NFL Demands New York Times Retract ‘Defamatory’ Concussion Story

The Gray Lady might be spending and/or losing a ton of green dollars in the near future. That is, if they choose to ignore the NFL’s demand to retract their story labeling the NFL guilty of faulty concussion research and ties to the Tobacco industry.
Dylan Gwinn

MSNBC's Carmon: 'FDA Move Could Radically Transform Abortion Access'

"Advocates for abortion rights don’t get a lot of good news, but Wednesday brought some," MSNBC.com's Irin Carmon gleefully opened her March 30 story, "FDA move could radically transform abortion access."
Ken Shepherd

NPR Hypes 'Cranky News Consumer' Obama's Critique of the Media

NPR's Scott Horsley acted as a stenographer for President Obama on Tuesday's Morning Edition, as he reported on the Democrat's Monday slam of the news media. Horsley played up how the President "spoke as a politician who's been on the receiving end of tough questions; but also as a somewhat cranky news consumer who thinks too many reporters are falling down on the job." The correspondent also…
Matthew Balan

Misbehaving Trump Aide Gets 8 Times More Airtime than Huma's Scandal

In just the last three weeks, ABC, CBS and NBC’s evening newscasts have generated nearly 16 minutes of coverage looking at charges of misconduct against Donald Trump’s campaign manager Corey Lewandowski. That’s more than eight times the coverage than they’ve given over the past eight months to serious questions surrounding top Clinton aide Huma Abedin for her role in a variety of Clinton scandals…
Rich Noyes

USA Today Pushes Op-Ed: 'Fox News, a Bully That Just Can't Take It'

USA Today (and other newspapers on the USA Today Network) are running an editorial by Steven Strauss whacking away at Fox News. The headline: “Fox News a bully that just can’t take it.” The network loves spreading “sick right-wing obsessions,” but draws the line when Donald Trump attacks Megyn Kelly. "Someone’s got to say it: Sick right wing obsessions were just fine with Fox until Trump became…
Tim Graham

Networks Refuse to Use ‘Genocide’ – Even in Easter Christian Bombing

Even after U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s declaration, the broadcast networks refuse to apply the term “genocide” to Christians slaughtered in the Middle East. In their morning and evening news shows since last April, ABC, CBS and NBC haven’t used “genocide” in their reports of Christians attacked in the Middle East. Instead, the networks took a pass – even after the Easter suicide bombing…
Katie Yoder

Daily Beast Cheers 'Progress' As FDA Makes Rx Abortion-Pill Use Easier

The Obama FDA today changed labeling requirements for use of the RU-486 abortion pill. Noting the revision, the Daily Beast website cheered the move as "progress."
Ken Shepherd

CNN Misleadingly Labels Cruz's Muslim Brotherhood Line 'False'

On Tuesday's CNN Tonight, Tom Foreman failed to tell the whole story about the Muslim Brotherhood as he targeted Senator Ted Cruz for a statement that he made about the Islamist group. Foreman noted that Cruz attacked the Brotherhood as a "terrorist organization," and cited how "the U.S. State Department has an official list of 59 foreign terrorist groups...and the Muslim Brotherhood is not on…
Matthew Balan

ABC, CBS Hype ‘Growing Backlash’ Against North Carolina

Both ABC and CBS on Wednesday hyped the “growing backlash” against North Carolina in the wake of the state’s law that stops localities from adding ordinances protecting gay rights. Highlighting the effort against the socially conservative effort, CBS This Morning’s Gayle King promoted, “More than 80 business leaders released a yesterday calling for a repeal of the measure. They include Facebook's…
Scott Whitlock

Univision Wants You To Rhythmically 'Feel The Bern'

A norteño band from California has recorded a Mexican folk song, known as a “corrido” titled “El Quemazón” which translates to “The Burn.” In an obvious effort to support the attempt to sway more Hispanic voters into “Feeling The Bern”, Univision decided to give the musical tribute entirely positive play.
Daniel Garza

Batman vs. Superman Stars Unite For Liberal Causes

Batman might be fighting Superman at your local cinema, but the movie’s writers and actors are politically united behind the left. Together, they gave $58,000 to liberal PACs and Democrats since 2002, but not a cent to Republicans. Actor Ben Affleck was the biggest liberal donor involved with the film.
Aly Nielsen

Allegation: AP 'Willingly Cooperated With the Nazis' From 1933-1941

Those who have noticed that the Associated Press, even to this day, tends to be sympathetic towards leftist causes, leftist protesters, leftist and totalitarian governments, and even terrorists in its coverage of domestic and world events won't be surprised by what follows. Others who still believe that the AP has always at least tried to be a paragon of objectivity will be stunned. The UK…
Tom Blumer

Identity Politics Attack: Gay Media Leaves out LGBT People of Color

The modern left has invented yet another trivial complaint: everyone should be on a magazine cover. LGBT advocates have found another problem with the media’s representation of gay people: racism.
Mairead McArdle

Jake Tapper Unloads on Obama: You’re in No Position to Lecture

An irritated Jake Tapper on Tuesday unloaded on Barack Obama, attacking the President for “lecturing” journalists about how to do their job. Highlighting a speech from Monday, in which the Democrat called for reporters to “dig” and “demand more,” Tapper quipped, “His message was a good one. But was President Obama the right messenger?” 
Scott Whitlock