Seven Reasons to Deny Tax Dollars to 'Public' Broadcasting

Tim Graham
March 22nd, 2017 3:18 PM
Open.President Trump's budget proposes defunding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. If it passes Congress, it will take two years for funding to be discontinued, but the liberal public-media lobby is panicking.  These hyperbole artists insist "Our public media is for everyone." That's just a lie. Conservatives are not welcome in public media.
 

Bozell & Graham Column: Hiding the Media's Disapproval Rating

Brent Bozell and Tim Graham
March 14th, 2017 11:00 PM

The latest poll by USA Today and Suffolk University carried some eye-opening numbers about public disapproval of the media’s aggressive attempts to run the country. They found President Trump has a 45 percent approval rating, while 47 percent disapprove. That’s not surprising. The media talk about his unpopularity all the time. But here’s what they don’t talk about: their own numbers. Only 37…

 

Variety Gushes: Net Evening News ‘Voice of Reason’ in Trump Era

Kyle Drennen
February 14th, 2017 5:10 PM
In its latest cover story, Variety conducted a rare joint interview with all three network evening news anchors, Lester Holt of NBC Nightly News, David Muir of ABC’s World News Tonight, and Scott Pelley of CBS Evening News. Writer Brian Steinberg fawned over the trio of liberal media fixtures: “At a time when President Trump rails against the ‘dishonest’ media, and ‘fake news’ labels make…
 

NPR: Megyn Kelly 'Hoping to Get Away from Ideology' Like Diane Sawyer?

Tim Graham
January 6th, 2017 6:53 AM
NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik appeared on the NPR-produced midday show Here and Now on Wednesday to discuss Megyn Kelly’s move from Fox News to NBC. He twice praised her for “cannily” negotiating herself across the media spectrum -- strange new respect which might make a conservative think she’s headed straight to the left. Then came the jaw-dropper: He said she was "desperately hoping…
 

NBC Cheers Kelly’s ‘Finest Moments’...Taking on Republicans

Kyle Drennen
January 4th, 2017 3:59 PM

After news broke on Tuesday that Fox News host Megyn Kelly would be moving to NBC News, the Today show promptly welcomed Kelly with an online article recalling her six “finest moments” during her tenure at FNC. Strangely, those moments focus exclusively on Kelly taking on Republicans – not a single instance was featured of her going after liberal guests.

 

Blogger: ‘Dumb Motherf**kers’ in MSM Partly to Blame For Fake News

Tom Johnson
January 1st, 2017 6:59 PM
In the mid-1990s, when the great Norm Macdonald was kicking off his “Weekend Update” segments of Saturday Night Live with, “And now, the fake news,” pretty much everyone knew what he meant. These days, however, disputes over definitions of “fake news” seem as common as fake news itself. It may be that the lefty writer angriest about fake news is media critic and political blogger Allison…
 

Hollywood TV Critic: 'Cable News Should Go Full Anti-Trump'

Tim Graham
December 2nd, 2016 5:24 PM
The Hollywood Reporter is touting how its own television wizard advises a media war on all things Trump. The headline is "In Order to Survive, Cable News Should Go Full Anti-Trump: There's one way for cable news to stave off steep declines over the next few years, writes THR's chief TV critic, and it involves embracing and channeling anti-Trump anger." TV critic Tim Goodman lectured that "if we…
 

NY Magazine: Facebook Enabled Trump ‘Welfare-State Ethno-Nationalism’

Tom Johnson
November 14th, 2016 7:41 PM
Is the Social Network also the Electoral Network? Yes, says Max Read, who suggested in a piece for New York magazine that Mark Zuckerberg had more to do with Donald Trump’s win than did James Comey, Julian Assange, or Bernie Sanders. “It can be clarifying,” Read wrote, “to identify the conditions that allowed access to the highest levels” of politics to Trump, “a dangerous and unpredictable bigot…
 

Tipped Off? Clinton Team Knew In Advance Stories Would Be ‘Positive'

Dan Gainor
November 4th, 2016 9:51 AM
Editor’s Note: Some readers may be offended by language in this story. The game of politics is a lot easier when you know the results ahead of time. The Clinton campaign has experience at that — predicting in advance whether at least eight separate stories from top news organizations were “positive.” Clinton staff were correct each time.
 

Eric Alterman: ‘Trump TV’ Might Want Scarborough, Halperin

Tom Johnson
October 29th, 2016 10:53 AM
If there’s ever a Donald Trump-centric TV channel, it’s likely that not all of its big names would be from the populist right, hinted What Liberal Media? author Alterman in his column for The Nation's November 14 issue. Alterman claimed that MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough “has made some of the most egregious pro-Trump arguments heard anywhere during this election cycle” and, regarding Bloomberg’s Mark…
 

Survey Says: In New Poll, 56% Cite Anthem Antics in NFL Ratings Rout

Culture
Matt Philbin
October 28th, 2016 11:41 AM
It hurts journalists right to their activist little hearts, so they’re trying like heck to avoid telling you. But the Colin Kaepernick-led national anthem protests really are hurting the NFL’s ratings. 
 

Study: 'Objective' Papers, Networks Stuffed with Democratic Donors

Tim Graham
October 18th, 2016 4:18 PM
A Media Research Center study of donations at OpenSecrets.org demonstrates a dramatic tilt in campaign donations by employees at some of America’s leading news outlets. The most dramatic financial favoritism is shown by employees of The New York Times: since January 1, 2008, 68 employees of the Times have donated exclusively to Democrats or Democratic PACs to just three employees who donated to…
 

TMZ: NBC Execs Planned to Use Trump Tape To Influence Election

Business
Julia A. Seymour
October 12th, 2016 4:43 PM
NBC executives had planned to use video of the vulgar discussion between Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and Billy Bush to influence the election. TMZ reported on Oct. 12, that NBC executives knew of the existence of this taped conversation before the The Washington Post released it to the public — although they’ve claimed to only know about it for about a week. The actual…
 

Matt Taibbi: Libs’ Gripes About Campaign Coverage ‘Getting Ridiculous’

Tom Johnson
September 17th, 2016 12:26 PM
Liberals often allege that the media are too tough on Hillary Clinton and not tough enough on Donald Trump. Taibbi is left of center and anti-Trump, but he thinks the quantity and quality of those complaints are “getting ridiculous,” and that the main problem isn’t bad campaign coverage -- it’s dopey voters. “We are less than two months from the possibility of one of the dumbest people on the…