UPDATE: AP Urges Court to Ignore New Case Law That Could Spell Doom

June 13th, 2026 5:57 PM

A highly anticipated ruling by the Florida Supreme Court late last week all but ensured the defamation suit filed by Navy veteran Zachary Young against the Associated Press would get revived on appeal. And just days after telling Florida’s First District Court of Appeal to…

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Defamation Lawyer Argues Against Using Objective Definitions for Words

June 12th, 2026 5:31 PM

For those following NewsBusters’ coverage of the defamation cases brought against CNN (successful) and the Associated Press (on-going) by Navy veteran Zachary Young, one name should be familiar: Charles D. Tobin. A lawyer with Ballard Spahr, Tobin was part of the legal team that represented CNN and then the AP. As with the nature of defamation cases, both hinged on words and their…

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Defamation Hearing: AP’s Lawyer Argues Their Stylebook Doesn’t Matter

June 9th, 2026 6:04 PM

In a hearing for the defamation case of Zachary Young v. The Associated Press on Tuesday, the AP’s lawyer argued to a panel of three judges for Florida’s First District Court of Appeal that the news organization’s own stylebook didn’t matter when determining the definition of a key word in their allegedly defamatory reporting. However, the AP Stylebook was the go-to standard for many…

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AP Condemns Trump For Celebrating Demise Of Climate Alarmism It Cited

May 19th, 2026 2:12 PM

Associated Press science writer Seth Borenstein traveled over to the fact-checking section on Monday to condemn President Trump for taking a victory lap on behalf of all people who do not subscribe to theories of apocalyptic climate change after the United Nations’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ruled a 2011 study’s “worst case scenario — called RCP8.5 — was implausible.” The…

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Torrent of TDS: Anti-Trump ‘Journalism’ Dominates 2026 Pulitzer Prizes

May 4th, 2026 7:16 PM

The 2026 Pulitzer Prizes were awarded Monday afternoon and, after a four-year hiatus of holding a sitting president to account, they climbed back aboard their high horses to dole out seven prizes for Trump-bashing “journalism” to the Associated Press, the Chicago Tribune, the Miami Herald, The New York Times, Reuters, and The Washington Post.

AP Avoids C-Word ('Communist') in Story on Cuban Ration Shortages

May 4th, 2026 12:23 PM

Once prosperous, Cuba now faces severe shortages, with ration books offering little as store shelves sit empty. While AP covers the hardship, it avoids mentioning the main cause: decades of communism. Once abundant goods have vanished, leaving Cubans to struggle in a crumbling socialist system where even basic items must often be bought with U.S. dollars.

AP’s Borenstein: Eco-Activists Wielding JOY ‘to Power’ Climate Fight

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April 24th, 2026 10:43 AM

The Associated Press’ in-house climate doom prophet Seth Borenstein ran one of the most punch-drunk, inane pieces of low-brow eco-babbling propaganda to ever plague the publication’s website.

Associated Press Frames SPLC Indictment as 'Political Weapon'

April 23rd, 2026 1:12 PM

The AP summarized the SPLC’s indictment for defrauding donors and funding informants in extremist groups, but quickly framed it as possibly politically motivated by the Trump administration, reflecting a trend of increased editorializing and opinion in AP's news coverage.

Marty Baron Drops a Bomb: We Unethically Avoided Joe Biden's Decline

April 20th, 2026 1:57 PM

Associated Press media reporter David Bauder found a fascinating nugget in an otherwise predictable lecture on media ethics from former Washington Post executive editor Marty Baron. For a moment, he admitted the press didn't focus on Joe Biden's cognitive decline, and that was "an ethical breakdown in our profession....Our credibility was damaged."

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Florida Appeals Court Agrees to Hear Defamation Cases Against AP, Puck

April 17th, 2026 5:35 PM

On Friday, Florida’s First District Court of Appeals agreed to hear oral arguments in Navy veteran Zackary Young’s two defamation cases against The Associated Press and Puck News. The hearing comes after Judge William Scott Henry of Florida’s 14th Judicial Circuit threw out both cases back in August 2025. Now, there were positive signs for Young that the First DCA could breathe new life into…

Lefty Media Hurry to Spin Tame Wholesale Inflation Despite Iran War

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April 15th, 2026 11:15 AM

Watching the media scurry all over cyberspace to explain away why their TDS-afflicted economic catastrophe forecasts aren’t panning out is like watching a flock of chickens running around with their heads cut off, still clucking about how the sky is falling. Well, the sky just delivered surprisingly tame producer price inflation on the month, despite the ongoing Iran War.

Middle Finger: WH Correspondents Awards Filled With Trump Bashing

April 14th, 2026 6:44 PM

Following a few years of proverbial snoozing while on the job and a 2025 celebrating itself for waking up at the last possible moment to Joe Biden’s cognitive decline, the White House Correspondents Association (WHCA) returned to form Monday with plenty of Trump bashing in its 2026 awards ahead of their April 25 dinner (which will be another pompous display of their Hindenburg-sized egos).

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183-6: Google News Suppresses Right-Leaning Media in Iran War Coverage

April 9th, 2026 9:29 AM

Google News all but excluded right-leaning news outlets from coverage of the U.S.-Israel war with Iran, with 183 left-leaning stories to just six right-leaning ones. 

Lefty Print Outlets Imply NYC Bomb Thrown by ‘Anti-Islam’ Protestors

March 16th, 2026 1:02 PM

Two or three outlets publishing lazy, vague headlines perhaps could be written off as a coincidence. But the sheer uniformity across all of these outlets suggests the lack of detail was deliberate, and likely politically motivated.