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On Monday's Amanpour & Co. PBS and CNN International host Christiane Amanpour cued up her guest, Connecticut Democratic Senator Chris Murphy, to promote his anti-gun views as the two spoke during a segment that was mostly devoted to the pandemic.

Feminist matriarch Betty Friedan may have never actually called Phyllis Schlafly “The real wicked witch of the [women’s] movement,” but that’s certainly how Mrs. America is portraying Schlafly in the new series.

How did CBS Evening News celebrate Earth Day? By sharing the ugly sentiment that humans were not needed. That’s exactly what reporter John Blackstone suggested in his Wednesday report touting how the deadly Chinese coronavirus, which had killed more than 47,000 Americans and left 22 million unemployed, was keeping the country stuck inside.

Wednesday’s White House Coronavirus Task Force briefing saw fireworks after Tuesday’s episode was a welcome change with a calm, civil, and sober tone among the cast of reporters. But on Wednesday, CDC Director Robert Redfield was in the spotlight to clarify comments that sent the wildly (and eagerly) apocalyptic media into a tizzy. Of course, Redfield’s appearance didn’t satisfy reporters.

The New York Times has run several off-key stories about supposed environmental bright sides and silver linings to the coronavirus pandemic, leveraging a real crisis for a hypothetical one. Now on the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, the paper is urging readers to take advantage of their sudden new leisure time by reading environmental screeds, under the hectoring headline, “The Year You Finally…

PolitiFact rarely checks the facts of Barack Obama. But when he endorsed Joe Biden for president, they found something he said "Half True." Obama said Biden "already has what is the most progressive platform of any major party nominee in history." This is an accepted political fact. Liberal newspapers and websites have repeatedly agreed that the Democrats are now to the left of Obama.  How on…

A bipartisan group of politicians is pushing a bill to prevent “online sexual exploitation of children,” but some civil liberty and tech experts have warned that it could jeopardize American privacy. There is fierce debate over the bill. The EARN IT Act, or “Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies Act of 2020,” was introduced in the Senate on March 05, 2020. 

Documentary maker Michael Moore didn’t take too kindly to the President’s “Liberate Michigan!” tweet last week, telling CBS's Late Show host Stephen Colbert that the real “Liberation Day” will happen on election day 2020. The Fahrenheit 11/9 director and Michigan native mocked Trump’s recent “Liberate Michigan!” tweet during the April 21 episode of Colbert's show.

Ordinarily, one probably wouldn’t expect much in the way of serious questioning from late night hosts when it comes to politicians, but considering how partisan and political these shows have become, isn’t there a responsibility to ask about the elephant in the room concerning Joe Biden? The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee appeared on the Late Late Show With James Corden on Monday…

On her 12:00 p.m. ET hour show on Wednesday, MSNBC anchor Andrea Mitchell expressed her dismay at Attorney General William Barr vowing to defend the constitutional rights of citizens during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. She fretted that his comments were “a signal to the protesters” objecting to some of the more draconian shutdown policies across the country.

Censorship on college campuses can be problematic, especially if those campuses are public institutions. “Restrictions on speech by public colleges and universities amount to government censorship, in violation of the Constitution,” wrote the American Civil Liberties Union.

Is Stacey Abrams, Beto 2.0? The failed gubernatorial candidate has become the latest media darling, with CBS, NBC and ABC already having touting her as Joe Biden’s ideal Vice President pick. After doing just that earlier this week, the hosts of The View then invited Abrams on the show Wednesday to boast why she she would make an “excellent” Vice President. As Meghan McCain was absent, Abrams only…

The decision on when to re-open their states will probably be the most difficult decision each governor will make during their respective tenures, so it would be nice if the media would be willing to grant the conversation the nuance it deserves. Unfortunately, on Tuesday afternoon's CNN Newsroom, Dr. Seema Yasmin claimed that the only reason why some states might chose to re-open is because of "…