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Is every day Watergate Day in the anti-Trump media? At a London event, Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg said "every day is a kind of Watergate at this point," implying Trump was a crook like Richard Nixon. Brian Stelter celebrated this "Truth Tellers" summit of liberals congratulating themselves for valiantly fighting against the Trump menace.

On Sunday, President Trump tangled with NBC's Kristen Welker, after he had verbal combat with ABC's Terry Moran and Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic. Four years ago, President Biden granted no interviews to the liberal media. They didn't care. Once again, Trump is punished for granting broad access to hostile journalists.

It was Christmas in May for the Media Research Center and NewsBusters after President Trump signed an executive order defunding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. On this episode of the NewsBusters Podcast, Curtis Houck and I fill in and discuss the EO and the necessity of defunding state-sponsored media like PBS and NPR. And since the EO was such a major event, usual host Tim Graham…

At the 100-day mark in President Trump's second term, it's apparent once again that the evening newscasts of ABC, CBS, and NBC are organized to cover Trump as negatively as possible. A new NewsBusters study finds coverage of Trump has been 92 percent negative. Four years ago, Biden coverage was 59 percent positive. Rich Noyes explains the difference.

From the White House Correspondents Dinner to 60 Minutes, reporters spent the weekend claiming they're not an opposition party, they're just "independent" people who search for the "truth," doing "honest journalism." Fact check: False.

Eight years after she left the White House, the liberals on TV are still fawning all over Michelle Obama. Gayle King and Whoopi Goldberg led the parade defending Queen Michelle's self-absorbed decision to skip Jimmy Carter's funeral and Donald Trump's inauguration because it wasn't "the right thing for me." She's free to do that, but she's not free to demand we all shut up about it.

As the Left celebrates Earth Day or Climate Week, George and Alex Soros are the most prominent financiers of this secular crusade. Joseph Vazquez of MRC Business and Matt Palumbo of Bongino Report discuss their latest deep dive into the Soros empire, titled "Eco-Kingpins: How the Soros Empire Funds and Steers the Global Climate Change Agenda."

Since the 1980s, in the hearty middle of Pope John Paul the Great’s leadership, we’ve been writing about how the secular liberal media reports on the Catholic church.  If it helps the Left, it's happy news. If it opposes the Left, it's a horrible obstruction.

The networks demonstrated biases by their choice of anecdotes. They completely skip murders by illegal aliens, like the newly convicted killer of Rachel Morin. Instead, they've gone all in to advocate for illegal alien Kilmar Abrego-Garcia, despite his gang connections and domestic-violence accusations. Geoffrey Dickens and Bill D'Agostino discuss their studies on the TV coverage. 

NPR is not an oasis of civility. On Friday's All Things Considered, they aired a positive story on black artist Amy Sherald, best known for painting a portrait of Michelle Obama for the National Portrait Gallery. In response to Trump's executive order cracking down on Smithsonian wokeness, Sherald said "I feel like every portrait that I make is a counterterrorist attack to counter…

If Trump’s second term was a movie, the network news anchors would title it Trump Tariff Meltdown. In all the tariff turbulence, the networks have obsessed over economics with a very negative tone, even on the typically soft-news morning shows. Good news on inflation and employment is buried in the "meltdown" hype. 

NewsBusters just published a study demonstrating that ABC's 'The View' is a double-reinforced leftist bubble. Over the last three months, they welcomed on 63 guests pushing a liberal agenda, and zero conservatives or Republicans. Why would we do that? Nick Fondacaro explains.

CNN anchorman Jake Tapper, in 2025, proclaimed on his show that he is NOT on the Left. But in the first Trump term, CNN boss Jeff Zucker made them ALL take a side at CNN. They had to uncork grand speeches. "We call them homilies," said Tapper in 2020. CNN is not a church.

Sometimes you can sense that Happy News for Democrats is the most important kind of news. Sen. Cory Booker speaking on the Senate floor for 25 hours, unloading wheelbarrows of Democrat talking points, isn't exactly epic. But Democrats in the media will pretend it is. "It was nothing less than the most dramatic and powerful Senate speech I have ever heard," gushed MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell…