BuzzFeed’s Trump Story Called ‘Media's Latest Self-Inflicted Wound'’
The decision by the “mainstream media” to run a salacious and unsubstantiated article regarding President-elect Donald Trump that was first posted on the BuzzFeed website has drawn extensive criticism, including accusations that this choice is “the media's latest self-inflicted wound” and “irresponsible journalism.” Those accusations were made on Tuesday by James Warren, the chief media writer…
Randy Hall
Pro-Obama Author: Trump May Repeal Legacy of ‘Every President'
Next Tuesday, three days before the current POTUS becomes an ex-POTUS, Jonathan Chait’s Audacity: How Barack Obama Defied His Critics and Created a Legacy That Will Prevail will be published. On Tuesday, New York magazine, where Chait is the chief political pundit, ran an excerpt from the book in which he claimed, “The truth is that Obama enacted careful, deep, and mostly popular solutions to a…
Tom Johnson
Gawker Remnant Lashes Out At Univision Execs' Meeting With Trump
Univision rushed to frame its executives' meeting with President-elect Donald Trump as "productive". However, that framing is quickly coming undone from within the organization.
Jorge Bonilla
Dan Gainor: BuzzFeed's 'Journalism' Is 'Completely in the Toilet'
Calling Buzzfeed stories “journalism” is “like calling dog food filet mignon,” MRC Vice President of Business and Culture Dan Gainor said on Wednesday.
Aly Nielsen
‘50 Shades’ Author, Media Attack ‘Defund Planned Parenthood Act'
Defunding Planned Parenthood means women will die, according to the liberal media’s latest attacks on one congresswoman. On Friday, Rep. Diane Black (R-TN) reintroduced H.R. 354 or the Defund Planned Parenthood Act of 2017.
Katie Yoder
Media Nearly Ignore Controversy Over Killer's State-Funded Sex Change
In January, Shiloh Quine, a convicted killer serving a life sentence in California, was the first transgender inmate to ever receive a state-funded sex change surgery. Yet, based on media coverage of the operation, Americans would hardly know the issue was controversial.
Sarah Stites
Media Critics Slam 'Ridiculous' BuzzFeed Hurting 'Journalistic Ethics'
Conservative media critics (and even some considered to be neutral) lashed out on Wednesday at BuzzFeed’s recklessly unsubstantiated report about President-elect Donald Trump as they lashed out at BuzzFeed, calling their decision a “ridiculous” one that “violated journalistic ethics.”
Curtis Houck
Andrew Garfield on Colbert: New Role Sparked ‘Relationship With Jesus'
This doesn’t happen every day in Hollywood: an upcoming film is bringing its actors closer to God. On Tuesday, actor Andrew Garfield (Amazing Spider-Man, Hacksaw Ridge) appeared on The Late Show to discuss his role in the upcoming Martin Scorsese film Silence. Garfield plays a Jesuit missionary who travels to 17th century Japan at a time of Christian persecution. While Garfield himself wasn’t…
During NBC’s special live coverage of Donald Trump’s press conference on Wednesday, reporter Cynthia McFadden revealed that U.S. intelligence officials deemed rumors of a Russian dossier of damaging information about the President-elect to not be credible. She explained to NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt: “...as far as they are concerned, and I’m going to quote now, ‘Intel and law enforcement…
Kyle Drennen
MSM Nightmare: 'Fake News' Invoked 10 Times at Trump Press Conference
So who has a bigger headache today: Margaret Sullivan of the Washington Post or CNN's Jim Acosta? Last week media columnist Sullivan requested that the term "fake news" be retired and today President-elect Donald Trump threw that term against Acosta when he shut him down during his press conference. At the press conference "fake news" was used 10 times thus dashing the hopes of the MSM folks…
P.J. Gladnick
CBS Grills Conway Over BuzzFeed's Unsubstantiated Trump Reporting
On Wednesday, CBS This Morning's anchors hounded Kellyanne Conway over an appendix to a recent intelligence report given to Donald Trump that supposedly highlighted Russia's attempts to compromise the President-Elect, as well BuzzFeed's unsubstantiated document dump related to it. Charlie Rose, Norah O'Donnell, and Gayle King repeatedly tried to get Conway to verify something that she wasn't…
Matthew Balan
Nets Jump on BuzzFeed Sleaze; Russia Dominates Press Conference
The unverified claims pushed by BuzzFeed on Tuesday dominated Donald Trump’s press conference on Wednesday with numerous reporters pouncing on what the President-elect attacked as “fake news.” NBC reporter Hallie Jackson demanded to know about the allegations of Russian blackmail: “Does Russia have any leverage over you, financial or otherwise, and if not, will you release your tax returns to…
Scott Whitlock
ABC, NBC Shell Out 3x More Time For Hatchimals Than National Debt
Broadcast networks barely covered the skyrocketing national debt in the past year, but spent far more time on toy animals called Hatchimals. ABC and NBC gave the toy sensation three times more coverage than the debt. As of Jan. 9, the United States’ national debt was nearly $20 trillion ($19,955,343,885,377.73), according to the Treasury Department. The rising debt, according to multiple sources…
Reacting to BuzzFeed irresponsibly publishing an unsubstantiated smear against President-elect Donald Trump, on Wednesday, Media Research Center president Brent Bozell released the following statement: