NB Podcast

On this episode of the NewsBusters Podcast, Managing Editor Curtis Houck and I examine the media's scattered coverage of President Biden's constitutionally dubious student loan bailouts as different factions voice outrage. We also speak with NewsBusters research director Scott Whitlock about the lack of coverage of the anniversary of the botch withdrawal from Afghanistan, which killed 13…

On this edition of the NewsBusters Podcast, Managing Editor Curtis Houck and I breakdown a new NewsBusters study of the media’s silence about how Census Bureau errors largely hurt red state representation. We also look at Snopes playing word games with misleading “fact checks” about lies against Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) and more on Brian Stelter leaving CNN.

Video editor Bill D’Agostino and I were at the helm for boss Tim Graham for Monday’s show, which we hit the ground running on by reminiscing Brian Stelter’s infamous tenure at CNN and breaking down the final episode of Reliable Sources.

CNN followed through on its threats to dismiss some fervently biased personalities. Brian Stelter''s "brand" was too toxically anti-Trump? We review some scraps between Stelter and NewsBusters and laugh at the lefties who think Stelter's dismissal is "a win for all the wrong people." Who will be next?

Rep. Liz Cheney was clobbered by 37 points in her Wyoming Republican primary, but the media broke out their praises as she compared herself to Lincoln and Ulysses Grant. They asked her if she would run for president in 2024, ignoring all proof that she drove her political car off a cliff. Scott Whitlock joins the show to assess the contrast between today's Glorious Liz and yesterday's Odious…

In the wake of the FBI raid on Trump's Florida home, liberal journalists are turning to "extremism experts," "violence researchers," and "scholars" to support their narrative that hot right-wing talk about the raid is going to lead to violence, and connect it to the shooter outside the FBI office in Cincinnati. But who are these experts? Democrats, progressives, and Obama advisers, presented…

As the networks try to present Merrick Garland as reasonable and nonpartisan, Wall Street Journal columnist Kimberly Strassel predicts that if Republicans take Congress, "The Payback Will Be Brutal."

Biden's Attorney General approved an unprecedented raid on a former president's home, and we still don't know why. The newscasts are mostly calm, but not so for the Colberts and Scarboroughs.

The Senate passing a pared-down climate and health-care spending bill inspired all kinds of aggressive sales language from the network "news" manufacturers. It was sold as huge and tremendously consequential to make Biden look good. 

The New York Times reported on the front page of its Business section on Wednesday that CNN's ratings are terrible and their financial picture looks rough. But reporter Benjamin Mullin wrote absolutely nothing about the network's liberal tilt, or losing its daily fearmongering about Donald Trump. Meanwhile, Fox was touting strong ratings for July.

Washington Post Magazine columnist Damon Young wrote about the panic he and his wife had when his six-year-old daughter played for a few days with a white doll. They were triggered! The column was titled "Someone gave our daughter a White doll. How do we, um, ‘disappear’ it?"

When the fact emerged that we've had two quarters of negative economic growth, marking a recession, the so-called "reality-based press" suddenly folded and let the Biden people "push back" at reality.

NewsBusters Podcast: Jill Biden's Flack Hits the Road, Jack 

MRC Latino has accomplished several attention-getting items in recent days. "Tacogate" ended with Jill Biden's press secretary Michael LaRosa putting in his walking papers, adding to a large outflow of White House communications staffers in the first year and a half of the Biden presidency. On a serious note, the disturbing…

In a maddening round of Sunday interviews, network anchors gushed all over Al Gore and Liz Cheney, and each were asked if they would run for president. Gore compared "climate deniers" to Uvalde cops, and Chuck Todd didn't blink. Instead, he made three false statements, arguing Americans were all on one side on abortion, guns, and climate.