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ABC News Calls Harvard President ‘The Face of the Resistance’
In what appears to be a return to 2017 form, the media have reverted to desperately searching for Resistance figureheads in opposition to President Donald Trump that they may elevate and then desperately cling to. Case in point, ABC’s recent coverage of Harvard University.
CBS, NBC OMIT Texas Teen Killed by Illegal in Jet Ski Hit-and-Run
The death of Texas teen Ava Moore, who was set to attend the Air Force Academy, was but the latest in a long trail of death and destruction at the hands of criminal illegal aliens allowed to enter into the country unabated. And in an awful but predictable omission, most of the major newscasts neglected to report this story.
IT’S (D)IFFERENT: NBC Discovers Strange New Respect for Federalism
The temporary injunction in federal court against Trump Administration efforts to stop New York City’s controversial congestion pricing scheme drew cheerful coverage on NBC Nightly News. It appears that, after a four-year hiatus, the network has rediscovered federalism.
MSNBC Upset the FBI Will Investigate White House Cocaine, J6 Pipe Bomb
In a twist that will shock absolutely no one, the paragons of elite Acela journalism at MSNBC are upset that the Federal Bureau of Investigation has decided to investigate such unsolved mysteries as the J6 pipe bomber, the Dobbs leak, and the source of the cocaine left in a White House locker. All of which, of course went uninvestigated during the Biden Administration.
ORIGINAL SINNERS: Thompson ‘Doesn’t Blame’ Frustration with the Media
Axios’ Alex Thompson joined Fox News Sunday for an interview on his recently published Original Sin, co-written with CNN’s Jake Tapper. Of all the revelations during his interview, the most damning being that he felt “ostracized” by many in the legacy media.
Speaker Johnson SCHOOLS Jake Tapper on Media Coverage of Corruption
The onslaught of media stories about the Trump family’s stake in cryptocurrency betrays a strange new interest in coverage of the perception of corruption. As Speaker Mike Johnson reminded CNN’s Jake Tapper, things were (D)ifferent back then.
House Passage of ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Draws Mixed Legacy Coverage
The United States House of Representatives passed its “One Big, Beautiful Bill”, which seeks to renew the tax cuts first enacted in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, a significant plank of President Donald Trump’s economic agenda. But coverage on the legacy media newscasts was mixed, at best.
Rogan, Rodgers Cite MRC Study Finding 96% Negative Coverage for Musk
On the most recent episode of the world’s most popular podcast, a moment made possible by the Media Research Center: Joe Rogan and Aaron Rodgers discuss the negative coverage drawn by the DOGEfather, Tesla/SpaceX founder Elon Musk.
LEGACY STENOGRAPHY: Media Uncritically Report Biden’s 2014 PSA Test
It appears that the legacy media have learned nothing from the release of the Hur tapes, and the release of Tapper/Thompson’s “Original Sin”. Faced with former President Biden’s devastating cancer diagnosis, and with the choice between investigative journalism or stenography, the media continue to choose the latter.
TAPPER CONCEDES, Says Conservative Media ‘Was All Over’ Biden Decline
It’s Publication Day for the much-ballyhooed Original Sin, authored by Jake Tapper of CNN and Alex Thompson of Axios, and with it, the requisite media tour. And what sounded like an honest admission by Tapper on CBS Evening News Plus is really a searing indictment of the media’s conduct throughout the Biden years.
NBC Only Legacy Newscast to Include ‘Sin’, Hur Tapes in Biden Coverage
On the Monday Evening News, only one legacy media newscast mentioned the serious questions around the Biden White House while covering the former president’s cancer diagnosis. The others continued to pretend it didn’t exist.
STELTER: Cancer Diagnosis Should ‘Pause’ Scrutiny of Biden’s Decline
As news was breaking of former President Joe Biden’s advanced cancer diagnosis, there immediately emerged efforts to turn the diagnosis into a vehicle with which to suppress scrutiny of the former president based on the respective releases of the Hur tapes and the Tapper/Thompson book Original Sin. Chief among those doing so on CNN, Brian Stelter and former Obama guru David Axelrod.…
TOO LATE: CBS’s Brennan Wants to ‘Look Forward’ from Biden Decline
Many elected Democrats and media are beginning to wilt under scrutiny over the damning revelations published in Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson’s “Original Sin”. Many, as we heard from CBS’s Margaret Brennan, are just wanting to move on, or “look forward.”
ORIGINAL SINNER: Jake Tapper Remains Unrepentant During Promo Segment
On the latest installment of CNN State of the Union, an unrepentant Jake Tapper devoted a segment to promoting his upcoming Original Sin, co-written with Alex Thompson of Axios. The promotional segment makes clear, however, that Tapper appears unwilling to take personal responsibility for his own role, and that of the broader media, in perpetrating the biggest…
