NewsBusters Podcast: The Media on Palin Smears and Durham Fears

February 16th, 2022 9:05 PM

The media cheered a judge and jury dismissed Sarah Palin's lawsuit against The New York Times over their smears claiming she incited a mass shooting in Arizona. The media feared that John Durham's probe of the origins of the Trump-Russia obsession would ruin their narrative.

Jen Psaki Press Conference
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WH Avoids Talking Unemployment & Struggling Businesses, Blames Omicron

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February 3rd, 2022 4:46 PM

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki blamed the COVID-19 omicron variant for job losses in advance of a potentially terrible jobs report scheduled to be released on Feb. 4 by the Department of Labor.

NewsGuard Offers Lame Rebuttal to MRC Study Exposing Left-Wing Bias

February 1st, 2022 8:17 AM

The leftist ratings firm NewsGuard criticized a Media Research Center study of the site’s ratings, calling it “fundamentally flawed.” 

NBC's Lester Holt, CBS's Norah O'Donnell, and ABC's David Muir
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Big Three Downplay Stumbling S&P’s ‘Worst-Ever’ First 16 Trading Days

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January 26th, 2022 5:20 PM

The Dow Jones industrial average took an icy plunge of more than 1,000 points on Monday — its worst start “ever” — but ABC, NBC, and CBS chose to whitewash the shocking news and gave the story just minutes of coverage.

NY Times Frets About Freedom of the Press as Palin's Libel Suit Looms

January 25th, 2022 5:46 PM

A June 2017 New York Times editorial falsely linked former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin to the 2011 attempted assassination of Arizona Democrat Rep. Gabrielle Giffords that left six dead. Palin filed a defamation suit. The Times is worried that the press’s free ride in the judicial system may be ending, as demonstrated in Jeremy Peters’ “Sarah…

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Study: Soros Leaves His Mark with a $2.3 Billion Education Behemoth

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January 10th, 2022 8:31 AM

Billionaire George Soros said he is working to “bend” the arc of history “in the right direction.” In Soros’ case, that direction is far to the left. To do it, he donated over $32 billion to his Open Society Foundations since 1984, to further leftist ideology and activism well beyond his own lifetime. Soros has committed a combined sum of more than $2.3 billion to create a global university…

NewsGuard Partnership Mires Advertisers in Censorship

December 20th, 2021 3:44 PM

Leftist media ratings company NewsGuard has struck another partnership to censor news outlets and publishers the platform deems objectionable. This time, the suppression will affect outlets that use a specific ad platform.

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STUDY: Analysis Shows NewsGuard Ratings Heavily Favor Left

December 13th, 2021 7:24 AM

A new analysis reveals the extraordinary left-wing bias of website ratings firm NewsGuard, which should concern every American given that it is expanding its reach into cable and broadcast TV news. Liberal outlets were rated 27 points higher on average than news organizations on the right.

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CNN Exposes Biden WH Trying to Shape Econ Coverage in Its Favor

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December 7th, 2021 10:36 AM

CNN took a sudden detour from its love affair with President Joe Biden and accused his White House of trying to quietly shape the media coverage of his atrocious economic agenda. The Reliable Sources newsletter reported that the “The White House, not happy with the news media's coverage of the supply chain and economy, has been working behind the scenes trying to reshape coverage in…

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MRC's Gainor RIPS Chris Cuomo for Violation of Journalistic Ethics

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December 1st, 2021 1:31 PM

Media Research Center Vice President Dan Gainor went on Fox Business to dismantle disgraced liberal CNN host Chris Cuomo for his blatant violation of journalistic ethics concerning his brother.

USA Today Owner Could Get Millions from Biden’s ‘Build Back Better’

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November 30th, 2021 2:05 PM

There’s nothing that screams potential conflict of interest like a major newspaper’s owner getting millions in subsidies from the federal government it's supposed to be objectively covering. The New York Times reported that part of President Joe Biden’s “Build Back Better” (BBB) catastrophe includes funneling nearly $1.7 billion into local news outlets. Guess what? One of the…

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Soros Backs Left’s Alt-PragerU with Ties to Socialist Sen. Sanders

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November 10th, 2021 11:11 AM

Left-wing billionaire George Soros is reportedly backing a new leftist news outlet that openly advocates on behalf of labor unions.

Soros & Hoffman Back So-Called Anti-‘Disinformation’ Scheme

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October 27th, 2021 12:26 PM

The leftist activist behind the liberal news operation Courier Newsroom is at it again with a new scheme that is being backed by some of America’s most notorious liberal billionaires. Tara McGowan — founder of the “dark money” group ACRONYM behind Courier Newsroom — is getting help from left-wing mega-donors George Soros and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman for a new media project she’s…

James Murdoch Investing Heavily in AP Climate Reporting Hub

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October 20th, 2021 3:39 PM

Climate activist James Murdoch is set to make a multimillion-dollar investment in the Associated Press climate journalism, as if AP didn’t already have a big enough left-wing bias. The Murdoch investment is going toward “the formation of a new climate reporting hub at the Associated Press,” according to an Axios scoop.