DEFUND NPR & PBS: Schneider Calls Out Publicly-Funded Misinfo Outlets

NPR and PBS are scrambling to keep their funding, and MRC’s VP for External Affairs Dan Schneider has been myth-busting through their best arguments.

Scheider told WMAL host Larry O’Connor on his show Friday that NPR and PBS have hired lawyers and lobbyists who are “going around saying if Republicans…

Gabriela Pariseau
July 11th, 2025 12:02 PM

Sunny Hostin Says CBP, ICE Deserve Violent 'Reckoning' Coming for Them

Disney and ABC News seem to be fine with their hosts promoting violence and attempts to kill federal law enforcement officers. During Friday’s episode of The View, staunchly racist Sunny Hostin responded to the recent attempt to kill Customs and Border Protection agents in McAllen, Texas by suggesting they had it coming because they wear masks. She also proclaimed that a “reckoning”…

Nicholas Fondacaro
July 11th, 2025 12:02 PM

Censors Losing the Battle: NewsGuard Ditches Misinfo, Disinfo Labels

NewsGuard has waved its white flag in its censorship fight against “misinformation” and “disinformation,” claiming it is eliminating these terms in favor of alternative language. The move marks the left’s latest rebranding effort following the failure of previous campaigns.

Luis Cornelio
July 11th, 2025 11:35 AM

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

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

Geoffrey Dickens
July 11th, 2025 9:55 AM

Chieng Uses Iran's Threat To Assassinate Trump To Make Fat Jokes

On Thursday, just a few days before the one year anniversary of President Trump almost being killed, Comedy Central’s Ronny Chieng and The Daily Show’s audience found great amusement in Iran’s recent threats to assassinate Trump, not so much because Chieng actually wants him dead, but because it gave them an opportunity to mock Trump’s physical appearance.

Alex Christy
July 11th, 2025 9:34 AM

Column: PolitiFact Seeks to Spoil the Spin of Scott Jennings

The “fact checkers” at PolitiFact barely touch the talking heads on cable television anymore. They used to have a serious tilt against the Fox News hosts in prime time. So it’s unsurprising that on July 9, they published their first attack on conservative CNN analyst Scott Jennings, who offered a few tough words about Medicaid beneficiaries.

Tim Graham
July 11th, 2025 6:30 AM

OMISSION: NBC Nightly News Fails to Report Secret Service Suspensions

The anniversary of the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump is upon us and with it, news of the actions taken by the Secret Service after reviewing the many breakdowns that led to the current President of the United States almost getting gunned down in Butler, Pennsylvania. This is without a doubt a story of enormous national import, and yet, NBC News has not seen fit to cover it…

Jorge Bonilla
July 11th, 2025 1:41 AM

CBS Undermines Its Own Report on Trump’s Executive Order on Logging

For its longform Eye on America  segment, the CBS Evening News delivered a visually beautiful report on President Trump’s executive order on logging- backdropped by lush Oregon forests. The report featured a heavy dose of advocacy against logging in national forests. But the report was undercut by an earlier item that underscores why such forest clearing is needed in the…

Jorge Bonilla
July 10th, 2025 11:36 PM

Weird: MSNBC Host Rips Doocy as ‘Babbling Buffoon,’ ‘Dumbest’ Reporter

On Wednesday night, MSNBC’s The Last Word host Lawrence O’Donnell went low in blasting Fox News senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy as a “babbling” and “incompetent buffoon” lacking “a shred of embarrassment” but brimming with “revealed stupidity” and “white male privilege” but also used to be “the stupidest reporter in the White House press corps” until “the dregs of Trump-…

Curtis Houck
July 10th, 2025 5:10 PM

OXYMORON: AEI ‘Free Speech’ Panel Roots for Big Tech’s Right to Censor

A panel at the American Enterprise Institute turned into a Big Tech lovefest, with the panelists advocating that social media companies have the right to censor Americans.

Tom Olohan
July 10th, 2025 4:47 PM

Psaki 'Surprised' Trump Isn't Helping ‘Trump Supporters’ Amid Floods

On Tuesday night, MSNBC’s The Briefing With Jen Psaki cited FEMA cuts as a main factor for the response to the Texas floods. Psaki still used this narrative despite multiple reports coming out that emergency management and response had been on par with or exceeded expectations.  

Matthew Seck
July 10th, 2025 4:40 PM

'PUBLIC' Radio Watch: NPR's 'Fresh Air' Has ZERO Conservative Journos

Fresh Air is a daily National Public Radio chat show out of WHYY in Philadelphia (which airs nationwide). A NewsBusters review of Fresh Air programs from January 1 through June 30 reveals there have been 36 interviews with liberal and leftist journalists, and precisely zero with conservative journalists.

Tim Graham
July 10th, 2025 3:15 PM

WashPost Welcomes a Clown To Insist Trump's a Fascist, Not a Clown

Democracy dies in darkness… or clown noises; The Washington Post isn’t quite sure which. On Thursday, the Post welcomed president of the board of Clowns Without Borders Tim Cunningham to their op-ed section to write a column insisting that people refer to President Trump as a fascist, not a clown.

Alex Christy
July 10th, 2025 2:22 PM
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POLITICS! CNN's Cornish Grabs Panel To Criticize Brennan-Comey Probe

Audie Cornish, host of CNN This Morning, assembles a panel that unanimously criticizes the investigation launched by the Justice Department into the possible criminal activities of John Brennan and James Comey to interfere with the 2016 election.

Mark Finkelstein
July 10th, 2025 2:14 PM