Bozell & Graham Column: Cultural Winners and Losers of 2016

Populism took the elites by surprise in 2016, so a review of this year’s cultural winners and losers must begin with a very long list of arrogant entertainers who thought it was completely impossible for the American people to descend into a pit of despair and ignorance and elect President Trump. No one believed for an instant the rich and famous losers who promised to move their arrogance to…
Brent Bozell and Tim Graham
December 31st, 2016 7:01 AM

'Christmas' Makes a Comeback in Media 'Shopping Season' Mentions

In a column posted at NewsBusters on December 29, R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. relayed personal anecdotal evidence indicating that "This Christmas Season Was Different." Based on his interactions and observations, Tyrrell believes that 2016 marked a change in "the way we talk about what is a major holy day for the majority of the American people." In his experience, people this year were far more…
Tom Blumer
December 30th, 2016 9:34 PM

Fox's Juan Williams Blames Trump for the 'Hangover' of Divided Media

Fox News analyst Juan Williams offered a grand political post-mortem in The Hill newspaper this week: “Let’s agree on one fact: Donald Trump upended the political world with his win. But that incredible upset left an incredible hangover. The facts of political life are now subject to partisan interpretation.” So before 2016, the media had never offered facts with a “partisan interpretation”?
Tim Graham
December 30th, 2016 9:25 PM

Slate Writer: Trump’s Win ‘Shattered’ White Libs’ ‘Complacency’

It seems that so much happened in 2016 that some major developments were hardly noticed. For example, L.V. Anderson suggested in a Thursday post that this was the year in which a large portion of the left suddenly was forced to realize that America sucks. “After Trump’s election, it is more or less impossible to believe that we are making meaningful progress,” she wrote. “White liberals who woke…
Tom Johnson
December 30th, 2016 5:32 PM

Brian Stelter Glorifies Media in CNN’s Election Look Back Book

In an apparent attempt to frame the narrative of the 2016 election, CNN Politics published their “first-ever book” Unprecedented: The Election That Changed Everything in early December. Included in the tome is a longwinded essay crafted by CNN’s resident media critic Brian Stelter, where he chronicled the plight of the liberal media covering then candidate Donald Trump. His own anti-Trump bias…
Nicholas Fondacaro
December 30th, 2016 4:29 PM

NBC: Subway Line Took 96 Yrs, ‘Proof Gov’t Can Still Do Big Things'

For people who lived in or near New York City during the past century, the completion of the Second Avenue subway line was as elusive as the legendary Jersey Devil, or finding someone who doesn’t claim to be part Irish on St. Patrick’s Day. But an NBC reporter praised the completion of the first stage of the project as a great example of “showing people that government can still do big things.”…
Mike Ciandella
December 30th, 2016 4:15 PM

Must Read: The Top Ten Most-Read NewsBusters Blogs from 2016

With 2017 rapidly approaching, I decided that, as NewsBusters managing editor, it would be worthwhile to take a look back at the top ten most-read blogs from 2016. Once again, tens of millions of people flocked to NewsBusters for the best and worst media bias in newspapers, television news, social media -- and liberal outbursts from celebrities. 
Curtis Houck
December 30th, 2016 3:33 PM

Soros: Trump a 'Con Artist' with 'Incompetent Extremists' in Cabinet

According to lefty billionaire George Soros, President-Elect Donald Trump is a “would-be dictator” and a danger to the world’s democratic institutions. “Democracy is now in crisis. Even the U.S., the world’s leading democracy, elected a con artist and would-be dictator as its president,” Soros said of Trump on Dec. 28.
Sam Dorman
December 30th, 2016 3:20 PM

Unproven 'Fake News' Media Meme: Russia 'Hacked the Elections'

The purveyors of what the establishment press likes to describe as "fake news" have nothing on the fake news the establishment press itself generates at the Obama administration's behest. For example, the Associated Press, in a very late paragraph in just one of its three reports on the topic Thursday, admitted that "Though the FBI and Homeland Security Department issued a joint report on '…
Tom Blumer
December 30th, 2016 2:26 PM

WashPost: Facebook CEO Zuckerberg Calls Religion ‘Very Important’

Although he once called himself an atheist, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg now recognizes the importance of religion. 
Sarah Stites
December 30th, 2016 1:05 PM

Liberal Environmental Groups Cheer After Obama Bans Drilling

Liberal environmental activists got an early Christmas present when President Obama banned offshore drilling along large portions of the Arctic and East Coast in late December, and liberal nonprofit media are celebrating.
Aly Nielsen
December 30th, 2016 1:02 PM

Matthew Dowd Frets Over 'Cyberwar' With Russia That 'Hacked Election'

While journalists obsess over Russia’s involvement in the leaked DNC and John Podesta e-mails, most have been demanding answers exclusively from Donald Trump and his team, instead of the current administration. Underneath it all is the obvious objective to question the legitimacy of Trump’s election win, though the media continually skirt around that admission. On Twitter Thursday and on Good…
Kristine Marsh
December 30th, 2016 12:34 PM

SHE’S BAAAACK: Katie Couric to Return to Today Show

Apparently still trying to fill the “fake news anchor” void left by the demotion of Brian Williams, NBC is resurrecting Katie Couric to rejoin the cast of Today for Matt Lauer’s 20th anniversary of co-hosting. Couric, who used to co-host the Today show with Lauer – before she quit for an ill-fated anchor gig at CBS Evening News in 2005, before she moved to a daytime talk show syndicated by ABC…
Mike Ciandella
December 30th, 2016 11:32 AM

Media Blast Charlie Sheen For Tweeting Trump Death Wish

It’s one thing to mourn death. It’s another to wish it. While some prayed for an end to celebrity deaths in 2016, actor Charlie Sheen asked God to kill president-elect Donald Trump. 
Sarah Stites
December 30th, 2016 11:24 AM