PBS Roundtable Can't Believe 'Extraordinary' Biden Achievement Ignored

September 9th, 2023 10:50 PM

For the second week in a row, PBS’s weekly journalistic political roundtable Washington Week with The Atlantic defended the elderly President Biden’s “mental acuity,” with the author of a new Biden biography, who also lectured the press on how to properly cover the president: By emphasizing how bad Trump is. Foer gave away his partisan leanings with a choice of pronoun: "...the recent…

PBS Roundtable's Laugh Line on Biden: ‘Mentally, He’s Quite Acute’

September 7th, 2023 8:07 AM

The awkwardly named Washington Week with The Atlantic, a weekly political roundtable of journalists which appears on tax-supported PBS, defended President Biden from scurrilous Republican questions about his age and fitness in last Friday’s edition. While the panel did address the important matter of the gerontocracy currently running the country, several of the panelists seemed to…

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PBS, Atlantic Team to Tar DeSantis: Autocrat Dishing Violent Rhetoric

August 14th, 2023 6:32 AM

PBS’s weekly political roundtable show Washington Week has a new “editorial partner” and a new name but the same liberal philosophy. Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic monthly, is now moderator of the awkwardly rebranded Washington Week with The Atlantic. Under Goldberg’s tenure, The Atlantic has turned into a Democratic hive, and he’…

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FLASHBACK: NewsBusters Exposed Fareed Zakaria’s Plagiarism Scandal

August 12th, 2023 8:45 AM

Twelve years ago, NewsBusters exposed an act of plagiarism by CNN host and Time columnist Fareed Zakaria. Here's a look back at how the story unfolded, and the reaction from Zakaria's fellow journalists.

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Washington Week Skips GOP Hearings Entirely, Lusts Over Trump in Jail

July 23rd, 2023 12:34 PM

The PBS journalist roundtable Washington Week would never put on a Fox News correspondent or a Washington Times reporter -- they're too opinionated? But on July 21, as they obsessed over a potential third Trump indictment, they brought on Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, whose partisanship knows no bounds.

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Atlantic Mag Editor Touts Disinformation Talks, Skips Hunter's Laptop

April 8th, 2022 2:52 PM

The editor-in-chief of Atlantic magazine memory holes the Hunter Biden laptop story disinformation while one of its writers dismisses the story because she conveniently doesn't find it "interesting."

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PBS's Isaacson Drops Nazi Comparison on GOP's 'Quisling Enablers'

December 18th, 2020 5:51 PM

On Tuesday's Amanpour and Co. on PBS and CNN International, Walter Isaacson treated viewers of the taxpayer funded show to hyperbole as he likened Republican supporters of President Donald Trump to those who collaborated with Adolf Hitler during World War ii, deriding them as "quisling enablers of the undermining of democracy."

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Obama's Echo Chamber at MSNBC Worries About Trump Echo Chambers

November 18th, 2020 12:54 PM

The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg and PBS White House reporter Yamiche Alcindor joined MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell on Monday to long for the days of Barack Obama because those were the days when the president cared about the truth.

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Chuck Todd Fears Media Losing Their ‘Power’ to ‘Shame a Politician’

September 13th, 2020 5:40 PM

After boasting about the “deluge” of anti-Trump books (7) published in the last 10 days (with more to come ahead of the election), NBC political director and moderator of Meet the Press, Chuck Todd was worried. He was concerned that the media were losing their “power” to “shame” President Trump and politicians as a whole.

Column: The Hyperbolic, Hyperpartisan Atlantic Magazine

September 9th, 2020 6:23 AM

As they launch a fall-campaign fusillade with anonymous sources claiming President Trump callously trashed America’s war dead as “losers” and “suckers,” The Atlantic magazine is being celebrated by the pro-Biden news media. They are “respected,” and “venerable,” and “at the zenith of their influence." Editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg lauded his magazine bosses as “excellent owners who…

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Goldberg Continues Digging His Own Grave Despite GLOWING Praise

September 9th, 2020 12:10 AM

Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg must have thought early Tuesday evening that he was making matters better when he appeared on CNN’s The Situation Room to discuss his hit piece against President Trump, but despite host Wolf Blitzer’s gushing praise for his “amazing” “bombshell” we all should be “grateful” for, he continued to undermine the central claims of his tale…

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Stupid! Stelter Pretends 'Write a Letter to the Publisher' Is a THREAT

September 8th, 2020 7:33 AM

CNN just gets desperate trying to say everything the president says is dictatorial. On Sunday's Reliable Sources, host Brian Stelter pretended it was "ominous" and threatening for the president to tell his supporters on Twitter to call or write the publisher of The Atlantic to object to their nasty story. If that's a threat, then NewsBusters threatens media outlets…

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Goldberg Defends Anonymous Sources: They Feared 'Angry Tweets'

September 4th, 2020 6:20 PM

On Thursday, The Atlantic ran a truly damning piece accusing President Trump of saying that a cemetery of marines who died at the Battle of Belleau Wood, one of the most important battles of World War I and in the history of the Marine Corps, is "filled with losers" and that they were "suckers" for getting killed. However, there was a problem. Editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg's…

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McEnany Wipes the Floor with Atlantic Over ‘Fake News’ ‘Propaganda’

September 4th, 2020 5:17 PM

On Friday afternoon, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany continued the full court press from the Trump administration and campaign to debunk, deny, and dispose of Thursday’s hit Atlantic piece against President Trump from liberal hack editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, calling it “conspiracy-laden propaganda” and “fake news” that abandoned “all journalistic integrity.” And in…