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STUDY: TV News Shields Biden From Blame Over His Inflation Disaster

February 13th, 2023 2:05 PM

A new study from the Media Research Center finds the overwhelming majority (84%) of TV news coverage of the ongoing inflation disaster failed to mention President Biden or his administration — and when reporters did discuss the President, they mostly depicted him as working to solve the problem, rather than blaming him for causing it.

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SOTU Round-Up: ‘Mr. Smooth’ Biden Beats Back ‘Bitter and Rude’ GOP

Geoffrey Dickens

February 9th, 2023 5:30 PM

The following are just some of the most absurd (post-SOTU) outbursts from liberal journos, as caught by the NewsBusters staff.

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10 Brand NEW Hunter Biden Breaking Stories the Nets Are Burying

Geoffrey Dickens

February 7th, 2023 9:58 AM

On Wednesday, Congress begins their first public hearings on President Joe Biden’s family, including his son Hunter and his ties (revealed in his infamous laptop) to foreign companies. These hearings give the broadcast networks a new opportunity to actually cover these new developments. The following are 10 brand new Hunter stories the networks have censored.

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Looking Back at Last 10 Marches for Life & the Media's Collective Yawn

Curtis Houck

January 20th, 2023 3:37 PM

Friday marked the 2023 March for Life on the National Mall on Washington D.C. with hundreds of thousands of pro-lifers to coincide with Sunday’s 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade being argued before the Supreme Court. And, with zero preview coverage Friday morning on the broadcast network news shows, it appears as though this will mark the eighth March for Life in the past 10 years with…

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CENSORED! Nets Hide Elon’s Explosive Twitter Files On Hunter Scandal

Geoffrey Dickens

January 18th, 2023 10:00 AM

MRC analysts reviewed ABC, CBS, NBC morning, evening and Sunday roundtable shows from December 2 (when the Twitter files story broke) through the morning of January 18 and found only CBS (barely) covered the Twitter files story on Hunter.

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FLASHBACK: The Many Liberal Heroes of Barbara Walters

Rich Noyes

January 2nd, 2023 8:45 AM

Longtime ABC News personality Barbara Walters died Friday at the age of 93. While she shouldn’t be confused with one of those classless left-wing hacks you see too much of in today’s media landscape (including on her daytime creation The View), Walters nonetheless exhibited a typical Manhattan liberalism that celebrated even the most flawed Democratic partisans.