Networks Notice 4.1% GDP, But CBS Sees ‘Mirage’ in the Numbers

After ignoring all three estimates of first quarter GDP growth, ABC, CBS and NBC found the second quarter estimate too good to overlook. The Bureau of Economic Analysis announced on July 27, that the economy grew by 4.1 percent in the second quarter, the highest quarterly growth in nearly four years. It was a strong number, but the networks were quick to look for problems with it — especially CBS…
Julia A. Seymour
July 31st, 2018 9:42 AM

Trevor Noah Thinks Climate Change Makes People Join ISIS

Global warming may have taken a back seat in the national dialogue, but for lefties who still talk about it, the rhetoric has gotten crazier. In his monologue titled “The World Is on Fire” on July 26, Trevor Noah on the Daily Show brought up some weird and wild speculations about climate change, so crazy that he even joked that he was on weed.
Corinne Weaver
July 31st, 2018 9:10 AM

FNC Highlights Cop Murdered By Illegal Immigrant as Other Nets Ignore

After Fort Myers police officer Adam Jobbers-Miller passed away over the weekend because of injuries sustained when he was shot on duty a week earlier, FNC's Fox and Friends ran updates on the sad news on both Sunday and Monday morning as the other networks ignored the story. FNC also informed viewers that the killer, Wisner Desmaret, is an illegal immigrant with a previous criminal record who…
Brad Wilmouth
July 31st, 2018 7:11 AM

Sad Day: AP Admits Manafort Trial to Focus on Lifestyle, Not Collusion

With the trial of Paul Manafort -- one of the campaign heads for Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign -- set to begin Tuesday, several people in the "mainstream media" are hoping to learn some tiny but significant fact that could lead to the impeachment of the Republican occupant of the White House. Unfortunately for those in the press with dreams of taking down Trump, the facts in the trial…
Randy Hall
July 31st, 2018 1:49 AM

MRC’s Bozell: Stock Hits ‘Going to Get Worse’ for Twitter and Facebook

In recent days, the stock prices for major social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter have taken truly massive hits, which were partly driven by the issue of censoring conservative political speech. Last week, Facebook took a colossal $120 billion stock hit (which was the largest ever in history). And during an appearance on the Fox Business Network’s After the Bell, Media Research Center…
NB Staff
July 30th, 2018 11:10 PM

CBS Skips Own Reporter’s Scoop: McAllen Robbery Suspects Are Illegals

McAllen, Texas public officials appeared to be caught lying by omission on Monday after CBS correspondent David Begnaud reported via Twitter that they were failing to disclose the legal status of seven suspects involved in a jewelry store robbery. It was a scoop backed up by two federal law enforcement sources familiar with the case but during that night’s CBS Evening News, the network completely…
Nicholas Fondacaro
July 30th, 2018 9:09 PM

CBS Wrongly Links Stand Your Ground to Unsolved Murders of Blacks

On Monday's CBS This Morning, during a sympathetic interview with the makers of a film on the killing of Trayvon Martin and the impact of Stand Your Ground laws on blacks, co-host Alex Wagner at one point misleadingly tied in a recent Washington Post report finding that over 70 percent of unsolved murders over the past decade have involved a victim who was black.
Brad Wilmouth
July 30th, 2018 6:57 PM

Media Dig up Old SM Dirt on Athletes, Go Easy on Criminal Athletes

The following scene is becoming a part of the 21st century press box at professional sporting events. Bored by the actual game they're paid to cover, sports writers are only passively watching. That's because they're digging into the pitcher's social media history, looking for controversial remarks made years ago by an immature teen-ager.
Jay Maxson
July 30th, 2018 6:55 PM

Twitter Partners With Academics Who Call RNC Speeches ‘Hate’

Twitter is on a mission to rid its platform of “intolerance” and “incivility.” But it’s doing in a way guaranteed to anger conservatives.
Corinne Weaver
July 30th, 2018 5:14 PM

PANIC: CNN Throws Fit Over Reporters Not Hammering Trump on Cohen

On Monday afternoon, CNN went into full-blown panic mode directing anger and bitterness at the Daily Caller’s Saagar Enjeti and Reuters’s Roberta Rampton following President Trump’s press conference with Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte in which neither U.S. reporter asked the President the questions CNN wanted them to. 
Curtis Houck
July 30th, 2018 4:57 PM

Media Relieved Ginsburg Plans to Stay on Court ‘Five More Years’

On Monday, the liberal media breathed a collective sigh of relief over 85-year-old Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s announcement over the weekend that she plans to stay on the high court for at least another five years. The coverage demonstrated how even the thought of Donald Trump naming the liberal justice’s replacement strikes terror into the hearts of reporters.
Kyle Drennen
July 30th, 2018 4:42 PM

Salon Writer: The Catholic Church Is Too Catholic

God forbid a Catholic priest preaches what the Catholic Church teaches. But because of that, Mary Elizabeth Williams, a staff writer for Salon and self-proclaimed Catholic, doesn’t know how she can be Catholic anymore.
Rachel Peterson
July 30th, 2018 4:33 PM

Actress Mira Sorvino Insists Feminism Is ‘Pro-Everyone’

One actress is embracing feminism because, she says, the movement embraces everyone. Except for conservative and pro-life women, that is. During Unapologetic With Aisha Tyler July 23, a caller asked Oscar-award winning actress Mira Sorvino if a character she formerly played (Romy in Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion) was a feminist. Sorvino took the opportunity to define feminism in the…
Katie Yoder
July 30th, 2018 3:50 PM

On Broadway, Hillary Gets Standing Ovation

Last Thursday, Hillary Clinton showed up to a Broadway performance of Hello Dolly! and was given a rather warm welcome. Bette Midler, one the production’s stars, claimed that Clinton’s appearance made everyone in attendance “unbelievably happy.”
Gabriel Hays
July 30th, 2018 3:14 PM