NewsBusters Podcast: The Media Obsess Over the Trump Indictment

April 5th, 2023 10:32 PM

The media's Trump obsession overflowed on Arraignment Day in New York City. They loved analyzing Trump's grumpiness, but they didn't love the actual indictment. Nick Fondacaro joins the show to discuss all the video tweets we put out to analyze the events.

NewsBusters Podcast: 'Fact Checkers' Sound More Like Fact Shamers'

April 3rd, 2023 10:11 PM

The liberal media's "fact checkers" are furiously spinning how you shouldn't say Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg is "Soros-backed," even though that is a fact. Washington Post fact-finagling scold Glenn Kessler claims "the intense focus on Soros is misplaced."

NewsBusters Podcast: PBS 'Snooze Hour' Tilts Bigly to the Left

March 29th, 2023 10:23 PM

The PBS NewsHour has an undeserved reputation as "straight news," or boring news. But a new MRC study of four months of the show's guests found a dramatic tilt to the Left -- 126 liberals/Democrats to 34 conservatives/Republicans. Clay Waters joins the show to explain his findings, and how PBS can sound a lot like MSNBC.

NewsBusters Podcast: CNN Invents Racism of 'Digital Blackface'

March 27th, 2023 10:35 PM

CNN.com posted a bizarre article by John Blake that accused whites who post GIFs or memes of blacks like Tyra Banks or Michael Jordan are engaging in racist behavior. "You may be wearing digital blackface." Or CNN may be inventing new methods of finding "inadvertent" racism.

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MSNBC Claims GOP Education Bills Are A Return To White Nationalism

March 25th, 2023 11:52 AM

On Friday’s edition of MSNBC’s The 11th, guest host Mehdi Hasan and pseudo-Republican David Jolly showed a strong aversion to facts as the former spread some fake news about GOP education bills and the former claimed that those bills signify a return to white nationalism.

NewsBusters Podcast: Uncovering the Media Mess with Steve Krakauer

March 24th, 2023 8:11 PM

Steve Krakauer has worked at CNN, NBC, Fox News, and The Blaze, but now he's in demand as a media critic. He has a new book out titled Uncovered: How the Media Got Cozy with Power, Abandoned Its Principles, and Lost the People. On today's podcast, we explore how the press came unglued in the tumult of Trump. 

NewsBusters Podcast: There Was No Neocon Press Parade

March 22nd, 2023 11:05 PM

On the 20th anniversary of the start of the Iraq War, NewsBusters is determined to rebut the silly leftist allegation that the "mainstream media" were Bush-Cheney lackeys who never threw tough questions before and during war in Iraq. Bill Moyers of PBS even claimed the media resembled a cult engaged in a "collective Jonestown-like suicide."

NewsBusters Podcast: Let the Trump In Jail Speculation Commence!

March 20th, 2023 10:12 PM

Over the weekend, Donald Trump proclaimed on Truth Social he would be indicted by a Manhattan grand jury, leading to many hours of speculation about how the walls were closing in again. The network Sunday shows did almost 47 minutes on the topic, and zero seconds on the latest Biden family cash-grabs from China. Who exactly is the president now?

NewsBusters Podcast: Biden-Shielding Omissions and Joy Reid Emissions

March 17th, 2023 11:09 PM

The network news this week did a lot of hiding new details on the Biden family influence-peddling business, while Jen Psaki inspired laugh riots by saying MSNBC has a very high standard with facts uttered on air. Kevin Tober joins the show and we run through Joy Reid's wacky outbursts of the week that would disturb an actual "independent fact-checker."

NewsBusters Podcast: Big Tech Mangling of COVID, Climate, and Hunter

March 15th, 2023 10:41 PM

The "misinformation" police in Big Tech (and its affiliated "fact checkers") have squashed entire story lines in the last three years, from COVID and its origins in Wuhan to Hunter Biden's laptop to the rebuttals of "climate deniers." MRC Free Speech America chief Dan Schneider joins the show to discuss these topics, the "Christchurch Call to Action," and the broader strokes of Western…

NewsBusters Podcast: Oscar Bait and Media 'Amplifying Hate'

March 13th, 2023 11:08 PM

Sunday night's Oscars show in Hollywood had some fun with CNN morning host Don Lemon, with Best Actress winner Michelle Yeoh telling women "never let them say you're past your prime." Meanwhile, ex-CNN host was leading a panel at the South by Southwest conference in Texas on how to fix the media that are "amplifying hate." (Let's guess they mean Fox.) 

NewsBusters Podcast: Journalism In a Post-Truth World

March 10th, 2023 10:54 PM

The Catholic cable network EWTN and Franciscan University are holding a journalism conference on Friday and Saturday in DC. I was invited to bring our perspective to how media bias distorts the news. Despite naming our website NewsBusters, we want to be pro-journalism, but so much of the media-elite product isn't reporting as much as it is messaging.

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NewsBusters Podcast: The Media Can't Handle the Tucker Clips

March 8th, 2023 10:20 PM

The unglued freakout over Fox host Tucker Carlson airing Capitol Police clips of the January 6 riot underlines that the Left cannot stand any attempt to undercut the Pelosi-Picked Plotline. Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer told Rupert Murdoch he shouldn't allow Carlson to air a second night of January 6 counter-testimony.

NewsBusters Podcast: Democrats and Media Going Soft on Crime

March 6th, 2023 10:21 PM

Whether it's in Washington, DC or Atlanta, the media struggle with upsetting the far left on crime and policing. Reporters relayed the anger at President Biden for agreeing with Republicans that the DC City Council revision of the criminal code was unacceptable. The allegedly anti-rioter media struggles with Antifa hotheads throwing Molotov cocktails at an Atlanta police training facility.…