MSNBC's Capehart Ties Nation’s Fear of Political Violence to Trump
On Thursday’s Chris Jansing Reports, MSNBC’s The Weekend co-host Jonathan Capehart implicitly blamed (who else) President Trump for not lowering Americans’ fear of future political violence, despite most of the violence coming from the left. The segment was based on a poll conducted by Politico published on…
ABC Claims Trump WH Is Using Flight Cuts, Hungry Americans as Tools
On Friday’s Good Morning America, the ABC program implied without evidence flights are being cut to purposefully harm Americans in this government shutdown and touted the partisan claims of a federal judge appointed by President Obama (which they refused to mention) accusing the administration of not fully funding the federal food stamps program to starve Americans.
The View: Conservatives Don’t Live Up to ‘Certain Caliber of Guest'
Throughout the first week of November, ABC News’s The View used their Behind the Table podcast to vent about all the criticism they were receiving about their staunch stance of rejecting conservative guests who would give the co-hosts a hard time. The View started receiving flak after co-host Joy Behar declared that conservatives were “afraid of us,” and has dismissed all…
PBS Worries That Midterm Elections Will Be Like Those In Russia
Thursday’s edition of PBS’s Amanpour and Company went off the rails when guest host Bianna Golodryga welcomed The Atlantic staff writer David Graham to discuss supposed threats to next year’s midterm elections. The duo would muse about everything from Marines seizing ballot boxes to the idea that the elections will be the fake sort that you get in places like Russia, but no…
Clean Biz, Dirty Politics: 5 Years After Dallas Shut Down a Car Wash
When there’s crime, I blame the criminal. But Dallas politicians blamed a business. Dale Davenport owned Jim’s Car Wash. But five years ago, after a shooting at the property, the city ordered him to shut it down. Why did they target his car wash?
MTG, Now a Morning Joe Favorite for Her 'Reality-Based Analysis'
After noting Marjorie Taylor Greene's praise of Nancy Pelosi after the former Speaker's announcement that she will not be seeking re-election, Morning Joe favorably contrasts her words with President Trump's critical comments. Eugene Robinson praises MTG's "reality-based analysis."
NYT Sees Bias Everywhere But Home: Chatbots Tinged with Political Bias
New York Times “misinformation and disinformation” reporter Steven Lee Myers teamed with reporter Stuart Thompson to go after “biased,” “right-wing” Artificial Intelligence chatbots in “Right-Wing Chatbots Turbocharge America’s Political and Cultural Wars.” Yes, after years of downplaying liberal bias in Google and Wikipedia, the paper has finally found some online search bias to sink…
MSNBC Flips Out Over Illegal Alien 'Abducted' by ICE at a Daycare
On Thursday, MSNBC hosts Joe Scarborough, Chris Jansing, and Katy Tur flipped out over immigration agents arresting an illegal alien and teacher, Diana Galeano, who tried to evade police by running into a daycare where she worked, with Scarborough claiming that she was "abducted" by ICE agents.
Hayes Praises Democrats For Shutting Down The Government
As allegedly straightforward journalists seek to aid Democrats in their mission to pin the government shutdown on Republicans, MSNBC’s Chris Hayes joined Comedy Central’s The Weekly Show podcast on Thursday to sabotage that message and praise Democrats for shutting down the government.
NewsBusters Podcast: TV News Omission Helped Off-Year Democrat Wave
It was a Democratic wave election, and the journalists went surfing. The amount of TV coverage of off-year elections in New Jersey, Virginia, and New York City was minimal this fall, perhaps because Democrats were feeling good about their chances and didn't want to give publicity to their opponents. Negative angles on Zohran Mamdani or Jay Jones were ignored or downplayed. MRCTV's Brittany…
Colbert Celebrates DC Sandwich Thrower's Acquittal With T-Shirt Cannon
On Thursday, Sean Dunn, the man charged with assaulting a border patrol agent with a sandwich, was found not guilty, and CBS’s Stephen Colbert was eager to celebrate. The Late Show host mocked the idea that a sandwich posed a grave enough threat to the officer to merit the charges by hurling a Subway sandwich at a boxing dummy using a T-shirt cannon.
POLL: What Was the Worst Media Take of the Week?
POLL: What Was the Worst Media Take of the Week?
Column: Don't Call Mamdani a Commie or Jihadi!
Zohran Mamdani surged to an easy victory as the “democratic socialist” mayor of New York City, complete with media enthusiasm that carried echoes of silly Obama love songs. The badly named “mainstream media” earnestly promoted the most extreme candidate.
NBC Nightly News Tacitly Acknowledges Democrat Shutdown
For the past 37 days, the Acela Media have done everything in their power to frame the ongoing government shutdown as a Republican shutdown. But, despite their best efforts, some cracks are beginning to form giving way to a glimmer of truth.