Fact-Check Your News, Question Major Media Reports, Americans Agree

Americans universally agree that people should fact-check media reports, rather than simply trust what they’re being told – and half say they don’t even need to follow the news to stay informed – according to newly-released results of a Pew Research survey.

Craig Bannister
February 18th, 2026 10:11 AM

Colbert: CBS Knows 'Damn Well' They Banned Talarico Interview

On Monday, CBS’s Stephen Colbert alleged that the network forbade him from airing an interview with Texas Senate candidate James Talarico over concerns about a potential FCC equal time rule violation. On Tuesday, CBS denied the allegation and said The Late Show was not prohibited from airing the interview but gave Colbert advice on how equal time could be fulfilled, but The Late…

Alex Christy
February 18th, 2026 9:53 AM

Column: No Space for Homan on Locating Missing Immigrant Children

When border czar Tom Homan held a press conference to announce a drawdown of forces in Minnesota, he reported that during their surge, ICE agents “located 3,364 missing unaccompanied alien children, children that the last administration lost." It sounds like a success story. But try and find the network hosts and reporters focusing on missing children – you won’t find it.  It’s a zero.

Tim Graham
February 18th, 2026 5:58 AM

HUH? ‘MAGA-Coded’ CBS Evening News OMITS Trans Pawtucket Shooter

The media hall monitors keep telling us that the Bari Weiss-run CBS Evening News is “MAGA-coded”. It isn’t, but this is the way they signal vice amongst themselves. The reality contains much more than meets the eye. Case in point, the Evening News’ blatant omission of new details in the Pawtucket mass shooting.

Jorge Bonilla
February 18th, 2026 1:05 AM

ABC the ONLY Nightly Newscast to Report Illegal Alien Killing GA Woman

It is now time for our latest installment in a long-running series of Elitist Media nightly newscast omissions of horrific crimes committed by illegal aliens. We take cold comfort in reporting that tonight’s omission is a partial one.

Jorge Bonilla
February 17th, 2026 10:02 PM

New CNN Doc Says ‘Christian Nationalism’ Radical After Kirk Death

During Tuesday’s The Situation Room, co-anchor Pamela Brown teased her new documentary on the rise of ‘Christian Nationalism’ in which she correlated the Assassination of Charlie Kirk as a turning point that ‘unified’ the group with the Trump Administration. She portrayed the situation as a brewing threat to the country, complete with ominous soundtrack.

Nicholas Spinnato
February 17th, 2026 8:47 PM

Hysteria, Not History: CBS Giddy Over Historian Meacham Trashing Trump

In CBS Mornings’s latest example of officially partnering with a liberal partisan to sell books, Tuesday’s show embarrassingly fangirled over liberal historian Jon Meacham’s latest tome and voicing agreement to claim America is facing a “moral crisis” requiring the greatest level of citizenship since the 1850s because there is an “authoritarian” in Donald Trump “galloping at the…

Curtis Houck
February 17th, 2026 7:02 PM

Why Are Anti-ICE Activists Building Borders?

Anti-ICE activists in Minneapolis are setting up blockades. They’re demanding ID from drivers. In short, they’re setting up their own borders — against America’s laws and law enforcement. It’s not the first time “protesters” have done this. Activists inspired by Black Lives Matter seized control over a portion of Seattle six years ago and christened their conquest the “Capitol Hill Autonomous…

Daniel McCarthy
February 17th, 2026 6:01 PM

CBS: No, We Didn’t Ban Colbert from Broadcasting Candidate’s Interview

“THE LATE SHOW was not prohibited by CBS from broadcasting the interview with Rep. James Talarico,” CBS said in a statement Tuesday after the show’s host, Stephen Colbert, claimed he was told he could not air his interview with the Democrat candidate.

Craig Bannister
February 17th, 2026 4:57 PM

Big Four News Apps Silence Detransitioner’s $2M Landmark Trial Verdict

The Big Four News Apps just revealed a new low of depravity, ignoring a significant win that could encourage victims across the nation to seek justice. Despite a young woman winning a multi-million dollar judgment against her psychologist and her surgeon in a potential landmark transgender surgery case, the digital gatekeepers shamelessly buried her story. 

Tom Olohan
February 17th, 2026 4:14 PM

POLL RESULTS: Worst Media Quote of the Week Winner!

POLL RESULTS: Worst Media Quote of the Week Winner!

Geoffrey Dickens
February 17th, 2026 4:02 PM

ABC Downplays, CBS Barely Covers Rhode Island Shooting by Trans Psycho

On Monday afternoon in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, there was sadly the latest case of trangender violence inflicted on innocents refusing to celebrate their deranged life choices and rejection of basic biology as a man pretending to be a woman stormed his son’s high school hockey game and killed two, injuring three, and dying by suicide. By Tuesday morning when these facts had come to light, ABC’…

Curtis Houck
February 17th, 2026 3:45 PM

Goldberg Addresses Request of Epstein’s Jet, Badly Fumbles Explanation

Two weeks after NewsBusters broke the story that ABC News moderator Whoopi Goldberg, was not only referenced in the Epstein files but also seemingly, requested to borrow Jeffery Epstein’s private jet to get to a charity event for The White Feather Foundation. Never addressing why HIS jet was requested, the rest of the cast of The View came to Goldberg’s defense, claiming she didn’t…

Nicholas Fondacaro
February 17th, 2026 2:44 PM

Late Night Hosts Haven't Interviewed a GOP Candidate Since 2016

On Monday, CBS’s host of The Late Show, Stephen Colbert, denounced FCC chairman Brendan Carr for threatening to use the agency’s equal time rule against the late night comedy shows, which he claimed led CBS to force him to put his interview with State Rep. James Talarico on YouTube. With the equal time rule now in the news, NewsBusters analysts dug into the archive to find out when…

Alex Christy
February 17th, 2026 2:44 PM