Acosta: We'll 'Have to Pinch Ourselves' for Being Able to Cover Obama

June 19th, 2026 12:55 PM

Thursday’s opening of the Obama Presidential Center brought back all of the gushing media coverage that defined his presidency and not just from current media personalities. Former CNN anchor Jim Acosta had a busy day with former colleague John Harwood and former NBC and CBS anchor Katie Couric as they seemed to compete with each other over who could be the most effusive in their praise for…

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Acosta, Couric Worry Ellisons Turning CBS, CNN Into 'Propaganda Giant'

May 31st, 2026 6:16 AM

When the networks promote the Democrats inside a liberal bubble, the liberals call that "tried and true news." If it departs from that bubble in the slightest, it's turning into "propaganda." On Katie Couric's podcast, Jim Acosta worried out loud that that the Ellisons taking over CBS and CNN has "the makings of a propaganda giant."

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Acosta: Reporters Should Prepare To 'Walk The F*** Out' Of WHCD

April 25th, 2026 11:52 AM

One of the most enlightening things about the former Elite Media, allegedly straight news anchors starting their own podcasts and Substacks, is being able to see what they truly think, and nobody has been exposed quite like former CNN host Jim Acosta and former CBS and NBC anchor Katie Couric. On the former’s Friday show, the pair teamed up to urge reporters to be prepared to “walk the fuck…

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Couric Asks Newsom 'Are You Just Ridiculously Good-Looking?'

March 6th, 2026 4:14 PM

California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s presidential campaign trial run masquerading as a book tour took him to Katie Couric’s Next Question podcast on Thursday, where she expressed concern over Newsom’s reputation as “slick.” During that portion of the episode, the former CBS and NBC anchor would ask such difficult questions as “Are you just ridiculously good-looking?” and wonder if that…

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Rand Paul Talks Sense To Katie Couric on Deporting Violent Criminals

February 15th, 2026 6:01 AM

Former network news star Katie Couric actually interviewed a Republican – Sen. Rand Paul – on her YouTube show, and the senator tried to take a moderate tone in contrast to Couric’s extremist DNC talking points. She kept pushing that "less than 14 percent" of migrants arrested by ICE were violent criminals. 

Epstein Files Reveal He & His Fixer Dined With Many Media Figures

February 5th, 2026 4:51 PM

Would you go to an intimate dinner party hosted by a man who was a convicted child sex offender? How about one hosted by his fixer? Or hang out with one of them on the weekend? A NewsBusters investigation of the Epstein Files has revealed that numerous liberal media elitist faced those very scenarios just years after Jeffery Epstein was convicted, and they answered yes to such invitations.…

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FLASHBACK: The Media’s Most Outrageous Olympic Outbursts

February 5th, 2026 9:50 AM

Conservative sports fans checking in on coverage of Team USA at these winter games might want to brace themselves for unexpected outbursts of liberal preaching from the reporters covering them.

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Joe Scarborough: 'Many People' Say Pretti Shooting 'Execution-Style'

January 26th, 2026 2:32 PM

On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough says that "many people were describing [the death of Alex Pretti] as an execution-style shooting." The show opened with the Minneapolis police chief boasting that they took away 900 guns in the last year without shooting anyone. Yeah, and they didn't have mobs of protesters, screaming, driving cars into their operations, blowing whistles, trying to "de-arrest"…

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WORST OF 2025: The Damn Those Conservatives Award

December 27th, 2025 9:00 AM

Bitter old Katie Couric wanted to blame Charlie Kirk's death on his own words. 

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POLL RESULTS: Worst Media Take of the Week Winner!

November 24th, 2025 6:39 PM

We’ve got a new interactive series called Worst Media Take of the Week, where you — our loyal NewsBusters visitors and MRC supporters — get to vote on which leftist journalist or celebrity had the worst media take of the week. Much appreciation to all who voted last week via NewsBusters and the MRC’s various social media sites (Facebook, Instagram and X.com). The results of the Worst Media…

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LOL: Psaki Claims White House Press Corps Is Becoming 'Kremlin-esque'

November 22nd, 2025 2:00 PM

Former White House press secretary and current MS NOW host Jen Psaki joined former NBC and CBS anchor Katie Couric on her Substack’s video show on Wednesday to claim that the current White House press corps is becoming “Kremlin-esque.” Both Psaki and Couric were too deep in their echo chamber to realize that Psaki’s previous sentence unwittingly highlighted just how absurd the claim was.

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POLL: What Was the Worst Media Take of the Week?

November 20th, 2025 4:55 PM

POLL: What Was the Worst Media Take of the Week?

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Couric, Burns Lament Left's Declining Influence In History Education

November 14th, 2025 3:18 PM

Bad camera angles were not the only thing wrong with former CBS and NBC anchor Katie Couric’s Friday interview with PBS documentarian Ken Burns on her Substack page. After spending much time on Burns’s upcoming series on the American Revolution, the pair moved on to discuss the state of history education in the country more broadly, which Couric described as “going backwards” and Burns labeled…

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Couric Begs THREE TIMES To Get Fetterman To Call Trump Anti-Democratic

November 13th, 2025 1:23 PM

Former CBS and NBC anchor Katie Couric unsuccessfully tried not once, not twice, but three times to get Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. John Fetterman to label President Trump as anti-democratic on Thursday’s episode of her Next Question podcast. It was just another example of former broadcast anchors and reporters confirming that they were not the down-the-middle reporters they claimed…