MRC’s Bozell: NBC Is ‘Complicit in a Cover-Up’ of Holding Trump Tape

On Thursday afternoon, Media Research Center president Brent Bozell was outraged by the report from TMZ that multiple sources in the NBC circle said the network “top network execs knew about the video long before they publicly said they did, but wanted to hold it because it was too early in the election” and instead “roll out the tape 48 hours before the debate so it would dominate the news cycle…
NB Staff

CBS, ABC Lament Wikileaks ‘Distraction’ for Hillary

On Thursday, both CBS This Morning and ABC’s Good Morning America framed the release of Clinton campaign e-mails as a “distraction” for the Democratic nominee while continuing to censor some of the worst revelations, including several exchanges in which staffers attacked Catholics. By contrast, NBC’s Today at least mentioned the controversy.
Kyle Drennen

Author: Hillary’s ‘Irritating,’ But She Doesn’t Lie vs 'Big Lie' Trump

Jack Hitt thinks the mainstream media have started to push back against politicians’ lies because of “the sheer magnitude of [Donald] Trump’s horseshit.” In his cover story for the November issue of The New Republic, Hitt asserted that “thanks to Trump, some television hosts have discovered the ratings pull of a different style of journalism. Jake Tapper of CNN grilled Trump about his bigotry…
Tom Johnson

CBS Ignores NYT Journalist’s Offer to Let Clinton ‘Veto’ Part of Story

The co-hosts at CBS This Morning on Thursday interviewed a New York Times correspondent on the Wikileaks release, yet somehow avoided mentioning that journalist Mark Leibovich offered to let the Clinton campaign have “veto” power over what he published. In a Wikileaks document, the Times’s Leibovich said this to Clinton aide Jennifer Palmieri on questions to the candidate: “i wanted the option to…
Scott Whitlock

NYT: Whiteness Is Reason For GOP Outrage On Trump Tape

According to New York Times reporter Yamiche Alcindor, the outcry over Donald Trump’s hot-mic audio has something to do with race. After the presidential candidate’s lascivious comments went public last week, many Republicans rescinded their endorsement. But some journalists claim that the reason was not the mogul’s vulgar words, so much as the target of those words: a white woman.  
Sarah Stites

NYT’s Kristof: Media’s ‘Lack of Religious Diversity’ A ‘Weakness’

It’s rare, but sometimes liberal and conservative journalists do agree on the problematic nature of media bias. On Tuesday evening, New York Times journalist Nicholas Kristof voiced his concern on Twitter about the “lack of religious diversity” in the media. His tweet came in response to the disturbing revelation of emails from Clinton staffers that denigrated Catholicism and evangelical…
Sarah Stites

Rare Vigorous, Direct Pushback Against Liberal Jorge Ramos

On Sunday's Al Punto, viewers got to see a fascinating exchange on immigration between Jorge Ramos and a member of the Trump Hispanic Advisory committee. But there was much more to that exchange beyond the actual skirmish.
Jorge Bonilla

NY Times Tries to Crush Trump Campaign with Sex-Harassment Complaints

On the front page of Thursday’s newspaper is a  story headlined “Two Women Say Trump Made Unwanted Advances Long Ago.” The sexual-harassment accusers were Jessica Leeds, 74, and Rachel Crooks, 33, who both said they were outraged when Trump denied any groping to Anderson Cooper in the second presidential debate.  Reporters Megan Twohey and Michael Barbaro were explicit about how this story could…
Tim Graham

'South Park' Shocks with Naked 10-Year-Olds

There South Park goes again, finding a line and going miles across it. Wednesday night’s episode was titled “Wieners Out” and, yes, that’s meant to be taken literally. How creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone got cartoon elementary school boys pulling down their pants and showing their wieners on TV past the censors, I will never know. 
Alexa Moutevelis

Gov Invokes Reagan as He Rounds Up Muslims on ‘Designated Survivor'

In Wednesday night’s episode of the ABC drama Designated Survivor, “The Enemy,” President Ronald Reagan is invoked by a bigoted governor who is rounding up Muslims in the wake of an attack on the State of the Union that killed the president and his cabinet, Supreme Court justices, and all but two members of Congress.
Justin Ashford

‘Blackish’ Abandons Girl in Elevator, Because Black Males a Threat

Wednesday night’s edition of Blackish, titled ‘Who’s Afraid of the Big Black Man,’ sought to solidify an image in the mind of the viewers. Specifically, an image of the black man as the scariest creature of them all.
Dylan Gwinn

ABC’s WNT Finally Discovers WikiLeaks, Ignores Slam of Catholics

After spending the first two days of the week pretending the WikiLeaks flood wasn’t happening ABC’s World News Tonight finally covered it on Wednesday. What was it that finally drew their attention to the e-mails? “And at least one of them, already making headlines. What a top campaign official allegedly said about Latinos,” hyped Anchor David Muir. 
Nicholas Fondacaro

CNN Liberals Try to Deny Hillary Laughed About Defending Child Rapist

As liberal CNN commentators Bakari Sellers and Maria Cardona appeared as panel members on Tuesday's CNN Tonight to react to a report by CNN's Tom Foreman mostly recalling sexual assault victims who have made complaints about abuse by Bill and Hillary Clinton, both denied that Hillary had been caught laughing about successfully defending a child rapist in spite of the existence of an audio…
Brad Wilmouth

Spanish Nets Offer Lopsided Split in Trump Video, Clinton Revelations

The pattern of news coverage following the same-day leak of both Donald Trump’s off-color, 2005 hot mic comments alongside compromising emails from within the Clinton campaign illustrates the staggering extent of the political bias that continues to dominate the morning and evening news programs on the nation’s top two Spanish-language television networks.
Edgard Portela