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The networks that are still obsessing over January 6 weren't talking about leftist climate protesters "occupying" the Interior Department this week and fighting with police. Then Geoff Dickens, our Director of Media Analysis, discusses his new survey of all the Hunter Biden scandal stories the networks are shamelessly ignoring. 

The Daily Wire broke it, and Fox News put it on television. A 9th-grade girl was allegedly raped in a Loudoun County (Virginia) high school by a "gender-fluid" male in a skirt. A month later, a contentious Loudoun County school board meeting on transgender policy included a denial that anything like this had ever happened in their schools.

It used to be terrible and undemocratic to blame the media for anything. CNN and MSNBC are now lamenting the media's role in Biden's polling decline. Brian Williams claimed "really crappy reporting" is to blame. Brian Stelter claimed it was irresponsible to push the message "Democrats in disarray" when they can't pass their agenda. 

A new Quinnipiac poll showed Joe Biden's approval rating at a dismal 38 percent. Naturally, the networks responded to this bad news by either ignoring it or mentioning it for ten seconds. 

The liberal media never tire of anti-Trump "tell all" memoirs, no matter how many are published. The latest mud-slinger is Stephanie Grisham, the former top Melania Trump aide, who is now a hot guest on "news" shows. There are tough questions, but there is plenty of air time to sell, sell, sell that memoir. Katie Couric is exposing herself as Catty Katie in her new memoir. 

Fox News Channel debuted on October 7, 1996, so they're celebrating their 25-year anniversary. But CNN host Brian Stelter trashed Fox as a network full of "darkness," a badly clogged heart of the GOP.

It's an "exit interview" of sorts on today's NewsBusters Podcast: Our research director Rich Noyes is retiring, so we talked about everything that's happened in the media and their coverage of politics from the Reagan years to today. 

Generals used to specialize in fighting wars. But it seems like under Trump, Gen. Mark Milley was speaking to every liberal journalist writing an anti-Trump book. You wonder if Afghanistan would have turned out better if our top general wasn’t so busy “exposing” the president to help the liberals own the best-seller lists.

Democrats suddenly broke their calculators on the huge "human infrastructure" bill. President Biden claimed in a tweet that "My Build Back Better agenda coasts zero dollars." Since they plan to raise taxes to pay for it, somehow it costs "zero dollars." Journalists like Washington Post economics columnist Catherine Rampell picked up this lame argument. 

In the latest NewsBusters Podcast, we discuss Black Lives Matter and the media with Heritage Foundation senior fellow Mike Gonzalez, who has written the hot new book BLM: The Making of a New Marxist Revolution. 

For our latest podcast, he hot topic on the liberal-bias front is the Fake News about the Border Patrol whipping Haitian immigrants at the southern border in Texas. There are no whips. There are only reins to control the horses. But the supposedly responsible, fact-based media -- including ABC, CBS, CNN, and MSNBC -- have all been guilty of a false whipping narrative. 

On Sunday, The New York Times reported less than 100 protesters at a "Justice for J6" rally on Saturday that was hyped for days in advance by CNN and MSNBC. This had to be deeply embarrassing for people who describe themselves as the "reality-based press."

In the latest edition of the NewsBusters Podcast, the hot story is Team Biden trying to shut down the Fox News camera on the border in Texas. Fox reporter Bill Melugin had to report  that the Federal Aviation Administration ruled their drone had to be grounded. Conservative Twitter responded by imagining how the Stelters of the world might have responded if Trump grounded their drone…

Bob Woodward is offering a third anonymously-sourced trashing of Team Trump, and the networks are lapping it up and cheering the people who allegedly undermined this allegedly dangerous and deranged president. Don't believe everything you read.