NewsBusters Podcast: Brian Stelter Won't Grill a Sulzberger

January 18th, 2023 10:16 PM

Brian Stelter sighting! The former CNN host resurfaced at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland to moderate a panel on crushing "disinformation." He made it sound like a European version of his old show Reliable Sources, asking his fellow leftists how they manage a world in which Donald Trump is still proving that "lying works."

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Propaganda Acolytes: 54 Soros-Tied Figures Linked to Major Media

Business
January 17th, 2023 4:41 PM

The over $32 billion that leftist billionaire George Soros poured into his organizations to spread his radical “open society” agenda on abortion, Marxist economics, anti-Americanism, defunding the police, environmental extremism and LGBT fanaticism around the globe has paid dividends. 

NYT Sneers 'No, Biden Is Not Trying to Ban Gas Stoves' (But He Should)

January 16th, 2023 9:05 PM

The federal government banning gas stoves? What a deluded notion, sneered the New York Times. Yet a short time later the paper published articles outlining alternatives to hazardous gas stoves. Thursday’s dismissive story appeared under the dismissive print-edition headline: “No, Biden Is Not Trying to Ban Gas Stoves.” Those silly people must have believed US Consumer Product Safety…

NY Times Falsely Says It's Unproven Joe Biden Aided Hunter's Business

January 16th, 2023 7:56 AM

The weirdest thing about big-time reporters is that they trash-talk Republicans, saying that have yet to prove Joe Biden was involved in Hunter Biden's business dealings. Earth to big-time reporters: Isn't it your job to investigate that?

NYT Pouts Over ‘Radical' DeSantis Tactic: Ignoring ‘Nonpartisan' Press

January 15th, 2023 12:29 PM

New York Times media reporter Michael Grynbaum pouted about Florida’s governor and potential Republican presidential candidate thumbing his nose at the “national non-partisan” (!) media, in “Can Ron DeSantis Avoid Meeting the Press?” Grynbaum sympathized with a poor young ABC News reporter who couldn’t get a DeSantis interview. He actually forwarded praise of Trump to make DeSantis (…

BACKFIRE: Liberal Media Get a Special Counsel -- for Biden

January 14th, 2023 4:00 PM

You might call it a media backfire. A big one.

Why the Prevalence of JFK Assassination Conspiracy Theories?

January 13th, 2023 6:38 PM

WASHINGTON -- I am engaged in reading a very fine book by my colleague, Paul Kengor. It was written six years ago, so do not feel bad if you missed it. You still have time. It is called “A Pope and a President.” It covers the lives of John Paul II and Ronald Reagan, and, as its coverage is chronological, I just read its treatment of the assassination of President John Kennedy. This will be the…

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On MSNBC, NYT's Peters Frets GOP Congressional Investigations

January 12th, 2023 5:40 PM

Appearing as a guest on Tuesday's Andrea Mitchell Reports, New York Times political reporter Jeremy Peters worried that the Republican-controlled Congress will hold investigations into the Joe Biden administration that will "make Benghazi look like child's play."

Krugman Arrogantly Claims ‘Election Deniers’ Are ‘Economy Deniers’

Business
January 10th, 2023 6:58 PM

The often wrong but never in doubt New York Times economics columnist Paul Krugman is clearly neck-deep in denial about how bad the Biden economy really is. He whipped out a new catch-all to accuse so-called “election deniers” of also being “economy deniers.”

PBS Shrieks: All 20 McCarthy Vote Holdouts Were 'Election Deniers’

January 10th, 2023 5:19 PM

The Friday night edition of Amanpour & Co. on PBS, hosted by Bianna Golodryga, aired with House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy’s elevation to Speaker still uncertain. Golodryga dubiously claimed that of the 20 holdouts denying McCarthy the House Speakership, “all 20 holdouts were all election deniers.”

NY Times Uses Speaker Vote to Tar GOP 'Far Right,' 'Ultraconservative'

January 9th, 2023 7:00 PM

The New York Times took advantage of the Republican kerfuffle around the days of voting it took to install House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy as House Speaker, to wedge in as many scary “far-right” style labels and frantic messaging as it could throughout several days of intense coverage. Carl Hulse and Emily Cochrane reported “What the Far-Right Republicans Want: To Remake…

NYT Loves FBI: SWAT Teams, Surveillance, Pressuring Twitter All Cool

January 2nd, 2023 6:30 AM

For decades the New York Times used the Federal Bureau of Investigation as a symbol of the fears of oppressive government surveillance. The Times has cheerfully tossed all that history aside to engage in knee-jerk defense of the agency -- when it’s Republicans doing the criticizing. Reporters Adam Goldman and Alan Feuer raced to defend the paper’s favorite domestic…

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Return Your Nobel: Top 4 Worst Paul Krugman Economic Hot Takes of 2022

Business
December 30th, 2022 3:01 PM

The past year has been a rough one for the wild hot takes of The New York Times’s phony economics savant Paul Krugman. His ridiculous record on the state of the economy under President Joe Biden makes it hard to see how he still takes himself seriously.

New York Times Sends Page-One Sympathy Card to Lonely Mask 'Holdouts'

December 29th, 2022 8:58 AM

The front page of Tuesday’s New York Times tried to stir sympathy for the mask-forever obsessives among the paper’s fans: “For Holdouts In Masks, Life Turns Lonelier.” It’s pretty gutsy for the mask-obsessed Times to suggest the mask-forever bunch are feeling isolated, given the Times strongly supported lockdown measures that kept old, sick, vulnerable people…