NB Podcast

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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."

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?

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."

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…

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.) 

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.

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.

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.…

The Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit against Fox News has uncovered an embarrassing collection of messages underlining that Fox's owner and stars had contempt for wild claims about Trump winning the 2020 election, but aired lawyers like Sidney Powell, who pledged to "release the Kraken" of truth....that never arrived. Conservative journalists and conservative media critics and conservative…

With CPAC on the horizon, Managing Editor Curtis Houck and I dive into the liberal media’s hostility to the lab leak theory for COVID-19’s origin and how they’re now blaming former President Trump’s criticism of China for rejecting it.