NB Podcast

It's a different era. This president can scowl at (conservative) reporter questions and call them dumb, and now it's not an authoritarian moment. Jim Acosta doesn't try to rend his garments like he's in a summer production of Jesus Christ Superstar.

We counted 291 minutes of Trump indictment coverage on ABC, CBS, and NBC over four days. But as usual there were zero seconds of the latest allegations that Joe and Hunter Biden took bribes from corrupt Ukrainians at Burisma. "Ten percent for the Big Guy" remains largely untouched by the Big Three.

Regardless of the final result of Donald Trump's indictment over classified documents, it feels like the Jack Smith prosecution Is Mueller the Sequel, that the prosecution is the purpose, regardless of the eventual verdict. Trump scandals get thousands of minutes, and Biden scandals get zero seconds. Media editor Bill D'Agostino has a new video on why the GOP shouldn't let NBC moderate debates…

"Public" broadcasting is for liberals. PBS and the Voice of America offered softball questions to Biden on his Pride Month activities at the White House. NPR set up House Democrat leader Hakeem Jeffries to denounce "extreme MAGA Republicans," and attacked the "far right" on election integrity.

CNN CEO Chris Licht is out. But was he ever really in? Or did his predecessor Jeff Zucker still rule the radical roost? Licht was savaged for a "non-existent vision" of restoring some balance and fairness. The Zucker camp deeply admired themselves and their ranty editorializing, confusing it with "truth" and "facts."

Chuck Todd announced he's going to leave NBC's Meet the Press. Did he leave voluntarily? Was he pushed? There's one thing we know: It's hilarious when he claims he's been all about the facts.

How do House Republicans negotiate on a debt ceiling when the media so blatantly favor the other party? Our research guru Rich Noyes has been digging into months of evening news coverage of the Republicans and Democrats on the debt-limit debate, and on how the two parties are portrayed on taxpayer-funded PBS.

Using Freedom of Information Act requests, the MRC's Free Speech America division discovered Biden’s Department of Homeland Security is handing out “anti-terrorism” grants to colleges that are funding “media literacy” warnings about conservatives, even smearing us in with the Nazis in a “Pyramid of Far-Right Radicalization.”

Washington Post political reporter Ben Terris is promoting his new book and reminded people on Twitter that he asked Sen. Tim Scott if he was still a virgin -- apparently in 2012 -- because when he was younger, he promoted abstinence until marriage. Liberal reporters don't ask trolling sex-life questions to Bill Clinton or Kamala Harris, so why Tim Scott?

NBC is a national news network. So why would it skip House GOP hearings into the FBI, and obsess instead over small-town right-wing school board members pushing a "dangerous" curriculum? It's liberal bias.

An easy way to discover how the media favor Democrats is from the treatment of embarrassing gaffes by Senators Feinstein and Fetterman. The same media outlets that constantly questioned Donald Trump's mental fitness are acting very gentle and protective around their favorite partisans.

The conservative media keep reporting on Hunter Biden scandals, but the liberal networks from ABC to PBS just keep aerobically running away from doing any journalism on the president and his wayward son. It's like they're all incredibly pessimistic about what would happen if they did any of their own digging. 

It was a banner week for bias. Media liberals were outraged at CNN's Trump town hall (including CNN liberals), but it was a sad rerun. Meanwhile, James Comer's press conference on the latest Biden family finance scandals was overwhelmingly ignored by Democrat-enabling journalists.

The Sunday surprise on CNN was Jake Tapper shaming Sen. Dick Durbin on how the Democrats haven't forced out Sen. Dianne Feinstein so they can get liberal judges confirmed. Sister Toldjah of RedState explains how Tapper sounded hyperpartisan and Durbin was more reasonable.