STUDY: Nets Blame ‘Ultra-Conservatives‘ for Stopping ObamaCare Repeal

With Republicans set to make another run at repealing and replacing ObamaCare this week, look for the Big Three networks (ABC, CBS, NBC) to blame conservatives, specifically, the House Freedom Caucus for any sort of obstruction to getting a deal done. In 30 days of health care debate coverage (March 7 through April 5), the broadcast networks consistently framed it as a fight between unreasonable…
Geoffrey Dickens
April 25th, 2017 9:09 AM

The Media: Lemmings on Parade

Media bias…is not a new thing.  One of Rage Against the Machine’s big hits was “Bulls on Parade.”  Were anyone to pen a tune about the media -- “Lemmings on Parade” as a title would eminently work. 
Seton Motley
April 25th, 2017 8:48 AM

ABC, NBC Skip U.S. General Suggesting Russia Arming Resurgent Taliban

Secretary of Defense James Mattis made a visit to Afghanistan Monday, where he and General John Nicholson stated that a top U.S. adversary was backing the Taliban. “9,000 U.S. troops are on the ground trying to help the Afghan army hold back a resurgent Taliban,” announced Anchor Scott Pelley during CBS Evening News, “But the job is getting tougher by the day thanks in part to Moscow.” The…
Nicholas Fondacaro
April 25th, 2017 12:07 AM

'Female Genital Mutilation' a Too 'Culturally Loaded' Term at NY Times

Female genital mutilation (FGM) has unfortunately been in the news recently with the arrests of several people in Michigan allegedly involved in the practice. The World Health Organization has declared that FGM "is a violation of the human rights of girls and women." But, it has recently been learned, the New York Times won't use that term unless someone a reporter quotes uses it; otherwise, it's…
Tom Blumer
April 24th, 2017 11:24 PM

CBS, NBC Celebrate Obama’s First Public Appearance Since Inauguration

Former President Barack Obama made his first public appearance at the University of Chicago on Monday, where the liberal media championed his return. “Meantime tonight, we're hearing from former President Obama speaking out in his first public event since leaving office, jumping back into the spotlight and a lot of attention focused on what he would say about his successor, President Trump,”…
Nicholas Fondacaro
April 24th, 2017 9:50 PM

US Press Ignores New Minimum-Wage Study, Declining San Fran Job Stats

A Sunday item in the San Francisco Chronicle covered what reporter Justin Phillips has found is a major challenge for that city's restaurateurs. You see, many of them are struggling with how much virtue-signaling is appropriate in the wake of the election of Donald Trump and that city's defiant insistence on remaining an illegal-immigrant sanctuary. In light of a recent Harvard study on the…
Tom Blumer
April 24th, 2017 7:06 PM

Womp Womp! WashPost Runs Review Trashing Elizabeth Warren’s New Book

In a book review for Sunday’s print edition The Washington Post, The Atlantic’s Emma Green tore into Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) new book This Is Our Fight for neglecting to grapple with the Democratic Party’s many issues following its 2016 election debacle and failing to understand why blue collar Americans backed President Trump.
Curtis Houck
April 24th, 2017 5:23 PM

MRC’s Noyes Discusses Latest Trump Coverage Study on Fox and Friends

“It has been the most hostile, most negative reaction to a new president that I can remember, and I’ve been doing this for more than 30 years,” MRC Research Director Rich Noyes told Fox and Friends Saturday host Abby Huntsman. Noyes was on Fox to discuss the recent MRC study which revealed that network evening news show coverage of President Trump in his first 80 days in office has been an…
Mike Ciandella
April 24th, 2017 5:14 PM

CBS Pushes Kasich From the Left: Want to Decry Trump’s ‘Wrong Path?’

The journalists on CBS This Morning, Monday, goaded John Kasich to attack Donald Trump, lauding the moderate Republican governor. Democratic donor Gayle King, who vacations with Barack Obama, lobbed this softball: “You believe that historians will scratch their heads and look at this election as a tipping point. What will they see?”
Scott Whitlock
April 24th, 2017 5:11 PM

MSNBC Hosts Left-Wing Group Therapy Session for Trump Haters

On Monday, MSNBC decided to mark President Trump’s first 100 days in office by conducting panel discussion with left-wing celebrities, activists, and politicians in which they all shared how disgusted they were with the new administration. Correspondent Chris Jansing led the group therapy session and proclaimed that “Donald Trump has lit a fire under the Democratic base.”
Kyle Drennen
April 24th, 2017 5:07 PM

Liberal Media Praise ‘Timely’ Anti-Pipeline Film About Standing Rock

Left-wing filmmaker Josh Fox launched his latest film, Awake, a Dream from Standing Rock, online April 22 — after it premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. Predictably, liberal media including Reuters, The Washington Post and The Hollywood Reporter heralded the movie and ignored inaccuracies of his earlier, biased documentaries attacking the oil and gas industry. The film was called “timely,”…
Julia A. Seymour
April 24th, 2017 4:50 PM

NY Times Again Asserts Phony Trend of Hate Crimes in Trump’s America

After a series of phony “hate crimes” supposedly inspired by Donald Trump’s election, the liberal media obsession with uncovering an epidemic of anti-immigrant violence in Trump’s America has died down somewhat. But on Monday, Geeta Anand reported from Mumbai that the coverage of alleged racial and ethnic attacks in the United States has had an effect -- though of course Anand blamed Trump, not…
Clay Waters
April 24th, 2017 4:17 PM

Times Op-Ed: ‘Snowflakes’ ‘Get’ What Free Speech Really Means

If you want to read something crazy, look no further than the New York Times opinion section. The paper actually published an editorial Monday morning that outright denied free speech applied to anyone who wasn’t a liberal. In his appalling article, “What ‘Snowflakes’ Get Right About Free Speech,” New York University professor Ulrich Baer argued that conservatives are simply wrong about what free…
Kristine Marsh
April 24th, 2017 4:09 PM

Serena Williams Writes to Her Unborn Baby: ‘I Can’t Wait to Meet You’

Although many in the media praise abortion, some Hollywood and sports stars are starting a new pro-life trend: celebrating their unborn babies on social media. Serena Williams is the latest to join the team. Serena Williams is the latest to join the team. On Monday, world-famous tennis player posted an Instagram picture of herself lounging at the beach.
Katie Yoder
April 24th, 2017 4:08 PM