Media Bias Debate

Journalists despise government efforts to "investigate media power" -- unless it's Rupert Murdoch. On Friday's Amanpour & Co. on PBS and CNN International, host Christiane Amanpour provided an unchallenged forum to former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd to complain about Rupert Murdoch's influence on issues like global warming, and to talk up an effort he is pushing to…

CNN New Day co-host John Berman accuses Rudy Giuliani of trying to "bilk" the Trump campaign for legal services, which he puts in air quotes. Berman raises questions of Giuliani's "mental acuity," and accuses him of "questionable moral values."

On Morning Joe, playing off Barack Obama's 60 Minutes interview in which he blamed social media in part for "truth decay," Mika and The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg bemoaned social media's supposedly insufficient censoring of conservatives. Mika Brzezinski and Goldberg fretted that conservatives being left "unchecked" leads to " serious problems."

“Times Change -- In the Trump years, the New York Times became less dispassionate and more crusading, sparking a raw debate over the paper’s future.” That was the provocative headlines over an embarrassing expose by New York magazine contributing editor Reeves Wiedeman, posted on the magazine’s website Monday. The paper is doing very well in the Trump era; subscriptions rose from…

Folks in the TV business industry hate Donald Trump, but what is it about the president that upsets them the most?

On CNN's New Day, Tim Alberta, Politico Magazine's chief political correspondent, says "I know that most of us are suffering from this collective PTSD from 2016." He thus admits that he, and by extension most of the MSM, are still distraught over President Trump's 2016 victory.

On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough announces that his crew will be hosting election night coverage on NBC's "Peacock" streaming site, and brags that if President Trump declares victory, "we can assure you if Trump declares victory we’ll say, don’t take the feed. It’s not going to happen." 

Appearing as a guest on Wednesday's Amanpour & Co., CBS News president Susan Zirinsky proclaimed that the journalists on her network are "unbiased" and are "seeking the truth" in spite of the frequently left-leaning slant of its news shows. She went on to proclaim that her network does not give its audience "opinions," but are "fair and unbiased."

Appearing on MSNBC Thursday afternoon, Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh told off anchor Andrea Mitchell as he exposed how the Biden campaign and the leftist media “colluded” to exploit the coronavirus pandemic and turn it into a “political weapon” against the President. To Mitchell’s utter contempt, Murtaugh also called out Biden’s “anti-vaxxer rhetoric” and the press sowing…

On Sunday, CNN showed off what kind of so-called “Reliable Sources” they could dredge up when chief media correspondent Brian Stelter brought on Politico founding editor John Harris to discuss election coverage. But according to Harris, the media were in the wrong for acting as though President Trump still had a chance at winning and avoiding “death watch coverage.” He and…

During an interview with CBS correspondent Lesley Stahl for a segment scheduled to air on Sunday’s 60 Minutes, President Trump repeatedly called out the left-wing journalist for refusing to cover the corruption scandal swirling around Joe and Hunter Biden. In a video of the entire exchange that the President posted to Facebook on Thursday, Stahl can be heard denying that any Biden…

On Saturday’s Velshi, MSNBC host Ali Velshi collaborated with Senator Mazie Hirono to attack Amy Coney Barrett. Following the media’s absurd reaction to Barrett using the term “sexual preference,” Velshi praised Hirono for taking Barrett “to task after she used an offensive term” and set up Hirono to go on a deranged rant where she declared Barrett “dangerous” for being an…

On Saturday night’s CNN Newsroom, host Ana Cabrera collaborated with Michigan’s Democratic Attorney General Dana Nessel to forward insane conspiracies about President Trump inspiring the attempted kidnapping of Michigan’s Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer. Seemingly forgetting that some of the would-be kidnappers have expressed sentiments that are decidedly not right-wing, Cabrera…

On Thursday morning, NewsBusters deputy research director Geoffrey Dickens predicted that NBC Today co-host Savannah Guthrie would “go nuts on [President] Trump” in the town hall later that evening. And he was spot on with his prediction as she directed 25 liberal questions, comments, and other such biased interactions at the President.