Journalistic Issues

WH Correspondents Head Pitches Grade School Hissy Fit Over Press Pool
On Wednesday night, Politico reporter and White House Correspondents Association (WHCA) president Eugene Daniels — who’s soon leaving both positions for MSNBC — sent a lengthy email to members strongly suggesting they refuse to participate in the new press pool rotations created by the White House Press Office (or at least make a fuss out of it) and complaining that expanding who…

AP Sues WH Over Gulf of America Name, Alleging Free Speech Violation
On Friday, the Associated Press (AP) sued three Trump White House officials – Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, Deputy Chief of Staff Taylor Budowich, and Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt – alleging they violated the First Amendment (and somehow the Fourth Amendment too) by using their stance on the Gulf of America to deprive the AP of their seemingly God-given right to participate in a small,…

CBS Airs Possibly the Dumbest Segment Defending DEI as Popular
CBS News must have decided they haven’t suffered enough self-inflicted wounds of partisan quackery as Thursday’s CBS Mornings Plus defended diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) as not only necessary, but widely popular and doesn’t at all conflict with concerns about “merit,” and actually exists to benefit white women and military veterans.

EXCLUSIVE: Leftist Media Falsely Blamed Trump for Q4 GDP Slowdown
The media didn’t even wait for the first quarter of President Donald Trump’s second term to blame him for GDP events that transpired before he was even elected to office.

BREAKING: US Government Paid $2.4M to Soros-Backed Censorship Giant
The revelation that The New York Times and Politico received millions collectively in taxpayer dollars from a slew of US government agencies sparked public outrage. But a new investigation by MRC Business will make the scandal of government-funded media even worse.

The Dispatch Completely BOTCHES Fact Check on Politico’s Gov’t Funding
Never-Trump propaganda mill The Dispatch tried to scold critics enraged over the millions in taxpayer dollars wasted on Politico subscriptions, and ended up looking completely ridiculous in the process.

Paging Daniel Dale! CNN and Others Have No Idea What a ‘Treaty’ Is
In an ideal world, words have meaning. But if you’re CNN and others who are just mindlessly gnashing their teeth at President Donald Trump for leaving the Paris Climate Agreement, words and facts fly straight out the window because, muh, rage! The agreement is NOT a “treaty,” regardless of whatever the dense climate dweebs at the UN choose to call it.

ROUNDUP: 9 Outlets Simping for UK's Starmer Following Musk Rebuke
What does the media decide to do when the world’s richest man draws attention to a government coverup of one of the biggest child rape scandals in years? Simp for the politicos accused of being tied to the coverup.

MRC Honors Original Vision for Free Speech Week with 2024 Awards
The Media Research Center (MRC) seeks to uphold the original vision of Free Speech Week, and nothing encapsulates those efforts more than the free speech advocates MRC has honored this year.

New Reports Detail CBS Struggle Sessions Over Dokoupil Grilling Coates
The New York Post and The Free Press offered new reporting Tuesday night and Friday morning on the continued fallout and outrage and subsequent modern-day Struggle Sessions directed at CBS Mornings co-host Tony Dokoupil for the alleged crime of asking leftist icon Ta-Nehisi Coates probing questions about his virulently anti-Israel book.

CNN+ 2.0? CNN Launches Paywall, Hoping People Will Pay to Read Them
After murmurs lasting well over a year, CNN CEO Mark Thompson pulled the trigger Tuesday on his plan to supposed reinvigorate the annoyingly smug, dying, and far-left network (aside from greats Scott Jennings and David Urban) by charging frequent fliers of CNN.com — which in of itself is comical — a rate of $3.99 a month. CNN and Thompson believe this will ensure the network’s survival, but…

ANALYSIS: Meet Top Leftist ESG Asset Managers That Own Liberal News
The leftist extremism of ABC, CBS, CNN and NBC (and its cable affiliate MSNBC) is well-documented. However, what rarely gets mentioned is that the woke reporting emanating from these networks aligns with that of the leftist ESG asset manager giants that own the biggest portion of their stock.

NB Podcast: Zero Self-Respect Press Accepts Teleprompter Dem Campaign
Kamala Harris is treating reporters like a of troop of Typhoid Marys. Hello and welcome to the NewsBusters Podcast. Settle in. I’m Tim Graham. The Republicans, especially J.D. Vance are making a campaign issue of how Harris has been avoiding the press since July 21, when President Biden announced he was forced out of the race. So far, it’s another basement campaign, and why not?