The Tuesday edition of the taxpayer-supported PBS NewsHour featured liberal political writer Franklin Foer talking about his new biography of President Biden. But don’t expect Foer’s book, The Last President, to be a harsh expose like the dozens of books written about former President Trump. Foer just told NBC’s Meet the Press anchor Chuck Todd that Biden "has been covered probably tougher…
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On Tuesday’s PBS NewsHour, White House correspondent Laura Barron-Lopez acted as mouthpiece for the Biden administration to trumpet the so-called success of Bidenomics, tied to the president’s recent campaign trek to Milwaukee marking the anniversary of the so-called Inflation Reduction Act.
Laura Barrón-López: The new message, as Biden ramps up his 2024 reelection campaign, follows a…
Clay Waters | July 28th, 2023 10:03 PM
On Tuesday’s edition of Amanpour & Co., airing both on CNN International and tax-funded PBS, host Christiane Amanpour brought on left-wing New York magazine journalist Rebecca Traister and Democratic strategist Joe Trippi for a long conversation harping on the evils of the racist, misogynistic presidential candidate, Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis (almost as bad as Trump!) and reelecting Joe…
Clay Waters | February 13th, 2023 4:42 PM
Just as the PBS NewsHour can't stand the idea of a journalist from the conservative media doing the Friday "Week in Review," the Friday night journalist roundtable Washington Week can't imagine putting on a Fox News journalist to share reporting insights from the week. But woke anchor Yamiche Alcindor is perfectly happy to put on her fellow MSNBC pundit Errin Haines, an editor at the newish…
Clay Waters | February 8th, 2023 10:17 PM
PBS coverage of President Biden’s State of the Union address Tuesday evening began with special pleading for the president on the NewsHour, with co-host Amna Nawaz querying Sen. John Thune (R-SD):
NAWAZ: Well I think a lot of people are waiting to hear on the economy, as you know, that is top on Americans' minds, and when you look at where things are now, unemployment is at a 50-year-…
Clay Waters | February 4th, 2023 8:01 PM
PBS is your destination for finding white supremacy everywhere. Wednesday’s Amanpour & Co. opened with a long interview with Jelani Cobb, dean of Columbia University's Journalism School and a New Yorker staff writer. Cobb also made a PBS Frontline documentary in 2016 on police in Newark, NJ, “Policing the Police.”
Cobb, who leads a school for future journalists, forwarded the wild…
Clay Waters | December 12th, 2022 6:21 PM
Against stiff competition, New York Times’s Maggie Astor has proven herself one of the most liberally biased reporters at the paper, whether she’s condemning any criticism of vice-president Kamala Harris as racist or blaming Donald Trump for violence against transgenders.And on Sunday, she took on conservative criticism of “groomers” and transgender activists, and the results were no more…
Clay Waters | November 15th, 2022 11:59 AM
The New York Times ran a nauseatingly cozy profile of Twitter journalist and literati lefty Molly Jong-Fast by media reporter Michael Grynbaum. Jong-Fast’s mother is feminist novelist Erica Jong and her grandfather is Howard Fast, the Spartacus novelist and Communist activist. The apple hasn’t fallen far, as the subject is well ensconced in a deep-blue Manhattanite bubble.
Molly Jong-…
Clay Waters | July 9th, 2022 10:39 PM
Latina Republican Mayra Flores’ historic win in a Texas congressional district in the Rio Grande Valley was greeted by the Times not with celebration but bitterness and denial. This is the same newspaper that loves to mark such supposed ethnic milestones on the Democratic side, as shown in the nauseating tributes to Sen. Kamala Harris and Biden press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.
By…
Clay Waters | December 15th, 2021 11:57 AM
New York Times political reporter Maggie Astor had a pretty galling story on the front of Tuesday’s Business section, where she criticized apparently dangerous falsehoods lurking in Republican campaign emails: “Now in Your Inbox: Political Misinformation.”
Yet her lead example, involving a popular Republican, was underwhelming.
