NewsBusters Podcast: Why Is 'News Judgment' Clouded by Racial Angst?

September 8th, 2025 10:23 PM

Horror bubbled up on social media over the brutal murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska, who was randomly stabbed to death while riding the light rail in Charlotte, North Carolina, by a homeless man with an extensive criminal and mental health record. A young woman fled war in Ukraine only to find death in an American city. The liberal networks struggled to locate it.

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NBC Trumpwashes Their Coverage of Brutal Charlotte Stabbing

September 8th, 2025 9:47 PM

And on the 17th day, the legacy media finally got around to reporting the brutal murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska on board a Charlotte light rail. Rather than simply reporting the inconvenient story straight up, though, NBC saw fit to engage in a little Trumpwashing.

WHOA: CBS Hires Former Conservative Think Tank Head as CBS Ombudsman

September 8th, 2025 5:04 PM

The far-left liberal partisans inside CBS News suffered another blow Monday morning as the network revealed they had hired Ken Weinstein, the former CEO and president of the right-leaning think tank Hudson Institute, as its ombudsman to investigate concerns about its news coverage (read: media bias).

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‘CBS Mornings’ Ends Network Blackout on HORRIFYING Charlotte Murder

September 8th, 2025 3:54 PM

On Monday, CBS Mornings spent just over two minutes on last month’s brutal murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte allegedly at the hands of a man who had 14 prior arrests but was still allowed to roam free. This ended the

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The View: Trump Crime Crackdown About Literal 'War' Against Americans

September 8th, 2025 3:32 PM

Monday marked the beginning of season 29 for ABC’s The View. Back from their summer hiatus, the liberal ladies were just as unhinged as ever as they decried President Trump’s crackdown on crime in the nation’s capital. Co-host Joy Behar suggested that Trump was going to have the National Guard launch a literal “war” against American civilians. Meanwhile, co-host Sara Haines proclaimed…

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‘Chicago Braces’: PBS Sees City Afraid of Trump’s ‘Crackdown on Crime'

September 8th, 2025 12:48 PM

Sunday’s edition of PBS News Weekend led with the anchor and his guest blaming President Trump for using social media to lead to “heightened tensions” in Chicago before his promised crackdown on crime and illegal immigration in that high-crime city (as if the high murder rate and crime rate in general wasn’t stoking tensions before). 

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Morning Joe To Military: Consider Disobeying Trump Orders on Gangsters

September 8th, 2025 11:39 AM

On Morning Joe, MSNBC analyst and Washington Post columnist David Ignatius suggests that the US military should consider disobeying the order of the Commander-in-Chief, President Trump, to fire on drug-smuggling boats crewed by Tren de Aragua.

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POLL RESULTS: Worst Media Take of the Week Winner!

September 8th, 2025 10:53 AM

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MSNBC's Jong-Fast: Trump Targeting Chicago Because It's 'Obama's City'

September 8th, 2025 9:28 AM

On Sunday afternoon, MSNBC host Alex Witt and contributor Molly Jong-Fast fretted over the Donald Trump administration conducting an airstrike on a Venezuelan boat believed to be hauling drugs. Jong-Fast went on to dismiss President Trump's efforts to fight anti-Semitism in higher education and claimed that he is targeting Chicago crime against the wishes of the state's Democratic leaders…

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ABC, NBC Use Sunday Night Shows to Whine Trump Wants ‘War’ on Chicago

September 8th, 2025 6:53 AM

On the Sunday editions of ABC’s World News Tonight and NBC Nightly News, the liberal networks were grossly giddy in touting partisan protests against President Trump and joining them in opposing Trump’s desire to crackdown on crime in Chicago, hoping the city remains quiet.

OBSESSED: CNN 'Facts First' Page Shows 32 of 32 'Fact Checks' on Trump

September 8th, 2025 5:57 AM

It's ordinary, and yet extraordinary: CNN's "Facts First" page of "fact checks" is all about President Trump. On their dedicated web page this morning, Trump is featured in 32 of 32 articles. Everything Daniel Dale has written obsesses over Trump, just like his TV appearances. 

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MSNBC Dismisses Evidence of High Rate of Transgender Mass Shootings

September 7th, 2025 9:08 PM

On Friday afternoon, MSNBC host Katy Tur had on Mark Spies of the anti-gun websiteThe Trace to argue against a Donald Trump administration proposal to place gun restrictions on transgenders to help prevent mass shootings. Spies found the idea "insane" and compared it to banning white men from buying guns to prevent suicide.

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Tom Homan Takes Tapper to School on ICE Operations

September 7th, 2025 7:52 PM

On CNN's State of the Union, host Jake Tapper might have thought he'd put Tom Homan, President Trump's border czar, on the defensive by opening the interview by citing a meme Trump posted, based on Apocalypse Now, in which Trump said, "Chicago is about to find out why it's called the Department of War." Tapper cast that as Trump "escalating his threats against the city of Chicago." It took…

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Legacy Media Is SILENT on Brutal Murder of Ukrainian Refugee in NC

September 7th, 2025 2:56 PM

A common feature of legacy media coverage leading up to the 2024 presidential campaign was their collective reluctance and/or outright refusal to cover heinous crimes that reflected poorly on key Democrat policies. With the 2026 midterms over a year out, it appears that the media are reverting to form.