Tom Brokaw Bemoans 'Fear' and 'Hostility' the Press Helped Create

On Sunday's Meet the Press on NBC, former Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw seemed bewildered and frustrated that race relations in the U.S. haven't improved as much as he hoped they would by now. Brokaw didn't consider his own network's significant and largely dishonest contribution to this situation during the past nearly 11 years.

Tom Blumer
July 18th, 2016 10:03 AM

Pokemon Go Re-Reveals the Media’s Anti-Free Market Fetish

It’s almost as if “Net Neutrality” is a Leftist safe word - to be uttered when the free market growing freely causes them too much discomfort. Few things demonstrate the insular Media-Government Bubble better than this:
Seton Motley
July 18th, 2016 9:40 AM

RNC Hispanic Media Boss Shuts Down Jorge Ramos Over Race Question

Former Univision News analyst and Univision America radio host Helen Aguirre-Ferre appeared on Sunday's Al Punto, in what was her return to the program since joining the RNC as Director for Hispanic Media. Her interview with host Jorge Ramos went pretty much as expected.
Jorge Bonilla
July 18th, 2016 9:24 AM

NBC Frets GOP Convention Will Be Filled With ‘Inflammatory Rhetoric’

With NBC’s Today live in Cleveland Monday morning to cover the Republican National Convention, co-host Matt Lauer used the killing of three police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana over the weekend to denounce “inflammatory rhetoric” from Donald Trump: “...the President spoke out and basically said, ‘Look, we’ve got to turn down the inflammatory rhetoric’....you have Donald Trump calling the…
Kyle Drennen
July 18th, 2016 9:10 AM

MRC’s Notable Quotables: MSNBC’s Maddow Likens Trump to Hitler

In the July 18 edition of Notable Quotables: MSNBC’s GOP convention co-anchor Rachel Maddow likens presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler, while journalists wonder if Hillary Clinton was “over-targeted” on the e-mail scandal for a crime that isn't any worse than “jaywalking.” Plus: MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews wonders if Indiana Governor Mike Pence is too…
Geoffrey Dickens
July 18th, 2016 8:38 AM

Fox's Shepard Smith Slams Gov. Jindal for Saying 'All Lives Matter'

On Sunday, Fox News Channel’s Shepard Smith spoke to former Governor of Louisiana Bobby Jindal about the Baton Rouge ambush on law enforcement that took the lives of three officers and left another three wounded.  Right off the bat, Smith attacked Jindal for using the “divisive” phrase All Lives Matter. "Governor, you know that phrase you just used, is one that is seen by many as derogatory.…
Melissa Mullins
July 18th, 2016 7:41 AM

AMC’s ‘Preacher’ Uses Cow Intestines to Denounce God

As anyone familiar with AMC’s Preacher is intimately aware, it takes a lot for a show based on gratuitously disgusting displays to rise to the level of actually needing to be called out. But Sunday’s episode reached that level.
Dylan Gwinn
July 18th, 2016 4:53 AM

Four Strange, Wacky Side Comments From the Media on the Eve of the RNC

On the eve of the Republican National Convention (RNC), the liberal media had wall-to-wall coverage of both the RNC preparations in addition to the horrible and deadly ambush of Baton Rouge, Louisiana police officers but amidst all the seriousness of the situations, there were a handful of utterly baffling comments from anchors and commentators across the liberal media that left viewers either…
Curtis Houck
July 17th, 2016 10:43 PM

CNN: Fear Gun Rights Advocates Who ‘Show Up with Their Weapons’

Minutes after the press conferences, from local law enforcement and the White House, about the Baton Rouge police ambush and calling for the end of divisive language CNN’s Michael Smerconish smeared gun rights advocates on The Situation Room. “As you know and have been discussing, it's an open carry environment,” the pundit started Sunday, “And I'm concerned about the Trump rhetoric in firing up…
Nicholas Fondacaro
July 17th, 2016 9:12 PM

ABC's Stephanopoulos Claims No Proof PP Sold Fetal Body Parts

As Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus appeared as a guest on Sunday's This Week show on ABC, host George Stephanopoulos pressed the RNC chairman on whether Indiana Governor Mike Pence, as Donald Trump's running mate, would hurt the party with his pro-life views, and, after Priebus recalled the videos of Planned Parenthood selling aborted fetal tissue, the ABC host was in denial…
Brad Wilmouth
July 17th, 2016 8:38 PM

Fox Sports 1's Clay Travis Attacks Anti-Police Culture

Fox Sports 1’s Clay Travis did not suffer fools today, in the aftermath of yet another murderous attack on police officers. This time in Baton Rouge. Travis, also a trained lawyer, let the knowledge bombs fall.
Dylan Gwinn
July 17th, 2016 8:32 PM

Slate Writer: Journalists Should Stop Using 'Terrorist,' 'Terrorism'

Adam Ragusea, writing at Slate.com, believes that the word "terrorist" has become "uselessly arbitrary and loaded," because it "has acquired a powerful religious—and specifically Islamic—connotation" that "is substantively consequential." As a result, Ragusea believes that the Associated Press, whose Stylebook sadly exerts nearly ironclad control over language used in U.S. establishment press…
Tom Blumer
July 17th, 2016 8:31 PM

Randi Rhodes Really Hates When Murdered Cops Are Described as 'Fallen'

Only a week after returning to the airwaves after deciding that even for a liberal she was too young to retire in her mid-50s, Randi Rhodes has staked a firm claim on the churlish end of left-wing commentary. The ex-Air America Radio host, now venting via podcasts and a Kickstarter-funded website, let loose last week with what those deemed more balanced would consider a peculiar irritation.
Jack Coleman
July 17th, 2016 6:28 PM

The Very Loud Silence Of Jorge Ramos

One glaring question remained in the wake of Univision's coverage of the closure of Hillary Clinton's email scandal: Where was Jorge Ramos?
Jorge Bonilla
July 17th, 2016 6:23 PM