NBC Backs Chicago Teachers' Union on Closures, Kids Could Die

Late Tuesday night the Chicago teachers union voted to cancel all in-person classes for all public schools. This decision left parents to scramble to find babysitters and other accommodations for their children during the school day. Wednesday night’s edition of NBC Nightly News decided to take the side of the teachers’ unions. 

Kevin Tober
January 5th, 2022 9:33 PM

Nets Silent on New York City DA Vowing to Let Violent Criminals Walk

While the broadcast networks were busy spending Wednesday hyping the anniversary of January 6 for political gain in the midterms, they were intentionally overlooking the violent chaos in their own backyard in New York City. There, newly minted District Attorney Alvin Bragg promised to allow violent criminals to walk free as part of his progressive Democratic criminal justice reform plan; at a…

Nicholas Fondacaro
January 5th, 2022 9:02 PM

Politico Column Slams U.S. Constitution as Undemocratic

In a Wednesday op-ed for Politico, invoking the media’s obsession with January 6, Brooklyn College political science professor Corey Robin flashed just how little he understood about how and why America’s founders set up the system of government they did. Or perhaps the goal was to just undo that great architecture and supplant it with something inferior. 

P.J. Gladnick
January 5th, 2022 8:05 PM

New Tax Rule Requires Payment Apps to Report Transactions Over $600

A new tax rule from the Internal Revenue Service will require payment apps to report business transactions over $600.


 

Autumn Johnson
January 5th, 2022 7:53 PM

CNN: Holding Dems Accountable for Violence is 'Both-Siderism'

During CNN's breaking news coverage of Attorney General Merrick Garland's news conference on the Justice Department's January 6 investigation, chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin scoffed at Garland's desire to prosecute political violence no matter what political party is involved. 

Kevin Tober
January 5th, 2022 6:03 PM

Krugman’s New Schtick Is Convincing People ‘2021 Was Pretty Amazing’

New York Times economist Paul Krugman is once again making a fool of himself by letting everyone know he believes that 2021 was actually a great year for the economy. Really.

Joseph Vazquez
January 5th, 2022 5:51 PM

NewsBusters Podcast: Press Resolute, Everything a Threat to Democracy

NewsBusters rings in 2022 with Nick “Night Train” Fondacaro filling in for Tim Graham and discussing the media New Year resolution to make every day, this midterm year, about January 6 in an attempt to swing the election for Democrats. I’m also joined by research director Scott Whitlock to talk about the media’s refusal to better themselves as they stoke hatred against the right.

Nicholas Fondacaro
January 5th, 2022 5:17 PM

NPR Promotes 'Sedition Hunters' Who Identify 1/6 Riot Suspects

NPR's Morning Edition on Wednesday delighted in a supposedly nonpartisan group that they called the "Sedition Hunters," who have helped scoured videos to help identify suspects in the January 6 riot. NPR turned to reporter Odette Yousef, whose alleged beat is "extremism," but it's all about right-wing extremism, because this is NPR. 

Tim Graham
January 5th, 2022 4:41 PM

CensorTrack with TR: Year of Anti-Trump, Anti-Life & Anti-Free Speech

It’s Episode Nineteen of MRC’s newest video series, CensorTrack with TR. This week we gave a recap of some of the worst Big Tech censorship cases of 2021. To start, former president Donald Trump was censored 625 times throughout his administration and beyond. Trump was banned from his Twitter, Facebook, YouTube accounts and more in 2021. Big Tech silenced the leader of the free world…

Tierin-Rose Mandelburg
January 5th, 2022 4:30 PM

Ya Think? Gal Gadot Admits 2020 Covid ‘Imagine’ Video Was ‘Poor Taste’

There are no circumstances – none – in which it is appropriate to sing or play John Lennon’s song “Imagine.” The vapid Marxist dirge drenched in stale hippie sentimentality makes everyone who hears it measurably dumber, and probably slows their reflexes and dulls their taste buds. 

Matt Philbin
January 5th, 2022 3:50 PM

Wall-to-Wall: Media Plan AVALANCHE of Jan. 6 Anniversary Coverage

In an effort to push the Democratic Party agenda on the federal takeover of elections and hype an anti-Republican campaign narrative ahead of the 2022 midterm elections, leftist media outlets have planned an avalanche of special coverage commemorating the one year anniversary of the January 6th Capitol Hill riot. On Wednesday, network hosts eagerly announced plans to anchor live from…

Kyle Drennen
January 5th, 2022 3:47 PM

Remember When Latino Media Revered Insurrectionists? We Do.

The nation’s Spanish-speaking media are joining the corporate media's effort to goose their ratings with their own special programming to commemorate the “attack on democracy by the followers of President Donald Trump”; at Univision, the special goes by the name of “Assault to the Capitol: Testing Democracy”; at Telemundo, it´s an “Attack on Democracy”. But it wasn't that long ago that these…

Kathleen Krumhansl
January 5th, 2022 3:32 PM

Financially BLACKLISTED? Ian Miles Cheong Says PayPal BANNED Him

Commentator and journalist Ian Miles Cheong said that payment processing platform PayPal booted him without providing a specific reason.

Alexander Hall
January 5th, 2022 2:59 PM

The Democrats' Exploitation of January 6 Gives Away Their Game

This year, Jan. 6 will be commemorated with all the ballyhoo and rigmarole Democrats and their media allies can muster. CNN plans an entire special around the anniversary, titled Live from the Capitol: January 6th, One Year Later. The show will feature the “heroes who protected our democracy in the face of an insurrection,” and will luminaries like Nancy Pelosi and January 6 Committee…

Ben Shapiro
January 5th, 2022 2:55 PM