Media Bias Debate

The crossover that no one asked for came together on Tuesday as CBS’s host of The Late Show, Stephen Colbert, joined The New Yorker editor and NPR host David Remnick for a New York Public Radio fundraiser for an exercise in mutual back patting in the aftermath of Colbert’s cancellation and public media’s defunding.

HBO’s John Oliver rehashed many of the old and familiar arguments in defense of public broadcasting on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, but because Oliver views himself as a man of action, he announced an auction to help save public media because otherwise “people would die.” Things Oliver put up for sale included, but were not limited to, actor Russell Crowe’s jockstrap, his cabbage wife…

As President Trump prepares to sue the BBC for deceptively editing his words on January 6, 2021, to make it appear like he urged violence, PBS’s Christiane Amanpour said on her Friday podcast, The Ex Files, that the idea that the BBC is biased is “probably wrong” and that her own network is “an absolute must” have for the American people.

Before MSNBC transforms into MS Now at midnight on Saturday, The 11th Hour host Stephanie Ruhle joined ESPN and SiriusXM host Stephen A. Smith on Thursday for his Straight Shooter podcast. Once there, Ruhle offered up an unconvincing excuse for why she does not have Republican guests on her show.

On Wednesday's edition of The Five on Fox News, the panel had some harsh words for CNN NewsNight host Abby Phillip for some of the things she said about conservatives during a recent interview with former MSNBC host Joy Reid. Namely, that conservatives are "living in a completely different information world" with lots of kooky conspiracy theories. 

CBS’s Stephen Colbert had an actually funny joke on Monday. There were only two problems. One was that he told it not on The Late Show, but during an interview with GQ’s Zach Baron as the magazine put him on the cover of its “men of the year” issue. A second problem was that it was completely unintentional, as he told Baron that “I think I'm more conservative than people think.”

Trust in the legacy news media today is so low than only one in 25 U.S. adult citizens place a great deal of trust in what they’re being told by television and newspaper reports, results of a new national survey reveal.

The PBS News Hour marked its 50^th anniversary on Friday with a look back at its coverage of pivotal historical events. Co-anchor Geoff Bennett: Finally tonight, we have been marking a milestone this week, the 50th anniversary of the "PBS News Hour." Before we go, we have a look back at our beginnings and at how the "News Hour" has evolved over five decades, while remaining…

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr joins the NewsBusters Podcast to discuss protecting free speech over the airwaves and online, the future of broadcast licenses, and Operation Clean Carts—his push to block fraudulent Chinese hardware from infiltrating U.S. networks. David Bozell asks about the "public interest" standard for broadcast TV affiliates. 

Having former CNN media reporter-turned Substacker Oliver Darcy on once to freak out about Bari Weiss taking over CBS News was not good enough for PBS. It just had to do it again. On Tuesday, Darcy joined Amanpour and Company, where he had an epic meltdown over Weiss, the Trump administration, and conservative critiques of the news media.

HBO’s John Oliver had a nearly 40-minute long meltdown on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight as he denounced Paramount CEO David Ellison’s decision to name Bari Weiss editor-in-chief of CBS News. Despite Weiss being a liberal who simply thinks the left has gone too far on things like DEI, transgenderism, and Israel, Oliver lamented that Ellison has inserted “right-leaning opinion journalism…

Paramount Skydance, the giant media conglomerate which owns CBS, recently acquired the iconoclastic news site The Free Press, and just announced that FP’s founder Bari Weiss will become editor-in-chief of CBS News, causing conniption fits in legacy media newsrooms. Monday’s PBS News Hour brought on the perfect PBS News Hour type of guest to discuss the move. Oliver…

Media Research Center President David Bozell joined The Lars Larson Show Thursday night to expose how AI chatbots are unfairly blaming Republicans for the 2025 government shutdown.

Gosh, how much further right could CBS possibly get? It already has on board hard-core conservatives including Margaret Brennan, John Dickerson, and Norah O'Donnell. Oh, wait. On CNN This Morning, lefty media analyst Sara Fischer, reporting on David Ellison of Paramount having named Bari Weiss editor-in-chief of CBS News, said: "David Ellison either has a personal or political…