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NPR CEO Katherine Maher came for a 15-minute interview at a Semafor summit on "trust in media," but it was a softball session. Instead of being pressed on NPR's liberal tilt, Semafor reporter Maxwell Tani was incredibly vague: "What have you done in your first year to build or restore trust in NPR?" I was in the room, and suppressed the desire to yell about the answer (and the question).

On Morning Joe, historian, and former occasional Biden speechwriter Jon Meacham, who called the prospective US-Ukraine deal, and by extension Trump, "imperialist."  Joe Scarborough analogized the deal to the Treaty of Versailles, which imposed heavy reparations obligations on Germany for having instigated WWI.

MSNBC’s staggering lack of self-awareness was in rare form Thursday. That night on The 11th Hour, Marty Baron, former executive editor of The Washington Post, opined on the Post’s recent espousal of personal liberty and free market views. Baron was outraged that the paper had taken positions he happened to dislike, and called the move “undemocratic,” suggesting,…

With Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) shifting to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), prepare yourself for the doomcasting to shift in the form of new ways DOGE is going to get Americans killed. As ABC and NBC began to allude to on Thursday night and Friday morning, it’s that weather forecasts will suddenly either become sparse or less accurate,…

President Donald Trump’s proposal to transfer the few million Palestinian Arabs in Gaza to other Arab countries and then rebuild and redevelop Gaza was met with some surprise and pushback. Isn’t this unfair? Doesn’t this violate the rights of Palestinians in Gaza? Usually, when we think about those who see a world with rights and without responsibilities, a world with claims but without…

Apparently, ABC News and Disney were against “personal freedoms and free markets.” That was the message being sent judging by the reaction from the liberal ladies of The View, on Friday, when they were collectively up in arms over Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos telling the opinion side of the paper those American ideals were what they were going to focus on.

Ron Brownstein struggled with the idea that blue states could be on the wrong end of federal civil rights issues on Friday’s CNN This Morning as he claimed that the Trump Administration is trying to use “the power of the federal purse to rescind rights.”

President Donald Trump has entered his second term with a bold agenda and unprecedentedly rapid action. In the first month of his presidency, he signed 73 executive orders; he unleashed his Department of Government Efficiency, spearheaded by Elon Musk, to identify waste, fraud and abuse across executive branch agencies; he deployed his foreign policy team to the Middle East to broker an…

Conservative media Benedict Arnold — aka Oliver Darcy, now helming his own website, Status — opened his Thursday night newsletter with a 1,000-word-plus dispatch of Pentagon correspondents melting down about the Pete Hegseth-led department and his chief spokesman, Sean Parnell. In essence, however, Darcy provided a helpful reminder to those dealing with liberal journalists: You can never fully…

The Daily Show wrapped up the month of February on Comedy Central on Thursday by sending correspondent Josh Johnson out into the world to interview the masses and pretend that the Trump Administration getting rid of DEI initiatives means people can no longer say things like “civil rights” or “oppression” when talking about history.

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Socialism is popular! A Pew study reports that more than a third of American adults view it positively. How is this possible? Little has brought more misery -- first in the Soviet Union, then in China, Cuba, Nicaragua, now Venezuela ... One reason young people support socialism is because their social media feeds show videos made by popular but economically illiterate people.

CNN host Jake Tapper announced that he and Axios reporter (and CNN analyst) Alex Thompson have a book coming out in May titled Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again. They promise “an unflinching and explosive reckoning.” Conservative reaction was fierce. CNN was part of the coverup. We need a book like this, that finally exposes…

In today’s DOGE-deranged news environment, stories seeking to spotlighting the adversity endured by federal workers often draw top billing. A new CBS Evening News report goes to that well again, and manufactures a link between the DOGE buyouts and Musk’s purchase of Twitter, in an attempt to imply malfeasance.