The Year in Ratings: Fox News Soars, MS NOW Is Down, Down, Down....

December 30th, 2025 3:00 PM

Fox News is on the upswing, while MS NOW and CNN are falling off. It would be unsurprising for "news" networks to lose audience after a presidential campaign year, but Fox's success makes the others look worse. Overall, Fox News scored its highest ratings for the year ever for a non-election year, second only to 2020.

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ABC, NBC Barely Touch Minnesota Fraud, While CBS Delivers the Goods

December 30th, 2025 1:49 PM

While all three big three broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) have covered the widespread cases of social services fraud among Minnesota’s Somali community, the frequency and thoroughness of the coverage has varied widely depending on the network. Before December 29, CBS was the only network to have aired even a single full-length report about the scandal, and as of this study’s publishing…

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Scott Jennings Explodes on Loony Lib Who Compared Israel to Russia

December 30th, 2025 12:52 PM

In a now viral dust up on Monday’s edition of CNN NewsNight, the audience’s favorite Republican commentator Scott Jennings exploded on leftist extremist Emma Vigeland of the so-called Majority Report, for her refusal to condemn Hamas while claiming Israel invaded Gaza like Russia invaded Ukraine. Jennings also called out host Abby Phillip for not allowing a debate against Vigeland’s…

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MS NOW's Mara Gay: Somalis Being 'Scapegoated' Over Minnesota Fraud!

December 30th, 2025 11:24 AM

On Monday's Morning Joe, MS NOW analyst and member of the New York Times editorial board Mara Gay claims that Somalis are being "scapegoated" over welfare-program fraud in Minnesota.

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Time to Retire? 12 Times Behar & Whoopi Were Divorced From Reality

December 30th, 2025 9:30 AM

As the two oldest cast members of The View, moderator Whoopi Goldberg (70) and fill-in moderator Joy Behar (83) hold a lot of sway and authority on the show and among their audience. And as such, ABC News had a special responsibility to ensure that their moderators were not hyperbolic or ridiculous. The guardrails came off in 2025. With the return of President Trump to the White House…

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NewsBusters Podcast: Christian Toto on Comedy, Kimmel, and Rob Reiner

December 30th, 2025 8:57 AM

Did you ever notice the Hollywood Left is never guilty of hate speech? Unleashing your hatred on Donald Trump and his supporters is never subjected to “fact checking” and it’s never a reason to doubt the future of late-night “comedy.” Christian Toto of HollywoodInToto.com reviews the cultural landscape.

New York Magazine Already Fearing Mamdani Could Flop as Mayor

December 30th, 2025 5:45 AM

New York magazine's Intelligencer questions the readiness of NYC Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani, who lacks administrative experience. The article by David Freedlander explores doubts about Mamdani's ability to govern effectively while trying to reassure readers of his potential success. Freedlander's concerns grow as he questions Mamdani's ambitious but potentially conflicting goals for the city…

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CBS Touts GOPers Who Joined Dems Against ‘Ultra Conservative’ Party

December 29th, 2025 4:27 PM

On Monday, CBS Mornings finally found Republicans they liked. The people they celebrated were the so-called “Nasty Nine,” a group of self-described Republicans in Montana’s State Senate who decided to throw their lot in with Democrats and pass their agenda. Of course, CBS framed the story as the nine righteously breaking ranks to stand up against the scary “ultra-conservative caucus…

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The Worst 10 'Fact' Checks Of 2025

December 29th, 2025 2:00 PM

For the fact-checking websites, 2025 marked the end of an era. Back in January, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the company was ending their partnership with websites such as PolitiFact. However, one cannot be 100 percent certain Zuckerberg’s reversal is a purely principled one given President Trump’s return to the White House, so it can be good to remember the worst ten fact-checks of the…

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CBS’s Crawford Stuns Journos, Calls Out Media’s Lies About SCOTUS

December 29th, 2025 12:37 PM

CBS chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford left a panel of liberal journalists in stunned silence during Sunday’s Face the Nation, after she called out the liberal media’s lies about the conservative Supreme Court’s purported “corruption.” She called the media’s narrative “over-reported,” “patently false,” “profoundly irresponsible,” and “dangerous” for the country.

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MS NOW's Jason Johnson: Trump's Strikes on Nigerian Killers Are Racist

December 29th, 2025 12:32 PM

Foxnews.com reported our least favorite journalism professor – Jason Johnson, the MS NOW contributor – appeared on The Weekend on Saturday to suggest Trump-ordered strikes on terrorist on Nigeria are racist. Of course he did. It was "just another opportunity for this administration to engage in violence in a Brown country in order to flex their power."

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Danger to Society: 12 Times The View Used Inciting Rhetoric in 2025

December 29th, 2025 9:45 AM

It’s that time of year again! With ABC’s The View on their winter hiatus (before picking back up again in early January), we at NewsBusters wanted to take a look back at some of the lowlights the show had to offer viewers in 2025. Today, we’ll be looking back at 12 times the liberal ladies used inciting rhetoric to foment hostility and hatred of their political opponents on the right…

NYT, WP Alarmed Over Trump Christmas Messages, But Fine With Biden's

December 29th, 2025 5:45 AM

“Trump Administration Emphasizes Religion in Official Christmas Messages,” a Christmas Day story by New York Times reporter Ashley Ahn, was an exquisite example of the paper’s blatant political double standards, portraying
Team Trump’s religiously themed Christmas messages (imagine that) as a threat to the country’s vaunted “separation of church and state,” while ignoring former…

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MS NOW: We Hate Billionaires, Slap a Ceiling on Their Success!

December 28th, 2025 7:32 PM

Saturday's The Weekend on MS NOW ran a segment that began with clips of Hakeem Jeffries saying the Democrats' philosophy is "strong floor, no ceiling." Jeffries had cribbed that phrase from Oliver Libby, author of a book with that title. The show had Libby on as a guest, and both hosts pushed back against Libby's belief that there should be no ceiling on the success of Americans.