Journalists aren’t supposed to make things up. Unless, of course, you’re the New York Times Editorial Board. The other day the “Paper of Record” ran an editorial titled: There Is a Way Forward: How to Defeat Trump’s Power Grab This jewel of distortion says, among other things, this, bold print…
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CNN’s Cooper Claims Black Trump Voters Were Influenced by Online ‘Misinformation’
On Thursday’s Anderson Cooper 360, CNN showed a pre-recorded report highlighting liberal contributor Van Jones speaking with three black voters who switched from voting Democrat to voting for Donald Trump. But, toward the end of the segment, as host Cooper spoke live with Jones about the piece, the…
Ex-NPR Anchor Says Trump Opposes PBS/NPR Because He Can’t Stand ‘Independence’
On Friday’s episode of In The Arena with Kasie Hunt, they were discussing Trump’s executive order to defund NPR and PBS alongside his questioning of federal funding for Harvard with its serious antisemitism problem. They couldn’t actually delve into the evidence of Harvard hating Jews or the incessant…
NewsBusters Podcast: PBS & NPR Get DEFUNDED Via Trump Executive Order
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…
Hours Before Trump Laid Hammer on PBS/NPR, Outlets Sponged for Change by Email
The fundraising arms of PBS and NPR were already on the defensive over challenges to their overwhelmingly biased reporting on the taxpayers’ dime. Now comes President Trump’s executive order Thursday night cutting taxpayer funding of PBS and NPR. The text of the order was posted on the Trump team’s “Rapid…
Meta on Hot Seat! Mike Lee Calls Out Tech Giant, Draws Eyes to AI ‘Defamation Campaign’ Video
Meta is on the hot seat after Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) drew attention to a video that he wrote “describes in detail the ruthless and elaborate defamation campaign waged by Meta AI.” Lee responded in a Thursday X post to political commentator and podcast host Robby Starbuck’s X post announcing “a major…
CNN’s Stelter Pulls His Hair Out Over Trump’s EO Defunding PBS/NPR
Despite repeatedly calling Fox News “state TV” during President Trump’s first term (when he still had his show, so-called Reliable Sources), CNN’s Brian Stelter decried Trump’s executive order defunding the actual state-media outlets of PBS and NPR. In his appearance on Friday’s Inside Politics, Stelter argued that Trump…
Column: Is Oklahoma In Danger of ‘Satanic School’?
The Supreme Court heard arguments on April 30 on whether a Catholic school in Oklahoma named for St. Isidore the Farmer can be the first charter school with a religious foundation. It’s the latest case to alarm the media about the so-called “separation of church and state.” New…
BREAKING: Trump Signs Executive Order to End Tax Money for ‘Radical, Woke’ PBS and NPR
Late on Thursday night, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to cut taxpayer funds to PBS and NPR through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The text was posted on the Trump team’s “Rapid Response 47” account on X. It said: “@POTUS just signed an executive order ENDING the taxpayer…
SELF-LOVE: PBS News Hour Puts On PBS CEO for Softball Questions and Promotional Fluff
PBS doesn’t allow a debate about funding for PBS on the airwaves of PBS. Instead, you only get the pro-PBS side. On Tuesday’s News Hour, co-host Amna Nawaz tossed softballs at PBS CEO Paula Kerger about how wonderful they are and how defunding them is an existential threat…
CNN’s Cornish Hints at Comparing Trump To French Queen Who Was . . . Beheaded
It wasn’t as graphic as the fake bloody, severed head of Trump that Kathy Griffin infamously held up. But in her own way, CNN’s Audie Cornish lumped Trump into the same category as history’s most famous victim of the guillotine. Cornish kicked off today’s CNN This Morning by slyly slipping…
Mea Culpa? Big Tech Censors Shamed by Abortion Pill Study
Pro-lifers have been warning the public that the abortion pill hurts women for years. Here’s why Big Tech and its fact-checkers have much to answer for. A massive study published on Monday found that around 11.2% of 154,554 women underwent a “serious adverse event” after taking the abortion pill. This…
ABC News Host Suggests Trump RIGGED 2024 Presidential Election
Just over a year ago, in April 2024, ABC News’s The View announced that they had “stopped asking” President Trump to be on the show and said they had banned election deniers. But what if the moderator of the show was an election denier? During Thursday’s opening segment,…
White House’s Stephen Miller TORCHES Liberal Media Coddling Dangerous Illegal Aliens
On Thursday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt held yet another unusual morning press briefing, but this time, her guest was Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller to provide barn-burning remarks on what the administration called President Trump’s first 100 days of “Restoring Common Sense.” Miller repeatedly took…
NewsBusters Podcast: The Evening News War on Trump, Take Two
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…
‘PUBLIC’ TV Watch: PBS News Hour Reserves ‘Controversial’ Label for Trump and His Team
The word “controversial” is often a word used to signal to viewers that someone is politically radioactive. So naturally, the liberal minds in “public” broadcasting must use it in a tilted way. To see if there was a biased trend, a Nexis search of PBS News Hour transcripts…
