Fact-Check Your News, Question Major Media Reports, Americans Agree

February 18th, 2026 10:11 AM

Americans universally agree that people should fact-check media reports, rather than simply trust what they’re being told – and half say they don’t even need to follow the news to stay informed – according to newly-released results of a Pew Research survey.

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Colbert: CBS Knows 'Damn Well' They Banned Talarico Interview

February 18th, 2026 9:53 AM

On Monday, CBS’s Stephen Colbert alleged that the network forbade him from airing an interview with Texas Senate candidate James Talarico over concerns about a potential FCC equal time rule violation. On Tuesday, CBS denied the allegation and said The Late Show was not prohibited from airing the interview but gave Colbert advice on how equal time could be fulfilled, but The Late…

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HUH? ‘MAGA-Coded’ CBS Evening News OMITS Trans Pawtucket Shooter

February 18th, 2026 1:05 AM

The media hall monitors keep telling us that the Bari Weiss-run CBS Evening News is “MAGA-coded”. It isn’t, but this is the way they signal vice amongst themselves. The reality contains much more than meets the eye. Case in point, the Evening News’ blatant omission of new details in the Pawtucket mass shooting.

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ABC the ONLY Nightly Newscast to Report Illegal Alien Killing GA Woman

February 17th, 2026 10:02 PM

It is now time for our latest installment in a long-running series of Elitist Media nightly newscast omissions of horrific crimes committed by illegal aliens. We take cold comfort in reporting that tonight’s omission is a partial one.

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New CNN Doc Says ‘Christian Nationalism’ Radical After Kirk Death

February 17th, 2026 8:47 PM

During Tuesday’s The Situation Room, co-anchor Pamela Brown teased her new documentary on the rise of ‘Christian Nationalism’ in which she correlated the Assassination of Charlie Kirk as a turning point that ‘unified’ the group with the Trump Administration. She portrayed the situation as a brewing threat to the country, complete with ominous soundtrack.

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Hysteria, Not History: CBS Giddy Over Historian Meacham Trashing Trump

February 17th, 2026 7:02 PM

In CBS Mornings’s latest example of officially partnering with a liberal partisan to sell books, Tuesday’s show embarrassingly fangirled over liberal historian Jon Meacham’s latest tome and voicing agreement to claim America is facing a “moral crisis” requiring the greatest level of citizenship since the 1850s because there is an “authoritarian” in Donald Trump “galloping at the…

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CBS: No, We Didn’t Ban Colbert from Broadcasting Candidate’s Interview

February 17th, 2026 4:57 PM

“THE LATE SHOW was not prohibited by CBS from broadcasting the interview with Rep. James Talarico,” CBS said in a statement Tuesday after the show’s host, Stephen Colbert, claimed he was told he could not air his interview with the Democrat candidate.

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POLL RESULTS: Worst Media Quote of the Week Winner!

February 17th, 2026 4:02 PM

POLL RESULTS: Worst Media Quote of the Week Winner!

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ABC Downplays, CBS Barely Covers Rhode Island Shooting by Trans Psycho

February 17th, 2026 3:45 PM

On Monday afternoon in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, there was sadly the latest case of trangender violence inflicted on innocents refusing to celebrate their deranged life choices and rejection of basic biology as a man pretending to be a woman stormed his son’s high school hockey game and killed two, injuring three, and dying by suicide. By Tuesday morning when these facts had come to light, ABC’…

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Goldberg Addresses Request of Epstein’s Jet, Badly Fumbles Explanation

February 17th, 2026 2:44 PM

Two weeks after NewsBusters broke the story that ABC News moderator Whoopi Goldberg, was not only referenced in the Epstein files but also seemingly, requested to borrow Jeffery Epstein’s private jet to get to a charity event for The White Feather Foundation. Never addressing why HIS jet was requested, the rest of the cast of The View came to Goldberg’s defense, claiming she didn’t…

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Late Night Hosts Haven't Interviewed a GOP Candidate Since 2016

February 17th, 2026 2:44 PM

On Monday, CBS’s host of The Late Show, Stephen Colbert, denounced FCC chairman Brendan Carr for threatening to use the agency’s equal time rule against the late night comedy shows, which he claimed led CBS to force him to put his interview with State Rep. James Talarico on YouTube. With the equal time rule now in the news, NewsBusters analysts dug into the archive to find out when…

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CBS Hectors GOPer on Epstein, Demands to ‘Compromise’ on ICE

February 17th, 2026 12:49 PM

Unlike their January 26 interview with our friend and conservative talk radio host Dana Loesch, Monday’s CBS Mornings brought on House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) for what became seven minutes of hits from the left on the Epstein files, voter integrity, and demands for Republicans “compromis[ing]” to the Democratic position on Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) “reforms.”…

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Oliver Praises Dems' DHS Shutdown, Calls For ICE To Be Eliminated

February 17th, 2026 12:40 PM

HBO’s John Oliver waited until Sunday to kick off the 2026 season of Last Week Tonight and quickly fell in with the rest of the late night comedians in going after ICE. During his denunciation ritual, Oliver would praise Democrats for shutting down the Department of Homeland Security and call for ICE to be defunded and done away with.

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ABC Touts Archuleta Dumping God, LDS Church to ‘Embrace His Sexuality’

February 17th, 2026 11:34 AM

On Monday, ABC’s Good Morning America circled the drain of morality by gushing over former American Idol contestant David Archuleta’s new memoir and its thesis that, in order to truly “accept himself and embrace his sexuality,” he had to “lose his faith” in God and toxicity in the Mormon Church. It came as no surprise that Disney-owned ABC News has little interest in painting faith in…