ABC Settles With Trump, to Pay $15 Million Towards Future Library
ABC News and President-elect Donald Trump reached a $15 million settlement on Saturday after This Week host George Stephanopoulos falsely accused Trump of being found "liable for rape" in the E. Jean Carroll case.
The Media and the Lie That Was the Duke Lacrosse Coverage
Well isn’t this interesting. A headline this week: The Victim Involved in the Infamous Duke Lacrosse Players Sexual Assault Case Admits She Lied
New Media Mocks Hunter Biden While Late Night Sleeps
Hunter Biden is a gift late-night comedians refuse to open.
Ruhle Ties Celebrating Murder To Taking Daniel Penny To Army-Navy Game
By her own admission, MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle was making a bad analogy on Friday’s edition of The 11th Hour when she tried to compare the reaction to the murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson to the reaction to Daniel Penny’s acquittal of manslaughter after he subdued a threat to fellow New York City subway riders. However, Ruhle still tried to make the analogy work as she…
PBS Mourns Wray 'Allowed' Trump 'To Shatter Yet Another Norm'
The cast of Friday’s PBS News Hour was displeased with FBI Director Christopher Wray for resigning before Donald Trump could fire him because “he allowed Donald Trump to shatter yet another norm without imposing any cost.” Throughout the entire discussion, there was no thought given to the idea that there is something about the FBI that needs fixing.v
CNN Accused of Misleading Court on Discloser of Financial Documents
As NewsBusters previously reported back in September, Judge William Scott Henry ordered CNN to comply with financial discovery in the $1 billion defamation suit against them and turn over documents related to net worth and cash flow, among others. The order was further supported in October when he cleared the way for CNN’s parent company, Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) to be subpoenaed for…
Networks Go All Out to Paint Trump as Admitting He Can’t Fix Groceries
Between Thursday night and Friday morning, ABC, CBS, and NBC used their flagship morning and evening newscasts to promote a disinformation campaign first launched by The Bulwark’s Sam Stein to use President-Elect Trump’s comments about grocery prices to argue he can’t and won’t improve the lives of struggling Americans.
Reid Claims Trump Is 'In The Same Category' As Hitler, Stalin, Putin
As President-elect Donald Trump celebrated being named Time magazine’s person of the year for 2024, MSNBC’s Joy Reid tried to throw cold water on the occasion by pointing out that not everyone who has won the award historically has done so because they made the world a better place. The ReidOut host claimed “we all know” which side Trump is on, and it is the one with “Adolf…
Jacqui Time Drops Hammer on WH’s Evasive Answers to Mysterious Drones
Thursday’s White House press briefing featured longtime Democratic national security flack John Kirby for what’ll likely be one of his final times at the podium and he had quite the task to insist the Biden administration rejects that a hostile foreign actor or UFOs are behind the drones harassing residents in New Jersey, New York, and now surrounding states, but they still have no clue who’s…
Meyers Wonders How Voters Could Chose Trump Amid His Wall Street Trip
President-elect Donald Trump rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange after being named Time’s person of the year on Thursday, and NBC’s Late Night host Seth Meyers was not happy about it. Meyers claimed the whole thing proved Trump’s attempts to appeal to working people are fraudulent and claimed it was “frustrating” that voters fell for it.
CNN’s Gloating With Fox News Settlement Biting Them in Defamation Case
Following the $787 million defamation settlement between Fox News and Dominion Voting Systems in 2023, CNN did a lot of gloating and spiking the ball as they used it as a cudgel to attack the credibility of their cable news rival. But that celebration seems to have come back to bite them as U.S. Navy veteran and Plaintiff Zachary Young won a motion, on Thursday, to cite CNN’s coverage as…
Daily Shows Mocks Hegseth's Pledge Not To Drink, GOP For Believing Him
Comedy Central’s Michael Kosta used The Daily Show’s penultimate episode of 2024 to mock Secretary of Defense-designate Pete Hegseth’s pledge not to drink if confirmed and ridiculed any Senate Republican who believes him.
‘What Type of Country?’ The View Ignorant of U.S. Gun-Making Tradition
In the wake of the arrest of the left-wing assassin who killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, it was reportedly discovered that he used a 3D-printed, so-called “ghost gun.” Never letting a good crisis go to waste, on Tuesday, The View wanted to exploit the situation to push for gun control. ABC News co-hosts Joy Behar and Sunny Hostin demanded a crackdown on homemade firearms…
ABC, NBC Punt on Inflation Report Showing Biden Economy Sputtering
On Wednesday and Thursday, ABC and NBC have omitted from their flagship morning and evening newscasts the Wednesday morning release of the November inflation report (known as the Consumer Price Index) that showed the Biden economy coming to an end on a sputtering note with a jump in prices of 2.7 percent from this time a year ago. With the Federal Reserve and economists having hoped inflation…
