NewsBusters Podcast: Why Is 'News Judgment' Clouded by Racial Angst?

September 8th, 2025 10:23 PM

Horror bubbled up on social media over the brutal murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska, who was randomly stabbed to death while riding the light rail in Charlotte, North Carolina, by a homeless man with an extensive criminal and mental health record. A young woman fled war in Ukraine only to find death in an American city. The liberal networks struggled to locate it.

Google Props Up Leftist AP, CBS in Justice Barrett News Tab Search

September 8th, 2025 5:21 PM

Google is propping up the leftist media critiques of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s soon-to-be-released book, Listening to the Law: Reflections on the Court and Constitution.

WHOA: CBS Hires Former Conservative Think Tank Head as CBS Ombudsman

September 8th, 2025 5:04 PM

The far-left liberal partisans inside CBS News suffered another blow Monday morning as the network revealed they had hired Ken Weinstein, the former CEO and president of the right-leaning think tank Hudson Institute, as its ombudsman to investigate concerns about its news coverage (read: media bias).

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‘CBS Mornings’ Ends Network Blackout on HORRIFYING Charlotte Murder

September 8th, 2025 3:54 PM

On Monday, CBS Mornings spent just over two minutes on last month’s brutal murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte allegedly at the hands of a man who had 14 prior arrests but was still allowed to roam free. This ended the

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A TALE OF TWO INTERVIEWS: O’Donnell Fawned Over KBJ, Presses ACB

September 7th, 2025 11:28 AM

In one of the clearest cases of “It’s (D)ifferent” in recent memory, we respectfully submit for your consideration the substantive contrast in interviews of Supreme Court justices by former CBS Evening News anchor Norah O’Donnell. On the one hand, her fawning over the “historic” Ketanji Brown Jackson, and on the other: her insistence that Amy Coney Barrett deliver “adequate checks”…

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CBS Hails Rebuke Of Crime Crackdown, Ignores Murder Suspects Arrested

September 6th, 2025 12:26 PM

Like ABC and NBC, CBS’s Friday evening and Saturday morning newscasts ignored the arrest of multiple juveniles in Washington, D.C. for the murder of congressional intern Eric Tarpinian-Jachym. Unlike ABC and NBC, CBS Saturday Morning’s omission bias was made worse by the fact that Justice Correspondent Scott MacFarlane chose to hype a magistrate judge’s rebuke of the Trump…

Called to the Principal’s Office: CBS to Change Sunday Show Interviews

September 5th, 2025 1:18 PM

On Friday, CBS News all but admitted they’ve lost the public’s trust when they admitted they would no longer be chopping down (read: engaging in funny business with) taped interviews — such as one Sunday with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem — for their Sunday morning political talk show, Face the Nation, instead either airing them live or live to tape.

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NPR CEO Maher Tells Colbert Public Radio Needed To Protect Democracy

September 5th, 2025 9:51 AM

CBS’s Stephen Colbert welcomed NPR CEO Katherine Maher to Thursday’s taping of The Late Show for a grieving session on the latter being defunded. According to Maher, the fate of democracy depends on NPR, and only people who seek to divide and pit Americans against each other could possibly support defunding it.

Meltdowns Incoming: CBS News Close to Buying Bari Weiss’s Free Press

September 4th, 2025 4:36 PM

Puck’s Dylan Byers dropped the bombshell Wednesday night that the rumored deal was “on the 1-yard-line” for CBS News’s parent company SkyDance to acquire former New York Times writer Bari Weiss’s indefatigable site The Free Press and grant Weiss a senior role inside CBS News.

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'F*** You': Colbert Rants At Trump For Citing Chicago's Murder Problem

September 4th, 2025 10:00 AM

CBS’s Stephen Colbert had an unconvincing rebuttal on Wednesday to President Trump’s recent Truth Social posts that portrayed Chicago as a crime-ridden and dangerous city. Colbert’s three-part response involved telling Trump “[bleep] you,” repeating some false statistics, and saying Chicago can’t be that bad because The Late Show traveled there in the summer of 2024 and came back…

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CBS News Guest, Covid TV Mainstay Downplays Screw-Ups to Trash RFK

September 3rd, 2025 10:47 PM

Appearing on Wednesday’s CBS Mornings and CBS Mornings Plus, infectious disease expert and Covid-19 pandemic TV mainstay Dr. Michael Osterholm stopped by to hawk his new book The Big One and, despite the best efforts of the CBS co-hosts to have Osterholm answer for the public health community’s failures during Covid that caused their credibility to crater, Osterholm…

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Colbert Has to Stop Audience From Booing That Trump Is Alive

September 3rd, 2025 9:35 AM

If you are a normal person, you might have missed that over the Labor Day weekend, left-wing portions of the internet were running wild with rumors that President Trump had died. Of course, these rumors were false, but on Tuesday, CBS’s Stephen Colbert still had to stop The Late Show audience from booing that fact.

NewsBusters Podcast: Did CBS Think We’d Miss Their New Hatchet Job?

September 2nd, 2025 8:39 PM

NewsBusters Associate Editor Nick Fondacaro and I were stunned by Sunday’s Face the Nation in which the show made a baffling decision to deceptively remove a key portion of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s answer about the alleged criminal record of illegal immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia. As our Bill D’Agostino wrote, this was part of a pattern of behavior from CBS News,…

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Five Times CBS Was Caught Deceptively Editing Interviews

September 2nd, 2025 4:15 PM

Yet again, the propagandists at CBS have found themselves in the midst of another deceptive editing scandal. On Sunday, the network was caught editing out the substantive portion of one of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s responses to a question on Face the Nation. But this incident is just the latest in CBS’s lengthy record of journalistic malfeasance. Let’s look back at some of the worst…