PBS Unmoved By Claim 'We Know' There's 'At Least Three Genders'

As PBS prepares to defend itself at a Wednesday Congressional hearing, the Monday edition of Amanpour and Company seemed oblivious to the stakes the network faces. Guest host Bianna Golodryga welcomed transgender Nashville city council member Olivia Hill to not only declare there are “at least three genders” but also that people who transition the other way acquire “male privilege,”…

Alex Christy
March 25th, 2025 1:49 PM

The Atlantic’s ‘War Plans’ Signal App Story Fact-Checked by WH Press Sec. Leavitt

On Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt posted a fact-check of an article by Jeffrey Goldberg published Monday in The Atlantic claiming that he was accidentally texted “war plans” by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth via the Signal messaging app.
Craig Bannister
March 25th, 2025 12:33 PM

Gross: Kimmel Ponders Ingraham's 'Erection' If Biden Had Group Chat

ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel was not content to merely criticize Trump Administration national security officials for discussing military operations on a civilian messaging app while unwittingly including The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg in their conversations on his Monday show; he just had to bring Fox News’s Laura Ingraham into it as well. For unexplainable reasons, Kimmel mused about how…

Alex Christy
March 25th, 2025 11:39 AM

ABC, CBS, NBC Ignore Crockett Calling for Violence Against Ted Cruz

In an interview that aired Sunday on NBC’s Dallas-Fort Worth-area affiliate KXAS and went viral on X Monday, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) talked repeatedly about wanting to beat up and repeatedly “punch” Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz. Leaving aside her sudden code switching in the last year, the incendiary rhetoric is the sort of thing ABC, CBS, and NBC would look to call out if…

Curtis Houck
March 25th, 2025 10:36 AM

Zuckerberg’s Free Speech Promise Kept? MRC Sees Early Surge in Traffic

Media Research Center data indicates that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s pledge to implement pro-free speech policies across Meta appears to have had an almost immediate impact.

Luis Cornelio
March 25th, 2025 10:14 AM

Stewart on Columbia: Trump Doesn't 'Give a F*** About Free Speech'

Columbia University’s own task force investigating anti-Semitism issued a 90-page report chronicling how threats and harassment towards Jewish students have increased since October 7 and how the school failed to respond appropriately. However, Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart alleged on Monday’s edition of The Daily Show that the Trump Administration’s demands to Columbia proved they “don…

Alex Christy
March 25th, 2025 9:55 AM

PBS Hypes NPR Podcast on Crazy Dad with Right-Wing Conspiracy Theories

PBS News Weekend helped their brethren at NPR promote a podcast series on Sunday in a segment headlined "How online misinformation is ‘supercharging’ conspiracy theories." Podcaster Zach Mack made a three-part podcast on how his conservative Christian father has gone down a "rabbit hole" of conspiracy thinking.

Tim Graham
March 25th, 2025 9:52 AM

POLL RESULTS: Worst Media Take of the Week Winner!

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Geoffrey Dickens
March 25th, 2025 9:30 AM
Smerconish Calls Out TDS’ Amusement Over ‘Domestic Terrorism’

Smerconish Calls Out Leftist Amusement Over ‘Domestic Terrorism’

If vandalism, arson, and domestic terrorism were your idea of a good laugh, then you would have got a kick out of The Daily Show Sunday. On his CNN show Smerconish on Monday morning, Michael Smerconish defied the media’s obsessive demonization of Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), and called attention to how the anti-Musk fixation had, in…

David Milliken
March 25th, 2025 6:00 AM

CBS’s John Dickerson Laments Trump Wields Presidential Power

Fresh off of blaming Americans for ruining Spring, CBS anchor John Dickerson delivers another hollow, moralistic editorial from his “Reporter’s Notebook” segment which closes out the CBS Evening News Plus.

Jorge Bonilla
March 25th, 2025 1:25 AM

INCENDIARY BUT ‘MOSTLY PEACEFUL’: Nets Still Awful on Tesla Protests

The “legacy media” network newscasts continue their shameful reporting on the campaign of violence currently unfolding against Tesla, in protest of founder Elon Musk’s role in the Trump administration. Today’s stories included the rehashing of a familiar trope. 

Jorge Bonilla
March 25th, 2025 12:19 AM

NewsBusters Podcast: Cheering and Laughing at the 'Tesla Takedown'

Rooting for bad things to happen to your adversaries isn't unusual. But when Rush Limbaugh said "I hope he fails" about incoming President Obama in 2009, leftists suggested he should be executed for treason. Now, people are talking about vandalism against Elon Musk's Tesla vehicles and dealerships, and crowds cheer and laugh as the Tesla stock price sinks. The double standard is obvious, with…

Tim Graham
March 24th, 2025 10:46 PM

Darcy Is MAD Outlets Aren’t Like AP Fighting Trump on Gulf of America

Former CNN senior media reporter Oliver Darcy suggested Sunday on his newsletter site Status American democracy was teetering and a descent into authoritarianism was afoot. Even though his unhinged outlook on life appears permanent, this new reason was legacy media outlets having refused to join the Associated Press in using “Gulf of Mexico” instead of Gulf of America (and instead vague uses…

Curtis Houck
March 24th, 2025 6:30 PM

Bill Maher to Meet with Trump at WH, Courtesy of Kid Rock

Outspoken, far-left, political comedian Bill Maher will reportedly be visiting President Donald Trump at the White House in the near future.
Craig Bannister
March 24th, 2025 4:58 PM