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Did 'Trump Derangement' Kill Colbert’s Show? David Bozell Weighs In
Is late night comedy officially dead, or did it just bore itself to sleep?
This morning on O’Connor & Company (Salem News Channel), host Larry O’Connor sat down with Media Research Center (MRC) President David Bozell to dissect the demise of Stephen Colbert’s Late Show on CBS. What was once a landscape of edgy, anti-establishment humor has devolved into a…
CNN Has an NPR Reunion as They Celebrate Colbert as Rare 'Gentleman'
CNN This Morning host Audie Cornish used Friday's Group Chat to promote her new CNN podcast, Engagement Party, co-hosted with former NPR colleague Ari Shapiro, brought onto the Chat panel. The discussion quickly turned into a nostalgic send-off for Stephen Colbert’s Late Show — complete with another NPR alum, CNN contributor Lulu Garcia-Navarro, on the panel.
How News Aggregators Reinforce Political Ignorance
The other day, a young lady got on the elevator and promptly whipped out her smartphone and began scrolling. “Excuse me,” I said, “can I ask you where you get your news?” She said, “You mean like news about what’s going on in the world?” “Yes.” “Oh, TikTok.” This reminded me of a dinner conversation I once had with economist Thomas Sowell. We discussed the overwhelming consensus among…
Trump: Colbert Firing ‘Beginning of the End’ of Nasty Late-Night Hosts
The end is nigh for late-night shows where venomous hosts try to pass off political hate speech as entertainment, President Donald Trump declared Friday after Stephen Colbert aired the last episode of The Late Show on CBS.
Colbert: Show Was 'The Joy Machine' And My Job Was To 'Feel The News'
Stephen Colbert began the final episode of CBS’s The Late Show by unwittingly highlighting how it all went wrong. Colbert told the audience that he viewed his show as “the joy machine” and that he thought his job was to “feel the news with you,” even if it was not actually that joyful. Later, during a sci-fi skit about the show being sucked into a black hole, Colbert was joined once…
STUDY: Stephen Colbert Turned 'The Late Show' Into 'The DNC Show'
Stephen Colbert was well into his farewell media tour when he told GQ, “I think I'm more conservative than people think.” However, according to an aggregation of previous NewsBusters studies and quote packages, that is not true. Since NewsBusters began counting jokes in January 2023, Colbert has told 87 percent of his political jokes about conservatives. Likewise, since September 2022…
Column: When the Elitist Press Sounds Invested in Islamophobia
On Monday, two teenagers killed three men at the San Diego Islamic Center, then killed themselves. What a pointless spasm of violence it was. It took a few days for The New York Times to flex their rhetorical muscles and blame conservatives.
Today's Highlights: What MRC's Media Watchdogs are Saying
MRC Watchdogs churn out breaking news on a daily basis. Don't miss Today's Highlights, where you can keep up with the top MRC content, whether it's the latest study on media bias, a glaring omission from the elitist media, or how the Big Tech companies are serving up the same leftist spin as the media.
OMISSION: ABC SILENT On 15 Indicted in Minnesota for Fraud
The Elitist Media have mostly avoided having to cover anything to do with massive fraud out of Minnesota. A fresh set of indictments provided the network evening news with an opportunity to do the right thing. A usual suspect failed.
NewsBusters Podcast: Mosque Shooting Reveals 'Islamophobic' America?
Three men were killed at the San Diego Islamic Center by two teenagers who were then found dead of self-inflicted gunshot wounds. It’s easy for us to feel unified in horror over this, but it’s also going to become grist for claims America is overwhelmed by "Islamophobia."
CNN Host Tries to Equate Spencer Pratt A.I. Ads to Iran Propaganda
On Thursday’s CNN This Morning, host Audie Cornish casually threw Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt’s viral campaign videos into the same bucket as Iranian regime propaganda. Pratt’s offense that led to this comparison? Using A.I.-generated images to lampoon California politicians as Batman villains and dark side force users from Star Wars. Cornish tried to make the absurd…
Porno or Pro-Life? Colorado School Bans Pro-Life
Colorado's public schools apparently consider pornography as appropriate material, instead.
Colbert’s Bitter Exit: How Trump Derangement Killed Late Night TV
Late-night television bid farewell to Stephen Colbert on Thursday as CBS aired the final episode of The Late Show. On WMAL, host Derek Hunter discussed the exit with David Bozell, president of the Media Research Center (MRC), the organization that tracked and documented the show’s sharp leftward turn for years.
George Floyd Protests Failed to Improve Their Lives, Black Voters Say
Six years after the racially-charged George Floyd protests ravaged U.S. cities, Americans doubt that the weeks of often destructive and riot-plagued unrest in 2020 actually brought about improvement in the lot of African Americans, a national Rasmussen survey reveals.