More Tech Companies Announce Plans to Ditch Gun Emojis For Water Guns

Google, Microsoft, and Facebook have officially announced their plans to join other tech giants by swapping out their gun emojis for less offensive toy water guns.  
Ashley Rae Goldenberg
April 27th, 2018 11:33 AM

Networks Ignore Consumer Confidence Rebound to ‘Lofty’ Levels

CNBC’s on-air editor Rick Santelli reacted to the April consumer confidence numbers positively, but the same night ABC, CBS and NBC evening news programs all ignored the latest update of consumer attitudes toward the economy, as did their Spanish-language counterparts, Univision and Telemundo. “Some breaking news: Consumer confidence, we are looking for a read on April and the number is 128.7,…
Julia A. Seymour
April 27th, 2018 11:06 AM

Brian Williams to NYT Reporter: Couldn't You Sense Hillary’s Downfall?

During Monday evening’s edition of MSNBC’s 11th Hour with Brian Williams, the disgraced former NBC anchorman asked New York Times political reporter and author Amy Chozick if “all the signs” of Hillary’s impending defeat in November of 2016 were obvious to reporters.
Randy Hall
April 27th, 2018 10:43 AM

Lauer Bitterly Attacks ‘False Stories’ From ‘Biased Sources'

In a statement to The Washington Post on Thursday, disgraced former Today show anchor Matt Lauer bitterly went after his sexual harassment accusers, dismissing the “many false stories” about his behavior “from anonymous or biased sources.” The comments came amid a lengthy Post report on NBC’s poor handling of such allegations, which also detailed new accusations of harassment against former NBC…
Kyle Drennen
April 27th, 2018 10:38 AM

Linda Vester and Tom Brokaw’s First Nightly News Segment Together

After news broke of former correspondent Linda Vester’s sexual harassment complaint against former NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw, I rummaged through the MRC’s archive and found footage of her first appearance with Brokaw on the Nightly News, a June 30, 1993 report that basically amounted to a press release from the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), demanding more government…
Rich Noyes
April 27th, 2018 10:38 AM

Media Hyped Meek Mill Despite Tirade, But QB Scrutinized

Josh Allen is white and a newly drafted NFL quarterback. Meek Mill is an African-American gangsta rapper with a criminal record who was released from prison this week. Both men have been on the sports pages a lot this year, and both have a history of going very public with n-laced rants. Sports media are celebrating one man and questioning the other's future.
Jay Maxson
April 27th, 2018 10:00 AM

CNN, MSNBC Barely Touch Murdered Cops, But Do Tout Meek Mill Release

Over the past couple of days, as FNC and the broadcast networks have informed viewers of two separate attacks on police officers that have left two dead, MSNBC has completely ignored the tragic events while CNN has buried its coverage early in the morning. By contrast, MSNBC spent more than 15 minutes across four different shows celebrating the release of rapper Meek Mill, and CNN also gave the…
Brad Wilmouth
April 27th, 2018 8:30 AM

'The Handmaid's Tale' Fans #Resist Reality

Wednesday saw the return of the left’s favorite "timely" and "relevant" post-apocalyptic dystopian series, The Handmaid’s Tale from Hulu. What began as a TV adaptation of a 1985 book by Margaret Atwood has morphed into a major expression of the #resistance movement against Trump. With a new season beginning, it looks like we’re in for another few months of feminist propaganda and political…
Lindsay Kornick
April 27th, 2018 7:00 AM

Sitcom: No Boys at Catholic School, They Were 'Distraction' to Priests

NBC’s sitcom Champions took multiple swipes at Catholic priests, straight white males and conservative sex-ed all in one episode. While straight, white men accounted for most of the jabs, coming in at five mentions, the most offensive line was against priests as a nun at an all-girl Catholic school explained that the boys “had to go” because they “proved a distraction to the priests.”
Dawn Slusher
April 27th, 2018 2:11 AM

Former NBC News Anchor Tom Brokaw Accused of Sexual Misconduct

On Thursday night, former NBC anchor Tom Brokaw was the latest journalist to find themselves under fire for accusations of sexual misconduct. In a very detailed and eerie report, entertainment magazine Variety published the accusations from former NBC correspondent Linda Vester, who was 28 at the time and “[nearly] 30 years younger than him.” She accused the former NBC Nightly News anchor of…
Nicholas Fondacaro
April 26th, 2018 11:30 PM

Nets Ignore Bipartisan Admonishment of Menendez By Ethics Committee

In a bipartisan letter sent to New Jersey Democratic Senator Bob Menendez on Thursday, the Senate Ethics Committee issued a scathing admonishment against him for “knowingly and repeatedly accept[ing] gifts of significant value” and “fail[ing] to publicly disclose certain gifts as required by Senate Rule and federal law.” As often occurred during Menendez’s bribery trial last year, to which…
Nicholas Fondacaro
April 26th, 2018 9:38 PM

Tour De Force: Bret Baier Grills James Comey in Epic Interview

Former FBI Director and new author James Comey has spent the past 12 days on his book tour promoting A Higher Loyalty, the supposed greatness of Comey himself and the lack thereof on the part of President Trump. However, no prior interview compared to his Thursday hit on the Fox News Channel’s Special Report as host Bret Baier offered a masterfully tough tour de force akin to interviews of…
Curtis Houck
April 26th, 2018 9:11 PM

Democrat Rep. Nadler: Social Media Censorship of Conservatives a Hoax

Social media took center stage on Capitol Hill again Thursday, April 26, 2018. The House Judiciary Committee held a hearing examining the “Filtering Practices of Social Media Platforms.” While certain Republican members of Congress and the pro-Trump duo Diamond and Silk argued social media platforms are politically biased against conservatives, other witnesses and Democrats claimed the hearing…
Ashley Rae Goldenberg
April 26th, 2018 4:47 PM

WashPost Changes Rubin’s Bio from ‘Conservative’ to ‘Center’ Blog

On Wednesday night, Decision Desk HQ’s Varad Mehta astutely flagged down this stealth edit by The Washington Post as, while faux Republican writer Jennifer Rubin’s blog is still referred to as the “Right Turn blog,” her biography now claims that she supposedly publishes articles “from a center perspective.”
Curtis Houck
April 26th, 2018 4:33 PM