Fox Promotes Jesse Watters as MSNBC Picks Harris Spox Symone Sanders

January 10th, 2022 1:47 PM

On Monday morning, two massive media announcements went live as the Fox News Channel named network mainstay Jesse Watters as the permanent host of the 7:00 p.m. Eastern hour while MSNBC furthered its feedback loop with the Biden White House by hiring former Biden-Harris spokeswoman Symone Sanders as a host for a weekend show as well as a separate show on NBC’s streaming platform, Peacock.

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MSNBC's Cross: I'm a 'Bigger Patriot' Than 'Half-Witted' Carlson/Cruz

January 9th, 2022 9:04 AM

On her MSNBC show on Saturday, Tiffany Cross claimed that "despite everything this country has done to people who look like you and me," she and Malcolm Nance are "bigger patriots" than Tucker Carlson and Ted Cruz, whom she described as "half-witted."

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Nets Hide Liberal Justice Sotomayor Spreading COVID Misinformation

January 7th, 2022 8:46 PM

On Friday, the liberal broadcast networks and Spanish-language networks (Telemundo & Univision) weren’t interested in showing just how ignorant a liberal Supreme Court justice was when discussing COVID-19. During the Supreme Court’s oral arguments about the vaccine mandates, liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor made multiple hyperbolic and false statements suggesting Omicron was as deadly as…

Fox Bests CNN, MSNBC on January 6 Anniversary (And It Wasn't Close)

January 7th, 2022 6:24 PM

CNN and MSNBC spent over 1,600 minutes Thursday obsessing over the first anniversary of the January 6 riot on the U.S. Capitol, but it failed to translate into any success in the ratings department. Thanks to early numbers from Nielsen Media Research, the Fox News Channel cruised to an easy victory in both total viewers with 1.6 million and 245,000 in the 25-54 demographic.

Editor’s Pick: Fox on WashPost Backtrack After Terrorist Gets Check

January 7th, 2022 11:40 AM

On Thursday, Fox News media reporter Joseph Wulfsohn covered how “Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler offered a mea culpa of sorts after having rewarded two Pinocchios to Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., for predicting that murderers like convicted terrorist Dzhokhar Tsarnaev would receive a COVID stimulus check.”

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CNN’s 1/6 Special: Fox News ‘Relishing the Idea’ of a Civil War

January 7th, 2022 11:30 AM

For years now, the liberal media have been telling us the county is in a “cold civil war” or a “neo-civil war” because people and policies they don’t like have popularity. But according to CNN’s Anderson Cooper during the network’s January 6 primetime special (Live From the Capitol: January 6th, One Year Later) it was the folks at “other networks” – aka Fox News – that were “relishing…

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Nets Silent on New York City DA Vowing to Let Violent Criminals Walk

January 5th, 2022 9:02 PM

While the broadcast networks were busy spending Wednesday hyping the anniversary of January 6 for political gain in the midterms, they were intentionally overlooking the violent chaos in their own backyard in New York City. There, newly minted District Attorney Alvin Bragg promised to allow violent criminals to walk free as part of his progressive Democratic criminal justice reform plan; at a…

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Nets Skip News Opioids Have Killed More Young Adults Than Covid

January 4th, 2022 4:54 PM

Back on December 15, the organization Families Against Fentanyl exposed how Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data showed deadly drug overdoses from fentanyl have become the leading cause of death among people between the ages of 18 and 45 and not the coronavirus. While still taking Covid seriously, one could have expected the major broadcast networks to acknowledge it. Since…

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Isn't That CNN? Cupp Claims Fox Wants America Divided, in 'Disarray'

January 4th, 2022 11:30 AM

S.E. Cupp works for CNN, the same channel that spends virtually every day complaining any push-back to the left's agenda is an "attack on democracy." Yet she had the audacity to claim that one Fox News host laughing at infighting between Democrats means the right “wants to see disarray in America” and “two Americas.” 

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Abortion-Backing Nets Ignore NYT Report Gene Tests Wrong Up to 93%

January 3rd, 2022 9:52 PM

In a heartbreaking report out on Saturday, The New York Times detailed how prenatal blood tests for genetic defects used in some cases to justify an abortion were wrong between 81 and 93 percent of the time, as the companies boast near-perfect results. But the pro-abortion advocates in the liberal broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) didn’t want their viewers to know that terrible…

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Did Gallup End 74-Year Polling Tradition to Avoid Trump Placing First?

January 2nd, 2022 6:51 AM

Frequent consumers of political news may be aware of Gallup's annual poll measuring the "most admired man" in America which is typically announced a few days before New Year's. The poll was done yearly from 1946 through 2020, with 1976 the only year that was skipped. This year, a Google search shows no sign that Gallup did a poll for 2021.

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We’ve Survived 2021! Here’s the Most-Read NewsBusters Blogs From 2021

December 30th, 2021 5:07 PM

Continuing what’s become a staple of our year-end packages, NewsBusters used our Google Analytics to compile our ten most-read stories from 2021, which saw four writers from our News Analysis Division seeing stories crack the top ten along with one from MRC Culture and two from MRC’s Free Speech America.

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DOOCY TIME: Here’s Peter’s Top Briefing Tangles With Jen Psaki in 2021

December 30th, 2021 3:30 PM

Following four years of combative White House press briefings and showboaters like Jim Acosta and April Ryan becoming Resistance household names, the White House Briefing Room saw a different show in 2021 with Press Secretary Jen Psaki. Often times, one could count on one man to do what Acosta refused to do in respectfully challenging an administration: Fox’s Peter Doocy.

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MSNBC: Fox News Only Covering Theft Because They Hate Black People

December 30th, 2021 1:02 AM

Chris Hayes has a long history of making absurd and hateful claims on his nightly MSNBC show, but it appears there is no comment or bizarre conspiracy theory that’s too low for him. On Wednesday night’s edition of “All In”, Hayes spent an entire segment dismissing America’s rising crime rates, and questioned the motives of any network that dared to cover it.