UK Guardian: Send Us a Buck to Fend Off Right-Wing Southern Savages!

March 14th, 2024 5:11 PM

Liberal bias with a concentrated whiff of transatlantic condescension, courtesy of a fundraising email from the ultra-left UK-based newspaper The Guardian. Eyeing the liberal market in the United States during an election year, the outlet is tapping potential donors in their readership through a most condescending package, under the signature of its “Southeast reporter” on “politics…

CNN’s Darcy Ridiculously Claims NY Times Is Anti-Biden, Pro-Trump!

March 6th, 2024 5:20 PM

Oliver Darcy, CNN senior media reporter, pounced on the latest example of bedwetting liberal hysteria in the latest edition of his “Reliable Sources” newsletter, accusing the New York Times for being…anti-Biden and insufficiently anti-Trump: “The New York Times is facing backlash over its coverage of Donald Trump and the 2024 election.” Yes, there are apparently die-hard liberals (i.e…

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Sunday Move: Michael Steele Half-Crosses Himself Over Black Republican

February 26th, 2024 6:52 AM

On the Sunday edition of the MSNBC show The Weekend, co-anchor Michael Steele half-crossed himself and said "it's Sunday" after playing a clip of a Republican candidate for governor of North Carolina making remarks at CPAC. At the end of the show, Ali Velshi, whose show came on next, singled out Steele's move for praise, calling it "precious."

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WashPost's Philip Bump Claims Fox's 'Fake' Facts Hurt Trust in MSNBC

January 29th, 2024 4:49 PM

Appearing as a guest on Friday's The 11th Hour on MSNBC, Washington Post columnist Philip Bump alleged that right-leaning media outlets like Fox News and Breitbart tell "fake things" to their viewers and, in doing so, cause people to disbelieve the "true things" that are discussed by MSNBC and The Washington Post.

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Tom Friedman on PBS: Why Won't Press Ask Hamas Leader About Killing?

January 29th, 2024 4:02 PM

The PBS current affairs program Amanpour & Co. on Thursday hosted the invariably self-assured long-time New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, who unleashed some harsh criticism of Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. But then things took a surprising and welcome turn, as Friedman criticized journalists’ double standards in its war coverage. What about…

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Maher And MacFarlane Battle Over Trust In Journalists

January 27th, 2024 1:40 PM

HBO Real Time host Bill Maher and actor and direct Seth MacFarlane had an argument on Friday over whether or not journalists can be trusted. MacFarlane accused Maher of doing “exactly what Donald Trump wants” while Maher accused MacFarlane of being a partisan who wants to “feel good.”

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Colbert Asks How To Fix Trust In Media, Hints GOP Is Suppressing Vote

January 24th, 2024 10:08 AM

CBS’s Stephen Colbert welcomed Columbia Journalism School Dean, New Yorker staff writer, and MSNBC talking head Jelani Cobb to the Tuesday edition of The Late Show to proclaim that only one of the two parties believes in democracy, imply Republicans want to stop black people from voting, and wonder why trust in journalism is so low.

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Some Cheese For Wagner And Stelter's WHINE About Sale of Baltimore Sun

January 18th, 2024 12:23 AM

On MSNBC’s Alex Wagner Tonight, viewers were subjected to several painful minutes of self-indulgent whining over the purchase of The Baltimore Sun by David Smith, executive chairman of Sinclair Broadcasting Group. Media don’t especially appreciate losing control of an outlet.

HA HA: Lefty Media Freak Over Conservative Baltimore Exec Saving Paper

January 17th, 2024 2:26 PM

In February 2021, liberal journalists (correctly) were crestfallen that Tribune, The Baltimore Sun’s parent company, would merge with Alden Global Capital, an infamous newspaper conglomerate known for stripping down newspapers to ghost status. After it was announced Monday that local businessman and Sinclair Broadcasting Group executive Chairman David Smith had rescued The Sun…

WashPost Repeats Dumb Claim Global Warming Causing Alaska Blizzards

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January 9th, 2024 8:08 AM

The climate fanatics at The Washington Post treated an old oxymoronic article claiming that man-made global warming causing more Alaska blizzards as front-page news.

Climate-Obsessed Associated Press Reveals Wacky Eco-Extremist Donor

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January 3rd, 2024 3:37 PM

How The Associated Press could admit to being financed by eco-extremist donors and yet still claim to be neutral when it comes to its climate change reporting defies common sense.

Column: The Arrogance of the Media Creates an Illiberal Bias

January 3rd, 2024 5:49 AM

An essential ingredient in the stew of hysteria over a second Trump term is heavy-breathing concern for “vital institutions” like the press. On the badly named public-radio podcast Left Right & Center -- originating from KCRW, the NPR affiliate in Santa Monica, California -- former NPR morning host David Greene furiously pushed the panic button about the media in a year-end review…

FLASHBACK: Media’s Crisis of Credibility Got Even Worse in 2023

December 30th, 2023 8:40 AM

It’s hardly a secret that large swaths of the public have soured on the news media as reliable communicators of factual information. A series of new polls released in 2023 showed the public’s distrust of the media elite has gotten worse, not better.

NYT 'Heir Apparent' Bennet Blasts Rag's Lefty 'Culture of Intolerance'

December 19th, 2023 1:24 PM

If someone who was once considered “heir apparent to run the Times” declares that his former paper has become an intolerant “illiberal” hellhole, you should listen. The latter part of former New York Times opinion editor James Bennet’s 17,000-word autopsy of his former employer sharpened the focus on the suffocating liberalism of the media world in general and the Times --and…