New York Times Hails NPR CEO's 'Unyielding' Denial of Leftist Bias

The New York Times is not your most reliable narrator on all stories about NPR: their weekday podcast The Daily runs on hundreds of NPR affiliates, which creates an obvious rooting interest for the network. On Tuesday, Times media reporter Benjamin Mullin poured on the sympathy.

Tim Graham
December 31st, 2025 3:22 PM

Screw-Ups, Shutdowns, & Soros: Our Ten Most-Read Stories of 2025

2025 marked a year of arguably unparalleled success for the NewsBusters team seeing as how, along with chronicling the best and worst in daily and long-term liberal media bias, we helped see to a successful conclusion a decades-long fight to defund National Public Radio (NPR) and PBS. As you’ll see below in our top-ten list of the most read stories, you’ll see NPR come up along with the major…

Curtis Houck
December 31st, 2025 1:34 PM

Makers of October 7 Play Are Resisting Media's Kennedy Center Campaign

Our friend Ann McIlhinney sent a note to supporters on Thursday about the "mainstream media" campaigning for cancellations at the Trump-Kennedy Center. CNN and The Washington Post are looking (pushing) for pullouts.

Tim Graham
December 31st, 2025 9:30 AM

Toxic Heart: 8 of Sunny Hostin’s Most Racist Moments of 2025

In addition to being The View’s in-house legal expert (as a former federal prosecutor), co-host Sunny Hostin was the show’s most vocal social justice warrior and proponent of toxic woke ideology. As such, Hostin was prone to making profoundly racist comments that either attacked white people, promoted black people above others, and much more. And just like the year prior, Hostin put…

Nicholas Fondacaro
December 31st, 2025 9:00 AM

Mamdani or Man Candy? PBS's Embarrassing Gush Over NYC's Leftist Mayor

The show PBS News Weekend is nearly at an end, but no one will miss it if they were looking for hard-hitting journalism. Attaining a level of journalistic integrity only previously reached by Teen Beat magazine, Sunday’s show gushed over man-candy Mamdani’s “remarkable rise” to mayor with his campaign photographer, Kara McCurdy.

Clay Waters
December 31st, 2025 8:40 AM

Column: As Pelosi Steps Away, the Press Keeps Pampering

Nancy Pelosi may be retiring from Congress, but no one should expect the DNC Media to stop treating her as a most glorious political figure. She draws deep bows wherever she goes. She’s always the Best Ever.

Tim Graham
December 31st, 2025 12:05 AM

‘FAR-RIGHT YOUTUBER’: Telemundo Dismisses Nick Shirley’s Reporting

Telemundo found a way to report the massive fraud exposed in Minnesota by independent journalist Nick Shirley. In so doing, they reveal the extent to which Shirley embarrassed the media.

Jorge Bonilla
December 30th, 2025 6:04 PM

WATCH: PBS Bows to Whiny Foreign Censor CEO Post-Trump Deport Threat

Overtly sappy interviews like the one PBS just did for the socialist CEO of a wacky foreign-based censorship organization is a perfect reminder why that decrepit network should never get one dime of taxpayer money ever again.

Joseph Vazquez
December 30th, 2025 4:26 PM

The Year in Ratings: Fox News Soars, MS NOW Is Down, Down, Down....

Fox News is on the upswing, while MS NOW and CNN are falling off. It would be unsurprising for "news" networks to lose audience after a presidential campaign year, but Fox's success makes the others look worse. Overall, Fox News scored its highest ratings for the year ever for a non-election year, second only to 2020.

Tim Graham
December 30th, 2025 3:00 PM

ABC, NBC Barely Touch Minnesota Fraud, While CBS Delivers the Goods

While all three big three broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) have covered the widespread cases of social services fraud among Minnesota’s Somali community, the frequency and thoroughness of the coverage has varied widely depending on the network. Before December 29, CBS was the only network to have aired even a single full-length report about the scandal, and as of this study’s publishing…

Bill D'Agostino
December 30th, 2025 1:49 PM

Scott Jennings Explodes on Loony Lib Who Compared Israel to Russia

In a now viral dust up on Monday’s edition of CNN NewsNight, the audience’s favorite Republican commentator Scott Jennings exploded on leftist extremist Emma Vigeland of the so-called Majority Report, for her refusal to condemn Hamas while claiming Israel invaded Gaza like Russia invaded Ukraine. Jennings also called out host Abby Phillip for not allowing a debate against Vigeland’s…

Nicholas Fondacaro
December 30th, 2025 12:52 PM
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MS NOW's Mara Gay: Somalis Being 'Scapegoated' Over Minnesota Fraud!

On Monday's Morning Joe, MS NOW analyst and member of the New York Times editorial board Mara Gay claims that Somalis are being "scapegoated" over welfare-program fraud in Minnesota.

Mark Finkelstein
December 30th, 2025 11:24 AM

Time to Retire? 12 Times Behar & Whoopi Were Divorced From Reality

As the two oldest cast members of The View, moderator Whoopi Goldberg (70) and fill-in moderator Joy Behar (83) hold a lot of sway and authority on the show and among their audience. And as such, ABC News had a special responsibility to ensure that their moderators were not hyperbolic or ridiculous. The guardrails came off in 2025. With the return of President Trump to the White House…

Nicholas Fondacaro
December 30th, 2025 9:30 AM

NewsBusters Podcast: Christian Toto on Comedy, Kimmel, and Rob Reiner

Did you ever notice the Hollywood Left is never guilty of hate speech? Unleashing your hatred on Donald Trump and his supporters is never subjected to “fact checking” and it’s never a reason to doubt the future of late-night “comedy.” Christian Toto of HollywoodInToto.com reviews the cultural landscape.

Tim Graham
December 30th, 2025 8:57 AM