PBS Puts Networks To Shame By Spotlighting ISIS Mass Graves

Tuesday's PBS NewsHour stood out for their six-minute-long segment on the Associated Press's revelation of at least 72 mass graves in former or current ISIS territory in Syria and Iraq. Gwen Ifill interviewed correspondent Lori Hinnant, one of the author's of the early Tuesday report that detailed the genocidal terrorist group's blood lust. ABC, CBS, and NBC's Tuesday evening newscasts, along…
Matthew Balan

Ron Fournier: Forget All My Clinton Criticism, Hillary for President!

On her MSNBC show on Tuesday, anchor Andrea Mitchell teed up The Atlantic's senior political columnist Ron Fournier to promote his latest op/ed declaring Donald Trump “unfit” to be president compared to the “very experienced” Hillary Clinton: “...you've got a provocative column up today....you said there is ‘no equivalency’ between Clinton and Trump. That, ‘Hillary has her problems, but Donald…
Kyle Drennen

Hillary Scandals & Tighter Polls Cause Morning Joe Gloom

You didn't need to have the sound working while viewing MSNBC's Morning Joe today to know things were not going well for Hillary Clinton. The sad looks on the faces of hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough pretty much revealed the story. A sense of gloom had descended upon the set of Morning Joe as Mika led off detailing the latest drip, drip, dripping of Hillary scandals. Then Joe joined…
P.J. Gladnick

Cronyism: Same Donor Funds Anti-Exxon Reporting, Group That Awards It

Want to win an award for “distinguished environmental journalism?” Just make sure to work for an organization that gets anti-oil and gas funding from the same source as the prize and the university awarding that prize. Oh ... and one of the judges for the panel tasked with picking a winner.
Julia A. Seymour

Chris Brown Rants ‘F*ck the Police,’ 'Black Lives Matter, N***a'

Chris Brown used some choice words to describe police Tuesday – most of them consisting of four letters. Tuesday night, Los Angeles police arrested singer Chris Brown on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon after a woman, allegedly Baylee Curran, the 2016 Miss California Regional, claimed that he pointed a gun at her. But before his arrest, the 27-year-old posted three videos to his…
Katie Yoder

‘White Girl’: A ‘Debauched Portrait’ on Race, Privilege, Gender

Writer/director Elizabeth Wood remembers the day her parents used the provocative 1995 film Kids as a “cautionary tale” to discourage risky behavior. It backfired. Wood believes Kids actually “encouraged” her “to be worse behaved.” “Drugs! Sex! Cool! The danger of it was very appealing,” she told Vice. 
Sarah Stites

ABC Notices Hillary's Deleted Benghazi E-Mails, NBC Still Censoring

On Wednesday's GMA, ABC finally covered the latest development on Hillary Clinton e-mail scandal. Paula Faris gave a news brief noting that "the Justice Department now says that up to 30 deleted e-mails from her private server could be related to the Benghazi attack." CBS This Morning mentioned the new revelation on the Clinton scandal during the lead-in for a report on the former senator's lack…
Matthew Balan

David Rutz Named Winner of Annual Noel Sheppard Blogger Award

On Wednesday afternoon, Media Research Center president Brent Bozell and the staff of NewsBusters awarded Washington Free Beacon video editor David Rutz the second annual Noel Sheppard Media Blogger of the Year Award at MRC’s headquarters in Reston, Virginia.
NB Staff

AP's Lee Fails to Cite Kerry's Plea For Less Media Terrorism Coverage

In Bangladesh on Monday, Secretary of State John Kerry had a concern about media coverage of terrorism he felt he needed to communicate, namely that "the media would do us all a service if they didn’t cover it quite as much." That would be a great thing, apparently, because then "People wouldn’t know what’s going on." You can't make this stuff up. The dateline location at Diplomatic Writer Matt…
Tom Blumer

Wonkblog Warns ‘Your Manliness Could Be Hurting the Planet’

The Washington Post’s Wonkblog presented another way for liberals to hate on masculinity by connecting masculinity to a liberal cause du jour: climate change. “Your manliness could be hurting the planet,” reporter Danielle Paquette wrote.
Sam Dorman

ABC, NBC Ignore All ObamaCare Failures in 2016, CBS Barely Covers

The broadcast networks have refused to cover the repeated failures of ObamaCare in 2016. During the entire year, ABC World News Tonight and NBC Nightly News have yet to give the floundering program any coverage at all, while CBS Evening News only found time to cover two of the ObamaCare updates – and that only added up to 2 minutes and 18 seconds of coverage for the entire year.
Mike Ciandella

Disturbing! Grande Reveals True Meaning Behind ‘Side to Side’ Video

Ariana Grande’s new hit “Side to Side” may be set in a spinning studio, but working out was just a sly cover for the real subject of the video: having so much sex that you can’t walk afterward.   Initially, reviewers and fans didn’t pay much attention to the lyrics, as they were easy to miss amidst the catchy beat and frenetic activity. Reflecting on the music video, which portrays Grande as a…
Sarah Stites

Beyond Kaepernick: Six Celebrity Castro Fan Boys

When Colin Kaepernick wore a tee shirt featuring the bearded mug of Fidel Castro as he explained why he won’t stand for the National Anthem before games in which he may not play, he didn’t help his cause, and undercut a brilliant game plan.
Matt Philbin

Finally a Backlash? CBS Derides Clinton as ‘No Questions’ Hillary

Though many journalists and networks are still not complaining about Hillary Clinton’s media blackout, the silent treatment seems to be irritating the reporters at CBS. A network graphic on Wednesday pointedly complained, “No Questions, Please: Clinton Criticized for Having Few News Conferences.” 
Scott Whitlock