Media Bias Debate

On Morning Joe, New Republic editor Michael Tomasky blames tne "right-wing media" for the public's approval of Trump's transition.  He singles out Rupert Murdoch for particular opprobrium. Tomasky is nostalgic for the days when there was "common civic agreement about basic morality in public life." Translation: when the liberal media set the agenda.

In a segment regarding the decision of the House Ethics Committee to release its report on Matt Gaetz, CNN This Morning mocks Gaetz for admitting that he partied hard into his 30s, but is now a different person. The panel laughingly suggests that kind of behavior would only be understandable in a person's 20s. This ignores Democrat scandal figures like Hunter Biden and Ted Kennedy.…

Morning Joe devotes a segment to an Axios article, Shards of glass: Inside media's 12 splintering realities. The notion is that depending on demographics, people get their information from very different media silos. One of the categories is "Right-wing grandpas,' a reference to Fox News viewers. What is not revealed is that the average age of Fox News viewers is 68, whereas the average age of…

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. 

When last week Mika Brzezinski said that she and Joe Scarborough would like to have a face-to-face meeting with Trump, I wrote: "As for scoring an interview with Trump himself any time soon, don't bet the rent money at Polymarkets on it, Mika!" Oy, was I wrong! On today's Morning Joe, Mika announced that this past Friday, she and Joe did indeed meet with Trump at Mar-a-Lago. 

The 2024 presidential election has left the media reeling and plunged into a period of self-doubt and introspection. But for a few fleeting moments on NBC’s Meet the Depressed, the media forgot that they got shellacked.

A November 14 Substack post by left-leaning political science professor and freelance journalist Yascha Mounk had pithy things observations on how the liberally biased press is actually hurting Democrats by keeping them blind to genuine political threats, in “Dear Journalists: Stop Trying to Save Democracy -- Journalists who turn themselves into political activists inadvertently undermine…

Los Angeles Times owner Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong sat for a rare interview Thursday on the Fox News Channel’s Fox News @ Night to double down on his push to bring balance to the struggling, liberal newspaper and respond to the editorial board members who quit when he ordered the paper to not offer an endorsement in the 2024 presidential campaign.

On Monday's Morning Joe, New Republic editor Michael Tomasky, as per his current New Republic column, said that the "real reason" for Kamala Harris' defeat is that the right-wing media is more influential than the liberal media! No doubt the conservative media is considerably stronger and more prevalent than it was in the pre-National Review days. But more…

The late night comedy shows may not have been very funny after Donald Trump’s election victory, but the Wednesday edition of CNN’s Inside Politics was as PBS News Hour White House correspondent Laura Barron-Lopez got the panel to agree that one reason Kamala Harris lost is that, unlike Trump, she did not have a “media ecosystem” to help her get across the finish line.

Some Republicans have been talking up the notion of CNN analyst Scott Jennings as White House press secretary in a second Trump term after he made a stirring little oration in the 3 am hour of Election Night coverage. Jennings proclaimed the election results were "an indictment of the political information complex." 

It’s finally over, and the 2024 presidential campaign made history in at least one ignominious respect: Broadcast evening news coverage of the candidates was the most wildly imbalanced in history, favoring Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris over former Republican President Donald Trump by the greatest margin ever recorded.

The weekend brought a startling omission from the venerable, politely left-wing magazine The New Yorker, courtesy of staff writer Jay Caspian Kang: “How Biased Is the Media, Really?” Kang’s answer: Pretty biased toward Democrats, if not the far-left. His question was hooked to Gallup’s annual poll, “Americans’ Trust in Mass Media," a trust which has declined from over 70 percent in…

On CNN This Morning, host Kasie Hunt kvetches to panel that whereas they -- all members of the political/media elite -- can conduct a "civil" discussion, it's impossible for others, because of the "disinformation" that Trump spreads. She ends on an ominous note, saying that we, in 20 days, "are hurtling toward something that could be an unknown and potentially difficult chapter in our history…