NB Podcast

Is CNN toast in 2025? Is MSNBC going to flounder? They're nervous on the Left about the legacy media being replaced by podcasters and the like. But if the usual pattern holds, the leftist base of these networks will return once Trump is inaugurated. We can hope they'll have a small audience in the long run if they're sticking to leftist propaganda. 

Some media outlets aren’t interesting in wishing you a Merry Christmas. They use the occasion to suggest the Christmas story is bunk. But taxpayer-funded NPR will eagerly promote a pagan "High Priestex" at the Winter Solstice.

How will the latest shutdown showdown end? The media always use the threat of shutdowns to paint Republicans as heartless budget slashers, and that's especially fun for them at Christmas time. They paint federal employees as too broke to buy a Christmas tree.  Paul Teller of Advancing American Freedom talks about hopes for restricting federal spending in 2025 and beyond.

The Left was enraged that ABC News settled a defamation lawsuit with Donald Trump by agreeing to donate $15 million to a Trump “presidential foundation and museum” over George Stephanopoulos repeatedly claiming in a March interview that Trump was found “liable for rape.” That's not accurate. But cable "news" partisans shrieked about Trump's "authoritarian playbook." Like suing a media outlet…

During what’s supposed to be a slow time of year for major political stories, NewsBusters has been kept on their toes. Managing Editor Curtis Houck and I are dodging leftist assassins and buzzing drones on this episode in which they chat about the liberal media’s yearning love affair with the assassin of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, the media's reaction to the mysterious drones over…

The liberal ladies of ABC’s The View were not enthused by President-elect Trump being named TIME magazine’s Person of the Year of a second time. Amid lazy notations that “Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler” were also on the cover, Friday moderator Joy Behar lashed out at voters for electing Trump and declared that they were “misinformed” about their quality of life under the…

CNN sunk to a new low as fill-in host Audie Cornish implied subway "vigilante" Daniel Penny was no different than Luigi Mangione, the alleged murderer of UnitedHealthCare CEO Brian Thompson. Scott Jennings pushed back, sensibly suggesting that Penny was the good guy, and Mangione was the bad guy.

Donald Trump accepted an interview request from NBC Meet the Press host Kristen Welker, and once again she incessantly interrupted and "fact checked" the president-elect. Jorge Bonilla reviews all that was asked and answered. He called it a "showcase for her blatant deceptions."

CNN analyst Scott Jennings filled in for Salem Radio talk show host Mike Gallagher this week, and one of the most interesting interviews was with Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, the billionaire owner of the Los Angeles Times. He divulged to Jennings he’s privately developing a "bias meter," a new AI-powered technology to enhance the balance of the news stories at his paper.

Would you like to imagine The New York Times publishing an email your mother sent you telling you you’re a terrible spouse? That's what happened to Pete Hegseth, and his mother. They will use notes that were supposed to be private for their own political gain. 

After months of Biden and his press aides denying the president would pardon his son Hunter, when he went back on his word, the media didn’t want to say he “lied.” It was an “about face” or “a reversal from promises he made during the campaign.” They played up the “very close” family ties and proclaimed it a “poignant” moment. Managing editor Curtis Houck talks about what he found on CNN.

PolitiFact co-founder Bill Adair is still doing liberal-media interviews for his book on why Republicans lie more. He admitted to a public-radio host that the "Truth-O-Meter" is an imprecise, subjective measurement. Everything about the "independent fact-checkers" is loaded with partisan opinion.

This week, illegal alien Jose Ibarra was convicted of the murder of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley. PBS and NPR have aired next to nothing on Riley over the last 6 months. Curtis Houck and Bill D'Agostino explain their studies of broadcast and cable news coverage of the Laken Riley trial. 

Washington Examiner columnist David Harsanyi's new book The Rise of Blue-Anon underlines that the conspiracy theories on the Democrat side are not on the fringes. They come from the very center of the party establishment and the one-party media. Like MSNBC's Michael Beschloss suggesting your kids will be killed if Republicans win.