protesting American Olympians kneeling, as the women’s soccer team did? Is it okay to root against protesting American athletes? Or is that unpatriotic? That’s our question as the Games begin.
NPR posted a story on Monday headlined "Outrage As A Business Model: How Ben Shapiro Is Using Facebook To Build An Empire." They lamented "In 2021, Ben Shapiro rules Facebook." Move over, Zuckerberg!
The Washington Post and Time magazine have both uncorked hit pieces on Fox News primetime star Tucker Carlson as a terrible source of misinformation and "White grievance." It will only help him win his time slot.
The supposedly secret sale of Hunter Biden's amateur paintings -- where the White House and Hunter Biden won't know who is overpaying -- finally drew a little attention on network news.
Trump-hating journalist Julia Ioffe talked to distraught anonymous reporters about how Democrats are so thin-skinned and can’t handle any media scrutiny and how Team Biden is so “opaque” and stifling. Can’t reporters just hold Biden accountable and force them to respond?
Michael Avenatti, the former lawyer to porn star Stormy Daniels who used to be omnipresent in the Trump-hating media, was sentenced to 30 months in prison. But the networks either said nothing or just uttered a few brief sentences.
The liberal networks competed furiously to get the first interview with "1619 Project" creator Nikole Hannah-Jones as she showily spurned a tenure offer from her alma mater. CBS's Gayle King won the puffery contest.
MSNBC hosts Joy Reid and Chris Hayes were fiercely unhappy with the Supreme Court upholding Arizona's voting rules, that the conservative majority were somehow dealing a "violent blow" to democracy. On screen, MSNBC argued the court's majority was "Republicans Against Democracy."
ABC, CBS, and NBC were bored over the breaking news that the New York city Board of Elections bungled vote-counting in the mayor's race. They mistakenly included 130,000 test ballots. New York-based journalists have assaulted the red states for dangerous disenfranchising moves, so what gives?
There's something about ballot-integrity laws that send liberal journalists off a cliff of panic. On Sunday's "Meet the Press," Yamiche Alcindor of PBS claimed it was an "existential crisis" on voting in America, when turnout in 2020 was historically large. She claimed Republicans want to squash all votes that aren't Republican votes. It's a kooky conspiracy theory.
There's something about ballot-integrity laws that send liberal journalists off a cliff of panic. On Sunday's "Meet the Press," Yamiche Alcindor of PBS claimed it was an "existential crisis" on voting in America, when turnout in 2020 was historically large. She claimed Republicans want to squash all votes that aren't Republican votes. It's a kooky conspiracy theory.
On June 24, Biden engaged with the press and uncorked some very strange whispering answers and made several racial gaffes about vaccine hesitancy. But the network newscasts that highlighted Trump gaffes or insults go quiet when Biden gets weird.
The network anchors warmly eulogized the Democrat "election reform" bill, and ripped Republicans for their "tough voting restrictions." They're not going to be happy when they lose.
As Catholic bishops in the U.S. plan to discuss and debate whether politicians could be denied communion for public stances against central Catholic teaching on matters like abortion, the media act like Democrat advertisers. 'Deeply Catholic' Joe is being trapped by people trying to "weaponize" the sacrament of communion.
This the final NewBusters Podcast hosted by the night crew, Nick Fondacaro and Curtis Houck, Tim Graham is back Monday. The boys discuss Joe Rogan ripping Brian Stelter for a bootlicking interview he did with Jen Psaki. MRC Latino’s Jorge Bonilla walks us through the Univision clown show story he’s meticulously reported on.
We have reached the penultimate episode of the “Dad isn’t home” mini-series of the NewsBusters podcast with Curtis Houck and Nick Fondacaro. For Wednesday’s show, we led off by recapping where we’ve been over the last few episodes in exposing how more and more coroners of the liberal media have shown a blatant disregard for sobriety and showing that they actually care about people who disagree with them. And in part two, we interviewed Lone Conservative president and former NewsBusters intern Joe Chalfant on what Lone Conservative has been doing for over four years to help young conservative writers get their first break and lead them to further opportunities throughout the movement.
The NewsBusters Night Crew discusses Brian Stelter on tour for the paperback copy of his book, look at his ridiculous antics, and laugh at a C-SPAN caller telling him off. We also discuss liberal outlets trying to rehabilitate their damaged cast of degenerate politicians. And finally, we announce our guest for Wednesday’s podcast.
In a move that showed CNN’s refusal to have anything close to admirable ethics, the Jeffrey Zucker-led network welcomed back chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin on Thursday after a seven-month absence following a Zoom call in which he pleasured himself in front of colleagues at The New Yorker. Weekday afternoon CNN Newsroom co-host Alisyn Camerota was given the awkward task of interviewing Toobin and explain to viewers why he had been away from the network.
Nicholas Fondacaro and Curtis Houck returned to discuss that NSFW happening as well as Univision’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week with Vice President Kamala Harris, the latest work from MRC interns, and a whole lot more!
Today’s edition of the NewsBusters Podcast has a special treat for listeners. Stephen Gutowski, founder of The Reload, your home for sober and serious firearms news and analysis, joins Curits Houck and Nick Fondacaro to talk about the liberal media’s ignorance about guns and gun culture, and their willful and dishonest use of certain statistics.