NBC Spin: Resignation of DNC Chair ‘Best Thing for Democratic Unity’

In a desperate attempt to downplay chaos in the Democratic Party following leaked Democratic National Committee e-mails and the resignation of chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Shultz, on Monday’s NBC Today, Meet the Press moderator Chuck actually tried to spin the controversy as a positive: “Look, the only piece of good news out of this for Democrats, Jeff Weaver, Bernie Sanders's campaign manager,…
Kyle Drennen

NYT Hails Obama as Popular 'Character Witness' for Hillary

Monday’s New York Times highlighted Democratic “discord” on the eve of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, as outrage about the contents of a massive email leak from the Democratic National Committee, showing the DNC colluding to scuttle the insurgent campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders in favor of Hillary Clinton. But a “White House Letter” from Julie Hirschfeld Davis was more…
Clay Waters

Singer Criticized For Adultery Song, Blames Church Bigotry

A gospel music conference, featuring Jesus and…adultery? R&B artist Kelly Price performed her hit rendition of “As We Lay” at the Indiana Black Expo. The song, which is about a woman’s one-night stand with a married man, is one of Price’s best-known hits. The problem? She sang it during the event’s gospel music section. 
Maggie McKneely

'60 Minutes' Failed to Air Hillary's Dodgy Answers on DNC E-Mails

Michael Warren at The Weekly Standard notes that somehow, the staff at CBS News doesn’t have a nose for news. The hottest breaking story – the Wikileaks posting of DNC e-mails proving they were tilted toward Mrs. Clinton and plotting to damage the Sanders campaign – got left on the cutting room floor Sunday night. Does anyone believe that CBS News isn't capable of realizing this e-mail portion…
Tim Graham

GMA Guest: Clintons' Epic Romance, a Scene Out of 'Gone With the Wind'

To kick off the Democratic National Convention, ABC had an enthusiastic Clinton fan and biographer, Gail Sheehy, as a guest on their morning show. If you remember last week, Good Morning America took a decidedly different approach when they brought on a liberal anti-Trump guest on the first day of the Republican National Convention. Anchors George Stephanopoulos and Robin Roberts sat enraptured…
Kristine Marsh

‘Comeback?’ Networks Gloss Over 6 Key Indicators of Weak Economy

They call it a comeback. It is true, the U.S. economy is no longer in the depths of what has been called “The Great Recession.” But, in many ways the economy remains “weak.” Overall economic growth remains “subpar” and labor force participation rates remain shocking, not far from 38-year lows. Then of course there’s poverty, food stamp use, weak wage growth and household income struggles. The…
Julia A. Seymour

YouTube Goes Full Guilt Trip In New Transgender Ad

YouTube’s ad for its new music app portrays a typical American consumer… in the eyes of paranoid leftists, who think everyone is a minority oppressed by straight white men. 
Elliot Polsky

Five Ways the Media Can Prove They’re Fair and Balanced

The real test for fair and balanced coverage isn’t the amount of airtime, but the spin reporters employ in reaction to the speeches and events at each convention. Using media coverage of last week’s Republican convention as a template, here are five ways the media can prove they’re not biased by treating the Democrats in a similar fashion.
Rich Noyes

Gaga Over Hillary: More than 20 Celebs Plan to Hit the DNC

The stars have aligned … with Hillary Clinton. According to reports by Entertainment Weekly, ABC and CNN, the Hollywood Hillz fan club is coming out in full force for the DNC next week. Actresses Lena Dunham, Chloe Grace Moretz, America Ferrara and Debra Messing, actor Tony Goldwyn, The View host Star Jones and basketball pros Jason Collins, Jarron Collins and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar will all speak…
Sarah Stites

Media Research Center Infiltrates Democratic Convention

Media Research Center (MRC) President Brent Bozell issued the following statement announcing the MRC’s plans to blanket Philadelphia with signs and ads exposing the leftist media’s love affair with Hillary. From billboards to mobile building projections to sidewalk graphics to taxi TV ads to taxi tops, everywhere convention attendees in Philadelphia look, they will see the MRC. The on-site…
NB Staff

Teen Vogue: Denying Transgenders Their Bathroom Can Cause Migraines

Teen Vogue published a completely lopsided article on a 16-year-old transgender student from Wisconsin who's suing her school because she wasn't allowed to use the boys' bathroom. "Not being able to use the bathroom of the gender he identifies with made Ash anxious and upset, even leading to migraines and dehydration when he cut down his water intake to avoid having to pee at school."
Melissa Mullins

'BrainDead:' Bizarro World Where REPUBLICANS Block Veterans Funding

CBS’s sci-fi political dramedy BrainDead is back with another battle pitting Maryland’s two senators, Democrat Luke Healy (Danny Pino) and Republican Red Wheatus (Tony Shalhoub), against each other. But you’ll never guess which one is portrayed as a heartless wacko… Kidding! Of course, it’s the Republican!
Alexa Moutevelis

AP and BBC Fail to Report Munich Killer's Full Name

In Munich on Friday, 18 year-old Ali David Sonboly gunned down nine people, seven of them teenagers, and injured 35, before killing himself. Though there appears to be no direct connection to nationalist or Islamic groups, witnesses said he screamed "I'm German" and "Allah Akbar" during his killing spree. The previous paragraph tells readers far more about the massacre than certain news outlets…
Tom Blumer

NYT Public Editor Goes There: 'Why Readers See The Times as Liberal'

Liberal journalists may be spending the weekend gnashing their teeth over the New York Times Public Editor’s promise to analyze why people think the paper has a liberal bias. Liz Spayd recently became the paper’s sixth Public Editor, and she quickly got provocative in her second column for the Sunday Review: “Why Readers See The Times as Liberal.” The text box provided the flavor: “The danger of…
Clay Waters