In his "Fourth Watch" media newsletter, former CNN producer Steve Krakauer interviewed former Access Hollywood host Billy Bush in email. He asked "as you look out across the landscape right now, and where things stand in 2020… what do you think is missing? What would you like to see more of?" Bush had a spicy answer, knocking his former bosses at NBC: "the network that despises him most is the one that built him in their laboratory."
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Tim Graham | August 2nd, 2020 10:46 PM
Ryan Foley | August 2nd, 2020 6:39 PM
After what began as a fairly non-political conversation on Friday's Real Time, things changed with left-wing comedian and vulgar artist Jim Carrey and host Bill Maher another Carrey painting with this one depicting President Trump as “the Wicked Witch of the West Wing.” After he held it up, Maher proclaimed “I love it.”
Nicholas Fondacaro | August 2nd, 2020 4:26 PM
Predicting “an election mess in the making, with three months before ballots will be counted” was how CNN media activist and resident soothsayer Brian Stelter was reading in the tea leaves at the top of Sunday’s show.
Alex Christy | August 2nd, 2020 3:54 PM
MSNBC's Brian Williams was joined by author and professor Timothy Snyder on Friday night where Williams used his guest's 2017 book On Tyranny to argue that the United States under President Trump is slipping into authoritarianism. The proof? Trump-named towers, military parades and federal law enforcement in Portland.
Nicholas Fondacaro | August 2nd, 2020 1:18 PM
In a segment sponsored by an anti-Trump political ad from Americans for Limited Government, ABC’s This Week spent a portion of Sunday’s show swooning for the anti-Trump/pro-Biden political group The Lincoln Project.
Nicholas Fondacaro | August 2nd, 2020 10:05 AM
With the coronavirus relief benefits expiring last Friday, and Democrats and Republicans still in negotiations over what the next round of aid would look like, self-described
Tim Graham | August 1st, 2020 10:50 PM
On the July 31 Real Time with Bill Maher, former New York Times op-ed editor Bari Weiss described her fear of how our nation's so-called paper of record has now seemingly banned the opinions of half of America from its editorial pages.
Tim Graham | August 1st, 2020 6:51 PM
On Thursday, Kevin Williamson at National Review described how "NPR Remains Journalistically Incompetent." His target was Morning Edition anchor David Greene: "If you would like an example of how it is that our political discourse gets dumber by the day, tune in to NPR."
Jay Maxson | August 1st, 2020 6:30 PM
You can spell hypocrite "P-O-P-O-V-I-C-H." After all his mouthing off about systemic racism, San Antonio Spurs' Head Coach Greg Popovich refused to kneel Friday with his team during the national anthem.
Alex Christy | August 1st, 2020 5:28 PM
Media praise of former President Obama's eulogy at John Lewis' funeral continued on Friday's CNN Newsroom as senior political analyst David Gergen contrasted the upcoming election as between Obama's purported pro-American elegance with Trump's alleged "dystopian" view of the world.
Jeffrey Lord | August 1st, 2020 4:00 PM
The Washington Post had, understandably and correctly, considerable coverage of the death and funeral ceremonies for civil rights hero and Congressman John Lewis.
Randy Hall | August 1st, 2020 3:09 PM
Fox News continued to dominate its liberal competitors in July as viewers delivered it another ratings victory over CNN and MSNBC. The cable channel, for the 49th month in a row, won both total day and prime time viewers -- achieving its highest-rated July ever.
Tim Graham | August 1st, 2020 2:06 PM
The death of civil rights leader and Congressman John Lewis (D-Georgia) has drawn outsized media attention -- on the level of the death of a president. I'd bet the death of President Gerald Ford over the holidays in 2006 drew less media attention than Lewis has received. CBS surely didn't devote primetime specials called "Celebrating a Hero" to Republican presidents.
Christian Toto | August 1st, 2020 1:30 PM
Late night television leaned left prior to President Donald Trump’s 2016 electoral victory.
Now?
The shows serve as an unofficial Democratic SuperPAC, delivering talking points amidst the jokes. That’s happening now with their approach to Joe “Basement” Biden, the Democrats’ best hope to unseat President Donald Trump in the Fall.
Scott Whitlock | August 1st, 2020 12:15 PM
This summer has seen a historical reckoning with how the country views the past. Yet when liberals and Democrats are the target of reassessment, journalists get nervous.
Adam Burnett | August 1st, 2020 12:00 PM
Think back to when you last went to a funeral, do you remember speakers at that solemn service giving political speeches, talking about ending the filibuster? I sure don’t, but apparently that is fair game for Barack Obama. MSNBC's Morning Joe touted a variety of clips Friday morning of the former president exploiting what was supposed to be a funeral for Congressman John Lewis, using his "eulogy" to the Democratic lawmaker to campaign against President Trump.
Alex Christy | August 1st, 2020 11:14 AM
After former President Obama gave a partisan eulogy at John Lewis' funeral on Thursday where he compared President Trump and federal law enforcement to George Wallace and called for the end of the filibuster, among other things, the Washington Post's Jonathan Capehart praised him for telling Americans what they can do to honor Lewis and the country.
Brad Wilmouth | August 1st, 2020 10:23 AM
On Monday's Amanpour & Co. on PBS and CNN International, host Christiane Amanpour gave former California Democratic Governor Jerry Brown an unchallenged forum to bash President Donald Trump over sending federal agents to quell rioting in Portland, and even cued him up to fearmonger that the President is "authoritarian."