ABC Defends Comedian’s Claim Trump Is Inhuman, RFK Jr. to Abduct Kids
After begging on the air for her to come on the show, the liberal ladies of ABC’s The View welcomed far-left extremist “comedian” Amber Ruffin during Wednesday’s episode. Omitting the fact that she suggested President Trump and his supporters were “a bunch of murderers” and not human beings,…
Fox in Henhouse? GOP Chairwoman Partners with Google, Receives Praise
A Punchbowl News “fireside chat” with a key Big Tech executive turned out to be an effective commercial for the most biased titan in the industry: Google. Punchbowl Newsevent on “Advancing with AI.” Stunningly, neither Punchbowl News nor Rep. Lee—who is the chair of the Subcommittee on Elections—levied any…
Column: Blurring Trump White House Posters Displaying Illegal Immigrant Mugshots
At the 100-day mark, it’s an obvious fact that the border is now secure. Illegal immigration is now a trickle. The network “news” folks hate to mention it. But they are eager to cite polls that find Trump’s immigration approval number is declining. Forget the successes, and drive…
Even the Liberal Media Don’t Care About Latest Bogus Attempt to Impeach Trump
Did you know Democrat Congressman Shri Thanedar (MI-13) filed articles of impeachment against President Trump yesterday? If not, don’t worry — pretty much nobody in the media noticed either. On Monday, Thanedar’s office published an awkward video in which the Congressman announced the seven articles of impeachment. The video…
MRC’s Bill D’Agostino to Steve Bannon: Media Absolutely Are ‘Enemy of the People’
On Tuesday, MRC senior research analyst Bill D’Agostino joined Steve Bannon and Eric Bolling on Real America’s Voice to discuss the latest NewsBusters study of the broadcast Trump coverage. D’Agostino slammed the corporate media for attempting to “pull the wool over Americans’ eyes, as they aid Democrats in…
WATCH: Scott Bessent Makes CBS Reporter Look Clueless on Tariff War with China
A CBS News reporter regurgitated communist China’s talking points on the trade war with the U.S. as if Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was supposed to take them seriously. Surprise: He didn’t take the bait. CBS News Senior White House Correspondent Weijia Jiang tried to corner Bessent by acting…
‘It Feels Like 100 Years!’ The View Celebrates Trump’s Low Approval
Tuesday marked 100 days of President Trump’s second term and the liberal ladies of ABC’s The View were ecstatic by his historically low approval numbers, so much so that even well-known poll skeptic Whoopi Goldberg touted them. But even the poll numbers weren’t enough to quell their fearmongering…
Breaking: Trump FIRES Three Biden-Appointed CPB Board Members; CPB Files Suit
President Trump upset the Left on Tuesday morning by summarily dismissing three board members of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting appointed by President Biden. In response, CPB and the dismissed board members sued the Trump administration, insisting the CPB is a private corporation immune from such dismissals. This…
NY Times’ Weird Celebration of Lefty Streamer, ‘Very Handsome Man’ With ‘Thick Dark Hair’
The New York Times ran a frankly weird article on Sunday celebrating leftist internet streamer Hasan Piker, “A Progressive Mind in a Body Made for the ‘Manosphere.’” If that wasn’t enough to quality for the Hasan Piker fanclub, the subhead continued: “Hasan Piker pumps iron, likes weapons and wears…
HA HA HA: AP Reporter Boasts They Offer ‘Accurate, Independent, Nonpartisan’ News
The Associated Press did not feel like celebrating on Saturday night at the “Nerdprom.” This is the opening of Will Riccardi’s report, which ABC News published and highlighted in a tweet. “Somber” was the adjective: There was no president. There was no comedian. What remained at the White…
NewsBusters Podcast: Preposterous Press Proclamations of Independence
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. The White House Correspondents Association held their annual self-congratulatory dinner on Saturday night. WHCA president…
Elon Musk Sues Soros-Funded AG Over State-Backed Censorship
X owner Elon Musk is challenging a radical leftist attorney general about the enforcement of a law that would likely make online censorship explode during election cycles. X filed an April 23 lawsuit against Soros-funded Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison. Ellison is responsible for enforcing a law that criminalizes posting images…
CBS Fears for Judges After Trump Criticism, They Targeted GOP Justices
The left-right double standard at CBS News was nakedly apparent during Monday’s CBS Mornings as January 6-obsessed correspondent Scott MacFarlane was stoking fear of President Trump’s public criticism of liberal judges, suggesting that someone could be killed. Meanwhile, CBS had been stoking hatred of the conservative justices on…
EXCLUSIVE: US Government Committed Over $11 Million Directly to Soros’s Open Society Groups
It appears that leftist billionaire George Soros’s Open Society Foundations was outright lying when it claimed it received no funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). OSF gaslighted the world over controversies surrounding USAID funding a number of leftist pet projects it was simultaneously financing. “The…