Media Bias Debate
Acosta Refers To Army Parade As Trump's 'Kim Jong-un Birthday Parade'
Former CNN anchor Jim Acosta traveled over to the Center for American Progress on Tuesday to praise the No Kings protesters, claim Saturday’s Army parade was really President Trump’s “Kim Jong-un birthday parade,” and, more humorously, claim that Trump’s attacks against the media put liberal priorities like high-speed rail at risk. Seriously, he said that.
Stewart Calls ABC 'A F****** Joke' For Firing Terry Moran
Earlier this week, ABC News canned senior national correspondent Terry Moran for posting on social media that White House domestic policy adviser Stephen Miller is “richly endowed with the capacity for hatred,” a “world-class hater,” and “You can see this just by looking at him because you can see that his hatreds are his spiritual nourishment. He eats his hate.” This did not sit well with…
Cabrera Hints PBS Needed Because Family Didn't Have Cable in the 80s
MSNBC’s Ana Cabrera grew up in the 80s, and the media landscape has changed a lot since then, but on her Thursday show, she implied her family’s inability to pay for cable as a child means Congress should not approve President Trump’s rescission package that seeks to defund PBS and NPR.
NPR CEO Claims Federal Funding Needed For Safe Drinking Water
NPR CEO Katherine Maher recently traveled to London for the city’s SXSW festival because, apparently, she thinks London is the place to be when she needs to convince American lawmakers not to rescind her federal funding. While in London, Maher sat down for an interview with CNN International’s Max Foster that aired on his Monday installment of What We Know, where she insisted that NPR…
Bob Costas Compares Trump Support With Disbelieving In a Round Earth
Sportscaster Bob Costas’s tendency to wax poetic in a gratuitous manner is so well known, it has become a meme. During a Monday speech at Syracuse University’s Mirror Awards, Costas was at it again, invoking Thomas Jefferson to compare supporting President Donald Trump to disbelieving in a round earth and telling anyone who objects to such insults that he doesn’t care what you think and, in…
PBS Defense Fails: 'If Viewers Love PBS So Much, Let Them Pay for It'
A new paper defending PBS is headlined "An island of trust: public broadcasting in the United States," which was featured in Current, a sort of trade publication for public media: “Study shows Americans trust PBS precisely because it’s publicly funded.” The left-leaning Harvard-affiliated Nieman Journalism Lab quickly reprinted it, claiming "It’s essential…
Ex-NPR Editor Uri Berliner Calls ‘BS’ on NPR’s Awful Jewish Coverage
The Thursday episode of the “Ask a Jew” podcast hosted Uri Berliner, former senior business editor at NPR, who was suspended and later resigned from the outlet for his damning critique of the insular liberal bias of taxpayer funded NPR. Hosts Yael Bar-tur and Chaya Leah Sufrin asked Berliner about how NPR covered Israel, and the resulting discussion was withering. Berliner characterized one…
Chuck Todd Defends Media’s Lack of Scrutiny of Biden’s Mental Decline
Former President Biden’s health decline had been an obvious issue throughout his presidential term, but more concerns have been raised for why the media didn’t cover it enough. Piers Morgan Uncensored hosted a show inviting a panel of political and academic credits to debate which presidential scandal was worse: Biden’s cover-up for his health or Nixon’s Watergate scandal. One of the…
CNN Uses Pompous Clooney Play to Say Trump Era WORSE THAN 'Red Scare'
In the context of promoting CNN's broadcast of George Clooney's Broadway play, Good Night and Good Luck, host Audie Cornish brings on an Axios media reporter to suggest that under Trump, repression of dissent is worse than during the Joe McCarthy era.
'They Would Suffer': Stelter Warns Of PBS And NPR Defunding
CNN chief media analyst Brian Stelter joined The Situation Room on Wednesday morning to freak out over President Trump’s rescission package that asks Congress to revoke funding for PBS and NPR. According to Stelter, not only would such a move cause local affiliates to “suffer as well,” but he also hyped PEN America saying the real reason for the move was about “discouraging real news…
NPR CEO's Comedy Tour Continues: We Are 'Centrist....Nonpartisan News'
Give her credit: Chief executive Katherine Maher is not afraid to look ridiculous on her quest to save National Public Radio from the federal chopping block. On Thursday’s edition of the Wall Street Journal’s podcast, hosted by Ryan Knutson and Jessica Mendoza, Maher claimed "we are consistently found to be centrist in reporting....we are a nonpartisan news organization."
PBS Follows NPR and Sues Trump to Defend Its 'Independence' (Bias)!
On Friday, PBS followed NPR’s lead and sued President Trump over his executive order telling the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to stop funding PBS and NPR. PBS filed suit -- along side Lakeland PBS, which operates PBS stations in Bemidji and Brainerd, Minnesota -- "to safeguard public television's editorial independence," which is code for decades of liberal bias.
Kimmel Claims Harris-'60 Minutes' Interview Wasn't Deceptively Edited
ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel announced himself on Thursday as not be a fan of President Trump’s lawsuit against 60 Minutes, but whatever one thinks of the suit’s legal merits, Kimmel’s claim that the network did not deceptively edit the interview with Kamala Harris to make her look better fell flat.
NPR Chief Tries Comedy on PBS: 'We're a Nonpartisan News Organization'
Katherine Maher, CEO of National Public Radio, continued her sympathy tour to save NPR from the Trump administration’s executive order, with a pit stop at NPR’s publicly funded cohort, PBS’s News Hour program. When gently challenged that Trump says NPR lacks viewpoint diversity, she comically claimed: "I first of all, respond by saying we're a nonpartisan news organization."
