Michael Grynbaum

The New York Times devoted nearly 3,000 words by writer-at-large Jim Rutenberg and media reporter Michael Grynbaum to a topic rarely acknowledged: Media bias from the left, in “How MSNBC’s Leftward Tilt Delivers Ratings, and Complications.” (Right-leaning Fox News, by contrast, is a constant target of the paper’s hostility.) But what does it say about the paper’s own tilt…

CNN This Morning, the supposed crown jewel of new CNN boss Chris Licht’s early moves as head of the network, was rocked this week by another case of idiocy with drama queen co-host Don Lemon under fire and taking Friday off following Thursday’s sexist smear of 2024 GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley as past “her prime.”  After said remark, the New York Post said co-host…

New York Times media reporter Michael Grynbaum pouted about Florida’s governor and potential Republican presidential candidate thumbing his nose at the “national non-partisan” (!) media, in “Can Ron DeSantis Avoid Meeting the Press?” Grynbaum sympathized with a poor young ABC News reporter who couldn’t get a DeSantis interview. He actually forwarded praise of Trump to make DeSantis (…

New York Times media reporter Michael Grynbaum reacted overdramatically to new Twitter owner Elon Musk briefly suspending journalists from the platform for "doxxing" his private plane and his family. Yes, after years of bans on conservative accounts and deletion of conservative content by social media behemoths Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter, suddenly it’s a “free speech and online…

The New York Times waited until Sunday. The online headline was "Elon Musk, Matt Taibbi, and a Very Modern Media Maelstrom." In Monday's paper, they buried it on page B-5 with the headline "Musk and an Independent Journalist Ignite Debate by Releasing the ‘Twitter Files’." Notice the Bidens aren't in the headline.

Among the revelations surrounding Thursday’s news that CNN+ was being eliminated, one came from The New York Times in that Warner Bros. Discovery JB Perrette noted many had begun referring to the failing streaming service as CNN- while in meetings with incoming CNN boss Chris Licht about its future. And over at CNN.com, liberal media janitors Brian Stelter and Oliver Darcy relayed…

Joseph Kahn is the new executive editor of the New York Times, replacing current editor Dean Baquet, who is retiring. Kahn was the paper’s Beijing bureau chief in the 2000s. Coverage of Baquet’s tenure avoided the paper’s left-wing woke meltdowns of recent years and even suggested the paper was annoying liberals. By contrast, New York Magazine compared the paper's recent left…

It's one of those New York Times stories that feels like a parody of the paper, but media reporter Michael Grynbaum tried furiously in a Sunday piece to spin President Biden's "stupid SOB" sneer at Peter Doocy into a positive. He's trying to turn sewer water into wine.  It was a "heart-warming civic moment." Well, if reporter-attacking Biden is endearing, let's just say it: Michael…

New York Times media reporter Michael Grynbaum made the front page Monday upon the resignation of Fox News anchor Chris Wallace, using the surprise announcement as a springboard to attack the cable channel. The print edition headline: “Fox Anchor Wallace Decamps as Right-Wing Hosts Set Agenda.” The front-page text box showed some copy editor to be fully on board: “Latest Exit as…

New York Times media reporter Michael Grynbaum devoted 2,300 words to profiling President Biden’s press secretary Jen Psaki. It reeked of cringy attempts to be hip while relaying shout-outs from Psaki’s online fan club: "...a cult of Psaki has proliferated online, where clips of her restrained, if occasionally withering exchanges with reporters have established this once obscure…

In defiance of CNN’s public scolding of him for advising his brother, disgraced New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) behind the scenes, Chris Cuomo had continued to provide advice after the New York attorney general dropped her bombshell report on his sexual misconduct, according to the Washington Post. But a Tuesday New York Times piece reported that it was Chris who advised…

New York Times media reporter Michael Grynbaum gained front-page Business section play on Tuesday with his story about…weather coverage? But you see, it’s Fox weather coverage, so it’s automatically controversial, even if the project hasn’t actually launched yet: “Fox Wants to Do for TV Weather What It Did for Cable News.” One can almost hear the booing and hissing among Times…