Media Reality Check

Today we present the WORST OF 2021: The Damn Those Conservatives Award. 

Joe Manchin on Sunday likely doomed Joe Biden’s massive $2 trillion spending plan and the media reaction was predictably hyperbolic. There were audible gasps on ABC when the news that he would vote no broke. The New York Times on Monday’s front page accused him of “deserting” the President. Incendiary talk by liberal journalists has been amplified by real-world bullying of Manchin and his…

The crisis at the border is still spiraling out of control and the liberal news networks are determined to smother any mention of it. According to statistics from U.S. Customs and Border Security, there were 173,600 encounters along the southern border in November. This is a five percent increase over October. Yet, the evening newscast coverage dropped to a shocking zero. Zero minutes and zero…

Seth Meyers isn’t funny, but he’s definitely a joke. The Late Night host trashed Donald Trump when the Republican was President. Now that a Democrat is in charge, he has a new obsession: Moderate Democrat Joe Manchin. Rather than hold Joe Biden to account, Meyers slimes the West Virginia Senator as a corrupt, “ignoble” politician who “s****” all over the President’s agenda.”  

It was a challenging task but an esteemed panel of NewsBusters editors led by MRC President L.Brent Bozell and MRC’s Vice President for Research and Publications Brent Baker boiled down all the biased outbursts from lefty hack hosts, anchors, reporters and pundits in 2021 and declared a winner.

It has now been 22 days since a bigoted, anti-Semitic killer drove his SUV into a Wisconsin, parade, murdering six. Yet, not long after the Waukesha slaughter, the networks stopped mentioning the name of alleged killer Darrell Brooks. By December 7, ABC, CBS, and NBC had completely abandoned the story altogether. 

The Jussie Smollett hoax trial went to the jury on Wednesday, but you wouldn’t know it on Good Morning America. Since the start of the trial, the ABC show has offered ZERO coverage of the claims that the actor lied about a MAGA mob assaulting him. It seems as though GMA’s reporters and hosts are embarrassed of their past credulous, fawning interview with Smollett. 

There was a lot for the leftist journalists to be upset about this month. First they saw a key bellwether race in Virginia blow up in their faces. Then they saw their man President Joe Biden’s ratings take a nosedive, even as they lamely attempted to sell his policies and try to tell their audiences that inflation wasn’t that bad. There was also the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict. When that didn’t…

The following is just a small sampling of journalists spinning the bad inflation numbers for the Biden administration.

The following is look back through the Worst of Brian Williams via the MRC’s archives. On Tuesday, MSNBC The 11th Hour anchor announced he was not renewing his contract with the network at the end of the year as he stated: “This is the end of a chapter and the beginning of another.” What Williams didn’t say was how this latest chapter began.

The media obsession over the Steele dossier and the ensuing investigation over it dominated their coverage of the first few years of the Trump administration. The ABC, CBS, NBC evening news programs alone devoted an astonishing 2,634 minutes to it. So how much time have the broadcast evening news shows spent on the Danchenko indictment from November 4 through November 8? Zero seconds. 

Early indications are the liberal journos STILL haven’t quite learned their lesson, as they pouted and whined about Youngkin’s strategy of “weaponizing race” with CRT,  as seen in the following post-Election outbursts.

After the 2017 New Jersey and Virginia elections, where Democrats swept to victory, the networks the next day delighted in a “stinging rebuke” that “lifted” the spirts of Democrats. Four years later on Wednesday, as Republicans won in deep-blue Virginia and hold a lead in very deep blue New Jersey, ABC, CBS and NBC again tried to focus the results back on Donald Trump. 

Republican gubernatorial candidate Jack Ciattarelli stunned the political and media establishment on Tuesday with a breathtaking performance. As of 8:30 AM on Wednesday, Jack Ciattarelli leads incumbent Democrat Phil Murphy 49.65 to 49.60.  One could also say he defeated the corrupt press