NewsBusters Podcast: Trump Isn't Oppressing the Press Like He's Putin
They called it a "bombshell" on Tuesday, when Trump press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced they were going to take the credentialing and pooling powers away from the liberal press. Liberals screamed, conservatives cheered. New York Times reporter Peter Baker tweeted "this reminds me of how the Kremlin took over its own press pool and made sure that only compliant journalists were given…
WH’s Leavitt Causes Liberal Media PANIC After Making Huge Change
On Tuesday afternoon, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt sent shockwaves down the paper-thin spines of the White House press corps as she declared the end of the press pool as we know it and that the administration, not the smarmy White House Correspondents Association (WHCA) would determine the rotation of reporters who’d accompany the President in tighter confines, such as the Oval…
NewsBusters Podcast: Rearranging the Deck Chairs on the MSNBC Ship
The new boss of MSNBC not only canceled The Reidout and Alex Wagner Tonight, she also ended the weekend shows of Ayman Mohyeldin, Katie Phang, and Jonathan Capehart. Is anything really going to change -- other than Joy Reid's visibility? Is Symone Sanders much "safer" for MSNBC? Or is it just rearranging the host furniture?
BREAKING: Joy Reid Show CANCELED (Again), Alex Wagner Show Is Over
The nightly freakout is over. After almost five years, Joy Reid's second MSNBC show The Reidout has been canceled. New MSNBC president Rebecca Kutler is making moves, and it's also expected that Alex Wagner's show will not return after Rachel Maddow returning to her timeslot for the first 100 days of Trump.
Stelter Decries Trump as ‘Word Police,’ But He Backed Disinfo Board
In an appearance on Wednesday’s CNN Newsroom and in his so-called “Reliable Sources” Newsletter, liberal media janitor Brian Stelter kvetched about President Trump “embracing the role of word police” for barring the Associated Press from official White House events over their refusal to call it the Gulf of America. Meanwhile, Stelter had backed the Biden administration’s attempt to create a…
Leavitt RIPS Lefty Media Double Standard, Grilled by NBC & RCP on Gaza
On Wednesday afternoon, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt’s third press briefing mostly centered around two wildly different issues of transgenderism and the future of the Gaza Strip (especially in light of President Trump’s Tuesday claim the U.S. would take it over). And, as she’s done, called on a wide swath of reporters from legacy liberal networks to our friends in conservative…
Far-Left Seth Meyers Writer Amber Ruffin To Host WHCD
On Tuesday, White House Correspondents' Association President Eugene Daniels of Politico announced that Late Night with Seth Meyers writer Amber Ruffin will be this year’s featured comedian at the organization’s annual dinner.
MSNBC Hosts Dump On Speaker Johnson's 1st Ballot Win (with Push Back)
On Saturday's edition of MSNBC's The Weekend, the hosts, and in particular Michael Steele, downplay and dump on Mike Johnson and Donald Trump's achievement in securing a first-ballot victory for Johnson as Speaker. But panelists Julie Tsirkin and Eugene Daniels are more fair 'n balanced, with Daniels describing the achievement as "impressive."
Liberal Media Scream: 2023-2024 Archive
Washington Examiner’s ‘Liberal Media Scream’ With the MRC’s Assessment: 2023-2024 Archive
‘PICK ONE’: Regime Media Plot to Pressure Senate GOP on Trump Cabinet
The 2024 presidential election has left the media reeling and plunged into a period of self-doubt and introspection. But for a few fleeting moments on NBC’s Meet the Depressed, the media forgot that they got shellacked.
Politico’s Daniels Hails ‘Centrists’ Obama, Biden, and Harris on PBS
On Friday evening’s Washington Week with The Atlantic on tax-funded PBS, show host and Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg set a “foreboding” scene, just a few days before Election Day. He threw in all the anti-Trump buzzwords, including "convicted felon," a triumph of Democratic lawfare in New York City being predictably weaponized politically, though few could tell you now what "…
Politico Happily Admits Jack Smith's 'First October Surprise' of 2024
The Politico Playbook team of Eugene Daniels and Rachael "Impeachmas" Bade was so excited about this newly unsealed Jack Smith filing designed to harm Donald Trump that they blatantly declared that this Smith filing was "The first October surprise of 2024."
Column: Kamala Harris Had Minority Journalists at HELLO
The easiest thing in the world to predict is that Kamala Harris is going to be cuddled by minority journalists. If you speak the mantra “diversity, equity, inclusion” – and let’s add “history” – you’re rooting for a Harris victory.
NABJ Skips Fact-Checks, Asks Harris How GOP 'Weaponized' Her Laughing
When Donald Trump sat down with the National Association of Black Journalists on July 31, the tone was combative and those interviewing him insisted on doing live fact-checking. On Tuesday, it was Kamala Harris’s turn for a much softer interview that saw the on-the-spot fact-checking go away despite multiple factually incorrect statements and be replaced with questions about how the GOP has "…
