Kessler Claims He Fact-Checked GOP More Because It Is In Power
Former Washington Post colleagues Glenn Kessler and Jen Rubin reunited on August 4 on Rubin’s The Contrarian podcast to discuss Kessler’s departure from the Post’s Fact Checker page. During their conversation, Kessler would unleash three headscratchers: that he fact-checked Republicans more because they are in power, a historically incorrect warning about going back…
Oliver Dismisses Broadening Appeal: 'Comedy Can’t Be For Everyone'
With CBS cancelling The Late Show, plenty of people, including former Tonight Show host Jay Leno, have suggested that the industry has become too partisan. During a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter published on Tuesday, HBO’s Last Week Tonight host John Oliver claimed he would not be taking advice from Leno and suggested such criticism would lead to…
Kessler: WashPost's Desire to Appeal to Fox Viewers Influenced My Exit
After departing The Washington Post, fact-checker Glenn Kessler did what seemingly every major journalist who has recently left a major outlet has done: he joined Substack. On Tuesday, Kessler took to his new platform to claim that he left the Post because publisher Will Lewis wanted to expand the paper’s audience to include Fox News watchers.
CBS Fears European-Style Colonization and Oppression of Moon People
It’s important to remember history so it does not repeat itself, that is, within the right context. On CBS Mornings Plus, hosts Vladimir Duthiers and Adriana Diaz kept pushing the delusional thought that there could be people “trying to colonize” the moon in the style of European colonization of the global south. No, that was not a joke.
MSNBC Melts Down After CPB Shut Down Announcement
On Friday, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced it is shutting down, and the cast of MSNBC’s The 11th Hour lost its mind as it rolled out the same tired talking points about local news, weather, and children’s educational programming.
'Why Have People Not Risen Up?': Brooks Praises Harris on Colbert Show
New York Times columnist and the allegedly conservative half of Friday’s PBS News Hour’s weekly news recap, David Brooks, praised former Vice President Kamala Harris’s recent interview with Stephen Colbert and agreed with her that “civic capitulation” to President Trump is “a real thing.” Meanwhile, MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart explained he quit his job at The Washington…
'This is Bull****': Jon Stewart Attacks Fox For Citing MRC Studies
As Jon Stewart concluded Comedy Central’s The Weekly Show podcast on Thursday, he attacked Fox News for citing my late night guest studies.
Kessler Departs WashPost Lamenting Trump Won't Take Him Seriously
Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler departed the paper on Thursday in a gloomy mood as he penned his final column lamenting the state of the industry and repeating several sanctimonious falsehoods about the business.
‘Un-American’: MSNBC Outraged CBS Agreed To Set Up Bias Watchdog
The liberal media had a meltdown over Paramount putting an ombudsman, or “watchdog,” in place after President Trump’s $16 million settlement in his lawsuit over CBS’s 60 Minutes Kamala Harris interview edit. MSNBC showcased its bias on Tuesday’s Morning Joe when journalists rallied together over the outrage of CBS agreeing to monitor its bias and claimed that decision was “un-American.”
Get a Grip: Todd Claims Trump Admin Has Turned CBS Into 'State TV'
Former anchor of NBC’s Meet the Press, Chuck Todd, recorded his Monday podcast from Crazy Town as he alleged that the FCC’s role in the Paramount-Skydance merger now means CBS is “state TV” because one of the conditions was that the Paramount property would hire a bias monitor.
BREAKING: CPB Gave Tax Dollars to George Soros-Backed Censorship Giant
It’s bad enough that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting had been funneling millions in tax dollars to leftist propaganda mills NPR and PBS over the decades. But what if we were to tell you that the CPB funded one of America's "fact-checking" giants backed by George Soros responsible for censoring conservatives on social media platforms for years? Because that’s exactly what we’re about to…
NPR Chief Claims ‘We Report on Soybean Farmers and LGBTQ Activism’
Status newsletter founder and former CNN media reporter Oliver Darcy interviewed NPR chief executive Katherine Maher on Sunday about the awfulness of what she saw (at least through Darcy’s paraphrasing) as a decision that was “politically motivated, structurally damaging, and devastating to rural communities where public broadcasting is often the last reliable source of local…
Stewart Tells CBS To 'Go F*** Yourself' After Canceling Colbert
The men of late night reacted to the news that CBS has cancelled The Late Show with varying degrees of intelligence on their Monday shows. On the dumb end of the spectrum was fellow Paramount employee Jon Stewart, who reacted on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show by telling CBS to “go fuck” itself and dropping over 40 F-bombs.
The Wrap's Reaction to PBS/NPR Clawbacks Confirms Lefty/Bluesky Bubble
Amid the predictable wailing over the House vote to claw back $1 billion of taxpayer funding from hopelessly biased public media outlets PBS and NPR, one news outlet was unusually bitter: The Wrap, an L.A.-based news site focused on the entertainment business, which seemed to take the cuts as a personal affront, and in the process proved it resides in a West Coast liberal bubble. (…
