Few people in the Trump-supporting half of America believe the major “fact checking” websites are independent or nonpartisan. On their YouTube page, PolitiFact claims: “PolitiFact’s mission is to make the world a better place for facts. We’re a nonpartisan, independent newsroom dedicated to fact-checking journalism.” But that’s not…
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Everyone Point and Laugh at KJP’s Return to Spotlight with Book, Change in Party
On Wednesday, Biden White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre – our reliable source of seemingly endless content – announced she not only would have a tell-all book coming out in October about her time in the White House (entitled Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside…
NewsBusters Podcast: Can the Republicans Finally Cut Off PBS and NPR?
On Tuesday, The Trump administration sent its rescission package to Capitol Hill, asking Congress to claw back $9.4 billion in approved spending, including $1.1 billion for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. In their infinite pandering, Congress funded the CPB two years in advance of every other government agency,…
Senator Kennedy Schools MSNBC Host’s Wife, ABC Analyst on SCOTUS Rhetoric
On Tuesday, Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) schooled ABC News legal analyst Kate Shaw during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing that included a brief spotlight on Shaw’s previous remarks about Supreme Court Justices – calling some of the colleagues of Justice Elena Kagan “evil”. Shaw, also a law professor…
Keith Olbermann’s CRAZY Claim: Boulder’s Blood is on Trump’s Hands
Former ESPN and MSNBC host Keith Olbermann opened his Countdown podcast Tuesday with a segment which could only be described as the ravings of a lunatic. The topic of his ten-minute tirade: “the blood of Boulder, Colorado, is on the hands of Donald Trump.” If that relatively unsupported…
Erasing Content! How Is China AI DeepSeek Better than US Competitors?
Despite widespread praise following its debut, the communist Chinese AI chatbot DeepSeek completely erased an entire day: June 4, 1989 — the date of the Tiananmen Square massacre, 36 years ago today. MRC researchers asked DeepSeek a series of questions with known, objective answers related to the topics…
Uh-Oh Politico Goes ‘Meh!’ on Kamala Harris Political Future
On Sunday, Politico published a story titled “2 states, 1 tepid view of Kamala Harris and her political future.” A much more accurate title of the story by Melanie Mason and Brakkton Booker would be “2 states, 2 tepid views of Kamala Harris and her political future.” Although Mason…
ABC News: Musk Killed 300,000 Kids, Knows How Trump Stole Election
You would think that an ABC News program like The View would have some sort of journalistic standard they needed to meet, but that clearly wasn’t the case during Wednesday’s episode. In their opening segment flinging crud at Elon Musk, co-host Sunny Hostin claimed he had killed nearly…
NPR CEO’s Comedy Tour Continues: We Are a ‘Centrist….Nonpartisan News Organization’
Give her credit: Chief executive Katherine Maher is not afraid to look ridiculous on her quest to save National Public Radio from the federal chopping block. On Thursday’s edition of the Wall Street Journal’s podcast, hosted by Ryan Knutson and Jessica Mendoza, Maher claimed “we are consistently found…
Pelosi or Johnson? Google Fails to Hide PBS’s Favoritism
Even Google couldn’t mask PBS’s bias when comparing how the outlet treated former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA). MRC researchers asked Google’s AI chatbot Gemini on Monday, “Does PBS coverage favor Nancy Pelosi or Mike Johnson?” The chatbot tried to hedge its answer,…