Media Bias Debate

On Wednesday morning's New Day, CNN viewers got an unusual dose of reality on the true causes of the recent crime surge as former Capitol Hill police officer Michael Fanone -- now a CNN law enforcement analyst -- actually implicated the media and the decriminalization of crime by liberal leaders.

In a Wednesday appearance on his network’s radically liberal day-time show The View, ABC World News Tonight anchor David Muir bragged about the shoddy work he and his team does and suggested that the public needed “journalists” like him to “cut through the noise for them.” And on the question of what should be done about Fox News Channel, Muir suggested the cable outlet was…

Appearing on Fox Business Network’s Varney & Co. Wednesday morning, Media Research Center President Brent Bozell hammered the leftist media for refusing to cover numerous bad news stories during President Biden’s disastrous first year in office. Bozell called out Biden for lying on multiple topics and wondered when anyone in the liberal press would call out the President’s…

The New York Times is concerned about media censorship and bias -- in Serbia. “Eastern Europe Tests New Forms of Media Censorship,” by Andrew Higgins from Belgrade, appeared in Monday’s paper and it was both ironic and rich to see the Times devote 1,500 words to a story of how governments in Serbia, Poland, and Hungary are leaning on independent media outlets that don’t…

On Monday, Fox News Digital Editor Andrew Kugle reported on how the leftist media have been trying to help the Democratic Party eliminate the filibuster in order to shove a radical agenda through Congress: “After a year of Senate Democratic Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and his party pushing to eliminate the legislative filibuster, news outlets have pushed a distorted and often biased…

Tara Henley had had enough. A longtime producer for the Canadian Broadcasting Company, Henley abruptly resigned, writing of her reasons over there at Substack. In her piece she said this: “For months now, I’ve been getting complaints about the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, where I’ve worked as a TV and radio producer, and occasional on-air columnist, for much of the past decade....To work…

Media outlets, particularly during the pandemic, propagate fear to boost ratings. It’s a variation of the local TV news story, “Coming up next … what’s in your fridge could kill you.” Dr. Drew Pinsky noticed this disturbing trend, too, except he’s not amused. The doctor, co-host of The Adam and Dr. Drew Show, told listeners about a fresh media trend now that COVID-19 deaths could be…

On the cusp of an absolute glut of liberal-media anniversary coverage of the January 6 riot, CNN media reporter Brian Stelter was cranky. “We live in a world where Donald Trump's top supporters malign the media for being ‘obsessed’ with January 6.” He argued anyone who thinks this story is overdone is someone "best explained by psychologists or therapists or algorithm developers."

Suddenly so forgiving, that Joe Scarborough! On today's Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough admitted that last week, he felt the Biden administration had "terribly botched" things regarding Covid testing. But on second thought . . . nope! Don't blame Biden for botching the availability of testing. Because . . . testing isn't necessary! Opined "Doctor" Scarborough: "You don’t need a test! We have…

To borrow from the late President Gerald Ford, the state of the media as 2022 opens is not good. Add all of this up - the insistence on fact free left-wing narratives, the intolerance for dissent and more and quite clearly something is seriously amiss in the American media.

This was CNN cognitive dissonance on steroids -- with a booster shot of hypocrisy. In its 7 am hour, New Day brought on CNN medical analyst  Dr. Jonathan Reiner who called the Times Square New Year's Eve celebration a potential "superspreader" event that is "completely unnecessary" and "unwise." Reiner called omicron "the most contagious pathogen that any of us have ever seen." And…

Filling in for boss Tim Graham, NewsBusters deputy managing editor Nick “Night Train” Fondacaro and I were back in our saddles for Monday’s post-Christmas edition of the NewsBusters Podcast and, while it’s often a slower time of the year in the news business, we still had plenty to talk about.

On the last so-called “Reliable Sources” of 2021, CNN media apologist Brian Stelter set out to bust some of the “misconceptions” the public had about the media. The misconceptions that needed to be battled included the idea that they have “malicious intent” when they publish fake news and that the media’s political biases were being actively offset internally, resulting in balanced…

Call it the liberal media’s Scrooge-style  “bah humbug” of a year - and a few years before that. Take a Google and find headline after headline like these from the recent past up until now: The Columbia Journalism Review - 2018: "Most Americans say they have lost trust in the media."