Labeling

On Tuesday’s Amanpour & Co., host Christiane Amanpour was joined by Yale professor Timothy Snyder, whom she described as “an award-winning historian and bestselling author, focusing on the dangers of authoritarianism.” Both host and guest went on an extended rant on the hypothetical threats of political violence ginned up by Trump supporters, or as Amanpour breathlessly put it, “…

Washington Free Beacon media reporter Drew Holden flagged a story on "far-right" Republicans in Tennessee from the Associated Press. This has become a real trend of late, from Tennessee to Montana to Texas. But when San Francisco spends taxpayer money on a "Drag Laureate," no one at AP finds that needs an ideological label. 

The Reuters wire service pretends to be unbiased, but that's a bad joke. Look no further than this May 8 story on the new frontier of the abortion debate. The headline was "Abortion pill case to be heard by conservative, anti-abortion panel."

The cable news landscape was shaken to its core Monday with the stunning news that cable news star and host of Fox News Channel's Tucker Carlson Tonight was out at the network. A short time later, CNN announced that CNN This Morning co-host Don Lemon was fired as well. During CBS Evening News's coverage of both developments, anchor Norah O'Donnell resorted to…

On Sunday night, far-left activists (including an SPLC attorney) stormed the site of an Atlanta Police Department training facility and fired off fireworks and Molotov cocktails in the latest attempt by the so-called “Stop Cop City” movement to physically attack and threaten law enforcement. But on the Monday morning flagship morning shows, CBS Mornings couldn’t be bothered with zero…

Nikki Haley served as the U.N. ambassador under President Trump. Before that she was South Carolina’s first female governor. But when she announced her candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination on Valentine’s Day 2024, the greeting from National Public Radio was no lovefest. As one example, Friday’s Morning Edition tried to sell a Lincoln Project senior advisor as a “…

Tuesday’s Amanpour & Co. on PBS featured Diana Buttu, described by the program as a “political analyst and human rights lawyer,” but whose actual views were extremely hostile to Israel and radically pro-Palestinian -- and in sync with those of host Christiane Amanpour. Amanpour matched her guest by bringing her own long-standing hostility to Israel and concurrent embrace of the…

Rolling Stone spouted about “The Conspiracies Powering the GOP-Controlled House -- How Republicans have put disinformation and falsehoods at the center of their governing agenda.” What are some of the ghastly things the GOP wants to do with a new committee? "The committee would also have full freedom to investigate any civil liberties-related issue and scrutinize how the federal…

Friday marked the 2023 March for Life on the National Mall on Washington D.C. with hundreds of thousands of pro-lifers to coincide with Sunday’s 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade being argued before the Supreme Court. And, with zero preview coverage Friday morning on the broadcast network news shows, it appears as though this will mark the eighth March for Life in the past 10 years with…

On Tuesday's Amanpour & Co., PBS put on display the liberal media's tendency to view nearly all elected Republicans as "extreme," but not so much with Democrats.

The New York Times took advantage of the Republican kerfuffle around the days of voting it took to install House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy as House Speaker, to wedge in as many scary “far-right” style labels and frantic messaging as it could throughout several days of intense coverage. Carl Hulse and Emily Cochrane reported “What the Far-Right Republicans Want: To Remake…

After three days of a gridlocked House Republican conference unable to unite behind a candidate for Speaker of the House of Representatives, CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News continued their partisan labeling of the twenty Republicans who refuse to back the current frontrunner during their evening newscasts. Both CBS & NBC once again referred to the twenty…

On the Tuesday edition of Amanpour & Co on PBS, host Christiane Amanpour interviewed former moderate Republican Rep. Will Hurd, who served three terms in office but didn’t seek reelection in 2020. Amanpour led off with the fight for Speaker of the House and with unsympathetic labeling of the “hard-line” opponents of Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).

During Tuesday evening's broadcast of NBC Nightly News, anchor Lester Holt and correspondent Garrett Haake took to the airwaves to gloat over the divisions in the House Republican conference between members who support Kevin McCarthy for Speaker of the House and members who oppose his bid. As of late Tuesday night, the House of Representatives adjourned for the day after going through…