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PBS, NPR Fawn Over Clyburn Without Mentioning Biden's Dem Challengers

Tim Graham
February 4th, 2024 8:29 AM

On Friday night, both NPR and PBS rolled out their red carpets for South Carolina Congressman Jim Clyburn to talk about the Democrat presidential primary season officially beginning in his state -- NPR offered eight minutes, PBS seven. Nowhere in those 15 minutes did either the hosts or the guest mention that President Biden had any primary opposition. The names Dean Phillips and Marianne…

 

NPR Helps Democrats Explain How They'll Stop Losing Latino Voters

Tim Graham
November 20th, 2021 7:43 AM

The Democrats are freaking out at how they didn't dominate the Latino vote as they expected in 2021 (or in 2020, for that matter). So now the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has shared their new minority-engagement plan exclusively with NPR race-beat reporter Juana Summers. How cozy. Summers provided a platform for DCCC chairman Sean Patrick Maloney, a congressman from New York. …

 

Press Apparently Has Its Scalp Even As Ronny Jackson Smears Refuted

Tom Blumer
April 30th, 2018 8:56 AM
The American people don't trust the establishment press, as seen in a Pew Research poll result released Thursday showing that only 8 percent of Americans have "a great deal of confidence" that the media will "act in the best interests of the public." Here is one more example showing why this attitude is entirely justified: The Secret Service, after a thorough investigation in response to…
 
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CNN’s Tapper Links Louise Linton Instagram Controversy to Trump

Nicholas Fondacaro
August 22nd, 2017 9:17 PM
President Trump was renowned for his prolific and infamous use of Twitter to both aid his message and to stir up controversy. But during Tuesday’s The Lead on CNN, host Jake Tapper tried to link someone else’s Instagram controversy to the President. The controversy was sparked by Louise Linton, the wife of Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, who got into a heated exchange over a comment left on an…
 
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Martin Jabs Walker's 'Depressing, Cynical Exercise' Against Media

Matthew Balan
February 23rd, 2015 3:07 PM
Jonathan Martin of the New York Times targeted Scott Walker on CNN's New Day on Monday over his "gotcha game" attack on the media." Martin contended that Governor Walker "doesn't want to answer these kinds of questions – which is problematic, but it also gives him an opportunity on the right." He added that "it's all kind of a depressing, cynical exercise, frankly, because...Walker doesn't want…
 

Whining Spitzer, Who Beat the Rap Because of Who He Is: Zimmerman Verd

Tom Blumer
July 15th, 2013 12:59 PM
On ABC's This Week yesterday, former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer -- who resigned in 2008 when caught dead to rights illegally purchasing the services of prostitutes but was never prosecuted because, as announced two days after Election Day in 2008, the Department of Justice decided that "the public interest would not be further advanced by filing criminal charges" -- called the verdict in…
 

Eastwood's 'Empty Chair' Speech Gets Under Big Labor's Skin, Provokes

Tom Blumer
September 3rd, 2012 10:56 PM
The Politico, in its report on what turned out to be the center-right's "Empty Chair Day," covered the reaction of one prominent member of organized labor to Clint Eastwood's supposedly horrible (if you believe leftist pundits) speech at the Republican National Convention. If it was really that awful, they would be taking pity on Clint. Instead, they're getting hostile, meaning that the…
 

Journolist Redux? AP's Peoples and Politico's Summers Write Oddly Simi

Tom Blumer
August 16th, 2012 11:51 AM
Earlier today (at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog), I noted how the Associated Press's Steve Peoples and Politico's Juana Summers could only find hundreds of people attending GOP vice-presidential pick Paul Ryan's Wednesday appearance at Oxford, Ohio's Miami University. Perhaps even more troubling is how they somehow chose an odd angle for their coverage, namely that Ryan has supposedly avoiding…
 

AP, Politico Claim Ryan Rally Attended by 'Hundreds,' Local Reports Sa

Tom Blumer
August 16th, 2012 11:12 AM
UPDATE: In its video report, but not in its accompanying text, Cincinnati Local 12 News reported that the crowd was over 6,000, and that "a whole line of people were turned away, because there wasn't enough room." It would appear that Politico's Juana Summers and the Associated Press's Steve Peoples have an unusual and nearly identical problem with math. Yesterday, they could have and should…