Brian Stelter Glorifies Media in CNN’s Election Look Back Book
December 30th, 2016 4:29 PM
In an apparent attempt to frame the narrative of the 2016 election, CNN Politics published their “first-ever book” Unprecedented: The Election That Changed Everything in early December. Included in the tome is a longwinded essay crafted by CNN’s resident media critic Brian Stelter, where he chronicled the plight of the liberal media covering then candidate Donald Trump. His own anti-Trump bias…
NBC: Subway Line Took 96 Yrs, ‘Proof Gov’t Can Still Do Big Things'
December 30th, 2016 4:15 PM
For people who lived in or near New York City during the past century, the completion of the Second Avenue subway line was as elusive as the legendary Jersey Devil, or finding someone who doesn’t claim to be part Irish on St. Patrick’s Day. But an NBC reporter praised the completion of the first stage of the project as a great example of “showing people that government can still do big things.”…
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Must Read: The Top Ten Most-Read NewsBusters Blogs from 2016
December 30th, 2016 3:33 PM
With 2017 rapidly approaching, I decided that, as NewsBusters managing editor, it would be worthwhile to take a look back at the top ten most-read blogs from 2016. Once again, tens of millions of people flocked to NewsBusters for the best and worst media bias in newspapers, television news, social media -- and liberal outbursts from celebrities.
Unproven 'Fake News' Media Meme: Russia 'Hacked the Elections'
December 30th, 2016 2:26 PM
The purveyors of what the establishment press likes to describe as "fake news" have nothing on the fake news the establishment press itself generates at the Obama administration's behest.
For example, the Associated Press, in a very late paragraph in just one of its three reports on the topic Thursday, admitted that "Though the FBI and Homeland Security Department issued a joint report on '…
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Here We Go: Check Out the Worst Chris Matthews Moments from 2016
December 30th, 2016 11:17 AM
Along with the unpredictable ladies from The View, MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews can almost be guaranteed to make daily appearances on the pages of NewsBusters. Whether it’s making inappropriate statements or coming up with asinine names for conservatives, Matthews has provided decades of entertainment for those on the right.
Writers Catch NBC Falsely Claiming Israel Still Had Gaza Settlements
December 29th, 2016 4:11 PM
Just another day at the office for NBC News, folks. On Thursday, Tablet magazine writer Yair Rosenberg caught NBC News correspondents Ayman Mohyeldin and Cal Perry publishing a error-laden piece on NBCNews.com about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that was later rewritten without a correction.
Atlantic Rebukes Democratic Party’s ‘Religious Illiteracy’
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December 29th, 2016 3:05 PM
Of late, former Obama staffer Michael Wear believes the Democratic Party has viewed white Catholics and Evangelicals with apathy, if not scorn. And that’s an outlook it must change in order to move forward in 2017.
AP Report: Atlanta Grad Students Still Can't Deal With Trump's Win
December 29th, 2016 1:25 PM
In an item published on Tuesday, Matt Sedensky at the Associated Press reported on what he observed in a graduate "Faith and Politics" class at Emory University immediately after and during the weeks following this year's presidential election.
Class members' immature reactions to the election's result and the reporter's injected commentary are both disturbing, but very useful. That's because…
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Not The Onion: MSNBC Brings on Gruber in Attempt to Fact-Check Trump
December 29th, 2016 12:40 PM
Here’s a story that you can’t make up, folks. In an attempt to fact-check President-elect Donald Trump on his claim of Sprint bringing jobs back to the United States, Wednesday’s The Last Word turned to none other than ObamaCare architect and deception artist Jonathan Gruber for two segments to inform MSNBC viewers where Trump went wrong and struggled with facts.
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Demonization on Immigration Continues at Univision, Telemundo
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December 29th, 2016 11:03 AM
As we reach the end of 2016 and the beginning of 2017, one thing remains a constant at Univision and Telemundo: the careless and calumnious characterization of Donald Trump's pro-law enforcement immigration policy as "anti-immigrant." During recent coverage of International Migrants Day marches in New York City and Los Angeles, Telemundo's news anchors essentially adopted the marchers' anti-Trump…
Leftist Blogger: The Media Finally Brought Down ‘Uppity’ Hillary
December 29th, 2016 10:12 AM
In a Christmas Day post, Digby (also a columnist for Salon) contended that, given the media’s hostility toward Hillary Clinton, that “it’s actually a testament to her rectitude that [the e-mail story] was all they came up with. They had certainly tried over the course of 25 years to come up with something real and they ended up having to make up this ridiculous fake scandal to justify their…
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Mitchell Frets to Kerry Trump Could 'Undo' His Hard 'Work' on Israel
December 28th, 2016 6:22 PM
MSNBC host and NBC News correspondent Andrea Mitchell scored an exclusive interview on Wednesday afternoon with Secretary of State John Kerry following his speech blasting Israel and, not surprisingly, she served up softballs for Kerry up to attack Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: “How difficult is it for you to operate in this atmosphere where the President-elect is…
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CNN Panel Boasts of 'Personal and Passionate' Kerry Speech on Israel
December 28th, 2016 2:45 PM
On Wednesday afternoon, a CNN panel reacted to Secretary of State John Kerry’s speech lambasting Israel with praise for the “personal and passionate” address at the State Department aimed at a supposedly vast base of global supporters who believe in a two-state solution.
More Terror, More Denial
December 28th, 2016 10:47 AM
Recent terrorist attacks in Ankara, Turkey, and Berlin, Germany, add to a growing list of incidents that are becoming increasingly difficult to remember. Does one begin the list with the plane hijackings in the '60s and '70s, or the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993, or the USS Cole attack in 2000, or the second World Trade Center attack in 2001, or Ft. Hood, San Bernardino, Orlando, Paris…