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CBS & NBC Quick to Dismiss Missing FBI Texts, ABC Still Ignores
Even though CBS and NBC had just started to cover revelations that five months worth of text messages from anti-Trump FBI officials had gone missing, on Wednesday morning, correspondents on both networks were already trying to dismiss the story as a “partisan” GOP effort to “undermine” Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. Meanwhile, ABC continued to remain silent on the news.
January 24th, 2018 1:17 PM
U.S. Tennis Player Pulls Upset; Media Brand Him 'Alt-Right'
Tennys Sandgren, the 97th-ranked men's tennis player in the world, just pulled off the greatest victory of his life in the Australian Open. He took out No. 5 seed Dominic Thiem in five sets Monday. The huge upset moved Sandgren into the quarterfinals with some of the great names of tennis, including Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer. That alone should have been the big story, but instead liberal…
January 24th, 2018 12:00 PM
GMA Ignores Disney Giving Out Bonuses Because of Trump Tax Cuts
The liberal media are so reluctant to give President Trump credit for anything positive his legislation achieves, that they will even keep silent when that legislation directly benefits them.
January 24th, 2018 11:53 AM
Fox's Howie Kurtz: I'm 'Radicalized' by Media's Unfairness to Trump
Michael Calderone at Politico is reporting on the new book by Fox News Mediabuzz host Howard Kurtz titled Media Madness: Donald Trump, the Press, and the War Over the Truth. "I have always believed in the mission of aggressive reporting and holding politicians accountable," he writes, "But the past two years have radicalized me. I am increasingly troubled by how many of my colleagues have decided…
January 24th, 2018 11:44 AM
Verizon, Disney Announce Tax Cut-Driven Bonuses; CNN Still Downplays
On Tuesday, Verizon announced that it would grant 153,000 of its 155,000 employees a bonus in the form of 50 shares of restricted stock (approximate value: $2,650), while Disney announced $1,000 bonuses for 125,000 of its cast members. Verizon also announced a significant increase in donations ($200-$300 million over the next two years) to its STEM education philanthropic effort, while Disney is…
January 24th, 2018 8:00 AM
James Comey to Teach 'Ethical Leadership' Course; Press Notes No Irony
On Friday, the College of William & Mary announced that former FBI Director James Comey, a 1982 graduate, will "will teach a three-credit course on ethical leadership" beginning this fall. Establishment press coverage of Comey's assignment, coinciding with being named "an executive professor in education," has mostly avoided the myriad reasons why having him teach such a course is a horrible…
January 24th, 2018 7:38 AM
Jane Fonda & Lily Tomlin Send Sex Toy to Ruth Bader Ginsburg in Comedy
Season Four of Netflix’s Grace and Frankie was released on January 19. The usual unconventional antics were included in the 13 half-hour episodes but this time an unexpected twist was included. The adult comedy incorporated a death at the hands of one of the duo’s vibrators for senior citizens.
January 24th, 2018 6:00 AM
Nets Ignore NFL Quashing ‘Please Stand' Super Bowl Ad by Vets Group
With the protest-filled 2017 NFL season set to come to an end in a couple of weeks, the league found itself engulfed in controversy Tuesday when they banned an ad from a veterans group asking people to “please stand” for the national anthem. It was a truly sad story, but the none of the major network news outlets (ABC, CBS, and NBC) felt the need to report it to their viewers during their evening…
January 23rd, 2018 11:51 PM
Bozell & Graham Column: Dreamers vs. Fetuses
The Democrats blinked in the first round of the government-shutdown fight over immigration, but they promise to regroup and fight again for illegal immigrants who came to America as minors. The Democrats call them “Dreamers,” and so the “Facts First” media employ that loaded propaganda term as well.
January 23rd, 2018 10:54 PM
CNN's Cuomo Pushes to Help Illegals Without Border Security First
As Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney appeared as a guest on Tuesday's New Day, CNN host Chris Cuomo repeatedly lobbied for DACA to be extended to help illegal immigrants without tying it to improving border security, even as his GOP guest repeatedly made the argument against doing so.
January 23rd, 2018 10:10 PM
New Trump Border Ad Slammed by Azteca as 'Insulting'
The insistence of so much of the media in portraying President Trump as ‘anti-immigrant’ for championing previously broadly bipartisan border security and immigration law enforcement policies has hit a new low, with Spanish-language Azteca America’s hair on fire report on the new ad that has just been authorized by the President for his 2020 re-election campaign.
January 23rd, 2018 9:37 PM
ABC Still Not Covering Missing Texts, Nets Silent on 'Secret Society'
The revelations concerning missing FBI text messages continued to snowball on Tuesday as news trickled out that, via the remaining 50,000 texts, the FBI was home to a so-called “secret society” that began meeting after President Trump was elected. And despite how the revelations have been reported by other major news outlets, the three major network news outlets have been reluctant to cover…
January 23rd, 2018 9:32 PM
Looniness: Schmidt Denounces FBI Concerns as ‘Snake Oil’ ‘McCarthyism’
Just think, this is who MSNBC considers to be one of its best and brightest Republicans. On Tuesday’s Hardball, political analyst and 2008 McCain campaign manager Steve Schmidt tore into Republican questions about the FISA memo and Strzok-Page texts as “snake oil” “McCarthyism” being “abetted” by the Fox News Channel serving as “state-run TV in an autocratic society.”
January 23rd, 2018 8:55 PM
Seriously? NYT’s Hulse Sees Good News for Dems in ‘Swift Surrender'
NYT reporter Carl Hulse managed to find good news for Democrats in the party’s abject surrender on the government-shutdown front, in his “news analysis” for Tuesday’s front page, “Hope for Bargain in a Swift Surrender.” The jump-page headline: “With Swift Surrender, Democrats Hold Hope Of Reaching a Bargain.”
January 23rd, 2018 8:22 PM