Everyone On PBS, NPR Agrees: Hillary's Speaking Fees Won't Hurt

After a contentious Democratic debate on CNN, with moderator Dana Bash asking HIllary why she won't release transcripts of her six-figure speeches to Wall  Street firms, the pundits on PBS and NPR on Friday agreed: no one will care about this in the fall. On NPR's All Things Considered, anchor Robert Siegel asked: "do you think in the fall that the speeches to Goldman Sachs will be an issue?"…
Tim Graham
 

Alleged Brussels Terrorist Starred in Film on Immigrant Integration

Osama Krayem, the 23-year-old Syrian-born Swedish citizen arrested in Belgium last week for his involvement in the March 22 bomb attacks in Brussels, is a former poster boy for Sweden’s efforts at integrating immigrants into their society. Now accused of murder -- and captured on closed-circuit television cameras carrying bags that contained explosive devices like those used to kill 32 civilians…
Randy Hall
 

NYT Shows Balance in Clinton-Sanders A1 Stories by Fawning Over Both

The New York Times has been accused of slanting its 2016 political coverage toward Hillary Clinton while stiffing Bernie Sanders. Well, in Thursday’s edition, there was balance: the paper’s coverage was equally effusive for both Democrats. While Hillary Clinton got a mawkish front-page celebration of her supposedly personal, secret work with black mothers whose children had been killed in…
Clay Waters
 

Media Silent on the Clinton Mortgage Banking Scam

Hillary and Bernie love to go after “the banks.”  But the real scoundrel of the two on this subject?  Without doubt it’s Hillary and her banking scam.
Jeffrey Lord
 

Todd Tells Cruz Planned Parenthood Scandal ‘Made Up’

During an MSNBC town hall event with Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz on Thursday, Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd dismissed the Texas Senator’s condemnation of Planned Parenthood by insisting that scandal surrounding the abortion provider was “made up.” 
Kyle Drennen
 

Bozell & Graham Column: The Bathroom 'Freedom Fighters'

Back in the 1980s, Bruce Springsteen and other rock stars formed Artists United Against Apartheid and performed a song proclaiming “I ain’t gonna play Sun City,” referencing a resort in South Africa. The song mocked the Reagan administration’s “constructive engagement” policy in South Africa, but rock stars routinely performed in the totalitarian Soviet Union, believing that was incredibly…
Brent Bozell and Tim Graham
 

Four Signs HBO’s ‘Confirmation’ Will Be Hopelessly Biased

 We're about to re-live the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings all over again, courtesy of HBO. The respected pay channel debuts Confirmation at 8 p.m. EST April 16. The movie casts Kerry Washington as Anita Hill, the law professor who claimed Thomas sexually harassed her in the work place. Some of the real-life Republicans who played key roles in the film aren’t happy about the production.…
Christian Toto
 

NewsBusted: Common Core Makes Delegate Path Possible for Kasich

Speaking of Bernie, shocking new poll has Sanders now enjoying a 90 percent approval rating...among parasites. - NewsBusted's Jody Miller
NB Staff
 

Outgoing NYT Ombud 'Won't Miss' Their Failure to Be Liberal Enough

For her final post on the blog “Public Editor’s Journal,” outgoing New York Times Public Editor Margaret Sullivan described “Five Things I Won’t Miss About the Times – and Seven Things I Will.” The most memorable Won’t-Miss was “New York Times Exceptionalism: The idea that whatever The Times does is, by definition, the right thing. In editorial matters, this manifests itself as, ‘It’s news when…
Tim Graham
 

'Last Man Standing' Teaches How to Be Liberal, 'Talk Out of Your A--'

In the episode “The Marriage Doctor” of Last Man Standing, Mike Baxter's conservative daughter Eve has to prepare for a debate in which – shudder! – she has to take the liberal position. So naturally, she turns to her liberal hippy brother-in-law for some help learning “how to talk out of your ass."
Alexa Moutevelis
 

Slate Writer: Eventually, Vatican Will Accept Same-Sex Marriage

Media coverage of Pope Francis’s Amoris Laetitia typically noted that it reaffirmed the Catholic Church’s opposition to gay marriage. Slate’s William Saletan acknowledges the literal truth of that reporting, but suggested in an April 8 article that the document contains seeds that will sprout into Vatican acceptance of same-sex unions, though he admits that process “might take centuries.”…
Tom Johnson
 

Baldwin Amused Over Bad Reception for Cruz, Bristles at Kasich on Rape

On Friday's CNN Newsroom with Brooke Baldwin, host Baldwin and guest Jackie Kucinich of the Daily Beast both seemed amused by reports that GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz got a negative reception at a New York Republican dinner, and, a bit later, Baldwin seemed to bristle at John Kasich because the Ohio Republican advised a college student at a town hall to avoid parties with alcohol to…
Brad Wilmouth
 

Is Univision Moderating Its Coverage of Hot-Button Issues?

Not Really.
Jorge Bonilla
 

Mitchell: ‘Crickets’ for Cruz During ‘Terrible Night’ at NYC Gala

Opening her 12 p.m. ET hour MSNBC show on Friday, host Andrea Mitchell triumphantly proclaimed: “Tough crowd. It's crickets for Ted Cruz in Manhattan but Donald Trump is speaking their language at the big party dinner.” In a report minutes later, she announced: “Cruz had a terrible night at the Republican black-tie gala here for the state party..."
Kyle Drennen