POLL RESULTS: Worst Media Take of the Week Winner!

POLL RESULTS: Worst Media Take of the Week Winner!

Geoffrey Dickens
April 14th, 2025 11:57 AM

Ex-CNNer Darcy: 'Handmaid's Tale' SO Similar to Trump In Power Again

Journalists who insist the conservatives don’t believe in facts are greeting the very fictional final season of The Handmaid’s Tale on Hulu with the ridiculous rerun spin of “wow, this repressive religious dictatorship is so exactly like Trump’s America.” Former CNN media reporter Oliver Darcy -- Mr. "Facts First" -- interviewed the show-runners and repeated the garbage that it has "…

Tim Graham
April 14th, 2025 11:49 AM

U.S. News Pulls Republished AP Article that Sparked Defamation Suit

As NewsBusters was first to report, on Friday, Navy veteran Zachary Young had filed a lawsuit against The Associated Press for defamation after they falsely described his Afghanistan evacuation efforts as “human smuggling,” a term the AP Stylebook said was reserved for illegal activity. Over the weekend, U.S. News and World Report retracted their republication of the offending AP…

Nicholas Fondacaro
April 14th, 2025 11:22 AM

Editor’s Pick: Daily Caller on Boston Mayor Taking Cash From CCP Tool

Daily Caller News Foundation senior investigative reporter Philip Lenczycki published a troubling investigation Monday on Boston Mayor Michelle Wu during her bid for a second term that, during her first successful campaign in 2021, she “received hundreds of thousands of dollars from a fundraiser who is listed by a Chinese intelligence agency as an official.”

Curtis Houck
April 14th, 2025 10:23 AM

Boston Bombast: Democrats Should Cry 'Autocracy' from the Mountaintops

Journalists don't tell the Democrats to calm down. Typically, they encourage Democrats to scream about Trump as an autocrat. On Sunday's Meet the Press, Boston Globe senior opinion writer Kimberly Atkins Stohr was one of those leftist agitators, using the tariff turbulence as another opportunity to cry Tyranny.

Tim Graham
April 14th, 2025 7:42 AM

‘DUKAKIS IN THE TANK For The 21st Century’: J-Mart COOKS Whitmer

Rare is the instance where you see blue-on-blue crime on the Legacy Media’s Sunday shows, but Politico’s Jonathan Martin gives us that rare outlier, in reaction to Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s face-shielding hijinks at The White House. In so doing, Martin hearkened back to another classic own-goal.

Jorge Bonilla
April 13th, 2025 8:07 PM

‘A NATION OF COBBLERS’: ABC’s Jon Karl Slights Working Americans

Elite Acela journalist Jon Karl showed his true colors during an exchange with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick over the reshoring of American industry. In response to Lutnick’s remarks on the national security component of the tariffs levied against China, Karl questioned whether America would go back to being “a nation of cobblers.”  

Jorge Bonilla
April 13th, 2025 5:55 PM

'Saturday Night Live' Uses Jesus to Mock Trump as Ruining the Economy

The left-wingers at NBC's Saturday Night Live can't seem to start their shows without an anti-Trump skit, and this time, it started out with a Jesus Christ vs. the money-changers theme....until their Fake Trump James Austin Johnson showed up to unload a pile of comedy bits about how terrible the economy is going. 

Tim Graham
April 13th, 2025 4:16 PM

NPR Aches for Hamas Left on Campus: 'Fear Is a New Campus Reality'

In Saturday’s All Things Considered story by reporter Elena Moore from the frontlines of the Israel-Hamas campus wars, she lamented how students are afraid of expressing pro-Hamas sympathies on progressive college campuses: “For some students who protested war in Gaza, fear and silence is a new campus reality.” This, after a year and a half of NPR either ignoring or “both-siding”…

Clay Waters
April 13th, 2025 9:36 AM

Christopher Rufo Takes Full Advantage of a Little Balance on NPR

It's rare when you can acknowledge a conservative viewpoint was given a full airing on taxpayer-funded National Public Radio. But on Friday, the New York Times podcast The Daily -- which airs across the country on NPR -- offered a platform to Manhattan Institute fellow Christopher Rufo, under the headline "The Conservative Activist Pushing Trump to Attack U.S. Colleges." Rufo…

Tim Graham
April 13th, 2025 6:46 AM

MRCTV's Justine Brooke Murray Recounts Trying to Visit NPR and PBS

As I noted during the OANN segment, how can public media comply with its “strict adherence to objectivity and balance” when NPR CEO Katherine Maher believes truth is a “distraction?”

Justine Brooke Murray
April 13th, 2025 6:00 AM

PBS Uses Stealth Biden Treasury Staffer to Criticize DOGE's IRS Cuts

Wednesday’s edition of the PBS News Hour took on yet another unlabeled liberal or Democrat-linked critic of Trump as its guest expert on an issue, this time defending the dubious idea of tax-related privacy rights for illegal immigrants against DOGE’s budget cuts to the IRS and warning the agency could well implode during tax season as a result: "For decades, the IRS encouraged…

Clay Waters
April 12th, 2025 9:43 PM

CNN: No Credit to Trump for Better Than Expected Inflation Rate Drop

In a report on a surprising drop in the inflation rate, CNN reporter Matt Egan highlights a significant decline in the Producer Price Index, with prices decreasing by 0.4% and an annual rate of 2.7%, better than expected. Egan attributes this to factors like plunging oil prices and a drop in egg prices, noting the report’s focus was limited to price changes before the full impact of recent…

P.J. Gladnick
April 12th, 2025 6:29 PM

New Books on Biden's Decline Expose Shameful Failure of Old Media

Well, of course, anybody with eyes to see could see plainly in 2024, if not before, that President Joe Biden was, as the saying goes, “cognitively impaired.” The public was far ahead of those so-called investigators in the press.

Jeffrey Lord
April 12th, 2025 4:00 PM