CIA Is Attempting to Block Navy Vet from Telling CNN Defamation Story

June 26th, 2026 6:16 PM

As NewsBusters was first to report last December, Navy veteran Zachary Young, the man who took CNN to court for malicious defamation and won, was set to release a memoir titled American Spy co-written by American Sniper author Scott McEwen. It would heavily describe CNN’s defamation from his perspective. But new information obtained by NewsBusters is that the Central…

WashPost: Trump Killing Pool ‘Doesn’t Reflect Well on Democracy’

June 26th, 2026 5:26 PM

Because he’s not a cable TV fixture, Washington Post arts and architecture critic Philip Kennicott can fly under the radar as one of the most unhinged sufferers of Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS). But stories like one that ran in Thursday’s print edition illustrated his TDS as he raged about Trump “disturb[ing]” the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, “one of the most serene places” in…

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[UPDATE] The Media Have Wasted Almost 10 HOURS on the Reflecting Pool

June 26th, 2026 4:28 PM

The news media’s obsession with the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting pool has continued apace. Earlier this week, we found that TV news had spent almost seven hours on the story in just the past nine days. As of Friday morning June 25, that total has reached almost ten hours across left-wing cable (CNN and MSNBC) and broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC).

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Joy Behar: 'We Should All Be' 'Embarrassed to Be an American'

June 26th, 2026 3:34 PM

Joy Behar probably wasn’t a big fan of Lee Greenwood’s music, because during Friday’s The View, she lashed out at the country who made her a multimillionaire and admitted she was “embarrassed” to an American. Not only did she double down on that comment, but she also proclaimed “we should all be” “embarrassed” to be Americans.

'SHE' Wanted to Kill: WashPost Goes Soft on Foiled Kavanaugh Assassin

June 26th, 2026 3:28 PM

The Washington Post provided the latest update on a foiled transgender assassin on Tuesday. The headline: “She got eight years for plotting to kill Justice Kavanaugh. Prosecutors want more.” The only problem: “she” was a dude during his violent plotting and then pleading guilty. It took them 26 paragraphs to report it was "Nicholas Roske" who they arrested.

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CNN Laments SCOTUS Immigration Ruling in Wake of Venezuela Earthquakes

June 26th, 2026 3:03 PM

On Friday’s CNN This Morning, after the Supreme Court’s ruling on Thursday that allowed the Trump administration to revoke temporary legal status, as in the cases of Haitians and Syrians, host Audie Cornish connected the ruling to the Venezuelan earthquake. Rob Bluey thought the decision was sound, but Lulu Garcia-Navarro claimed: “What is this about, if not about racial animus?”

Already?! MSNOW Axes Weekend Evening Show, Adds More Taped Podcasts

June 26th, 2026 1:10 PM

Despite having launched November 15 when it chose to identify as MS NOW, the artist formerly known as MSNBC has been making programming changes with a March announcement about a daytime overhaul and now word on Friday from Variety’s Brian Steinberg about its weekend shows. Incredibly, two shows and six hours are being wiped out in favor of more taped podcasts.

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Morning Joe RIPS Trump's Smithsonian 'Takeover' -- Obama-Biden, Hello?

June 26th, 2026 11:27 AM

In their new book, "Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump," New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan devote considerable attention to the Trump administration’s efforts to influence Smithsonian exhibits. On a Morning Joe segment today, Haberman misleadingly framed it as Trump and his allies “wanting to leave their imprint on what art Americans can see…

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PBS Pushes 'The Queer Face of War: Portraits and Stories from Ukraine'

June 26th, 2026 10:15 AM

PBS’s (formerly taxpayer funded) News Hour program had some news you could use Tuesday evening -- a monologue from J. Lester Feder, the author of The Queer Face of War: Portraits and Stories from Ukraine. Co-host Geoff Bennett touted a "conversation, but it was actually a four-minute leftist monologue interspersed with shots of trans people.

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Morning Joe Downplays DSA’s Rise, Makes Fun of Chevalier Policies

June 26th, 2026 9:03 AM

In more of the aftermath of Democratic Socialist victories in New York City primaries, Thursday’s Morning Joe downplayed the rise of the DSA in Democratic politics, alike to many others in the media. While some of the show’s panelists…

The Feminist Fashionistas Uncork Ugliness Against Usha Vance

June 26th, 2026 5:50 AM

One way our nation’s most “prestigious” newspapers show they’re Democrat Party propaganda sheets is when their fashion critics apply all of their tawdry partisan biases to their evaluations of the clothes of politicians (or their spouses). Vanessa Friedman of The New York Times went after Usha Vance and how "MAGA women aren't hiding their pregnancy?" Why should they? 

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WEIRD: Networks OMIT Landmark Gun Rights Ruling from SCOTUS Roundups

June 26th, 2026 12:59 AM

In a weird case of bias by omission, the broadcast network newscasts all neglected to cover a landmark gun rights ruling by the Supreme Court, even as they all did roundups covering the several decisions handed down. Instead, they whined about the two opinions that bolstered the Trump administration’s immigration policies.

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NewsBusters Podcast: Sanitizing the Hateful Mamdani-Endorsed Radicals

June 25th, 2026 10:45 PM

When radical socialist nuts endorsed by New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani won their House primaries (in overwhelmingly Democrat districts), the "news" networks responded by sanitizing their extremism. For example, their support for Hamas and for eradicating Israel means believing “the U.S. relationship with Israel needs to be rethought.”  

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MS NOW Puffs New York DSA Radicals, Helps Them Downplay Extremism

June 25th, 2026 10:00 PM

NYC has a much more alarming meaning after the Democratic primaries this week: New York Communists. Among those victorious Democrats were Claire Valdez and Darializa Avila Chevalier, both of whom were endorsed by the organization Democratic Socialists of America and Mayor Mamdani. MS NOW’s Wednesday evening shows All In with Chris Hayes and The 11th Hour with Ali Velshi