Screw-Ups, Shutdowns, & Soros: Our Ten Most-Read Stories of 2025
2025 marked a year of arguably unparalleled success for the NewsBusters team seeing as how, along with chronicling the best and worst in daily and long-term liberal media bias, we helped see to a successful conclusion a decades-long fight to defund National Public Radio (NPR) and PBS. As you’ll see below in our top-ten list of the most read stories, you’ll see NPR come up along with the major…
ABC, NBC Barely Touch Minnesota Fraud, While CBS Delivers the Goods
While all three big three broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) have covered the widespread cases of social services fraud among Minnesota’s Somali community, the frequency and thoroughness of the coverage has varied widely depending on the network. Before December 29, CBS was the only network to have aired even a single full-length report about the scandal, and as of this study’s publishing…
CBS Touts GOPers Who Joined Dems Against ‘Ultra Conservative’ Party
On Monday, CBS Mornings finally found Republicans they liked. The people they celebrated were the so-called “Nasty Nine,” a group of self-described Republicans in Montana’s State Senate who decided to throw their lot in with Democrats and pass their agenda. Of course, CBS framed the story as the nine righteously breaking ranks to stand up against the scary “ultra-conservative caucus…
CBS’s Crawford Stuns Journos, Calls Out Media’s Lies About SCOTUS
CBS chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford left a panel of liberal journalists in stunned silence during Sunday’s Face the Nation, after she called out the liberal media’s lies about the conservative Supreme Court’s purported “corruption.” She called the media’s narrative “over-reported,” “patently false,” “profoundly irresponsible,” and “dangerous” for the country.
The 10 Worst Moments From Late Night Comedy Guests In 2025
Late night comedy’s regular trashing of conservatives and Republicans is not confined to the hosts. Oftentimes, guests are brought on to parrot the host's beliefs, and with a new Republican president, an outgoing host, and another that was briefly suspended, those guests had lots to talk about this year. Here are the ten worst.
2025's Worst 10 Moments From The Late Night Comedy Shows
It was a rough year for the late night comedy business. One show was cancelled, it was announced another will be cancelled next year, and another was suspended for spouting off about conspiracy theories related to Charlie Kirk’s assassin. Add all that to the regular program of liberal politicking, and you get the top (bottom?) ten moments from late night 2025.
WORST OF 2025: The Celebrity Freak-Out Award
Kathy Griffin has a bizarre idea of who is a "professional Nazi." Ditto for Robert De Niro.
WORST OF 2025: The Craziest Analysis Award
Can you imagine anyone trying to argue the media weren't deficient on the issue of Biden's cognitive decline?
PBS Turns to Stelter to Address Bari Weiss & the 'Cancer Inside CBS'
When someone in the elitist media is accused of a pro-Trump bias, PBS News Hour won’t consider having on any conservative media critics (like NewsBusters) to discuss it. Instead, they routinely turn to CNN’s Brian Stelter to echo their thoughts on how the media should maintain a fierce anti-Trump bias.
Column: '60 Minutes' Offers Syrupy Minutes for the Left
CBS 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi raged against the network’s Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss when she delayed her story on how the Trump administration deported illegal immigrants from Venezuela to a “notorious” prison in El Salvador. Weiss wanted more reporting and more rebuttal from the Trump administration in it.
‘60 Minutes’ Fiasco Prompts Tightening of Standards, Procedures at CBS
Sharyn Alfonsi’s hack job of a CECOT feature for 60 Minutes, pulled due to what could be charitably described as deficient reporting, has triggered a firestorm within the elitist media. But that’s not all. The report has now also triggered an “overhaul” of standards and procedures at CBS and 60 Minutes.
Media Caught Laundering Dem Talking Point into a Legitimate News Item
When a few Congressional Democrats pontificated that the September 2, 2025 U.S. “double tap” drug boat strike somehow constituted a “war crime,” the left-wing TV news media eagerly amplified the claim. But almost without exception, journalists were careful not to mention that the original accusation had originated from a handful of Democrats.
The Spiked ‘60 Minutes’ Piece on the Salvadoran Jail Was Quite Stupid
On Monday night, the now-infamous 60 Minutes segment pulled by editor-in-chief Bari Weiss seemed to have self-deported and aired up in Canada on Global TV, one of its broadcast networks. With it now available to the masses (thanks to social media), we can now give it a full viewing and not a she-said, she-said between Weiss and correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi. Spoiler alert: the piece…
What?! CBS Profiles Gun Control Group....Launching Gun Training Course
On Monday’s CBS Mornings, correspondent Nicole Valdes had a story much more in line with what a lot of us want to see out of CBS in this Bari Weiss era (and not the spiked-but-aired-in-Canada 60 Minutes piece on illegal aliens) as she revealed the gun control group Everytown for Gun Safety was no longer simply be advocating to destroy the Second Amendment but offer in-person…