Media Bias Debate
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On CNN, Pro-Life Journo Exposes How Media Mislead on Pro-Life Issues
May 19th, 2019 3:51 PM
It’s something you maybe never thought you would see on CNN, but during Sunday’s Reliable Sources, host Brian Stelter invited on Catherine Hadro, host of “Pro-Life Weekly” on the Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN), to discuss how pro-life issues were covered by the media. And she used her time to expose how the liberal media makes false claims about pro-life laws and used labels to portray…
Study Shows the News Media Have Become Opinion Artists
May 19th, 2019 7:40 AM
A new Rand study published earlier this week finds that the news media have become more subjective and opinionated over the past 30 years, and suggests the shift away from fact-based reporting has contributed to the public’s growing distrust of the news media. The report does not consider how journalists’ personal partisan skew is part of the problem, but it is.
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Networks Still Refuse to Cover Serial-Killing Illegal Alien [UPDATED]
May 17th, 2019 12:39 PM
UPDATE, 8:25 p.m. Eastern: In the hours since this article was first published, NBC Nightly News answered the call and stepped to the plate in covering the brutal violence against at least 12 people and the allegations of murder against illegal immigrant Bill Chemirmir. The one-minute-and-31-second story opened the newscast's B-block with correspondent Gabe Gutierrez mentioning the suspect's…
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Democrats Claim ‘Constitutional Crisis,’ Media Repeat It 386 Times
May 14th, 2019 11:38 AM
Watch cable “news” these days, and you’ll surely see talking heads parroting the Democratic line that the Trump Administration’s noncompliance with House Committee subpoenas amounts to a constitutional crisis. While a small handful of analysts and guest legal scholars disagree, TV hosts continue to push the idea uncritically, with some even urging the alleged crisis be used as grounds for…
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Gutfeld Rips NYT for Trying to Make an Old Trump Story a New Scandal
May 12th, 2019 10:28 AM
After The New York Times published their story last week about President Trump losing $1 billion in the 80s and 90s, did you feel like you already knew about that? So did everyone else, because Trump’s financial problems during that time were well documented. So, during his late Saturday night show, Fox News Channel host Greg Gutfeld ripped into the Times for trying to drop “a bombshell…
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Only Fox News Covers Dem State Rep Harassing Pro-Life Protesters
May 9th, 2019 9:52 AM
As NewsBusters has previously reported, the networks ignored the outrageous story about Pennsylvania State Rep. Brian Sims harassing an elderly pro-life protester outside of a Philadelphia Planned Parenthood clinic and threatening to dox her. Cable news was not much better. Only Fox News bothered to give the story airtime.
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Watch Stephanie Ruhle Get Shut Down After Bungling MSNBC Talking Point
May 8th, 2019 6:31 PM
MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle on Wednesday laughably argued that the former federal prosecutors who signed a letter accusing President Trump of obstructing justice were “apolitical” actors. Her argument was swiftly dismissed out of hand by former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (R), resulting in an explosive back-and-forth.
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Journalists Mocked Contempt for Obama's AG as 'Political Theater'
May 8th, 2019 9:15 AM
TV journalists are framing House Democrats’ threat to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress as a justifiable measure to combat the Trump administration’s perceived stonewalling. But in 2012, when House Republicans held then-Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt for his refusal to comply with a lawful subpoena, many of the same talking heads dismissed the act as absurd “…
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Shapiro Unpacks the Liberal Media's Conflict With Conservatives, Faith
May 5th, 2019 5:21 PM
In a Sunday appearance on CNN’s Reliable Sources, conservative thought leader and editor-in-chief of The Daily Wire, Ben Shapiro and host Brian Stelter had a thoughtful discussion about where the media was failing when it came to discussing religion, conservatives, and President Trump.
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Heilemann Slams 'Big Fat Steaming Plate of Hannity,' 'Pig in ****'
May 3rd, 2019 12:24 AM
On Wednesday's The 11th Hour with Brian Williams on MSNBC, during a discussion of Fox News reaction to Attorney General Bill Barr's testimony on the Mueller report, John Heilemann derided FNC host Sean Hannity as a "steaming, hot pile of Hannity" who is as "happy as a pig in ****" as the MSNBC national affairs analyst seemed annoyed at having to react to the conservative Fox News host's…
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Mollie Hemingway: ‘People Sense the Injustice’ Media Did to Sandmann
May 2nd, 2019 11:55 PM
In an appearance on Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson Tonight Thursday, Federalist senior editor Mollie Hemingway assessed that the reason Sandmann enjoyed such broad support was that “people sense the injustice” done to him by a vicious liberal media.
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Rasmussen: 'People Look at Journalists Like They Look at Wikipedia'
April 30th, 2019 6:25 AM
Investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson began the latest edition of her weekly syndicated show Full Measure with an in-depth report on the growing distrust of the media. The package focused heavily on the results of a poll conducted for Full Measure by pollster Scott Rasmussen, which had some devastating results for media credibility. In summation, Rasmussen concluded that voters see…
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Chris Plante: The Liberal Media Is ‘Tube Feeding’ Lies to America
April 29th, 2019 11:37 PM
In an energized appearance on the Fox News Channel's Tucker Carlson Tonight Monday to talk about the pompous White House Correspondents Dinner, talk radio host Chris Plante blasted the liberal media for their First Amendment hypocrisy between Presidents Obama and Trump. On top of that, he described how he left his job at CNN because they were “tube feeding” lies and deceit to America.
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Cuomo Slams Repubs for 'Misusing Christianity,' Gives Buttigieg a Pass
April 26th, 2019 10:22 AM
During his closing argument Wednesday, CNN host Chris Cuomo slammed President Trump and Republican Congressman Steve King for using religion as “both shield and sword,” and accused the former of “misusing Christianity.” Cuomo complained that “religion is being used to pander and divide by men who have no business representing themselves as arbiters of the same.” Strangely, Cuomo did not include…
