CNN Averaged 4 Minutes Per Day on Biden's Gaffe, Then Stopped Covering

As Fox News noted on Friday, it took CNN 12 hours to cover Biden’s latest gaffe: asserting on a radio show Friday morning that if you aren’t a Biden supporter, “You ain’t black.” That disinterest continued into the weeked; after spending average of less than four minutes per day on the controversy, CNN stopped covering it entirely as of noon EST on Monday, May 25.
Bill D'Agostino
May 25th, 2020 1:37 PM

FLASHBACK: Using Memorial Day to Trash Trump and Question 'Heroes'

This Memorial Day weekend, the MRC’s FLASHBACK series has already reminded you of MSNBC's Chris Hayes admitting he was “uncomfortable” referring to fallen military members as heroes. But there are other examples of the media using this holiday for their own purposes. On the 2019 Memorial Day edition of Morning Joe, co-host Mika Brzezinski tried (and failed) to get guests to use the day to trash…
Scott Whitlock
May 25th, 2020 11:00 AM

Stelter Insists Media Acts in 'Good Faith,' As He Proves He Doesn't

CNN Reliable Sources host Brian Stelter said something fascinating on his show Sunday. He complained to New York Times media columnist Ben Smith that "I don't know how to show folk that journalists are mostly acting in good faith. Here's how a show allegedly focused on journalism fails to show good faith. Stelter had on a writer from The Atlantic to discuss the coronavirus and never whispered a…
Tim Graham
May 25th, 2020 10:44 AM

CNN Brands President Trump a Hypocrite for Not Attending Church

A president can be an ardent defender of religious freedom without being overtly devout himself. But that didn't stop CNN from branding President Trump a hypocrite for having not attended church this weekend while having recently promoted the re-opening of houses of worship.
Mark Finkelstein
May 25th, 2020 9:07 AM

AG Pushes Business Titan to Fight Dirty to Defeat Rival on 'Billions'

Like Hatfields and McCoys, the feud between New York Attorney General Chuck Rhoades, Jr., and hedge fund manager Bobby “Axe” Axelrod is the never ending battle fueling the drama on Showtime’s Billions. Both are corrupt, ruthless and willing to fight dirty. This week it was the AG's turn to roll around in the mud. Rhoades tried and failed to enlist rival billionaire Mike Prince in his effort to…
Julia A. Seymour
May 24th, 2020 11:33 PM

Starz Drama: Sisters Bond Over Taking Abortion Pill, Not Telling Men

The May 25 episode of Vida titled “Episode 21” drives home the point of how cavalier and apathetic some pro-abortion women can be when it comes to terminating their unborn children. This episode on Starz even shows the two leading characters, sisters, bonding over the pills used to perform the abortion.
Karen Townsend
May 24th, 2020 11:09 PM

Post-Apocalyptic Show 'Snowpiercer' Rallies People to 'Eat the Rich'

It should surprise no one that TNT’s post-apocalyptic series Snowpiercer is about as subtle as the 1001-car train the show follows. A class warfare story surrounding the survivors of climate change is about as blunt as one can get. Apparently, however, it can get worse. Now we’ve come to the “eat the rich” portion of our propaganda.
Lindsay Kornick
May 24th, 2020 10:54 PM

When Professors Deny Media Bias? Guess They Didn't READ Anything

Professors are often the first to try and deny the problem of media bias. Take the website The Conversation, with its motto "Academic rigor, journalistic flair." This recent article is lacking both of those: "Claims of ideological bias among the media may be overblown."  Here's the problem with bias-denying Experts: they don't actually read or watch the content. 
Tim Graham
May 24th, 2020 10:53 PM

NBC Admits Georgia Reopening Looks Successful So Far

On Saturday's NBC Nightly News, the show ran a report which surprisingly gave an upbeat assessment of the results Georgia has gotten in the four seeks since it reopened in spite of all the naysayers who warned of disaster. But, in spite of the criticism that Georgia's Republican governor, Brian Kemp, received a month ago that was mostly from the left, only a soundbite of President Donald Trump…

Brad Wilmouth
May 24th, 2020 8:49 PM

Charlamagne on MSNBC: Biden Apology 'Cool'—But What About Reparations?

On her MSNBC show, Joy Reid interviews Charlamagne Tha God, whose podcast interview with Joe Biden elicited the now notorious "you ain't black." Charlamagne says that Biden's apology was "cool," but what he really wants to know about is what Biden will do about reparations for black people. 
Mark Finkelstein
May 24th, 2020 3:28 PM

Wallace, Goldberg Bash 'Twitter Troll' Press Secretary McEnany

Fox News Sunday anchor Chris Wallace invited a panel to bash White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany because she had the courage to stand up to the opposition press. Between Wallace taking it personally and the Never-Trump editor-in-chief of The Dispatch, Jonah Goldberg attacking her, it was like watching CNN.
Nicholas Fondacaro
May 24th, 2020 12:44 PM

Chuck Todd Laments Biden Has to Answer for Racist Comment

In a tacit admission of how the Democratic Party thinks of the black community on Friday, presumptive nominee Joe Biden exclaimed that if a black person had to think about voting for him or President Trump, then their blackness was in question. By Sunday, NBC was tired of hearing the outrage at Biden’s blatantly racist remark with Sunday Today host Willie Geist huffing that Biden had to apologize…
Nicholas Fondacaro
May 24th, 2020 10:15 AM

Porn Site Seeks Stadium Naming Agreement With Saints

The sleazy NFL potentially continues to slouch toward Gomorrah! Super Bowl halftime sleaze is legendary, but now an adult webcam site has offered $15 million to the New Orleans Saints in hopes of gaining the Super Dome stadium naming rights. SB Nation sports blog asks why an organization would want to get involved with an "embarrassing, scandal-plagued business" and it wasn't even referring to…
Jay Maxson
May 24th, 2020 10:00 AM

Yahoo! Spreads Notion Virus 'Spiking' in Counties That Voted for Trump

An article on Yahoo! News uses a liberal think tank's number-crunching to report "Coronavirus is spiking disproportionately in counties that voted for Trump in 2016." Really? A look at some of these Trump-voting counties doesn't show a real pile of "hotspots." Using the measurement of case rates higher than 100 or more per 100,000 people isn't that useful. 
Tim Graham
May 24th, 2020 9:27 AM