Labeling

PBS News anchors and reporters have brought the soft soap for sob-story interviews for people losing their jobs thanks to Trump executive orders and Musk-driven budget cuts, without any ideological labels attached to their designated victims. Yet the rare conservative who appears on the News Hour is almost guaranteed to get smacked with at least on warning label. So no…

Saturday’s New York Times included a mild headline, “Trump, Claiming Bias Against Afrikaners, Punishes South Africa.” But the text itself wasn’t nearly so reasonable, falsely accusing Donald Trump and Elon Musk of spreading a “conspiracy theory” (a favorite liberal smear against conservatives) for relaying actual news about a disturbing new law in South Africa. With aid to South…

This week the Media Research Center released a study, “Five Reasons to Defund ‘Public’ Broadcasting.” National Public Radio provided still another reason on Tuesday’s edition of All Things Considered, Odette Yousef, NPR’s “domestic extremism correspondent” (as in solely “right-wing” extremism) has previously filed insane stories on a host of topics in that cluster. The topic this time…

A video on the New York Times homepage, “Lessons on Authoritarianism From Around the World,” by Opinion Video staffers Kiana Cole and Adam Westbrook, served up five minutes of anti-Trump paranoia, featuring foreign academics, journalists, and activists warning about how authoritarianism began in their respective countries (including Russia, Singapore, Hungary, and Nicaragua). Even…

New York Times’s Berlin bureau chief Katrin Bennhold made Tuesday’s front page with the “news analysis” “MAGA Forces Push Message Across Europe.” Bennhold’s reporting focuses solely on the dangers of the “far right” in Germany, or at least groups and personalities which she identifies as such. This time, Bennhold’s designated villain out to disrupt the world is well-known to Americans…

Both the PBS News Hour and PBS’s weekly journalist roundtable Washington Week in Review used the new 199^th Congress and Rep. Mike Johnson narrowly winning the vote to become Speaker of the House to break out their biased labeling tricks. Washington Week moderator and Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg (along with contributors Leigh Ann Caldwell and David Ignatius of…

On Wednesday during NBC’s special rolling coverage of the Islamic terror attack in New Orleans, correspondent intelligence community tool Ken Dilanian chose not once or twice, but three times to tie Islamic extremism to “extremist ideologies” like “far-right extremism.” The most notable came during NBC Nightly News when he lumped the boogeymen on the “far-right” in with the Islamists…

Democrats are slowly, but surely, building a permission structure for progressive activists to kill those they determine are bad. From the rise of antisemitism to, now, the murder of an insurance CEO, few Democrats seem capable of condemning violence without adding a “but.” To their credit, Gov. Josh Shapiro and Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania have condemned both without buts.…

Check out the headline and lead sentence of the front-page story on the Daniel Perry acquittal in Tuesday’s New York Times, “Jury Acquits Man Who Was Choking Rider On Subway Cleared of Homicide -- Split Reaction in a Case Reflecting Tensions in New York City,” by Hurubie Meko and Anusha Bayya. Yes, a man just randomly choked an innocent subway “rider” in New York City -- not a loud,…

With the heavy and repeated use of the word “but,” Friday’s CBS Mornings and CBS Mornings Plus sought to emphasize with, normalize, and explain away the disgusting and widespread celebrations of the far-left on social media celebrating the murder of the UnitedHealthCare’s CEO and wondered if this assassination would lead to “something good” like socialized medicine.

Wednesday’s PBS News Hour featured a propagandistic, nine-and-a-half minute segment on the important case argued before the Supreme Court involving a Tennessee law banning transgender surgery for minors: “Supreme Court hears arguments in most significant trans rights case to reach bench.” The taxpayer-funded network actually opened its broadcast with emotional blackmail, in the guise…

As a taxpayer-funded TV network, PBS should not be favoring one side over the other. But MRC analysts studying the use of labels over 18 months on the PBS News Hour found they were 27 times more likely to identify an "extreme" on the right than they would on the left. There were 162 extreme-right labels and only six extreme-left descriptions. 

The PBS News Hour is pumping up the fear of Trump II, throwing out scary words like “fascist” to describe the incoming Trump administration, the latest example brought to you Wednesday evening by PBS’s most biased reporter Laura Barron-Lopez, and Yale University leftist professor Jason Stanley, who has been calling Trump a fascist without results for six years. 

Democrat newspapers like The Washington Post love to tag conservatives as "conservative," and also as "ultraconservative," "far right," and "extremist." But they seem absolutely incapable of describing leftists and progressives as....leftists and progressives. On the front page of Monday's Style section is a hilarious piece on depressed lefties turning off and tuning out their "news"…