Education
PolitiFact Flags Fox on NEA Recommending 'Gender Queer' for Summer
The liberals at PolitiFact flagged Fox News as "False" on July 11 as it sought to defend the "banned" book Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe. Fox made an error, reporting the National Education Association promoted the graphically sexual book to kids, when they were promoting it as summer reading for teachers.
PBS Notices COVID Learning Loss, Doesn’t Notice Cause: Teachers Unions
The media may occasionally observe the massive learning loss caused by shuttered schools during the COVID pandemic, an unnecessary and actively harmful measure encouraged by left-wing teachers unions, which protested reopening schools, sometimes with disgusting anti-back-to-school protests, even after it was obvious that children were the group least affected by COVID. But there was no mention…
Kirk Cameron Takes on Leftist Librarians Censoring Conservatives
Three cheers for Kirk Cameron. The actor who memorably starred as a teenager in the hit family ABC TV series Growing Pains has written several popular children’s books featuring conservative values. Now he's challenging the American Library Association and their bias against books like his.
CNN's Alford Dismisses 'Privileged' White Dems Who Support DeSantis
On the July 4th CNN This Morning show, CNN political analyst Natasha Alford dismissed white women Democrats who support Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) over his education policies, accusing them of having "privilege" which they are trying to preserve.
A Step Toward True Equality, Courtesy of the Supreme Court
It may not have had the significance of the Emancipation Proclamation, or the civil rights legislation of the 1960s, but last week’s ruling by the Supreme Court that affirmative action in college admissions violates the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause is an important advancement toward equality for all. Reaction to the 6-3 decision has been mostly predictable. Many on the left,…
Teachers Union Recommends Sexually Explicit Book For Educators
Here’s your 32539872392th indicator to homeschool your kids or vote progressives who prioritize indoctrination over education out of positions of authority.
PBS, VICE Smear Parents Group Moms for Liberty as Violent Harassers
Friday’s edition of the tax-funded PBS News Hour took a jab at the influential new conservative parents’ rights group Moms for Liberty, which drew some Republican presidential candidates to its convention last week. Moms was founded to oppose school closings and mask-vaccine mandates in schools and which now targets the teaching of Critical Race Theory and gender identity in schools.…
New York Times Smears Moms for Liberty: 'Demagogy, Violent Threats'
New York Times reporter Jonathan Weisman, who has a history of sketching conservatives as racist and/or bigoted extremists, gleefully went after the newly influential Moms for Liberty, founded to oppose school closings and mask and vaccine mandates in schools and which now targets the teaching of Critical Race Theory principles in schools. In his lead story for “Moms for Liberty’s…
ABC, CBS Broadcast Their Own Dissenting Opinions on Affirmative Action
CBS Mornings and ABC’s Good Morning America (GMA) offered dissenting opinions on the Supreme Court’s Affirmative Action ruling Friday morning under the guise of objective journalism. CBS’s Tony Dokoupil strategized about avoiding the Court’s ruling by including race in essays, and Prairie View A&M University president Ruth Simmons likened the ruling to Plessy vs.…
HEARTBREAK CITY: Here’s How ABC/CBS/NBC Handled Friday’s SCOTUS Cases
Just as they did on Thursday morning, the major broadcast networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC each broke in Friday morning for the final Supreme Court cases of the session, which were President Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan (Biden v. Nebraska) and a free speech case involving Christian web designer and LGBTQ individuals (303 Creative LLC v. Elenis).
NB Podcast: Media Predict Jim Crow 4.0 Following Major SCOTUS Rulings
Since the last NewsBusters Podcast, three major rulings have come down from the U.S. Supreme Court: affirmative action, free speech, and student loan forgiveness. Your managing editor Curtis Houck and I discuss how the liberal media shrieked in horror at the prospect of fair admissions processes, free speech for the religious, and President Biden getting his underhanded campaign ploy trounced…
Three Strikes for Telemundo's Cristina Londoño on Affirmative Action
On Thursday afternoon, Noticias Telemundo mediodía delivered a disheartening blow by discussing the constitutionality of affirmative action following two Supreme Court decisions striking race as a factor in admissions for private and public universities. Throughout the lead story, correspondent Cristina Londoño repeatedly exhibited a lack of understanding on the subject.
Here Were the Worst Takes/Best Network Meltdowns on Affirmative Action
On Thursday, the “big three” broadcast networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC twice broke into regular programming to discuss the bombshell Supreme Court rulings that all but took a huge bite out of private and public universities being able to use race as a factor in admissions. Naturally, the liberal networks were forlorn with experts, journalists, pundits blasting, fretting, and seemingly near tears…