Media Reality Check

Savannah Guthrie is NO fan of Donald Trump, and if her recent attacks on him are an indicator — look for the NBC Today show co-host to pepper the President with nasty questions at tonight’s townhall event.

In lieu of the now-cancelled presidential debate, ABC and NBC tonight will host town hall gatherings with President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden. If fairness still counts for anything in 2020 (which we know is asking a lot), those networks will treat each candidate similarly to how they treated their rivals in previous town hall sessions.

With Barrett’s hearings beginning today, we here at NewsBusters decided to take a quick look back at how hard celebrities first took the news of her nomination. Just imagine where their heads will be once Barrett is actually confirmed.

Just when you thought the Hollywood Left couldn’t go lower they do, as they cheered and celebrated Donald Trump getting COVID, with actress Jane Fonda even actually thanking God for the virus. The following is a Top 20 countdown of the most obnoxious outbursts from celebrities over the past month.

As Vice President Mike Pence and Senator Kamala Harris get ready to debate tonight, we at NewsBusters thought it would be helpful to remind our readers of the stark contrast in how the press has treated both VP candidates. The following are worst attacks on Pence followed by the media’s love of Harris, as culled from the MRC’s archives: 

The following is a Top 12 countdown of the gross gloating by liberal journalist of Trump’s coronavirus diagnosis.

The following is a top 10 countdown of just some of the most outrageous bias by lefty journalists over the last month.

The following is a top 12 countdown of the most disgusting and outrageous takes by left-wing journalists of Trump’s first 2020 debate performance against Biden.

Four years ago, the liberal networks pounded Republican nominee Donald Trump with bad press, yet he won the White House anyway. Now, ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts are giving Trump the same hostile treatment, but they’ve significantly softened their approach to Trump’s Democratic opponent, former Vice President Joe Biden.

While journalists today loudly criticize Republicans as hypocrites for moving forward on replacing the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a trip through the Media Research Center’s archives shows the liberal media are also exhibiting more than their fair share of hypocrisy. Four years ago, when Republican leader Mitch McConnell would not permit a Senate vote on a liberal replacement to…

The following are the worst reactions (so far) by liberal journalists and celebrities in the wake of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s passing. 

MRC analysts looked at 33 days of ABC’s World News Tonight, CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News programs from August 13 (when Israel and the United Arab Emirates announced they were establishing full diplomatic relations) to September 15 (the joint signing ceremony of the Abraham Accords between Israel-UAE-Bahrain at the White House) and found just brief hiccups of…

One of the closest congressional contests in 2020 is the race for Utah’s 4th district, pitting freshman Democrat Rep. Ben McAdams against former NFL player and businessman Burgess Owens. The district's newspaper, The Deseret News, has created a favorable environment for the Democratic candidate and his message, even as it repeatedly hammers the Republican on an array of personal…

A Bob Woodward book with so-called embarrassing details about a Republican president is like catnip for the DC/NY media crowd. Even before its official release, liberal hosts and reporters were lapping up the leaks from Rage.