NewsBusters Podcast: How Much Can We Ignore the Murder of Laken Riley?

November 22nd, 2024 10:29 PM

This week, illegal alien Jose Ibarra was convicted of the murder of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley. PBS and NPR have aired next to nothing on Riley over the last 6 months. Curtis Houck and Bill D'Agostino explain their studies of broadcast and cable news coverage of the Laken Riley trial. 

PBS News Hour Airs 10 Minutes of Trans Panic Over Trump's Election

November 22nd, 2024 10:09 PM

The PBS News Hour on Wednesday, having evidently learned nothing from the election results, returned to its long-standing left-wing alphabet obsession, even adding a number ("two-spirit"), in a story about Trump “rolling back transgender rights.” (They also interviewed a journalist from a publication that identities as a number.) But this isn’t PBS’s old children’s staple Sesame…

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Jake Tapper Refused to Answer Questions in Defamation Deposition

November 22nd, 2024 5:10 PM

According to a court filing exclusively obtained by NewsBusters, CNN’s Jake Tapper refused to answer basic questions about his show’s finances, including his salary, during a sworn deposition on Wednesday. The legal team for Plaintiff and Navy veteran Zachary Young was now requesting Florida’s 14 Circuit Court to step in and force him to answer the questions.

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ABC, CBS, NBC Deride, Downplay Pam Bondi as Merely a ‘Trump Loyalist’

November 22nd, 2024 4:44 PM

On Friday, ABC, CBS, and NBC used their flagship morning news shows to pivot away from former Congressman Matt Gaetz (R-FL) withdrawing from the nomination fight to lead President Trump’s Justice Department towards deriding the new pick Pam Bondi as merely a “Trump loyalist,” foreign lobbyist, and former Florida Attorney General whose “tenure [was] not without controversy.”

WashPost Scandalized Christian Theater Believes Christian Things

November 22nd, 2024 4:20 PM

Back on November 14, the Washington Post’s Rebecca Ritzel reported on Logos Theatre, a South Carolina theater company “gaining traction” in Washington known for its adaptations of C.S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia books and other works of Christian literature. While people may go to see Logos’ life-sized lion puppet, the Post made sure to warn people…

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Scarborough: Voters Cared More About Inflation Than Cries of Fascism

November 22nd, 2024 4:15 PM

On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough admits that voters cared more about the price of gasoline and groceries than his warnings about "fascism" or Mika's concerns over abortion rights. 

Trump: From ‘Fascist’ to ‘Let's Do Lunch’

November 22nd, 2024 3:19 PM

Of the television commentators who routinely disparaged, attacked, demeaned, and mocked former President Donald Trump and his supporters, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, co-hosts of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” belong to the “A” team. Yet, after Trump’s extraordinary victory two weeks ago, including a sweep of all seven swing states and becoming the first Republican presidential candidate to…

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Hostin Calls Bondi an 'Election Denier,' But She Denied Trump 2016 Win

November 22nd, 2024 3:14 PM

Oh how quickly folks in the liberal media forget their own misdeeds when it’s time to fling mud at the other side. That hypocrisy was again on full display during the Friday edition of ABC’s The View, when cloudy co-host Sunny Hostin lashed out at U.S. Attorney General nominee Pam Bondi. Hostin called Bondi an “election denier” when Trump was her client in 2020, that’s despite the…

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Daily Show Attacks GOP For Sticking With Capitol's Sex-Based Restrooms

November 22nd, 2024 1:35 PM

Comedy Central’s The Daily Show host of the week, Desi Lydic, declared on Thursday that Speaker Mike Johnson and Rep. Nancy Mace appear to believe that their mandate after Republicans won all three elected parts of the government is to make transgender Rep.-elect Sarah McBride’s life more difficult, as Johnson recently affirmed that sex-based restrooms are what those words mean.

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'Worse Than' Gaetz: MSNBC Mourns 'Dangerous and Effective' Bondi Pick

November 22nd, 2024 12:02 PM

Journalism Professor Jason Johnson joined MSNBC’s Ari Melber on Thursday’s episode of The Beat to react to President-elect Donald Trump nominating former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi to head the Justice Department after former Rep. Matt Gaetz withdrew from the process amid a series of sex scandals. Johnson fretted that Bondi will be “worse than” Gaetz because “she knows what she…

‘Morning Joe’ Ratings Drop Off a Cliff After Admitting They Saw Trump

November 22nd, 2024 11:57 AM

In what we learned shortly thereafter was a selfish ploy to save their own behinds from possible scrutiny by a second Trump administration come January 20, the visit to Mar-a-Lago by MSNBC’s Morning Joe co-hosts and married couple Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski to see President-Elect Trump has contributed to the Swamp insider-y show’s ratings cratering like it was hit by one of…

NPR Airs Hour of Leftist Shrieking About Trump's Revenge on the Press

November 22nd, 2024 10:37 AM

On Wednesday's Fresh Air, NPR host Terry Gross put on ex-Washington Post executive editor Martin Baron and New Yorker editor David Remnick for another.44-minute rehash of all the pompous talk about how Donald Trump hates "fact-based" journalism as it's published by these two propaganda organs for the left. It was especially humorous when Baron complained "I would…

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Colbert, Jeffries: GOP Opposes 'Access to Health Care For Everybody'

November 22nd, 2024 9:50 AM

CBS's Stephen Colbert welcomed House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries to the Thursday taping of The Late Show to promote his new children's book and to help explain the difference between Republicans and Democrats. This being The Late DNC Show, Colbert would conclude that the answer is that Republicans don't believe everyone should have health care.

Column: Is It the End of the Big Media Era?

November 22nd, 2024 6:00 AM

After Donald Trump won, the media had to think about the unthinkable: doesn’t anyone care about our “news” anymore? How could our relentless anti-Trump messaging fail to land? They had to ponder whether podcasters like Joe Rogan were the wave of the future in influencing voters. They had to moan and whine that “misinformation” spread by Elon Musk’s Twitter ruined all their objectives.