Major Newspapers

Two weeks ago, a number of Politico staff members threw a hissy fit in a video conference call with management because they dared to allow ideological diversity to exist at their publication. The blowup happened after The Daily Wire founder Ben Shapiro guest wrote ONE edition of Playbook (following the lead of figures across the political spectrum between the previous and now-current…

Is it ethical for one network to try to scare off a competitor's sponsors? The question arises because on MSNBC's Morning Joe today, Joe Scarborough sought to scare off Fox News sponsors.

Forget the coronavirus. A new pandemic has broken out, one targeting the liberal media: the Chills Virus! Yesterday, NYT editor Lauren Wolfe tweeted: "Biden landing at Joint Base Andrews now. I have chills." Poor John Berman of CNN was hit with the same virus this morning.  On New Day, commenting on Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman's inauguration performance, Berman said: "I have to say, the…

Well, it appeared as though Politico chief political correspondent Tim Alberta was blowing a lot of smoke. Because after the magazine’s editors signed Daily Wire founder and conservative leader Ben Shapiro to guest-write for Politico’s Playbook on Thursday, a large portion of the staff revolted.

On her MSNBC show, Tiffany Cross expresses concern about QAnon believers or MAGA supporters "infiltrating" the Secret Service. MSNBC terrorism analyst Malcolm Nance replies: "What I'm afraid of as a counter-terrorism specialist is that they're going to get an Indira Gandhi situation, where one of her bodyguards killed her. Rajiv Gandhi, one of the guests, one of the bodyguards allowed a woman…

CNN went absolutely metaphor-mad in its trashing of President Trump. During the 6 am hour of New Day on Monday, it began with Toluse Olorunnipa of the Washington Post describing Trump as like "a hostage negotiation, where President Trump wants to be both the kidnapper, and the hero who comes in to save the hostage." Co-host Alisyn Camerota loved that: "Such a great point: the…

The election is tomorrow, and President Donald Trump just notched an unprecedented endorsement from an historically liberal newspaper for his handling of the economy in the key swing state of Pennsylvania.

On Sunday, CNN showed off what kind of so-called “Reliable Sources” they could dredge up when chief media correspondent Brian Stelter brought on Politico founding editor John Harris to discuss election coverage. But according to Harris, the media were in the wrong for acting as though President Trump still had a chance at winning and avoiding “death watch coverage.” He and…

Morning Joe warns Democrats not to get "complacent."  Pointing to a Thomas Edsall column in the New York Times, Joe Scarborough says there are signs of hidden Trump strength, particularly in terms of a Republican advantage in recent registrations in battleground states.  Scarborough claims he was criticized in 2016 by the "arrogant" MSM for saying Trump could win. In fact, three months before…

Morning Joe expresses concerns that the drugs President Trump has taken to treat his COVID might be affecting his decision-making, with particular regard to his control of the "nuclear codes."

There was a very surprising twist in the dicussion of the Breonna Taylor case on today's Morning Joe. It started in predictable fashion. "Civil rights lawyer" Maya Wiley said:  "The problem that we have here is that the system is working the way it’s designed to work. Which puts black people, which puts Latinos, which puts Native Americans at very high risk of being killed."  But then…

Last Friday (9/11 of all days), the Washington Post published a “perspective” piece written by Rutgers University “historian,” Mark Bray. You might remember Bray from NewsBusters reporting about how NBC political director Chuck Todd gave him multiple platforms to preach Antifa’s virtues of physically assaulting your political opponents. Well, in his Post piece, he was out to massage…

On Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski quotes from her hubby's latest Washington Post column in which he wrote that "many working-class Americans have been voting against their own economic interests for so long," by which he meant, voting for Republicans. That is a notion popularized in the book What's the Matter with Kansas? by leftist author Thomas Frank.

Black journalist Daniel Thompson quit his job at The Kenosha News in protest of an online headline he called "grossly negligent" about a rally for Jacob Blake's family. The headline that topped the Kenosha News website quoted an unnamed participant: "Kenosha speaker: ‘If you kill one of us, it’s time for us to kill one of yours.’”