WHO Do They Think They Are? NYT Still Shills for China-Corrupted Group

The New York Times may have slightly changed its tune on reporting how Communist China is indeed covering up and taking advantage of the coronavirus pandemic, but the paper is still reliably shilling for the World Health Organization’s China-corrupted response to the coronavirus crisis, as demonstrated previously and in several recent pieces. A rather hysterical piece debating whether President…
Clay Waters
May 3rd, 2020 6:56 PM

NBC Groans About Calls to Investigate Biden: No ‘Huge Appetite’ for It

Tucked into the final minutes of Sunday’s Meet the Press, NBC political director Chuck Todd led a panel discussion, featuring Cook Political Report’s Amy Walter and NBC Capitol Hill correspondent Kasie Hunt, where they groaned about calls to investigate Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden for an allegation of rape. One even claimed there was no “huge appetite” for it. Meanwhile, the call…
Nicholas Fondacaro
May 3rd, 2020 5:11 PM

Stelter Throws Hardballs at McEnany, Softballs at Harsh Olivia Nuzzi

On Sunday's Reliable Sources, CNN host Brian Stelter cued up New York magazine reporter Olivia Nuzzi to defend herself for asking Trump if he deserves re-election after he "lost" more Americans than died in the Vietnam War. Nuzzi's boyfriend Ryan Lizza of Politico claimed it's "never been the case" that reporters showboated in the briefing room. Has he never watched Jim Acosta?
Tim Graham
May 3rd, 2020 4:46 PM

Candace Owens Suspended for Encouraging Defiance Against Lockdown

Conservative commentator Candace Owens was suspended from Twitter for encouraging Americans to defy stay-at-home rules. Owens blasted Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Friday for her stringent stay-at-home policies enforced on her state. The fiery tweet reportedly read that: "Apparently @GovWhitmer believes she is a duly elected dictator of a socialist country. The people of Michigan need to…
Alexander Hall
May 3rd, 2020 1:59 PM

Media Outlets Offer More Accuracy for Aborted 'Baby Pigs' Than Humans

Our former NewsBusters colleague Katie Yoder wrote a column for Townhall on how media outlets that ideologically resist using the term “baby” in abortion stories don’t have the same reservations now as hog farmers abort baby pigs due to the coronavirus pandemic. Farmers had to "abort their baby pigs."
Tim Graham
May 3rd, 2020 12:48 PM

RNC Head DESTROYS ABC’s Raddatz on Media Ignoring Biden Rape Claim

During an appearance on ABC’s This Week, Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel leveled the media by calling out their hypocrisy in blacking out the rape accusation against Joe Biden, while they had tried to eviscerate Justice Brett Kavanaugh. The rebuke was so potent that fill-in host Martha Raddatz appeared unable to make eye contact and avoided looking at the camera while…
Nicholas Fondacaro
May 3rd, 2020 12:01 PM

Journalists Complain That They Can't Handle Four More Years of Trump

Journalists have just given voters a terrific reason to re-elect Trump...to watch their hilarious angst.  Jeremy Barr in Saturday's Hollywood Reporter has chronicled the whining by the press at the prospect of being forced to cover four more years of Donald Trump in the Oval Office.

P.J. Gladnick
May 3rd, 2020 11:04 AM

ABC Discovers What We Already Knew: China Tried to Cover-Up the Virus

In the middle of ABC’s coronavirus coverage, during Sunday’s Good Morning America, the network admitted what many people had already figured out, that communist China had covered up the emergence and spread of the virus. But Sunday’s report came with the backup of a “blistering” U.S. intelligence assessment, as reported by correspondent Rachel Scott.

Nicholas Fondacaro
May 3rd, 2020 10:11 AM

Deadspin Raps NBA For Not Being Progressive Enough

The National Basketball Association is practically a wing of the Democratic Party, but it isn't progressive enough to suit Dustin Foote, Deadspin blogger. Sure, the NBA's taken a lot of ultra-progressive stands, but its insistence on punishing players for marijuana offenses, its national anthem policy and its timid reaction to communist China last fall are stains upon its otherwise glorious…
Jay Maxson
May 3rd, 2020 10:00 AM

NY Times Oddly Insists DNC Should Probe Tara Reade Matter; DNC Balks

The New York Times Editorial Board strangely suggested the investigation of Tara Reade's sexual assault allegations against Joe Biden can’t be left to the media. What? They proposed having the Democratic National Committee investigate. Then the DNC called that "absurd," that Biden had already been fully vetted in 2008 by the Obama campaign.
Tim Graham
May 3rd, 2020 7:39 AM

Maher & Taibbi Lament Media's Trump Obsessions Distort Virus Coverage

On Friday's Real Time show on HBO, as host Bill Maher and Rolling Stone magazine's Matt Taibbi discussed the pandemic, the two liberals actually lamented that the dominant media are so anti-Donald Trump that they cannot be trusted to give unbiased information about the crisis and what might be effective against the coronavirus.
Brad Wilmouth
May 2nd, 2020 10:33 PM

NY Times Media Columnist Wonders Why Tara Reade's Not on TV (Bias)

Recently appointed New York Times media columnist Ben Smith has hit the ground running. Unlike his predecessor Jim Rutenberg, Smith manages to find alternatives to attacking Fox News again and again. On Friday he dove in to the lack of press time for Tara Reader, who has accused probable Democratic nominee Joe Biden of sexual assault: “Why Won’t Television News Put the Accuser on the Air?” It's…
Clay Waters
May 2nd, 2020 9:22 PM

USA Today's Susan Page: Unfair Attacks on 'Decent' Biden Hurt More

Susan Page of USA Today joined The 11th Hour host Brian Williams on MSNBC Friday night to discuss the allegations of sexual harassment and assault surrounding Joe Biden and argued that it is unfair that Biden is hurt more by such allegations than President Trump because, unlike Trump, Biden is running as a nice guy who cares, a "decent human being."
Alex Christy
May 2nd, 2020 5:29 PM

The Times vs. Sean Hannity Showcases the Paper's Spectacular Fall

Well, this wasn’t good. On Monday, Fox’s Sean Hannity sent off waves of bad publicity for The New York Times, as seen with this headline from Fox: “Sean Hannity demands retraction from New York Times over 'defamatory' coverage.” The essence, as reported in that Fox story: “Attorneys for Fox News’ Sean Hannity have formally demanded The New York Times issue an apology and retract coverage of his…
Jeffrey Lord
May 2nd, 2020 4:00 PM