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A Step Toward True Equality, Courtesy of the Supreme Court
It may not have had the significance of the Emancipation Proclamation, or the civil rights legislation of the 1960s, but last week’s ruling by the Supreme Court that affirmative action in college admissions violates the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause is an important advancement toward equality for all. Reaction to the 6-3 decision has been mostly predictable. Many on the left,…
NYT Gets SMOKED for Backing Gov’t Censorship, Mourning Free Speech Win
The New York Times sparked fireworks on Twitter Tuesday, and not in a good way. The Times is getting all the heat — and rightfully so — after whining that the so-called fight to combat misinformation could be curtailed following a judge order blocking…
PBS Hosts LGBTQ Journo-Activist to Label SCOTUS Victor a ‘Hate Group'
The Supreme Court ended its term with several major decisions favorable to conservatives, and tax-funded public broadcasting, which is ostensibly objective, failed to hide its displeasure in its Friday evening analysis, including its take on the Court’s 6-3 decision in the 303 CREATIVE LLC case, that a website designer in Colorado had a First Amendment right to refuse to design…
NYT Sobs Over Race Admissions Loss: 'Threatens...Court’s Legitimacy'
Friday’s New York Times led with the important Supreme Court ruling outlawing race-based "affirmative action" programs at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina, with wide-ranging ramifications both in college and the workplace. The paper’s SCOTUS beat reporter Adam Liptak was petulant in defeat, seeing a delegitimized Supreme Court but also perhaps accidentally…
MSNBC Rips SCOTUS on Affirmative Action Ruling, Denies Thomas Is Black
Jonathan Capehart, the fill-in host for Thursday evening’s The Last Word With Lawrence O’Donnell on MSNBC, reacted to the morning’s news of the Supreme Court’s affirmative action case by launching personal attacks on the justices who had voted against it. He especially condemned their race and political ideologies as reasons that they had voted the way that they did.
ABC, CBS Broadcast Their Own Dissenting Opinions on Affirmative Action
CBS Mornings and ABC’s Good Morning America (GMA) offered dissenting opinions on the Supreme Court’s Affirmative Action ruling Friday morning under the guise of objective journalism. CBS’s Tony Dokoupil strategized about avoiding the Court’s ruling by including race in essays, and Prairie View A&M University president Ruth Simmons likened the ruling to Plessy vs.…
HEARTBREAK CITY: Here’s How ABC/CBS/NBC Handled Friday’s SCOTUS Cases
Just as they did on Thursday morning, the major broadcast networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC each broke in Friday morning for the final Supreme Court cases of the session, which were President Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan (Biden v. Nebraska) and a free speech case involving Christian web designer and LGBTQ individuals (303 Creative LLC v. Elenis).
NB Podcast: Media Predict Jim Crow 4.0 Following Major SCOTUS Rulings
Since the last NewsBusters Podcast, three major rulings have come down from the U.S. Supreme Court: affirmative action, free speech, and student loan forgiveness. Your managing editor Curtis Houck and I discuss how the liberal media shrieked in horror at the prospect of fair admissions processes, free speech for the religious, and President Biden getting his underhanded campaign ploy trounced…
Three Strikes for Telemundo's Cristina Londoño on Affirmative Action
On Thursday afternoon, Noticias Telemundo mediodía delivered a disheartening blow by discussing the constitutionality of affirmative action following two Supreme Court decisions striking race as a factor in admissions for private and public universities. Throughout the lead story, correspondent Cristina Londoño repeatedly exhibited a lack of understanding on the subject.
Here Were the Worst Takes/Best Network Meltdowns on Affirmative Action
On Thursday, the “big three” broadcast networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC twice broke into regular programming to discuss the bombshell Supreme Court rulings that all but took a huge bite out of private and public universities being able to use race as a factor in admissions. Naturally, the liberal networks were forlorn with experts, journalists, pundits blasting, fretting, and seemingly near tears…
Despite Denials, CNN Reveals Hypocrisy On Dem And GOP-Appointed Judges
On June 15, Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) accused CNN’s Kailtan Collins of referring to Judge Aileen Cannon as “Trump-appointed” in order to instill doubt in the Trump documents case and questioned whether she would do the same if the judge was appointed by Barack Obama. Collins defended herself by saying “We talk about who judges were appointed by all the time.” Now, less than one week later we…
NBC Journo Plays P.R. Assistant for Newsom on Guns, Trashing DeSantis
Between Wednesday’s Morning Joe on MSNBC and NBC’s Today from Thursday, NBC correspondent Jacob Soboroff played footsie with fellow California leftist and Governor Gavin Newsom (D), serving as a welcome mat for Newsom to promote a massive gun grab and hint at arresting 2024 Republican presidential candidate and Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) if he sets foot in the Golden State…
MSNBC Is 'Concerned' Trump Judge Will Not 'Oversee a Fair Trial'
Gone are the days when questioning whether a judge in a Trump indictment case can be truly impartial is said to be unacceptable because the cast of MSNBC's Friday special coverage on the matter sounded the alarm whether Trump-appointed Judge Aileen Cannon can truly be fair and neutral given some of her previous rulings.
ABC Cheers Lefty Saying Conservatives Judges Are ‘Threat to Democracy’
Monday on ABC’s Good Morning America, co-host and former Clinton official George Stephanopoulos trotted out far-left author Michael Waldman to tout his new book The Supermajority that doubled as a screed with the thesis that, in Stephanopoulos’s summation, conservative justices are “a threat to democracy” for rulings he believes are counter to a center-left country.