A few weeks ago, Representative Dan Crenshaw, a…
Clay Waters | December 11th, 2021 2:30 PM
Is Frank Bruni, former White House correspondent for the New York Times, whispering to media liberals to keep it down with the chatter about the sagging polls and infighting endangering President Biden’s reelection, Democratic control of Congress, and democracy itself? Because that certainly seems the subtext of his opinion posted Thursday, “Democrats' Infighting Only Helps Republicans.” …
Clay Waters | June 19th, 2021 5:45 PM
The front page of Friday’s New York Times featured the presumably rehabilitated Jonathan Weisman, who spent a long time in the paper's doghouse for offending radical Democrats on his Twitter feed.
His latest story is surely safe territory: “With Midterms in Sight, ‘Crisis’ Is Watchword for Republicans.” The text box: “A Lesson of Trump Era: Outrage Works.” Nothing to offend Democrats…
Clay Waters | April 27th, 2021 1:18 PM
New York Times White House reporter Katie Rogers can’t get over how refreshing the President Biden administration is. She gushed about it again in an interview on Monday: “Covering a Different Washington.”
It's an "Inside the Times" conversation that's supposed to provide "behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together." Aishvarya Kavi set Rogers up to praise Biden…
Clay Waters | February 25th, 2021 8:04 AM
Reporter Katie Rogers’ “White House Memo” in Tuesday’s New York Times, “Washington Basks in a New Event: A Weekend of Tranquility,” revealed the cozy relationship between the press and the new Democratic administration (Biden's bagel run and videogames!) and its unhealthy, ongoing obsession with Donald Trump.
President Biden did not do anything this weekend.
Well, let’s…
Clay Waters | February 10th, 2021 10:35 AM
A New York Times Sunday story by Los Angeles bureau chief Manny Fernandez pushed a myth that “anti-vaxxers” -- those opposed to vaccinations, often for discredited or conspiracy-based reasons -- are a predominantly “far-right” domain, in “A New Coalition Forms Against Vaccines in California.”
The text box furthered the idea that those opposed to draconian lockdowns were driving the…
Clay Waters | January 20th, 2021 3:05 PM
New York Times reporter Lara Jakes kicked Secretary of State Mike Pompeo out the door in her Tuesday story, “As Pompeo Exits State Dept., His Turbulent Tenure Leaves Dubious Legacy for the U.S.” It’s noteworthy for being absolutely crammed with the number of links it contains, suggesting a hit piece lovingly curated over a long period.
This is quite a lead sentence:
Spurned by…
Clay Waters | January 18th, 2021 3:17 PM
Sunday’s big news story: Kamala Harris’s family? Yes. During this evidently slow news period, the lead National section story in Sunday’s New York Times is “Meet the Groundbreaking New Second Family.”
This “news” story is by Jessica Bennett, described as “a Times editor at large covering women and culture. She writes about personalities, politics, social trends and the workplace --…
Clay Waters | January 10th, 2021 2:44 PM
The disgusting spectacle at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday involving some extremist Trump supporters dominated the New York Times again on Sunday. Reporter Trip Gabriel front of the National section, “For Loyal Trump Base, Anti-Democratic Ideals And Distrust Still Burn.”
But yet again, Times reporters went beyond justifiable condemnation of rioting and lies to defend the media’s…
Clay Waters | December 26th, 2020 10:45 PM
Among the many electoral gifts the New York Times has bestowed on Joe Biden is the blessing of the president-elect’s presumed ideological “moderation,” or even “centrism.” Sometimes that label, used by the press to reassure on-the-fence voters that Biden would be a safe pick, is also used to pressure Biden into caving into the new wave of younger “progressives” percolating through the party…
Clay Waters | November 6th, 2020 7:36 PM
The 2020 presidential election hasn’t been decided as of this writing, but the New York Times is bitter and panicky about Joe Biden’s surprisingly big loss in Florida and dug up a pathetic excuse: Hispanics were the victims of "disinformation"! In Thursday’s edition, reporters Patricia Mazzei and Nicole Perloth trotted out “Experts Call Disinformation Targeting Spanish Speakers an ‘Emergency…