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A time-honored tactic in political TV ads is to use contrasting degrees of photographic exposure, one bright and snappy for your candidate and a darker hue, sometimes even going to old-fashioned black-and-white, for your opponent. On December 29, at the W ...

The rich are "horrible people"-- at least those who lean to the right-- declares economist turned pompous New York Times columnist Paul Krugman in Friday’s “ Privilege, Pathology and Power.” The text box: “Can we survive rule by self-centered bi ...

If two weeks ago I claimed it was raining when it was not, but today it does rain, does that make my original statement a prediction, one that was "right?" No, if you're honest about it. But maybe yes if you're ABC News, and instead of ...

On Wednesday, Nate Cohn at the New York Times, who by some accounts is being anointed the next Nate Silver of polling, made a clumsy and despicable attempt to inject race into his political "analysis" of the Donald Trump phenomenon. Cohn's ...

Donald Trump called out Hillary Clinton on Twitter for hypocrisy in accusing the GOP of being anti-woman, yet relying on serial philanderer Bill Clinton’s help while running for president. But you wouldn’t have learned that until deep into the front-page ...

If Paul Waldman had wanted to put the main argument of his Monday American Prospect column in Obamaesque terms, he might have written that conservative opponents of political correctness have gotten bitter and are clinging to their supposed right (and may ...

I am old enough to recall a time when the Obama administration did whatever it doggone well pleased regardless of statutory constraints- especially when the doing (or undoing) pertained to immigration law. But we are now supposed to believe-per our moral ...

Closing out 2015 on the Thursday morning newscasts, NBC’s Today churned one of its most fawning pieces on President Obama as NBC News correspondent Ron Allen reviewed Obama’s top photos by White House photographer Pete Souza while hushed, soft piano music ...

With New Year’s Eve upon us, NBC’s Today dedicated a segment in its 9:00 a.m. hour on Thursday to looking back at the year in news, politics, and entertainment. Not surprisingly, the liberal network made no mention of the Planned Parenthood baby parts vid ...

Wrapping up the Media Research Center’s “ Best Notable Quotables of 2015,” it’s time to present the “ Quote of the Year ” for 2015, and the top runner-up, as selected by our panel of 39 expert judges, who were extremely generous with their time as they re ...

"Is that right? Fourteen??" That's Alisyn Camerota, 1:21 into the video clip. The shock and incredulity in the voice of the CNN host is stupendous! Yes, who could possibly imagine that, as CNN commentator Errol Louis stated, there are 14 wo ...

Appearing on Wednesday’s edition of The Kelly File, MRC President Brent Bozell and Fox News contributor Judith Miller made the case to fill-in host Sandra Smith that Donald Trump’s recent pledge to begin airing millions of dollars in television ads is not ...

Liberals and "progressives," who are supposedly big on dealing with "root causes," are apparently not interested in the root cause of their now-acknowledged problem of sexual harassment and abuse in their ranks. At Acculturated.com, Ca ...

  Over the course of the past year, we at MRC Latino have worked diligently to cull examples of biased coverage in the Spanish-language news media. Here are five of the worst examples of over-the-top-no-rips-left-to-give biased coverage in 2015, in regres ...

Michael Simon, who headed the 2008 Barack Obama presidential campaign’s targeting and analytics team, has joined CBS Radio, the Tom Taylor Now radio industry e-mail newsletter reported last week in an item highlighted on DCRTV.com. Taylor relayed how “Sim ...