Labeling

Even though the various legal cases against Donald Trump are taking place in the obviously partisan environment of a presidential election, an examination of ABC, CBS and NBC evening news coverage finds the networks rarely identified even elected Democratic prosecutors as “Democrats.”

New York Times congressional correspondent Karoun Demirjian really laid on the hostile labels against Republicans in her Friday condemnation of conservatives who are using a federal budget bill to fight for tougher border security: “Hard Right’s Border Demands Intensify Spending Standoff.” This story and several she penned in July don’t even try to hide their seething anti-Republican…

The New York Times’ resident fact-checker Linda Qiu took on rising Republican star Vivek Ramaswamy after his breakout performance in last week’s GOP presidential debate, and her interesting choice of terminology unwittingly demonstrated the paper’s liberal mindset. In response to Ramaswamy’s claim (one not even made at the debate, but to the Atlantic magazine) that there were…

National Public Radio is stirring up liberal hysteria again, courtesy of Odette Yousef, who works the outlets “extremism” beat (as in solely “right-wing” extremism). The latest extremist idea she’s latched onto: A song, the raw, countrified tune “Rich Men North of Richmond,” a populist plea from singer/songwriter Oliver Anthony criticizing taxes and welfare, made history by debuting…

Protesting emeritus Prof. Marvin Dunn joined Thursday’s Jose Diaz-Balart Reports on MSNBC to discuss his opposition to Florida’s new history standards on slavery. During his rantings, Dunn argued that one of the experts who wrote the standards is an anti-Semite who once thanked God for slavery. There was just one problem: that woman opposes the standards and is an elected Democrat.…

Terry Gross, host of the National Public Radio talk show Fresh Air, conducted two separate interviews on succeeding days with Annie Karni, a former White House correspondent for the New York Times who is now congressional correspondent for the paper, a discussion dominated by fears of the “far-right” Congress. The loaded ideological labeling that emanated from both…

The cast of CNN’s Inside Politics reacted to President Biden’s interview with The Weather Channel on Wednesday by claiming that “he’s kind of centrist” on environmental matters while also fact-checking him from the left.

The Southern Poverty Law Center just released a report claiming there are 1,225 hate and anti-government groups in America. These groups cause “fear and pain (in) Black, brown, and LGBTQ communities.”  The SPLC lists such groups on its “hate map.”  I once believed the center. Well-meaning people still do. Apple once gave them $1 million. But what donors don’t know is that today, the SPLC…

PBS’s post-Dobbs abortion coverage has been all one-way: No celebration of saving babies or showing respect for the culture of life. Instead, the focus has been 100% on lost opportunities to abort, with the hardest cases nationwide reliably rounded up and presented as commonplace, leaning on the alleged horrors occurring in red states that have instituted abortion bans. Sarah Varney,…

Bianna Golodryga hosted Wednesday’s edition of Amanpour & Co. (airing on CNN International and tax-funded PBS) and commiserated with William Cohen, former “Republican” Defense Secretary to Democratic president Bill Clinton, about the awful state of the Republican Party in the wake of Donald Trump’s third indictment: "So given what you have just laid out, on top of news,…

Three recent stories by newly minted New York Times congressional correspondent Karoun Demirjian on the fight to pass the National Defense Authorization Act demonized Republicans for opposing radical social agendas Democrats are pushing on the military. She also appeared on tax-funded PBS to rant against alleged GOP racism. 

A New York Times investigation, “House Republicans Demand Deep Cuts to Spending Bills They Rarely Support” offered a throwback to the paper’s insanely biased days of ideological labeling. The slant started in the subhead: "G.O.P. leaders are tailoring their government funding legislation to far-right lawmakers who are insisting on deep cuts, but who hardly ever vote for spending bills…

The Supreme Court ended its term with several major decisions favorable to conservatives, and tax-funded public broadcasting, which is ostensibly objective, failed to hide its displeasure in its Friday evening analysis, including its take on the Court’s 6-3 decision in the 303 CREATIVE LLC case, that a website designer in Colorado had a First Amendment right to refuse to design…

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.…