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On Morning Joe, Tomasky Blames 'Right-Wing Media' For Trump Popularity

December 20th, 2024 11:19 AM

On Morning Joe, New Republic editor Michael Tomasky blames tne "right-wing media" for the public's approval of Trump's transition.  He singles out Rupert Murdoch for particular opprobrium. Tomasky is nostalgic for the days when there was "common civic agreement about basic morality in public life." Translation: when the liberal media set the agenda.

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Reid Flips Out Over Sinclair Busting Liberal Influence in Local News

June 14th, 2024 8:18 AM

Joy Reid hosted a panel of clowns on Wednesday’s episode of MSNBC’s The ReidOut to denounce local news stations questioning President Biden’s mental acuity. The panel of lefties condemned the Sinclair Broadcast Group for broadcasting a Wall Street Journal (WSJ) report on the president’s age as it affects the election. They also portrayed the group as an insidious promoter of…

NYT Hypocrisy Horror On Al-Jazeera Ban: Wanted Murdoch Out of AUS, UK

May 7th, 2024 5:29 PM

The New York Times came out stridently in defense of pan-Arab news network Al-Jazeera after the Israeli government temporarily shut down its local operations, claiming it was threatening Israel’s security by serving as a “mouthpiece” for Hamas. The paper was highly aggrieved over the “anti-democratic” move, while ignoring Al-Jazeera’s history as a virulently anti-Israel outlet Arab…

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Swisher Decries Lack Of Serious Debate, Labels Murdoch 'Uncle Satan'

March 23rd, 2024 11:02 AM

Liberal journalist and podcaster Kara Swisher took her book tour to HBO and Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday to offer up several contradictory claims. Swisher claimed to be for debate while defending collusion between the government and social media companies and labeled Rupert Murdoch “Uncle Satan” while lamenting the lack of serious debate.

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Stelter Returns To CNN To Attack Fox, The 'Beating Heart of the GOP'

November 11th, 2023 11:03 AM

Brian Stelter returned to CNN on Friday when he joined The Source host Kaitlan Collins to continue his book tour and, just like old times, bash Fox News as the GOP's agenda setter while ignoring how the rest of the media helps set the left's agenda.

Rupert Murdoch Was Right From the Start

September 26th, 2023 5:42 PM

LONDON – To read and watch the reaction of people who have hated Fox News from its creation, one might think it resembles dancing on someone’s grave, but at 92, Rupert Murdoch remains very much alive and his influence, not only on Fox, but in much of journalism, will likely continue for some time. It may be coincidental, or not, that the announcement of Murdoch’s stepping down as chairman of…

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On MSNBC, Stelter Blames Murdoch for Sowing Division (MSNBC Doesn't?)

September 26th, 2023 11:10 AM

Is there anything stranger than crusading leftists on CNN and MSNBC blaming Fox News for dividing Americans? Soon after CNN anchor Abby Phillip attacked Fox News for "outrage porn," MSNBC's The Sunday Show offered ex-CNNer Brian Stelter blaming Rupert Murdoch for dividing America, pitting neighbor against neighbor. 

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Rupert Rant: NPR’s Folkenflik Rips ‘Corrosive…Right-Wing’ Fox on PBS

September 24th, 2023 8:19 AM

The "public" broadcasting elite loathes Fox News. When news broke that 92-year-old media mogul Rupert Murdoch, Fox News founder and chairman of News Corp, is stepping down in favor of his son Lachlan, that encouraged tax-funded PBS to trot out Murdoch-bashing journalist David Folkenflik of tax-funded National Public Radio on Thursday evening to lament the chairman’s "corrosive" right-…

The Importance of Rupert Murdoch

September 23rd, 2023 4:00 PM

The announcement that the News Corporation’s founding father Rupert Murdoch was transitioning to “chairman emeritus” status has opened the flood gates for both admirers and critics.

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With Complete Lack of Self-Awareness, CNN Trashes Fox 'Outrage Porn'

September 22nd, 2023 10:02 AM

CNN Primetime host Abby Phillip wasted no time on Thursday in attacking Rupert Murdoch as he steps down as CEO of Fox News, blaming him and his “outrage porn” for the state of political discourse and the “perilous” state of democracy.

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CNN Whines Fox News to Remain ‘Right-Wing’ After Murdoch Steps Down

September 21st, 2023 3:55 PM

On Thursday, Rupert Murdoch, the chairman of Fox Corp. and News Corp., announced he would be stepping down later this year. But the fact he would be turning over control to his son Lachlan Murdoch threw cold water on any excitement Fox News haters in the liberal would have. The ones hurt most by that realization were the liberals of CNN, chief among them was media urchin Oliver Darcy who…

MRC Leaders Sound Off on Tucker Carlson, Don Lemon Being Fired

April 26th, 2023 12:04 PM

On Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning, the Media Research Center led the way in providing reaction to and instant analysis at NewsBusters, online, and on the radio about the bombshell firings of Tucker Carlson by Fox News and Don Lemon at CNN. This included three spots from MRC Founder and President Brent Bozell, NewsBusters Executive Editor Tim Graham, and NewsBusters Managing Editor Curtis…

Katie Phang Stephen Shackelford MSNBC The Katie Phang Show 4-22-23
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On MSNBC—Dominion Lawyer Claims $788 Million Settlement 'Bittersweet!'

April 24th, 2023 8:23 AM

On Katie Phang's MSNBC show, the lead lawyer for Dominion Votiing Systeme echoes the claim by the company's CEO that the gigantic, $788 million settlement from Fox News was "bittersweet."

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Pot Meet Kettle: CNN Claims Murdochs Lacks 'Journalistic Integrity'

September 23rd, 2022 11:04 AM

To promote CNN’s new doc-series entitled The Murdochs: Empire of Influence, consulting producers Jim Rutenburg and Jonathan Mahler joined Thursday’s Don Lemon Tonight to discuss the namesake family and accuse them of having “a major political bias.” Meanwhile, Lemon alleged “the journalistic integrity is not always there.”