NY Times to Fauci: Did You Warn Trump He Was Going to Get You Killed?
Monday’s New York Times hosted Dr. Anthony Fauci, infectious disease expert, former coronavirus advisor to Donald Trump, and media darling, as he again unloaded on Trump: “Fauci on What Working for Trump Was Really Like.” Yet as the pandemic spread in early spring, Fauci insisted that the public shouldn't be wearing masks. He later admitted to conjuring up herd immunity numbers.…
Media Revolving Door Revolves Again: Truth Is on the Upswing, Right?
After retiring from the Navy as a rear admiral in 2015, John Kirby became the spokesman for the Obama State Department, which led to him to getting a job at CNN as an analyst during the Trump presidency. Now that a Democrat is back in charge, Kirby has gone through the revolving door once more to once again become press secretary at the Pentagon, a position he held while still in uniform in…
Walking Dead Actor Has Had Enough of Cancel Culture
Cancel culture takes no prisoners and a small but growing group of celebrities know it. On Monday Jan 25, The Walking Dead actor, told Harris Faulkner of Fox News that the growing intensity of cancel culture is dangerous to American freedom and culture.
HACKS: CNN, MSNBC Barely Touch Antifa Riots in Portland
Since last week, in contrast with the other networks, Fox News Channel has given substantial coverage to the latest ironically timed riots by left-wing Antifa activists who have been targeting Portland and Seattle as a Democratic President took office and in the several days since.
Mark Dice Says Facebook Warned He’s ‘at Risk of Being Unpublished’
Facebook’s censorship has gone from removing opinions to threatening to remove entire pages. Conservative YouTuber Mark Dice reported that Facebook took down a post from his page on Twitter. But Dice said the platform went a step further, warning him that, “Your page is at risk of being unpublished."
One Last Time: Bye-Bye Tom Brokaw!
On Friday, Tom Brokaw formally retired from NBC News. If you are confused it’s because he already had one retirement when he vacated the NBC Nightly News anchor chair for Brian Williams back in 2004. But like a college professor who awkwardly still hung out with kids decades younger than him he hung around the NBC offices in an Anchor Emeritus role. We here at NewsBusters offer on…
Hollywood to Honor ‘Hanoi Jane’ Fonda for ‘Unrelenting Activism’
Just when I hoped that maybe, with a new administration and continuing pandemic, Hollywood might be a little less self-aggrandizing and political this year, the Golden Globes went and burst my naïve bubble.
Column: Susan Rice and the Fact-Checker Farce
Seeing Susan Rice at the White House podium in 2021, a friend of mine suggested Rice has never been “fact-checked.” Well, that can’t be, I thought. Then I went to the PolitiFact website, which strangely had a Susan Rice page....but not a single “fact check” of Rice, even though PolitiFact was founded in 2007 and Rice worked for Obama from 2009 to 2017.
'Protect Our Earth!' Supernatural CW Series Stages Die-In Protest
Even though the show's originally from Canada, the latest supernatural drama on CW, Trickster, stays completely on brand with the woke network as its latest episode features a die-in protest against fossil fuels.
Daily Doocy: FNC Reporter Questions WH on FEMA, Lefty Violence, Trial
With former National Security Adviser-turned-Domestic Policy Council head Susan Rice appearing at Tuesday’s White House press briefing, the mood was one of ebullience as the liberal press corps felt at home with key allies as Rice and Press Secretary Jen Psaki talked about creating an America based on “equity” to atone for its life of sin. But amidst all the softballs, Fox News White House…
CBS Bashes Florida’s DeSantis for Planning Ahead With Vaccine Doses
Earlier this month, CBS Evening News bashed Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) because he was moving doses of the coronavirus vaccine from inefficient hospitals to more efficient ones. You know being responsible with what he was given. Well, CBS was back at it again on Tuesday as they chided him for planning ahead and holding on to doses to make sure elderly residence could get their…
PBS Reporter Yamiche Alcindor Hypes Media Pushing for 'Radical Change'
PBS NewsHour White House correspondent Yamiche Alcindor underlined how journalism and activism mix heavily in her work in a Martin Luther King Day speech via Zoom to several colleges in Michigan. She said everyone must "bend the moral arc toward justice. And it needs to be bent and molded continuously for anyone to get any sort of justice at all."
Is Modern Media More Biased Than Before?
There is a perception, supported by many surveys, that what passes for contemporary journalism is more biased, even propagandistic, than in earlier times. One of the definitions of "journalism" on Dictionary.com will affirm that attitude for many: "writing that reflects superficial thought and research, a popular slant, and hurried composition..." Journalism has, in fact, been infected by bias…
NBC Warns Reopening States Kills, Gawks at Restaurants Shutting Down
If we’ve learned anything about the news media during the pandemic, it’s that they care more about gawking at people on TV instead of genuine, unvarnished compassion for those suffering (especially business owners). And that notion was quite evident on Tuesday’s NBC Nightly News when, out of one side of their mouth, the network decried states for deciding to reopen. And with the other…