Capitol Hill Riot

The tax-funded PBS NewsHour marked the Independence Day holiday in its own inimitable style by trying to tie the patriotic celebration to right-wing extremism and the January 6 Capitol Hill riots. Congressional reporter Lisa Desjardins sat down with two liberal professors to decry the dangers of the right wing on Tuesday evening. Host Amna Nawaz set the scene for PBS’s attempt to…

MSNBC analyst Glenn Kirschner suggests Donald Trump should be jailed during trial because of the "danger to the community" and "threat" he poses.

On her MSNBC show on Sunday, Katie Phang denounces Fox News and CNN for scheduling townhalls with Donald Trump and Mike Pence. She goes further, suggesting that no Republican presidential candidates should be given airtime.  As she plaintively put it to a former Dem congresswoman: "What does it tell you that there are media outlets that are providing platforms for potential GOP primary…

On Nicolle Wallace's MSNBC show, Washington Post investigative reporter Carol Leonnig poured cold water on the giddy speculation Trump could be convicted of sedition, saying: "the prosecutors do not have evidence at hand linking the effort of the Proud Boys to Donald Trump. They do not have this smoking gun evidence that shows that Donald Trump was directing an effort to violently…

On Morning Joe, Michael Steele criticizes the Fox News culture for the lack of immediate corporate repercussions for Tucker Carlson having written in a private communication to a colleague that the way some January 6th rioters beat up an Antifa guy isn't "how white men fight."  Steele ignores the fact that last year, show host Joe Scarborough bragged about how, unprovoked, he would beat up a…

When we list the types of media bias, one of them has always been Bias by Story Selection. When 60 Minutes devoted a softball segment to January 6 rioter Ray Epps on Sunday, the question was why him? And why now? Why did the media obsess over January 6 for two years and never get to this?

During the media-wide prostration over New York City Tuesday for former President Trump’s arrest and arraignment, a White House press briefing took place and reporters such as The New York Times’s Michael Shear called out Jean-Pierre and President Biden for the double standard in refusing to weigh into some but not all criminal probes.

On Friday’s CBS Mornings, there were numerous rhetorical finger-wags at Republicans for the crime of denouncing far-left, Soros-backed Manhattan DA’s indictment of former President Trump concerning the hush money paid to Stormy Daniels with one implication being they’re poor caretakers of our democracy and “adding fuel” to potential violence.

PBS, established in 1969, has an outdated reputation for delivering a polite, objective take on the news of the day, exemplified by its flagship evening news program, now called the PBS NewsHour. But a new Media Research Center study deflates that outdated assumption, tracking and labeling every guest that appeared on the NewsHour over a four-month period, November 2022…

On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough says that just like Jesus in the Elton John "Tower of Babel" song didn't help people in the Tower, Donald Trump won't help people violating the law while protesting his possible arrest in NYC.

On her MSNBC show, Katie Phang, and MSNBC legal analysts Glenn Kirschner and Charles Coleman all opine that Donald Trump's message calling on supporters to "protest, take back the nation" could result in additional criminal charges against him. They ignore that as a senator, Kamala Harris gave a speech entitled, "Taking Back Our Country." She used the phrase at least six times. 

On Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski has the producer replay clips of Republican senators apparently criticizing Tucker Carlson's take on the January 6 riot, and urges her viewers to share the clip with their "Fox News-loving family members." But Mika's clips mangled the soundbites. Several Republicans denounced riot denial on both sides of the aisle.

At one time, the "news media" tried to give us something like just-the-facts journalism. But today they give us a liberal narrative and expect us to accept it as "news." Anything less than the liberal narrative is "misleading" or "false."

On her MSNBC show, Katie Phang suggests to Dem Rep. Eric Swalwell that Fox News be subject to "congressional oversight" and "gatekeeping." In response, Swalwell suggests that we "need to take a look at how [Fox News] is being broadcast to our troops," ominously concluding: "So I don't think we are without complete recourse."