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Media Bias Debate
Maher And MacFarlane Battle Over Trust In Journalists
HBO Real Time host Bill Maher and actor and direct Seth MacFarlane had an argument on Friday over whether or not journalists can be trusted. MacFarlane accused Maher of doing “exactly what Donald Trump wants” while Maher accused MacFarlane of being a partisan who wants to “feel good.”
Colbert Asks How To Fix Trust In Media, Hints GOP Is Suppressing Vote
CBS’s Stephen Colbert welcomed Columbia Journalism School Dean, New Yorker staff writer, and MSNBC talking head Jelani Cobb to the Tuesday edition of The Late Show to proclaim that only one of the two parties believes in democracy, imply Republicans want to stop black people from voting, and wonder why trust in journalism is so low.
Some Cheese For Wagner And Stelter's WHINE About Sale of Baltimore Sun
On MSNBC’s Alex Wagner Tonight, viewers were subjected to several painful minutes of self-indulgent whining over the purchase of The Baltimore Sun by David Smith, executive chairman of Sinclair Broadcasting Group. Media don’t especially appreciate losing control of an outlet.
HA HA: Lefty Media Freak Over Conservative Baltimore Exec Saving Paper
In February 2021, liberal journalists (correctly) were crestfallen that Tribune, The Baltimore Sun’s parent company, would merge with Alden Global Capital, an infamous newspaper conglomerate known for stripping down newspapers to ghost status. After it was announced Monday that local businessman and Sinclair Broadcasting Group executive Chairman David Smith had rescued The Sun…
WashPost Repeats Dumb Claim Global Warming Causing Alaska Blizzards
The climate fanatics at The Washington Post treated an old oxymoronic article claiming that man-made global warming causing more Alaska blizzards as front-page news.
Climate-Obsessed Associated Press Reveals Wacky Eco-Extremist Donor
How The Associated Press could admit to being financed by eco-extremist donors and yet still claim to be neutral when it comes to its climate change reporting defies common sense.
Column: The Arrogance of the Media Creates an Illiberal Bias
An essential ingredient in the stew of hysteria over a second Trump term is heavy-breathing concern for “vital institutions” like the press. On the badly named public-radio podcast Left Right & Center -- originating from KCRW, the NPR affiliate in Santa Monica, California -- former NPR morning host David Greene furiously pushed the panic button about the media in a year-end review…
FLASHBACK: Media’s Crisis of Credibility Got Even Worse in 2023
It’s hardly a secret that large swaths of the public have soured on the news media as reliable communicators of factual information. A series of new polls released in 2023 showed the public’s distrust of the media elite has gotten worse, not better.
NYT 'Heir Apparent' Bennet Blasts Rag's Lefty 'Culture of Intolerance'
If someone who was once considered “heir apparent to run the Times” declares that his former paper has become an intolerant “illiberal” hellhole, you should listen. The latter part of former New York Times opinion editor James Bennet’s 17,000-word autopsy of his former employer sharpened the focus on the suffocating liberalism of the media world in general and the Times --and…
Fired NYT Editor Nukes Paper's Path: ‘Liberal Bias to Illiberal Bias'
Media mavens may remember the blow the New York Times reputation took when James Bennet was forced out of his Editorial Page Editor slot at the paper. It came in June 2020, days after the paper ran an op-ed by Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas that called upon President Donald Trump to use troops to quell violence connected to Black Lives Matter protests, after the death of…
EVEN WORSE! MRC Exposes NewsGuard for Leftist Bias Third Year in a Row
Internet traffic cop NewsGuard has gotten worse. A new MRC Free Speech America analysis shows the notorious leftist media ratings organization is more biased against the right than ever before.
MSNBC's Message To MSM—Forget Polls, Focus On Danger Of Electing Trump
On her MSNBC show, Katie Phang and her guest Molly Jong-Fast of Vanity Fair agree that the MSM should largely ignore polls and tell the public about the "stakes" of the election for democracy, including the fact that without democracy [i.e., if Trump wins,] "there will be no more journalism."
For Thanksgiving, The Boston Globe Serves Up Trump—The Turkey Killer
On Thanksgiving, the online edition of The Boston Globe publishes a cartoon depicting Donald Trump on his way to the tree stump, axe at the ready, to dispatch the turkey. And in turn, the turkey is regretting having rejected Biden because of his age.
Morning Joe Debates Best MSM-DNC Media Strategy For Defeating Trump
Watching a certain Morning Joe segment today was like being a fly on the wall at a meeting of DNC/liberal-media industrial complex, as they strategized over the best media strategy for defeating Donald Trump in 2024. The consensus was that whereas some, including the Biden campaign, had in the past felt that the best way to defeat Trump was to generally ignore him, now it's believed that there…
