Media Bias Debate

ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live’s co-head writer, executive producer, and wife of the eponymous host Molly McNearney recently gave an interview with the entertainment news website Gold Derby that was published on Thursday, where she defiantly claimed the late night comedy show format isn’t going anywhere because people (i.e., liberals) still need them to help them make sense of the world.

Once again, somebody in the late night comedy show business is calling “bullshit” on my most recent late night guest count study. This time the man attacking my integrity, as well as that of my NewsBusters colleagues, was Pete Dominick, Stephen Colbert’s former warm-up act, on Sunday’s Sanity with Alisyn and Dave podcast.

When Chuck Todd used to be the political director and host of Meet the Press for NBC News and MSNBC, his love of sports would often creep in. Now that he had his own podcast, he could talk about it more freely. So when he had Colin Cowherd of Fox Sports Radio on Monday’s show, Todd seemed a little surprised when his guest expressed strong skepticism and mistrust of “the media.”…

Former Washington Post colleagues Glenn Kessler and Jen Rubin reunited on August 4 on Rubin’s The Contrarian podcast to discuss Kessler’s departure from the Post’s Fact Checker page. During their conversation, Kessler would unleash three headscratchers: that he fact-checked Republicans more because they are in power, a historically incorrect warning about going back…

With CBS cancelling The Late Show, plenty of people, including former Tonight Show host Jay Leno, have suggested that the industry has become too partisan. During a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter published on Tuesday, HBO’s Last Week Tonight host John Oliver claimed he would not be taking advice from Leno and suggested such criticism would lead to…

After departing The Washington Post, fact-checker Glenn Kessler did what seemingly every major journalist who has recently left a major outlet has done: he joined Substack. On Tuesday, Kessler took to his new platform to claim that he left the Post because publisher Will Lewis wanted to expand the paper’s audience to include Fox News watchers.

It’s important to remember history so it does not repeat itself, that is, within the right context. On CBS Mornings Plus, hosts Vladimir Duthiers and Adriana Diaz kept pushing the delusional thought that there could be people “trying to colonize” the moon in the style of European colonization of the global south. No, that was not a joke.  

On Friday, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced it is shutting down, and the cast of MSNBC’s The 11th Hour lost its mind as it rolled out the same tired talking points about local news, weather, and children’s educational programming.

New York Times columnist and the allegedly conservative half of Friday’s PBS News Hour’s weekly news recap, David Brooks, praised former Vice President Kamala Harris’s recent interview with Stephen Colbert and agreed with her that “civic capitulation” to President Trump is “a real thing.” Meanwhile, MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart explained he quit his job at The Washington…