Media Bias Debate

Twenty years ago, Democrats lost a midterm election they had expected to win. But instead of blaming “candidate quality” or a party message that was out of synch with voters, liberal pundits whined that the real problem was that the media were too slanted towards conservatives for liberals to get a fair shake. That’s right, a pro-conservative press.

It has now been a week since Elon Musk took over Twitter, and the wailing and gnashing of teeth is still audible across the legacy media landscape. In one sense, that's rather shocking: Why, precisely, should members of the media be so apoplectic about a billionaire taking over a social media company from other millionaires, pledging to loosen restrictions on dissemination of speech? In…

In his first day co-hosting the new show, CNN This Morning, Don Lemon calls Kari Lake's comments on the attack on Paul Pelosi "vile, vile." Lake had observed that in DC, Nancy Pelosi has protection, but, "apparently her house doesn't have a lot of protection."  Commenting on John Fetterman's debate performance, Lemon said that his mother, who he called his "one-woman focus group," said she…

Ben Smith, former media columnist for the New York Times, plunged himself into his old paper’s current identity crisis, both in the eyes of Wall Street and its readership.  Smith focused on the mortifying story of James Bennet, former editorial page editor and “onetime heir apparent to run the Times,” who riled up the paper’s internal left-wing mob and was summarily fired for the…

Making his latest appearance early Friday/late Thursday on the Fox News Channel’s Fox News @ Night, NewsBusters Managing Editor Curtis Houck teamed with District Media Group’s Beverly Hallberg to take down the liberal media for attacking NBC’s Dasha Burns after she pressed Pennsylvania senatorial candidate John Fetterman on his cognitive struggles since he suffered a stroke in May.…

Don't be fooled by the benign headline: "Ron DeSantis Shows Some Good Manners."  No good deed goes unpunished . . . particularly when it comes to the liberal media, and the person performing the good deeds is a top contender to wrest the White House from Democrat grip. Example A: this Politico magazine column by Politico's "senior media writer" Jack Shafer. Shafer's entire…

To promote CNN’s new doc-series entitled The Murdochs: Empire of Influence, consulting producers Jim Rutenburg and Jonathan Mahler joined Thursday’s Don Lemon Tonight to discuss the namesake family and accuse them of having “a major political bias.” Meanwhile, Lemon alleged “the journalistic integrity is not always there.”

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings Of Power Episode 4 – 'The Great Wave' was released on Friday, September 16, which means we are now halfway through the new Lord of the Rings series, and it doesn’t look like things are getting much better when it comes to the reviews of Amazon’s latest show.

So much so, that The Rings of Power is still getting…

ABC’s George Stephanopoulos traveled over to Comedy Central’s The Daily Show for an interview with Trevor Noah to promote his new docu-series on young campaign reporters. Naturally, the conversation included the current state of the industry, during which Stephanopoulos declared part of the job is “sometimes you have to risk looking partisan” by telling the truth.

Video editor Bill D’Agostino and I were at the helm for boss Tim Graham for Monday’s show, which we hit the ground running on by reminiscing Brian Stelter’s infamous tenure at CNN and breaking down the final episode of Reliable Sources.

CNN followed through on its threats to dismiss some fervently biased personalities. Brian Stelter''s "brand" was too toxically anti-Trump? We review some scraps between Stelter and NewsBusters and laugh at the lefties who think Stelter's dismissal is "a win for all the wrong people." Who will be next?

Transgender Activist Eli Erlick reportedly sent hormone therapy drugs to youth transgender wanabees across state lines where said drugs are illegal, Breitbart reported. Now, Erlick has been …

On Friday night, NPR’s All Things Considered finally considered something they would normally avoid: their own leftist bias. The topic was the shocking idea that Republican candidates are “shunning mainstream press.” As if NPR is in the “mainstream” of political life.

After making headlines with the second episode of his podcast, The Chris Cuomo Project, for saying the January 6 Committee was largely playing a “gotcha game” and the idea former President Trump would get charged with “treason” was a play to “fringe aspects” of the Democratic Party, Chris Cuomo walked back some of his assertions on Thursday and claimed media reports weren’t telling…