Just 4% of Adults Have Great Deal of Trust in TV News, Newspapers

Trust in the legacy news media today is so low than only one in 25 U.S. adult citizens place a great deal of trust in what they’re being told by television and newspaper reports, results of a new national survey reveal.

Craig Bannister
October 29th, 2025 10:13 AM

NY Times Campaigns for Mamdani by Hurling 'Islamophobia' at Opponents

The New York Times has passionately defended New York City’s socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, changing the subject to accusations of “Islamophobia” when an opponent dares to bring up Mamdani’s history of hostility toward Israel and abject failure to condemn the terrorist group Hamas, and his membership in the Democratic Socialists of America, an anti-Semitic organization…

Clay Waters
October 29th, 2025 10:12 AM

Colbert Suggests It Will Take Years To Rebuild Democracy After Trump

CBS’s Stephen Colbert mourned on Tuesday’s edition of The Late Show that it will take several years to rebuild democracy after President Trump leaves office. Colbert’s lamentations came as Trump addressed sailors onboard the USS George Washington in Japan, which led him to also express confusion at the idea that the Navy stands ready to sink enemy ships.

Alex Christy
October 29th, 2025 9:36 AM

Column: The Art Lovers Trash Trump from Ballrooms to Museums

The silliest Trump scandal imaginable is the forthcoming White House ballroom, funded entirely by private donations. If everything is a scandal, is nothing a scandal? Anything that feeds President Trump’s ego must be denounced no matter how much it serves a larger public purpose. Washington Post art critic Philip Kennicott is Exhibit A. 

Tim Graham
October 29th, 2025 6:10 AM

Only PBS Covered House Oversight’s Release of the Biden Autopen Report

Among the evening newscasts, only PBS covered the House Oversight Committee’s explosive report on its investigation of the Biden administration’s use of the autopen in furtherance of concealing the president’s ongoing cognitive decline. Neither ABC, CBS, nor NBC bothered to cover this explosive story.

Jorge Bonilla
October 28th, 2025 10:30 PM

MSNBC Talks Up Dems Bringing a 'Gun to a Knife Fight' vs GOP

On Monday's The 11th Hour, MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle and never Trump Republican Mark McKinnon seemed to cheer for Democrats to aggressively gerrymander states like California against Republicans as both used the provocative expression "bring a gun to a knife fight" to describe the strategy.

Brad Wilmouth
October 28th, 2025 10:19 PM

The End Is Near! MSNBC Announces When It Will Go Dark, Turn into MSNOW

Cue the Sinatra music! On Monday, MSNBC’s parent company Versant — the name of the company consisting of seven cable news channels Comcast no longer wanted to be tied down to — decreed the much-lampooned name-change for the far-left hot take factory to MS NOW would commence on Saturday, November 15, bringing to an end the network that launched on July 15, 1996.

Curtis Houck
October 28th, 2025 6:34 PM

CAN’T MAKE IT UP! Film Exposing UK Censorship Complex Is Censored?

A British documentary highlighting the rise of Orwellian language policing in the U.K. is ironically being censored on the platform X due to a 2023 law requiring age verification. Users must log into age-verified accounts to view it, limiting exposure. The documentary, which contains no inappropriate content, faces restrictions that hinder its reach and awareness of U.K.’s censorship practices…

Heather Moon
October 28th, 2025 5:24 PM

ABC’s Jon Karl Pops The View’s Conspiracy Theory Trump Not Leaving WH

For days, the liberal ladies of ABC News’s The View had been claiming that President Trump was not going to leave office at the end of his second term and would steal elections to stay in power; unfounded conspiracy theories that could incite another assassination attempt against him. While on Tuesday’s show to hawk his new anti-Trump book, ABC chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan…

Nicholas Fondacaro
October 28th, 2025 4:23 PM

Free Speech Week and America’s Return to First Principles

The 21st annual Free Speech Week marked a pivotal moment in America’s push toward reinvigorating free speech principles, hailed by the Media Research Center (MRC). The late Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, was posthumously awarded for his fierce advocacy of free speech rooted in Christian and conservative beliefs. The tribute sparked discussions about growing intolerance and…

Michael Morris
October 28th, 2025 4:04 PM

Hill Journos Tweet Twice as Many Johnson Jabs vs Shutdown Consequences

A NewsBusters analysis of five leading liberal Capitol Hill reporters has found that, by a margin of roughly two-and-a-half-to-one (72 to 28), they have taken to X more times since the start of the government shutdown to condemn Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and the House for being out of session than they have highlighted crucial government programs like food stamps and pay for soldiers that…

Curtis Houck
October 28th, 2025 3:34 PM

Oversight Cmte Tells NPR Reporter Where to Go When He Criticizes Video

“We get that reporting might be tough since NPR was defunded after we exposed your woke CEO and biased ‘news’ at our hearing,” the House Oversight Committee responded Tuesday when National Public Radio’s Tom Dreisbach criticized a video promoting the committee’s latest report.

Craig Bannister
October 28th, 2025 3:27 PM

Oliver Urges Adoption Of Socialist Single-Payer Healthcare

HBO’s John Oliver is not content to only import his bad jokes from his native Britain; he also wants to import its disastrous healthcare system as well. On Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, Oliver devoted most of the show to a crusade against Medicare Advantage, which he alleged could be fixed by instituting a single-payer healthcare system.

Alex Christy
October 28th, 2025 3:15 PM

Top Economist Mohamed El-Erian on Trump Tariffs: We Were All Wrong!

One of America’s most influential economists finally had the moxie to admit what any American with half a brain could see about the Trump tariffs: The elitist, stuck-up doom prophets were all wrong.

Joseph Vazquez
October 28th, 2025 2:39 PM