Crime

And on the 17th day, the legacy media finally got around to reporting the brutal murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska on board a Charlotte light rail. Rather than simply reporting the inconvenient story straight up, though, NBC saw fit to engage in a little Trumpwashing.

Sunday’s edition of PBS News Weekend led with the anchor and his guest blaming President Trump for using social media to lead to “heightened tensions” in Chicago before his promised crackdown on crime and illegal immigration in that high-crime city (as if the high murder rate and crime rate in general wasn’t stoking tensions before). 

On Morning Joe, MSNBC analyst and Washington Post columnist David Ignatius suggests that the US military should consider disobeying the order of the Commander-in-Chief, President Trump, to fire on drug-smuggling boats crewed by Tren de Aragua.

On Sunday afternoon, MSNBC host Alex Witt and contributor Molly Jong-Fast fretted over the Donald Trump administration conducting an airstrike on a Venezuelan boat believed to be hauling drugs. Jong-Fast went on to dismiss President Trump's efforts to fight anti-Semitism in higher education and claimed that he is targeting Chicago crime against the wishes of the state's Democratic leaders…

On Friday afternoon, MSNBC host Katy Tur had on Mark Spies of the anti-gun websiteThe Trace to argue against a Donald Trump administration proposal to place gun restrictions on transgenders to help prevent mass shootings. Spies found the idea "insane" and compared it to banning white men from buying guns to prevent suicide.

A common feature of legacy media coverage leading up to the 2024 presidential campaign was their collective reluctance and/or outright refusal to cover heinous crimes that reflected poorly on key Democrat policies. With the 2026 midterms over a year out, it appears that the media are reverting to form. 

In the span of only two minutes, HBO’s Bill Maher unleashed a trio of hysterical and outrageous claims about President Trump’s utilization of the National Guard in Washington, D.C. First, he subtly implied the move was akin to a dictator like Vladimir Putin invading Ukraine, calling it “Page One Of The Dictator Handbook.” Then he doubled down on making fun of DOGE staffer Edward “Big Balls”…

Like ABC and NBC, CBS’s Friday evening and Saturday morning newscasts ignored the arrest of multiple juveniles in Washington, D.C. for the murder of congressional intern Eric Tarpinian-Jachym. Unlike ABC and NBC, CBS Saturday Morning’s omission bias was made worse by the fact that Justice Correspondent Scott MacFarlane chose to hype a magistrate judge’s rebuke of the Trump…

National Public Radio on Friday tried hard to pretend there were no anti-Trump, anti-Christian, or anti-Semitic motives to be found in the August 27 murder of two children at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis by a male shooter who identified as “transgender.” The online headline to the radio report underlined the falsehood: “'There is no message': The search for ideological motives…

Managing Editor Curtis Houck and I speak with 2022 MRC Bulldog Award winner Drew Holden to unspool some of his famous X threads calling out the liberal media’s bias. Living in the D.C. metro area, we take a deep dive in Holden’s findings regarding a dubious Washington Post poll claiming D.C. residents thought crime wasn’t an issue. We also examine the media’s knee-jerk reaction to the…

CBS’s Stephen Colbert had an unconvincing rebuttal on Wednesday to President Trump’s recent Truth Social posts that portrayed Chicago as a crime-ridden and dangerous city. Colbert’s three-part response involved telling Trump “[bleep] you,” repeating some false statistics, and saying Chicago can’t be that bad because The Late Show traveled there in the summer of 2024 and came back…

On Tuesday's Morning Joe, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough ranted against a decision by U.S. attorney Jeanine PIrro not to prosecute D.C. residents for carrying a rifle or shotgun outside the home without a permit, calling it "bonkers" and "insanity."

One of the hyperbolic Resist movement’s favorite reporters going back to her days with The Washington Post, Ashley Parker — who joined Laurene Powell Jobs’s The Atlantic in December — wrote a piece Friday huffing and puffing about the presence of the National Guard in Washington D.C. as part of President Trump’s efforts to address crime in the nation’s capital. Parker leveled…

The mother of 23 year-old transgender Minneapolis school shooter Robin Westman, who signed the name change for her biological male son from Robert to Robin, has hired a criminal defense lawyer and is refusing to speak to police.