Media Bias Debate

Irony died multiple deaths on Thursday’s edition of Amanpour and Company on PBS. First, host Christiane Amanpour and Columbia Journalism School Dean Jelani Cobb lamented that social media companies are moving away from fact-checking, which, they said, will make it harder to hold the government accountable, despite their own historical difficulties with the truth. Second, they worried…

In an ideal world, words have meaning. But if you’re CNN and others who are just mindlessly gnashing their teeth at President Donald Trump for leaving the Paris Climate Agreement, words and facts fly straight out the window because, muh, rage!  The agreement is NOT a “treaty,” regardless of whatever the dense climate dweebs at the UN choose to call it.

X owner Elon Musk has put the propaganda powerhouse that America’s most notorious billionaire George Soros runs on full blast, and he is right to do so.

Morning Joe airs a deceptive edit of LA Mayor Karen Bass stonewalling a reporter asking her if she owes an apology to LA residents regarding the wildfire. In Morning Joe's video, the reporter asks one question, then the clip immediately transitions to a later statement Bass makes saying she's directing all resources to the fire. The video omits that for 90 seconds, Bass stonewalled the…

Someone needed to fill the delusional, pretentious void left by Paul Krugman at The New York  Times to tell Americans they’re too stupid to realize the God-Bless-America awesomeness of the Biden economy. It looks like Chief White House Correspondent Peter Baker volunteered.

In the clip it airs of President Biden's remarks on the ISIS-inspired terror attack in New Orleans, Morning Joe edits out the moment when Biden totally loses his ability to speak and has to scramble his way back.

One of the ongoing subcycles of the past quadrennium was the Regime Media’s lack of interest in covering or even mentioning the obvious cognitive decline of President Joe Biden. With barely three weeks remaining in his term, whatever discussions about Biden’s decline come across as forced by the recent devastating Wall Street Journal article.

On Morning Joe, New Republic editor Michael Tomasky blames tne "right-wing media" for the public's approval of Trump's transition.  He singles out Rupert Murdoch for particular opprobrium. Tomasky is nostalgic for the days when there was "common civic agreement about basic morality in public life." Translation: when the liberal media set the agenda.

In a segment regarding the decision of the House Ethics Committee to release its report on Matt Gaetz, CNN This Morning mocks Gaetz for admitting that he partied hard into his 30s, but is now a different person. The panel laughingly suggests that kind of behavior would only be understandable in a person's 20s. This ignores Democrat scandal figures like Hunter Biden and Ted Kennedy.…

Morning Joe devotes a segment to an Axios article, Shards of glass: Inside media's 12 splintering realities. The notion is that depending on demographics, people get their information from very different media silos. One of the categories is "Right-wing grandpas,' a reference to Fox News viewers. What is not revealed is that the average age of Fox News viewers is 68, whereas the average age of…

As a taxpayer-funded TV network, PBS should not be favoring one side over the other. But MRC analysts studying the use of labels over 18 months on the PBS News Hour found they were 27 times more likely to identify an "extreme" on the right than they would on the left. There were 162 extreme-right labels and only six extreme-left descriptions. 

When last week Mika Brzezinski said that she and Joe Scarborough would like to have a face-to-face meeting with Trump, I wrote: "As for scoring an interview with Trump himself any time soon, don't bet the rent money at Polymarkets on it, Mika!" Oy, was I wrong! On today's Morning Joe, Mika announced that this past Friday, she and Joe did indeed meet with Trump at Mar-a-Lago. 

The 2024 presidential election has left the media reeling and plunged into a period of self-doubt and introspection. But for a few fleeting moments on NBC’s Meet the Depressed, the media forgot that they got shellacked.

A November 14 Substack post by left-leaning political science professor and freelance journalist Yascha Mounk had pithy things observations on how the liberally biased press is actually hurting Democrats by keeping them blind to genuine political threats, in “Dear Journalists: Stop Trying to Save Democracy -- Journalists who turn themselves into political activists inadvertently undermine…