NEW Newsbusters Podcast: CNN's Tapper Mounts the High Horse of Murrow
For the last NewsBusters Podcast of 2020, Executive Editor Tim Graham discusses the hour-long reliving of Trump Trauma on CNN's Reliable Sources on Sunday. The biggest headline out of it was CNN host Jake Tapper proclaiming he just won't lower himself to interviewing trashy Trump aides like Kayleigh McEnany.
Mitchell: Federalism, Lack of Single Payer to Blame for Vaccine Lag
MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell theorized on her Wednesday show that the reason that the number of vaccines given out was below the goal of 20 million by year's end was because of federalism and the lack of a singe payer-type system akin to the British or Canadian system.
CNN, MSNBC Go GAGA Over Kamala Harris Receiving COVID Vaccine
On Tuesday, both networks demonstrated their role as sycophants for the Biden-Harris administration by gushing over Kamala Harris receiving her COVID vaccine, the nurse who was selected to administer it, and where Harris went to get it while downplaying her anti-vaccine position during the campaign (simply because of who's occupied the White House).
Top Papers Repeat, Not Report, on Biden's Scolding of Trump on Vaccine
You don't have to wait to witness the arrival of stenography in reporting on the incoming president. Both The Washington Post and The New York Times helpfully circulated front-page stories overflowing with statements from Joe Biden attacking President Trump on Tuesday.
Stossel Column: 2020’s Good News
Was 2020 the worst year ever? The media keep saying that. We did have the pandemic, a bitter election, unemployment, riots and a soaring national debt. But wait, look at the good news, says historian Johan Norberg. His new book, "Open: The Story of Human Progress," points out how life keeps getting better, even if people just don't realize it. 2020 was "the best year in human history to face a…
Morning Joe Frets: Trump Team 'Setting Up' Biden to Fail on Vaccine
On Morning Joe, substitute host Kasie Hunt, and Al Sharpton, fret that "the Biden administration is being set up to fail" by reason of the high expectations the Trump administration has set regarding vaccine distribution and related matters. Sharpton added that if things don't go smoothly; the Trump people: "will pass it off to Biden and be the first one blaming Biden on January 21st, the day…
Column: When The Media's Resisting Isn't Rewarded
McKay Coppins of The Atlantic – a very partisan magazine – penned an article headlined “The Resistance’s Breakup With the Media Is At Hand.” He admitted “In the Trump era, many Washington reporters became resistance heroes, showered with book deals, TV contacts, and Twitter followers.” Journalists couldn’t be distinguished from protesters, and the fame and fortune was irresistible
Nets Give Cold Shoulder to Eco-Terrorist Attack on Aspen Gas Lines
Bias by omission was the theme Tuesday for ABC, CBS, and NBC. While they ignored a dubious Democratic campaign event in Georgia and liberal California releasing sex offenders, they also turned a blind eye to an attack in Aspen, Colorado by eco-terrorists who targeted natural gas lines in the area, and killed the heat to around 3,500 customers as temperatures dropped to near ZERO with a…
NY Times Proudly Claims Ossoff 'Consistently Outperformed' His Resume
While the New York Times has piled hostile coverage on the Republican candidates in the vital U.S. Senate runoff in Georgia, the paper has reliably defended the two Democratic challengers. Candidate Jon Ossoff was awarded front-page puffery from reporters Reid Epstein and Serge Kovaleski, “After Some Breaks in Politics, Ossoff Made a Few of His Own.” Monday’s story opened with bullet points…
Nets Uninterested in CA Ruling to Release Sex Offenders, Pedophiles
According to the likes of ABC, CBS, and NBC on Tuesday, the only thing newsworthy coming out of the State of California was their struggle with the coronavirus. But what they tried to keep under the radar was the state’s radical Supreme Court ruling that so-called “nonviolent” sex offenders could not be excluded from the state’s early parole program.
Nets Skip Georgia Dems Teaming Up With Sexually Violent Rapper to GOTV
Tuesday saw the bar set even lower, as the broadcast networks covered up the fact that both candidates invited rapper BRS Kash to headline their joint get out the vote event on Monday. The problem? BRS Kash had a long history of making sexually violent tweets that go back years. He also rewrote the lyrics of a sexually violent song for their event.
Bye, 2020: Here’s the Top Ten Most-Read NewsBusters Items of the Year
In a year unlike any other, NewsBusters was a constant in providing readers with around-the-clock blogs, columns, and studies about the latest liberal media bias and Big Tech censorship. Between attempts to further cripple an already-spooked country over the coronavirus, CNN’s latest antics, impeachment coverage, and the liberal media stealing the election through their rampant bias by…
CBS 'Sunday Morning' 2020 Review Touts 'Peaceful' Protest, Skips Riots
MRC's Brent Baker reported on Sunday that in a brief year-in-review segment, fill-in CBS Sunday Morning host Lee Cowan contrasted "armed protesters" in Michigan's capital with the "justice and inequality" protesters across the country. One sounded dangerous, and the other was supposedly peaceful.
'Morning Joe' Uncorks on Rubio for Saying Dr. Fauci Lied About Masks
On Monday's Morning Joe on MSNBC, fill-in host Kasie Hunt and contributor Mike Barnicle trashed Senator Marco Rubio after the Florida Republican sent out a tweet on Sunday complaining that Dr. Anthony Fauci has a history of conflicting statements about pandemic-related issues. Barnicle called Rubio's reaction to Fauci "an obscenity" and wrongly suggested that the Florida Senator had opposed…
