Called to the Principal’s Office: CBS to Change Sunday Show Interviews

September 5th, 2025 1:18 PM

On Friday, CBS News all but admitted they’ve lost the public’s trust when they admitted they would no longer be chopping down (read: engaging in funny business with) taped interviews — such as one Sunday with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem — for their Sunday morning political talk show, Face the Nation, instead either airing them live or live to tape.

NewsBusters Podcast: Did CBS Think We’d Miss Their New Hatchet Job?

September 2nd, 2025 8:39 PM

NewsBusters Associate Editor Nick Fondacaro and I were stunned by Sunday’s Face the Nation in which the show made a baffling decision to deceptively remove a key portion of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s answer about the alleged criminal record of illegal immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia. As our Bill D’Agostino wrote, this was part of a pattern of behavior from CBS News,…

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Five Times CBS Was Caught Deceptively Editing Interviews

September 2nd, 2025 4:15 PM

Yet again, the propagandists at CBS have found themselves in the midst of another deceptive editing scandal. On Sunday, the network was caught editing out the substantive portion of one of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s responses to a question on Face the Nation. But this incident is just the latest in CBS’s lengthy record of journalistic malfeasance. Let’s look back at some of the worst…

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CAUGHT COOKING AGAIN: CBS Doctors Noem Response to ‘Maryland Dad’

August 31st, 2025 8:08 PM

CBS News is once again at the center of a self-inflicted editorial practices firestorm, after excising significant portions of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s response to a question regarding “Maryland Dad” Kilmar Abrego García. CBS’s latest cooked interview left a recitation of the allegations against Abrego García on the cutting room floor.

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Kristi Noem Calls Out South Park for Being 'Lazy' and 'Petty'

August 8th, 2025 6:27 PM

The button-pushing comedy series South Park recently took aim at the Trump administration to kick off their newest season. Well known for its “nothing is off limits” satirical comedy, some conservatives were raising eyebrows at the show’s latest episodes featuring the Trump administration, including Wednesday’s episode which took swings at Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. 

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Leavitt Destroys Hail Marys From NPR, PBS Ahead of Rescission Vote

July 17th, 2025 4:36 PM

While many in the White House press corps used their time Thursday afternoon to show sudden concern about transparency in the Jeffrey Epstein case, there were a few others who asked real questions about socialist Zohran Mamdani, Christians abroad, hospitals ending transgender surgeries for minors, reopening Alcatraz and, most importantly for those of us at the Media Research Center, the…

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Meyers Claims We're Now Living in a 'Police State'

June 19th, 2025 9:42 AM

NBC’s Seth Meyers announced on Wednesday’s edition of Late Night that the arrest of New York mayoral candidate Brad Lander and removal of Sen. Alex Padilla from DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s press conference mean that we are now living in “a police state.”

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Colbert, Duckworth on Trump: 'Fear Is The Point of a Lot of This'

June 17th, 2025 10:20 AM

CBS’s Stephen Colbert showed a lack of historical awareness on Monday as he welcomed Sen. Tammy Duckworth to The Late Show to lament all things related to President Trump. Colbert wondered what happens when the military is deployed to the streets, while the duo later claimed that Sen. Alex Padilla being removed from a recent press conference with DHS Secretary Kristi Noem is about “…

DHS’s Noem Defends Change to Agency Exposed for Censorship

May 8th, 2025 6:04 PM

A Democratic representative mourned a huge change to a government agency responsible for massive censorship. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem put him in his place. 

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CBS’s King After Co-Host’s Noem Interview: Deportations Are ‘Scaring’

May 1st, 2025 3:56 PM

After having taped on Monday and a small excerpt shown Tuesday about two illegal immigrants being the alleged suspects in her purse having been stolen, Wednesday’s CBS Mornings finally unspooled co-host Tony Dokoupil’s interview with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and, while the interview itself wasn’t as hostile as, say, ABC’s Terry Moran with President Trump, it had plenty…

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ABC Ignores Illegals Being Suspected of Stealing Kristi Noem’s Purse

April 29th, 2025 2:03 PM

Late Saturday, the New York Post revealed the suspect who allegedly stole Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s purse on Easter Sunday was an illegal alien. Like much of President Trump’s successes on immigration, it was barely covered by the liberal broadcast networks with ABC ignoring it completely and CBS and NBC mentioning it just once through Tuesday morning on their…

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ABC News Insists on Pushing Debunked ‘Deported Citizen Babies’ Hoax

April 28th, 2025 11:03 PM

As we indicated when covering Alex Thompson’s speech at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, it wasn’t just the media’s willful concealment of President Joe Biden’s severe cognitive decline that undermined trust in the media, but the sum total of hoaxes spread, encouraged, and abetted. Based on the latest faux immigration scandal, it appears that ABC News is adamant on refusing to learn…

Bill Kristol, Comedian? Imagines Trump Already Plotting 2028 Coup

April 26th, 2025 8:01 AM

In his Bulwark column, Bill Kristol, writing as if he were President Trump, suggests that Trump is planning for 2028 a coup to remain in power past the end of his current term. "Trump" judges several senior aides through the prism of their ability to be useful to him in that effort.

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Lame CNN Fact Check: Harvard Isn't Liberal Because Ted Cruz Attended

April 17th, 2025 1:41 PM

CNN senior justice correspondent Evan Perez did his best Daniel Dale impression on Thursday’s episode of The Situation Room, where he attempted to fact-check President Trump’s assessment of Harvard, in his words, as a “cesspool of leftist thinking,” as false because conservatives, such as Ted Cruz, have attended the school.