Media Bias Debate
Fox News Rips Apart Lib Media Narrative Youngkin Ran Racist Campaign
On Sunday, Fox News Channel MediaBuzz anchor Howard Kurtz kicked off the program by tearing apart the liberal media’s narrative that Virginia Governor-elect Glenn Youngkin was appealing to racists with his campaign. And it wasn’t just him, Kurtz leaned on a panel representing separate ideologies who agreed that the narrative was a lie.
Newsweek Editor BLASTS Lib Media 'Elites' for Weaponizing 'Wokeness'
Newsweek deputy opinion editor Batya Ungar-Sargon left quite an impression during an appearance on Sunday’s Reliable Sources as she politely went at it with CNN host Brian Stelter over how the “highly affluent, highly educated liberal elites” both in the media and the left generally have weaponized “wokeness” against the “working-class of all races” in America.
Column: The Democrats Lose, Claim They Have No Media Support!
The terrible election results for Democrats are going to lead to some terrible conclusions. One might be the assumption that these bad results reflect a media that’s too hostile to the Democrats. Greg Sargent of The Washington Post tweeted this lame summary from former Obama aide Dan Pfeiffer: “Republicans have a massive communications advantage..."
NB’s Graham Hammers NYT Reporter Denying Paper’s Leftist Agenda
Participating in a Paley Center discussion of media coverage on Wednesday evening, NewsBusters Executive Editor Tim Graham called out New York Times reporter Patrick Healy for absurdly claiming that his leftist paper catered to “both sides” of the political spectrum. The liberal journalist’s obnoxious response prompted laughter from other conservatives on the panel.
Morning Joe: Biden Unpopular? Blame Trump!
While Democrats try to dig out from their electoral disaster on Tuesday, Morning Joe has come up with an explanation for Biden's unpopularity, which dragged Dems down across the country: it's Trump's fault! As Mika Brzezinski put it on Thursday: "This administration is grappling with the problems that it adopted from the last administration, these problems are in some ways either…
WashPost Column: If McAuliffe Loses, Blame 'Lopsided' Media Imbalance!
The Washington Post needs to institute mandatory substance testing for its employees. Greg Sargent's latest column is headlined is "Glenn Youngkin’s repulsive final push reveals a dark truth for Democrats." And just what is that "dark truth"? It's that Terry McAuliffe might lose because GOP candidate Glenn Youngkin has benefited from "a right-wing media network that has no rival on…
Editor’s Pick: Daily Wire on Nick Sandmann Crushing CNN’s Stelter
On Wednesday, The Daily Wire’s Hank Berrien reported on the devastating one-word tweet Nicolas Sandmann delivered to CNN’s Brian Stelter that completely shut down the Reliable Sources host’s pathetic attempt to deny media dishonesty. When Stelter took to Twitter on Tuesday to mock Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for accurately calling out frequent deception in the left-wing…
Editor’s Pick: Fox on CNN Doing Pelosi’s Bidding, Selling Dem Spending
On Monday, Lindsay Kornick of FoxNews.com reported on all the ways CNN has complied with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s directive that the liberal media work harder to sell the Democrats’ massive spending plan. Kornick observed: “It appeared on Monday that CNN received Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s, D-Calif., plea to better sell President Biden’s Build Back Better plan loud and clear.”
Whoa: NBC’s Holt Says Media Must Listen to Critics, Not Be ‘Tone Deaf’
While accepting the National Press Club’s Fourth Estate Award Thursday night, NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt showed surprising self-awareness as he devoted most of his speech to admitting that the news media must listen to critics and “strive to be better.” It was a far cry from his last acceptance speech after winning the Edward R. Murrow Award in March, when he declared that “…
WashPost's Wemple Calls Out CNN's Trashing of Joe Rogan
In a piece posted on Thursday evening, Washington Post media reporter Erik Wemple called out CNN for the liberal news network's refusal to admit that they misinformed viewers in claiming that podcast host Joe Rogan used "horse dewormer" to treat his COVID infection.
Brian Williams Admits Press Are in a Liberal Bubble, Out of Touch
On Friday's The 11th Hour, for about 30 seconds, Brian Williams did something that is rare for him and other journalists to do as he admitted that the national news media live in a liberal bubble, mostly interact with others who are in the same bubble, and are therefore out of touch with a mostly red country.
Biden Builds a Wall...Around His Beach House – Media Fall Silent
Recall the extensive and scornful media coverage then-President Donald Trump received when he beefed up security around the White House? On and on - and on and on - went similar stories in the national media mocking Trump for building his “wall” around the White House. And famously, of course, President Biden has made it crystal clear he will not build a wall on the southern border. All of…
James Murdoch Investing Heavily in AP Climate Reporting Hub
Climate activist James Murdoch is set to make a multimillion-dollar investment in the Associated Press climate journalism, as if AP didn’t already have a big enough left-wing bias. The Murdoch investment is going toward “the formation of a new climate reporting hub at the Associated Press,” according to an Axios scoop.
Guthrie to Couric: RBG Cover-Up ‘Violates Cardinal Rule of Journalism’
During a Tuesday interview with former Today show co-host Katie Couric, current NBC morning show host Savannah Guthrie scolded her predecessor for censoring comments made by late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in a 2016 Yahoo News interview. Guthrie told Couric that the decision to edit out those remarks “violates a cardinal rule of journalism.”
