John Dickerson

The Media Are Now Desperately Trying to Save Government Workers
The media are united in their purpose of trying to save government workers from the DOGE ax. Across the dial, each evening newscast devoted significant time to creating in their respective audiences an empathy for government bloat.

CBS Tugs at Heartstrings, Uses Hungry Kids in Sudan to Defend USAID
Instead of considering why Americans voted for Trump and his campaign promise to task Elon Musk with creating a Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to attack government spending, Wednesday’s CBS Evening News and Thursday’s CBS Mornings chose to tug at one’s emotional heartstrings by holding up food sent through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to…

Liberal Media’s Coverage of the Trump ICE Raids: Mixed, at Best
As the reality of the Trump Administration’s will to enforce our borders sets in, the Resistance Media scramble to adjust. Coverage of the latest round of raids in New York City and elsewhere was mixed at best.

The Media Lose Their Minds Over Federal Funding Freeze
With a single stroke, the Trump White House sent the left and their attendant media into a tailspin, scrambling to find a way to spin the twin daggers aimed directly at the heart of the Government-Industrial Complex: The OMB federal funding freeze and the proposed buyouts to over 2 million federal workers.

REVIEW: The New CBS Evening News- Is It Too Late to Bring Norah Back?
The new and revamped CBS Evening News emerged after much hype and a treacly send-off for its prior anchor, Norah O’Donnell. After watching its maiden broadcast one is left wondering: is it too late for Norah to come back?

We'll See: New CBS Evening News Promises News ‘In a Clean & Clear Way’
Hours ahead of their debut as co-anchors for the revamped CBS Evening News, John Dickerson and Maurice DuBois stopped by Monday’s CBS Mornings and CBS Mornings Plus to preview their outlook on what promises to be a different newscast that would cover fewer stories, but go more in depth on those they do highlight. The two promised to help viewers “understand” the news…

Meet the New Bosses: The Worst of CBS’s Dickerson and Brennan
The following are just a few of the most obnoxious outbursts from the John Dickerson and Margaret Brennan over the years (via the MRC archives).

Colbert: Vance Hated Woke Sermon Since He Didn't Have Sex With The Pew
It was an eventful evening for CBS’s host of The Late Show, Stephen Colbert. First, during his monologue, Colbert praised Episcopal Bishop Mariann Budde’s plea to Trump that repeated several left-wing grievances and claimed Vice President JD Vance was upset during the sermon because he could not have sex with the pew. Second, Colbert later welcomed CBS News’s John Dickerson to give a…

CBS Mourns End of J6 Cases, Incoming EN Host Flashes Blinding Irony
In addition to their hostile interview of Secretary of State Marco Rubio about January 6 and two surprising segments about First Lady Melania Trump’s fashion at the inauguration and the evening balls, CBS Mornings made January 6 and President Trump’s pardons the most important takeaway of this new day in America plus a side of illegal immigrant sob stories.

Eye on Disdain: The 14 Worst Moments From CBS’s Inauguration Coverage
While it lacked the schoolings NBC’s liberal journalists faced at the hands of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and longtime GOP hand Hogan Gidley or ABC’s degree of Biden apple polishing, CBS held its own during Monday’s Trump inauguration thanks to the pomposity and obsession with January 6 on the part of many of their lead anchors. NewsBusters slogged through the first nine hours of…

WORST OF 2024: The Praising and Protecting Old Joe Award
Today we present the WORST OF 2024: The Praising and Protecting Old Joe Award.

TOTAL WAR: The Regime and Its Media Have Come For Pete Hegseth
As the Regime Media array themselves against the Trump Cabinet, it has become crystal clear that Defense Secretary-Designate Pete Hegseth has become a prime target. With the Hunter Biden pardon rapidly fading from coverage, the disqualification attacks against Hegseth drew top billing.

Democrats Self-Examine, But Not the Media
It’s been a week since Donald Trump’s landslide re-election and some Democrats are using words like “realignment,” “self-reflection” and “regret.” It seems most on the losing side are rethinking their far-left policies on immigration and the entire social agenda. Let’s wait and see, because for the left these are matters held as near-religious doctrines.

Here Were the WORST Moments of CBS’s Election Overnight From Hell
During the overnight hours of Tuesday into Wednesday, CBS was in the midst of an epic, hours-long meltdown over what was then the impending reelection of Donald Trump to the presidency. Over the course of eight hours, CBS journalists heaped scorn on Americans for refusing to accept “the facts” about the Biden-Harris economy, unfairly blamed Biden for “the cost of your rent,” claimed voters…