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As if the New York Times news pages weren’t crazed enough about Elon Musk,Times opinionizers really kicked up the dramatics over the billionaire entrepreneur acquiring Twitter, led by editorial board member Greg Bensinger’s aggrieved take in Tuesday’s edition, “Twitter Under Elon Musk Will Be a Scary Place.” Bensinger, whose livelihood depends on tolerance for free expression…

The New York Times held its fire against Elon Musk during the will-he-or-won’t-he phase of the drama over the entrepreneurial billionaire’s potential purchase of Twitter, the social media “town square” that has throttled conservative opinion in the name of squelching “hate speech” and “disinformation.” Musk has caused controversy among the left for his strong free-speech proclamations…

For the latest NewsBusters Podcast, we talked to Kayleigh McEnany -- former White House press secretary, current co-host of the Fox News show Outnumbered, and author of the book For Such a Time as This: My Faith Journey through the White House and Beyond.

Back in the old days, newspapers assigned reporters to beats like Congress, the Supreme Court, the Pentagon, and Health and Human Services. Now it seems like the new beats are about covering threats, foreign and domestic – ideological threats. So The New York Times has a “climate” department. Michael Bender was recently hired to report on “Trumpism,” and the Times is seeking…

Morning Joe has given a general thumbs-down on Elon Musk's Twitter takeover. there was an exchange between Mika and NYT Washington bureau chief, Bumiller. The latter uttered that classic line, "we all believe in free speech, BUT . . . "  Bumiller went on to fret about the "guardrails" coming down, and claimed Twitter has become "a platform for a lot of misogyny." A terrified Mika recited a…

The New York Times has a new public enemy: Christopher Rufo, who has publicized myriad accounts of critical race theory indoctrination in schools and corporations via leaked documents and tapes. A Times’ headline writer let readers know he was bad news: “He Fuels Cultural Fires For the Right in Florida.” As in Florida, home of Gov. DeathSantis! Reporter Trip Gabriel’…

Washington Post columnist Margaret Sullivan wants the incoming executive editor of the New York Times to ditch any shred of objective coverage of "radicalized" Republicans since they, in her view, pose a threat to democracy.

As Earth Day came and went, the New York Times still insists the Democrats can ride to victory on the issue of climate change – or at least warn the party is doomed if it doesn’t embrace extreme measures touted by…a high school student? That was environmental reporter Lisa Friedman’s spin in Saturday edition, “Frustrated by Inaction, Climate Activists Plan Rallies Across Country.” …

The New York Times knows the Democrats are in trouble, and they’re getting frantic. A front-page story on Friday, “G.O.P. Memo Shows Plan to Attack Democrats on Immigration,” was based on a leaked document distributed to House Republicans. The reporters seized on it to play defense attorney for the Democrats, trying to refute every piece of the memo on the party’s behalf. Reporters…

The richest man in the world, Elon Musk, recently purchased a 9% stake in Twitter, the social media platform that permanently banned former President Donald Trump and that conservatives accuse of suppressing their content. Musk's purchase made him Twitter's largest shareholder, and he vowed to take it over, possibly to turn it into a private company.

PolitiFact’s 2013 “Lie of the Year” winner Barack Obama, former president of the United States, decried that “People are dying because of misinformation,” during an April 21 speech at Stanford University.

The New York Times sounded a little giddy on the front page of its Business section April 21 with the headline “Obama Joins Fight to Curb Online Lies.” This spin strongly suggests Obama never lies. He’s a valiant warrior against lies.

Among the revelations surrounding Thursday’s news that CNN+ was being eliminated, one came from The New York Times in that Warner Bros. Discovery JB Perrette noted many had begun referring to the failing streaming service as CNN- while in meetings with incoming CNN boss Chris Licht about its future. And over at CNN.com, liberal media janitors Brian Stelter and Oliver Darcy relayed…

On March 16, The New York Times belatedly confirmed that Hunter Biden’s laptop is real and not an example of “Russian disinformation.” If the liberal broadcast networks were waiting for an all-clear to admit the explosive Hunter Biden laptop story (that was first broken by the …