Coronavirus

Monday’s White House press briefing quickly became an epic messaging embarrassment for the the Biden administration as, under questioning from the Fox News Channel’s Peter Doocy, Press Secretary Jen Psaki argued that Republicans (and not Democrats) have defunded the police and gave the White House’s blessing to America-hating Olympian Gwen Barry.

Between January 28 and March 29, Media Research Center analysts tallied just over 100 minutes of Cuomo scandal coverage on ABC, CBS and NBC’s evening newscasts, yet not a single second in the 12 weeks that have followed.

On his Real Time show on HBO on Friday night, Bill Maher lashed out at Google and Facebook for suppressing anyone merely asking the question if the coronavirus leaked out of a lab in Wuhan. Science is supposed to be about testing a hypothesis, but some of those had to be crushed...for politics. 

Over here in NewsBusters, my colleague Tim Graham has taken note of a story at Hot Air on a report on trust in the media. The report is discussed by Rick Edmonds of the Poynter Institute. Tim quotes it thusly: 

No matter what the subject matter, CNN is going to imply that Democrats are good and Republicans are bad. This is especially true on their obsession with the coronavirus. They can't quit the idea that Republicans would like to infect the world. In a Monday segment on New Day, CNN polling analyst Harry Enten presented the results of an Axios-Ipsos poll on partisan differences now that…

Liberal tech giant Amazon likes promoting glowing reviews of its company from progressive groups that it funds.

Sports media outlets over the weekend unleashed their fury on former and current pro athletes who spoke out against COVID-19 vaccinations. NBA Hall of Famer John Stockton and current Buffalo Bills wide receiver Cole Beasley are expressing concerns about vaccines.

Some journalists really have no sense of irony. And Dan Rather is one of them. The disgraced former CBS Evening News host, who lost his anchoring slot after using faulty documents in a botched hit on then-President George W. Bush in 2004, is angry at Jon Stewart for his very public rant that, of course, Covid could have come from a lab leak in Wuhan. Writing on Steady…

Bret Weinstein, host of the DarkHorse Podcast, told MRC Free Speech America that “[S]omething has gone wrong inside of these tech platforms and it is putting us all in jeopardy.”

The micro-managing, freedom-stifling NFL control freaks are going way out of bounds in newly announced vaccination requirements. The league on Wednesday released a list of 10 ways it can punish teams without a full roster of vaccinated players. 

La industria de cruceros de la nación se apresta a resurgir tras la panedmia del COVID con cruceros de prueba a punto de zarpar del puerto de Miami, una gran noticia que Univisión convirtió, nuevamente, en "controversia", desinformación y lloriqueos por el gobernador de Florida, Ron DeSantis.

The nation’s cruise ship industry is set for its post-COVID comeback with test cruises about to sail from the Port of Miami, so that meant Univision used the great news to claim there was a “controversy” afoot, spreading disinformation and whining - AGAIN - about Florida governor Ron DeSantis (R).

So-called experts advising Big Tech are experiencing a crisis of credibility as the once-condemned laboratory leak theory rises in popularity.

Facebook and multinational biopharmaceutical company Merck & Co., Inc. announced that they would be teaming up to work with other companies and organizations, including the Chinese propaganda-pushing World Health Organization (WHO), to research and promote how online platforms can best challenge and shutdown vaccine hesitancy skeptics.