Media Bias Debate

The late night comedy shows may not have been very funny after Donald Trump’s election victory, but the Wednesday edition of CNN’s Inside Politics was as PBS News Hour White House correspondent Laura Barron-Lopez got the panel to agree that one reason Kamala Harris lost is that, unlike Trump, she did not have a “media ecosystem” to help her get across the finish line.

Some Republicans have been talking up the notion of CNN analyst Scott Jennings as White House press secretary in a second Trump term after he made a stirring little oration in the 3 am hour of Election Night coverage. Jennings proclaimed the election results were "an indictment of the political information complex." 

It’s finally over, and the 2024 presidential campaign made history in at least one ignominious respect: Broadcast evening news coverage of the candidates was the most wildly imbalanced in history, favoring Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris over former Republican President Donald Trump by the greatest margin ever recorded.

The weekend brought a startling omission from the venerable, politely left-wing magazine The New Yorker, courtesy of staff writer Jay Caspian Kang: “How Biased Is the Media, Really?” Kang’s answer: Pretty biased toward Democrats, if not the far-left. His question was hooked to Gallup’s annual poll, “Americans’ Trust in Mass Media," a trust which has declined from over 70 percent in…

On CNN This Morning, host Kasie Hunt kvetches to panel that whereas they -- all members of the political/media elite -- can conduct a "civil" discussion, it's impossible for others, because of the "disinformation" that Trump spreads. She ends on an ominous note, saying that we, in 20 days, "are hurtling toward something that could be an unknown and potentially difficult chapter in our history…

We weren’t kidding when we told you that ABC News is by far the most biased of the three broadcast network news divisions. An earlier MRC study found that Vice President Kamala Harris drew 100% positive coverage, while former President Donald Trump’s coverage was 93% negative. And yet ABC found a way to outdo themselves.

In its Sunday night media-focused newsletter, Semafor had a puff piece celebrating the faux Republican (read: progressive) site The Bulwark as “one of the breakout media successes” in 2024 with its personalities “bona fide stars” that liberal strategist and Publisher Sarah Longwell declared to represent “a new center”....even though their site has a singular, crazy-ex-girlfriend-level focus on…

Stupid or liar. Comedian Adam Carolla poses the questions to sketchy politicians. Are they dumb enough to believe what they’re saying, or is it a calculated lie?

ABC hosts and debate moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis asked at least 27 questions of former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris but not a single one touched on freedom of speech or censorship.

The leftist extremism of ABC, CBS, CNN and NBC (and its cable affiliate MSNBC) is well-documented. However, what rarely gets mentioned is that the woke reporting emanating from these networks aligns with that of the leftist ESG asset manager giants that own the biggest portion of their stock.

MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, live in such thick bubbles that they unironically argued on Tuesday’s Morning Joe that the news media is pretending this election is just like any other election and that they are creating a “false moral equivalency” between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.

The latest Washington Week with The Atlantic on PBS was most notable for NPR senior political editor Domenico Montanaro's ludicrously imbalanced fact-checking of Trump vs. Harris and host Jeffrey Goldberg’s accusations of double standards in media coverage of the campaign -- in favor of Trump!

In the last eight years, the media have left their biased fingerprints all over the news, starting with their hostile coverage of Trump. Yet our archives are full of quotes from journalists insisting that they have no partisan axe to grind.

After an unsuccessful appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, CNN’s Kaitlan Collins tried the late night comedy circuit again on Friday as she joined HBO’s Bill Maher on Real Time to recap the Democratic National Convention. During their conversation, Maher argued that CNN’s coverage was “the same as The View,” while Collins desperately tried to claim that…