Media Bias Debate

Feminist Podcast Slams NFL, Trump, Capitalism, 'Far Far Right People'
Culture
July 30th, 2018 10:00 AM
What do you get when you put a Think Progress sports reporter, a Canadian sports activist and a Hofstra professor together on the same podcast? One capitalist-hating, Trump-hating, NFL protest-loving group of far Left women. On the most recent edition of Burn It All Down — "the feminist podcast you need" — Shireen Ahmed called the NFL a cesspool of misogyny, xenophobia, racism and capitalism. And…

AP's Newberry Calls for NFL Strike if Kaepernick Not Signed
Culture
July 29th, 2018 10:00 AM
As NFL teams are gathering for preseason camp, Associated Press sports writer Paul Newberry suggests the league's social justice warriors play a huge Trump card if free agents Colin Kaepernick (center in photo) and Eric Reid (right in photo) aren't signed soon. Both former San Francisco 49ers disrespected veterans and the national anthem by kneeling during the final year of their contracts,…

Morning Shows Spend 16x More on Cohen Claim Than N.K. Remains Transfer
July 27th, 2018 5:20 PM
If you were watching one of the Friday morning cable or broadcast networks, chances were you didn’t hear about news late Thursday into Friday that the North Koreans handed over what purported to be remains of U.S. soldiers who went Missing In Action (MIA) during the Korean War. A NewsBusters analysis found that 16 times more coverage was dedicated to former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen’s unverified…

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MRC’s Bozell: CNN ‘No Longer a News Network,’ Just ‘Propaganda’
July 26th, 2018 1:24 PM
Appearing on Fox Business Network’s Varney & Co. on Thursday, Media Research Center President Brent Bozell hammered CNN for abandoning any pretense of objective journalism and devoting all of its air time to attacking President Trump on issue after issue. Host Stuart Varney, a CNN alum, lamented that it was “sad to see” the cable channel had fallen so far.

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Matthews: Trump Is Like a Commie for Banning CNN, Having FNC on AF1
July 25th, 2018 10:06 PM
Offering quite the overreaction to the controversial White House decision to ban CNN White House reporter Kaitlan Collins, MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews loosely tied President Trump to communist regimes of yesteryear when “people were only allowed to hear news from the government, that you got arrested or worse if you were caught even listening to news from anywhere else.”

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WH Bans CNN’s Kaitlan Collins from Event in ‘Unprecedented’ ‘Attack’
July 25th, 2018 8:25 PM
On Wednesday afternoon, the White House took the step of banning CNN White House reporter Kaitlan Collins from a Rose Garden announcement about tariffs following what the Trump administration believed were inappropriate questions shouted by Collins hours earlier about Michael Cohen and Vladimir Putin to the President. In reacting to this move, however, CNN’s Situation Room host Wolf Blitzer…

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Trump Calls Out Media Bias, CNN & MSNBC Fear Orwellian Dictatorship
July 25th, 2018 1:13 PM
Over an 18-hour period spanning two days, anchors on MSNBC and CNN all read from the same script as they warned viewers that President Trump’s typical criticism of the liberal media during a Tuesday address was akin to the authoritarian regime described in George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984.

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‘Hardball’ Panel Peddles Fake News on Sessions Chanting ‘Lock Her Up’
July 24th, 2018 10:30 PM
For those who follow this author on Twitter, you’ll find that I’m not a fan of Turning Point USA. That said, the liberal media’s fake news machine reared its head on Tuesday when numerous outlets falsely claimed Attorney General Jeff Sessions chanted the infamous “lock her up” chant about Hillary Clinton when prompted by students at their high school conference.

WashPost: Fans Angry Because Protesters Deny American Exceptionalism
Culture
July 24th, 2018 6:15 PM
Setting out to determine why NFL kneeling protests create so much outrage, The Washington Post's sports columnist Sally Jenkins concludes that it comes down to fan anger over a denial of American exceptionalism.

Levin Nukes Egotistical Liberal Media Over Their ‘Tyrannical Agenda’
July 24th, 2018 5:37 PM
In the first hour of his eponymous talk show Monday night, conservative author and host Mark Levin tore into the “totalitarian” liberal media for, among other things, being “historically illiterate” or “ideologically driven” in calling President Trump a Nazi, “mainstream[ing]” Stormy Daniels and “crackpot” Michael Avenatti, and painting themselves as chief defenders of the First Amendment.

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This News Anchor Calls President Trump the ‘Worst Ruler in History’
Latino
July 24th, 2018 9:56 AM
Move over Hitler, Pol Pot, or Genghis Khan, to name just a few prime contenders for the title. Following President Trump’s latest meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, anchor Adriana Yañez of Estrella TV opened her network’s national evening news by telling viewers that it is President Trump who is “the worst ruler in history.”

Lacking Self-Awareness, NYT Hits Tab for 'Crossing Line Into Politics'
July 22nd, 2018 9:07 PM
The New York Times indulged in some self-owning irony on Sunday’s front page under the byline of Jim Rutenberg and Ben Protess. The subject was American Media Inc., the tabloid company that publishes the National Enquirer: "Federal authorities examining the work President Trump’s former lawyer did to squelch embarrassing stories before the 2016 election have come to believe that an important ally…

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CNN Boasts Trump/Russia Conspiracies Now in America’s ‘Bloodstream'
July 22nd, 2018 2:27 PM
In the days since President Trump’s meeting with Vladimir Putin, the liberal media have been bringing back their Russian collusion narrative in a very big way. They’re now openly pushing claims Trump committing treason, a crime punishable by death, and have been growing bold in suggesting the President was a Russian agent. CNN media reporter Brian Stelter even boasted about their new courage…

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Indignant Cuomo Claims Trump ‘Hates’ America, Wishes Ill on Media
July 20th, 2018 12:21 AM
It’s no secret that the hosts on CNN have a deep-seated hatred for President Trump, but rarely do they let their true feelings flow out of them like a broken faucet. That’s exactly what happened on Thursday when CNN host Chris Cuomo ended his eponymous Cumo PrimeTime show with an indignant tirade against the President because he sent out another tweet criticizing the press as “the real enemy of…