Media Bias Debate

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…

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.

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…

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…

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.

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."

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.

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…

On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough falsely accuses Donald Trump of threatening to "institutionalize" special counsel Jack Smith and other DoJ officials.

Syndicated radio host Mark Levin highlighted an extensive 2023 Media Research Center study on George Soros to reiterate his call for Congress to investigate the leftist billionaire’s empire.

On Friday, The Washington Post reported that journalists by the hundreds are signing a petition demanding that all media outlets should describe Israel in hateful terms, including "apartheid" and "genocide." In other words, they want all news accounts to sound like an "eradicate Israel" rally. 

National Public Radio’s “Public Editor” Kelly McBride dismissed complaints about NPR’s coverage of the Israel-Hamas war, examining it through a liberal prism and declaring it excellent, although even NPR’s uber-liberal band of listeners offered complaints the coverage was excessively pro-Palestinian. Two major pro-Israel media watchdog groups, CAMERA and Honest Reporting, have also…

Throughout the current Israel-Hamas war, NewsNation has taken serval opportunities to put the liberal media in their sights and call them out for their terrible coverage of the conflict. And during Monday’s Dan Abrams Live, Abrams was joined by fellow NewsNation host Leland Vittert and together they landed mighty body blows against their liberal competitors for parroting Hamas-…

This week, Media Research Center Founder and President L. Brent Bozell spoke with 2024 Republican presidential candidate and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis about a whole host of issues and, naturally, it included exchanges about the repeated, years-long barrages of attacks from the liberal media.