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Column: ABC's Payment to Trump Creates 'Chilling Effect'
After ABC News settled with Donald Trump for $16 million over George Stephanopoulos incessantly lying about Trump being held “liable for rape,” the hot concept in media panic was the “chilling effect.” Both the Democrats and their media enablers can’t imagine that people see them as the Freeze Police of the chilling effect. They’re constantly trying to intimidate people from speaking in Trump’…

The Networks Struggle to Cover Motive Behind Madison School Shooting
At this stage, the motive of the Madison school shooter seems pretty clear, but the network news seems hesitant to report what it is. Of course, this generally means that the motive is inconvenient to prevailing leftwing narratives or identity politics. This case is not the exception.

PBS Mourns as AOC Is Annihilated in House Oversight Committee Vote
The DOGE chainsaw won’t officially rumble to life for another 34 days, but one of its potential targets insists on calling attention to itself. The Public Broadcasting System (PBS), although taxpayer-funded, insists on pretending it is MSNBC as it covers House Democrat committee chair races.

CNN Sets Up Democrat Congressman to Trash NRA After School Shooting
On Tuesday's CNN This Morning, host Kasie Hunt gave no pushback as Congressman Marc Veasey (D-TX) called for more gun control in the aftermath of the Wisconsin school shooting as he also complained about opposition from the NRA.

Good Move, Comcast: MSNBC Fell Behind NewsNation in Saturday Beatdown
As per new Nielsen Media Research data from this weekend, MSNBC’s precipitous ratings decline hit a new low when the 28-year-old network has fallen behind NewsNation, which has only been around three years and added around-the-clock news programming on June 1. On Saturday, NewsNation topped MSNBC in the key 25-54 demographic for a total of six hours with the noon Eastern hour and then from 2:…

Bernie Sanders Kvetching About Billionaires? No, It's Joe Scarborough
Joe Scarborough is frustrated by the Democrats having lost Ohio to the Republicans, despite low household income in Ohio, and yet voters supporting a Republican government "of, by, and for" billionaires. If you just read the transcript, you might have thought it was Bernie Sanders, the socialist senator from Vermont, not Scarborough.

Won’t Let Go? TikTok Hit with Latest Defeat Amid Impending Deadline
Communist Chinese government-tied TikTok just lost yet another frantic appeal to halt federal legislation that could kill its American market success.

CNN’s Bash Takes Issue With Trump Saying People Want to Be His Friend
CNN host Dana Bash put her pettiness on full display during Tuesday’s Inside Politics as she took issue with President-elect Trump quipping about how “In the first term, everybody was fighting me. In this term, everybody wants to be my friend.” While the rest of her panel of liberal journalists were able to admit things were “going his way,” Bash felt the need to fact-check what she…

CNN’s Abby Phillip Tries to Dunk On Covid Skeptics, Fails Badly
Part of the reason that there is a crisis of confidence in the media is because of the sense of absolute moral certitude with which they look down upon anyone who strays from the preordained consensus, even as they themselves spit out active disinformation. As CNN’s Abby Phillip demonstrates, sometimes these efforts fail hilariously.

NYT Heads Into Battle Vs Trump With Radical 'Youth Climate Activists'
The New York Times huddled with the leftist “youth climate movement” as they girded for battle against Trump II, in a so-called news story that appeared in Thursday’s paper: “As Teens, They Fought Trump on Climate. Now What?” by Austyn Gaffney, who has previously written freelance for Rolling Stone, The Guardian, and Grist, three left-wing publications.

CNN Spent 56 Mins Touting ‘Exclusive’ Report of Fake Syrian Prisoner
Starting with Wednesday’s The Lead and continuing through Saturday night, CNN gave a massive 56 minutes (56:29) to repeated airings and subsequent fawnings over a supposed exclusive trip inside a Damascus, Syria prison by chief international correspondent Clarissa Ward that resulted in what they billed as the discovery and release of someone who insisted he had been stuck inside a…

‘HISTORIC’: CBS’s Norah O’Donnell Gushes Over Justice Theater Kid
Outgoing CBS Evening News anchor Norah O’Donnell is making the most of her remaining time at the Tiffany Network. Tonight’s final story stood as an ode to Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, and to her cameo performance in a Broadway play.

NewsBusters Podcast: ABC Will Pay Trump for Stephanopoulos Rape Smear
The Left was enraged that ABC News settled a defamation lawsuit with Donald Trump by agreeing to donate $15 million to a Trump “presidential foundation and museum” over George Stephanopoulos repeatedly claiming in a March interview that Trump was found “liable for rape.” That's not accurate. But cable "news" partisans shrieked about Trump's "authoritarian playbook." Like suing a media outlet…

MSNBC Whines About Defamation Settlement,Fearmongers 'Chilling Effect'
MSNBC’s Sunday shows followed a characteristically redundant script while discussing the newly reached settlement in President-elect Trump’s defamation suit with ABC News. The hosts were evidently convinced that the case spelled disaster for the “free press” as the Republicans realized their malicious plans, straight from the “playbook in authoritarianism.”