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NewsBusters Podcast: Nick Kristof's Fake Virgin Births & NPR's Pagans
Some media outlets aren’t interesting in wishing you a Merry Christmas. They use the occasion to suggest the Christmas story is bunk. But taxpayer-funded NPR will eagerly promote a pagan "High Priestex" at the Winter Solstice.
PBS Oozes Over Paul Krugman: He Sees 'Resurrection' of Biden's Image
On Friday’s PBS airing of Amanpour & Co., host Christiane Amanpour introduced “the Nobel prize winning economist, Paul Krugman, who's written his last column for The New York Times, after 25 years of sharp and often indispensable takes on major issues that shape America and the world.” But NewsBusters has compiled decades of research proving Krugman’s knee-jerk…
MSNBC Swerves Around NY Times Noting Biden Couldn't Do Four More Years
Thursday's front page at The New York Times featured a story headlined "Biden, Wearied and Stinging, Prepares to Exit." White House reporters Peter Baker and Zolan Kanno-Youngs were blunt in the third paragraph about Biden's twilight. "Time is catching up with Mr. Biden....it is hard to imagine that he seriously thought he could do the world’s most stressful job for another four years…
The White Pill: Big Government Can Be Defeated (Just Ask the Soviets)
The movie “The Matrix” gave us the “red pill” and the “blue pill.” The red wakes you up to reality; the blue keeps you indoctrinated. Internet culture then invented a black pill. Those who take it think the world is doomed.So, podcaster Michael Malice wrote the book “The White Pill,” calling it a “symbol of hope.” “Young people in recent years,” he tells me, “were discouraged about the future…
PBS, NYT Fears ABC’s Trump Settlement Is ‘A Really Chilling Message'
The PBS NewsHour was in full panic on Monday evening after ABC settled a defamation lawsuit by Donald Trump, offering scaremongering with this online headline: “ABC News settlement with Trump raises concerns about press freedom in his 2nd term.” PBS’s guest, New York Times reporter David Enrich, hyped up ABC’s supposedly strong case, ABC’s decision “sends a really chilling…
Scarborough Desperately Clings to Wisconsin to Downplay Trump Win
On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough repeatedly cites the election results in Wisconsin to downplay the scope of Trump's win. He doesn't mention that Trump flipped the state after having lost it in 2020. Scarborough also buries the fact that the electorate shifted right in all 50 states, and in 89% of counties.
NYT Heads Into Battle Vs Trump With Radical 'Youth Climate Activists'
The New York Times huddled with the leftist “youth climate movement” as they girded for battle against Trump II, in a so-called news story that appeared in Thursday’s paper: “As Teens, They Fought Trump on Climate. Now What?” by Austyn Gaffney, who has previously written freelance for Rolling Stone, The Guardian, and Grist, three left-wing publications.
Recalling Media Hostility for Bill Buckley & Conservative Movement
For decades, the liberal media establishment showed open hostility toward conservative powerhouse William F. Buckley, as well as for the broader conservative movement he helped launch.
The Media and the Lie That Was the Duke Lacrosse Coverage
Well isn’t this interesting. A headline this week: The Victim Involved in the Infamous Duke Lacrosse Players Sexual Assault Case Admits She Lied
Tapper Reheats Leftist Hot Take on Trump as Jurassic Park Velociraptor
The people who watch CNN know why they are watching CNN. They hate Donald Trump, and they love to hear him compared to Hitler, or perhaps murderous dinosaurs. On Thursday's The Lead, host Jake Tapper fed the CNN base by bringing up a recent "progressive" Trump insult, comparing his second term to the velociraptors in Jurassic Park figuring out how to terrify the humans.
NYT's Penny Smear: 'Jury Acquits Man Who Was Choking Rider On Subway'
Check out the headline and lead sentence of the front-page story on the Daniel Perry acquittal in Tuesday’s New York Times, “Jury Acquits Man Who Was Choking Rider On Subway Cleared of Homicide -- Split Reaction in a Case Reflecting Tensions in New York City,” by Hurubie Meko and Anusha Bayya. Yes, a man just randomly choked an innocent subway “rider” in New York City -- not a loud,…
Bye Felicia! Krugman Calls It Quits at NYT After Tumultuous Career
It finally happened. The New York Times’s ego-maniacal and perpetually wrong economics columnist is finally divorcing himself from his propaganda-mill column after nearly 25 years.
Axios Calls Fox Viewers 'Right-Wing Grandpas'—But MSNBC Audience Older
Morning Joe devotes a segment to an Axios article, Shards of glass: Inside media's 12 splintering realities. The notion is that depending on demographics, people get their information from very different media silos. One of the categories is "Right-wing grandpas,' a reference to Fox News viewers. What is not revealed is that the average age of Fox News viewers is 68, whereas the average age of…
'The Building Always Wins'—Kasie Hunt's Synonym For 'The Deep State'
Liberals often deny the existence of the Deep State, as exemplified by a column by David Remnick, editor of the New Yorker: "There Is No Deep State." But on CNN This Morning, Kasie Hunt acknowledged something that is effectively a synonym for the Deep State. Describing the challenges facing Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy in their DOGE undertaking to render the federal government more efficient…