Media Bias Debate

NPR Newsmakers podcast host Steve Inskeep welcomed HBO’s Bill Maher to Thursday show his Mark Twain Prize and the wider world of politics. At one point in the interview, Maher confessed that he was surprised Inskeep invited him on because NPR is now “on the far extreme of the left.” Inskeep tried to defend NPR by saying reality is different than what its critics allege, but the numbers don’t…

A former Trump critic from the American liberal billionaire class has come full circle and turned his crosshairs onto the media for being so afflicted with TDS that they have no problem lying to the public about the president regardless of the facts.

The PBS News Hour marked its 50th anniversary last year (and the show’s first year deprived of taxpayer funding) with a clip package of its coverage of various historical events, while declaring the program had traditionally strove to be “even-handed to a fault.” If that was ever true, the current version of the show, co-anchored by Geoff Bennett and Amna Nawaz, certainly can’t make that claim…

Monday's CNN This Morning devoted a Group Chat segment to FIFA's decision to suspend the red card issued to U.S. men's national team striker Folarin Balogun. This reversal—following a reported call from President Trump to FIFA President Gianni Infantino—cleared the top U.S. scorer (with three World Cup goals) to play in Monday's Round of 16 matchup against Belgium in Seattle. Mario Parker of…

Mark Halperin called Tulsi Gabbard's release of files implicating Dr. Fauci in a COVID-19 coverup the “biggest story of the last 50 years.” The files allege Fauci lied to Congress and was shielded from a whistleblower complaint, but the mainstream liberal media has largely ignored the story, prompting outrage and accusations of a media blackout.

It’s about time someone outside the conservative eco-sphere admitted the obvious about the insufferable narcissists that plague The Washington Post newsroom. But no one could have expected the admission to come from the newspaper’s owner.

If you’re wondering why trust in the media, especially leftist sources, has fallen to record lows over the last couple of years, you need only look to MS NOW’s Mika Brzezinski. On Monday’s Morning Joe broadcast, Brzezinski accidentally provided a perfect example of why no one trusts her or anyone like her who spends their days pontificating on the liberal networks, when she hypocritically…

"The so-called liberal media?" On today's Morning Joe, analyst John Heilemann deployed the dismissive phrase as he downplayed legitimate criticism of the dominant press. So-called? For more than 21 years, NewsBusters has documented the mainstream media's pronounced liberal bias — a reality Heilemann and his MS NOW colleagues continue to treat as imaginary.

NBC’s Jimmy Fallon returned to the subject of CBS and 60 Minutes firing Scott Pelley on Thursday by playing a satirical 60 Minutes intro that featured what he considered to be some of the replacements CBS could try to “appeal to Trump” and included Russian dictator Vladimir Putin.

Appearing as a guest late Wednesday on MS NOW's The 11th Hour, former NBC News chairman Andy Lack slammed CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss for her efforts to reform the 60 Minutes show, including the recent firing of Scott Pelley, displaying an almost sexist attitude toward Weiss as he imagined how 60 Minutes founder Don Hewitt might have responded.

Wednesday’s PBS News Hour brought on former veteran CBS 60 Minutes reporter Steve Kroft  — the man behind a series of Obama interviews so embarrassing the MRC penned a Special Report about them — to defend the media’s self-anointed golden hour, the long-time Sunday newsmagazine which has suffered ideologically motivated convulsions and now firings of prominent journalists, most recently Scott…

ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel and NBC’s The Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon denounced CBS for firing 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley after his meltdown during an internal meeting where he viciously attacked his new bosses. Both alleged, with no evidence, that CBS is moving dramatically rightward while making the same quip about Pelley being replaced by Stephen Colbert’s replacement, Byron Allen.

How many people can walk into their workplace, defecate on the new management, insult their new direct supervisor, and get immediately fired for cause right before getting a glowing sendoff on the way out? Well, there’s Scott Pelley, apparently, given the sendoff he just got from the CBS Evening News. 

Yesterday, Scott Pelley lectured his new 60 Minutes boss on how the network was “MURDERING” the Elitist Media’s most hallowed news magazine. In the process, he ended up committing career seppuku and has just been shown the door by CBS News.