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ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, and MSNBC all avoided mentioning a Reuters story on a July phone call between President Biden and then-Afghanistan president Ashraf Ghani where Biden implored Ghani to project the perception of victory over the Taliban, whether it was "true or not."

With a torrent of news to discuss about the disastrous U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, weekday evening/Sunday morning analyst Nick “Night Train” Fondacaro and I had plenty to talk about on Wednesday’s episode of the NewsBusters podcast. We first dove into litany of liberal journalists that have provided admirable and stinging coverage holding the Biden administration to account on…

As the American war effort in Afghanistan ended, the news environment for President Biden is bad right now, but it could be a lot worse. Imagine how the press would react if all this happened after President Trump had won a second term. Every crying war widow and dissenting colonel would be magnified intensely.

Since the news from Afghanistan has been so negative, critics on the Left have tried to suggest the media are far too negative with President Biden. One article in New York magazine even tried to argue "Why the Media Is Worse for Biden Than Trump."

On the latest NewsBusters Podcast, we discuss the media's temperamental use of polling results. They have a tendency to highlight polls that underline the narratives and candidates they like, but tend to bury poll results they don't like and don't match their talking points. On Sunday, Meet the Press host Chuck Todd found some negatives for Biden in the latest NBC News poll, but those…

On the latest NewsBusters Podcast, we begin with the question: when the news heavily suggests that everything is fine in America, what's missing from the news? Republicans, first and foremost, or anyone who would strongly question Biden's hold on reality. The press was pretty rough with Biden as Afghanistan quickly collapsed to the vicious Taliban, but people like Brian Stelter complained the…

On the latest NewsBusters Podcast, we notice that the late-night "comedians" aren't willing to roast President Biden for the debacle in Afghanistan. In fact, NBC's Seth Meyers praised Biden as the "salty grandpa" who can tell us what we didn't want to hear, that all we needed to get out. Stephen Colbert on CBS changed the subject to anti-vaxxer crazies in California, smearing them over…

White House press secretary Jen Psaki has her detractors -- and she obviously has a devoted pack of fanboys and fangirls. The leftist website MeidasTouch sells "Psaki Bomb" T-shirts, sweatshirts and mugs.

On the latest NewsBusters Podcast: The Monday morning shows were a bad neighborhood for Team Biden. "Saigon on steroids," proclaimed normally supportive George Stephanopoulos on ABC. NBC's Savannah Guthrie pressed Biden national security adviser Jake Sullivan on how Biden insisted there would be no dramatic collapse of the Afghan government. And our latest study showed the networks skipping…

Now that Meghan McCain has exited the stage at ABC's The View, some TV critics are looking back at her tenure. Washington Post TV critic Inkoo Kang concluded she was a feisty asset for the show...as "a highly effective heel, a love-to-hate reality villain who brought a badly needed wild-card energy to the show." To many people to the right of Joy Behar, she was the hero, not…

In the Cuomo Prime Time slot the evening before Andrew Cuomo resigned in New York, CNN devoted an hour to the special Being... AOC. CNN's Dana Bash energetically celebrated the uncompromising (socialist) confidence of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Bash asked AOC what it was like being so rudely abused by Fox News, and how criticism of her in the conservative media is based on…

Glenn Kessler, the chief "Fact Checker" at The Washington Post, was exposed as he attempted a hit piece on Chris Rufo, the leading critic of Critical Race Theory, He asserted to one potential source on LinkedIn that Rufo was ripping her off and her anonymous tipster. Then he got exposed, and had to give up the "fact check." Facts weren't helpful.

The Washington Post has "honored" Fox White House reporter Peter Doocy by highlighting his exchanges with Biden press secretary Jen Psaki in the briefing room. Doocy gets "fact checked" by media reporter Paul Farhi...but in 2018, Farhi and the Post didn't check on CNN's Jim Acosta as he told them he was all about the facts, not about damaging Trump.

The New York Attorney General's report on sexual harassment by Gov. Andrew Cuomo included new details into how extensively CNN prime-time host Chris Cuomo advised his brother. CNN seems to have no problem with this massive conflict of interest.