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‘Spinning Once Again’: Fox News Calls Out Media’s Revolving Door
November 24th, 2020 10:50 PM
With President-elect Biden stocking up on staff to fill his cabinet, we’re already starting to see the revolving door between politics and the liberal media begin to turn again. Fox News Channel media analyst and host of Media Buzz, Howard Kurtz was on the case Tuesday night as he pointed out the men and women of The Swamp who were leaving the CNN and MSNBC payrolls to go work for…
Shellacked: Stelter Gets Owned, Loses to FNC in Ratings by 106 Percent
September 22nd, 2020 9:52 PM
No, that’s not a typo in the headline. According to Nielsen Media Research, CNN’s Reliable Sources and host Brian Stelter were absolutely pulverized Sunday in the ratings fight by FNC’s MediaBuzz with Howard Kurtz, losing by 106 percent in total viewers. On Sunday, Stelter’s Fox hatefest garnered 852,000 total viewers and 168,000 in the 25-54 group. In contrast, Kurtz’s show…
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Fox Media Panelist Foresees Legal Trouble for NYT Over Abused Editor
July 19th, 2020 1:20 PM
In a truly scathing public resignation letter posted Tuesday, former New York Times editor Bari Weiss laid bare the “unlawful discrimination, hostile work environment, and constructive discharge” she was subjected to at the so-called “paper of record” because of her moderate opinion. Well, on Sunday’s MediaBuzz, Fox News contributor and Town Hall editor Guy Benson suspected…
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‘Inmates Are Running the Asylum’: Chris Wallace Unloads on NYT, Media
June 14th, 2020 4:29 PM
Brought on to discuss “the emerging crisis in journalism and constant clashes over dissenting views at major news organizations,” during Sunday’s MediaBuzz on Fox News Channel, Fox News Sunday anchor Chris Wallace unloaded on The New York Times for their fiasco regarding Senator Tom Cotton’s (R-AR) recent op-ed, as well as the media writ-large for acting as anti-…
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Fox Guest: '99.9 Percent' of Cop Protests 'Have Been Peaceful'
June 1st, 2020 6:50 AM
On Sunday's MediaBuzz on Fox News Channel, talk show host Richard Butler came on to discuss how the black man is not safe in America. But then he said something ridiculous: "99.9% of these protests have been peaceful." This came on the same day as everyone else discussed the troubling spread of looting and rioting to cities across America.
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CBS/NBC Scoff at Trump v. Twitter, Skip Fact-Checker's Hatred of Trump
May 27th, 2020 9:23 PM
While Twitter targeted President Trump with fact-checks, the CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News scoffed at his understandably angry reaction on Wednesday. While they were amused by him fuming at his favorite social media platform, neither of them cared to report how Twitter’s in-house fact-checker was an anti-Trump activist who had leveled many false accusations against the…
Ex-NBC Journalist Recounts Her Own Sexual Harassment at Network
May 12th, 2020 9:53 AM
NBC does not have the best history when it comes to the #MeToo movement or dealing with sexual harassment in general. The network of Matt Lauer, the network that buried the Harvey Weinstein story has another potential problem. The latest salvo in that conflict arrived on Sunday, when former NBC News reporter Emily Miller stated that the network “just fires the bad guys” when…
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Fox Media Panel Slams HuffPost for 'Irresponsible' Anti-Trump Coverage
May 10th, 2020 5:49 PM
During Sunday’s MediaBuzz on Fox News, a bipartisan media panel excoriated the “left-wing Huffington Post” for publishing a “ridiculous” anti-Trump article titled: “Donald Trump doesn't care if you die from coronavirus.” And after noting that the article “simply said, ‘Well, he has trouble expressing empathy,’” Anchor Howard…
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Fox’s Kurtz Hammers Media Double Standard on Biden Allegations
April 15th, 2020 11:48 AM
On Fox News’s Special Report Tuesday evening, MediaBuzz anchor Howard Kurtz hammered the blatant media double standard when it came to covering sexual assault allegations against presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden. While many outlets have still refused to cover the Biden controversy, Kurtz pointed out how eager major newspapers and networks were to jump on unsubstantiated claims…
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Networks Ignore Covington Lawsuit Settlement; CNN Barely Covers
January 13th, 2020 2:42 PM
Last Tuesday (January 7), it was announced that Covington Catholic High School student Nick Sandmann would settle his lawsuit with the Jeffrey Zucker-led CNN for an undisclosed amount after they tried to ruin his life last year. Luckily for CNN, they’ve all but ignored this on-air (save 29 seconds from Brian Stelter on Reliable Sources) and had help with blackouts from ABC, CBS, MSNBC…
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‘Garbage!’: Fox News Wrecks MSNBC for ‘Airing Iran’s Propaganda’
January 12th, 2020 4:21 PM
In a Sunday report about how MSNBC failed in their duty to report facts to their viewers in the midst of Iran’s missile attack on U.S. bases in Iraq last week, Fox News Channel media reporter and host of MediaBuzz, Howard Kurtz unloaded on the liberal cable news outlet for pushing Iran’s state-media propaganda and scaring the families of service members.
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Same Energy: CNN, FNC Rip Bloomberg News Covering for Boss in 2020
December 1st, 2019 4:08 PM
Following former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg throwing his hat into the 2020 Democratic presidential race, Bloomberg News was rightly dragged when they announced they would be hands-off with their founder and his Democratic rivals, while continuing to grill President Trump. The move was almost universally panned, with the media beat Sunday shows on both CNN and Fox News criticizing the…
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Nets Hype Bloomberg in Race, Ignore Manipulation of News Company
November 25th, 2019 8:38 PM
For all the liberal smears against Fox News claiming they’re “state-run media,” it has become clear that's exactly what Bloomberg News would become if former Mayor Michael Bloomberg wins in 2020. While ABC, CBS, and NBC spent Sunday evening and Monday hyping the billionaire’s new presidential campaign, they ignored how Bloomberg News had been ordered to not investigate…
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Watch Hemingway Nuke Lefty Panelist on Impeachment, Whistleblower
November 11th, 2019 4:13 PM
Unfortunately for former Clinton official Philippe Reines, he was the object of a rhetorical beat down during Sunday’s MediaBuzz on the Fox News Channel, all thanks to our friend Mollie Hemingway at The Federalist over coverage of alleged whistleblower Eric Ciaramella.
