New York Times
NYT Hints Reagan Beat Carter With Racism, Softens Carter's Own Appeals
New York Times reporter Richard Fausset hinted that the late President Jimmy Carter was a victim of Republican racism in “After Jimmy Carter Won the Presidency, Democrats Lost the South -- Mr. Carter witnessed a shift from what had been a solidly Democratic South to one that Republicans, supported by white voters and particularly evangelicals, came to dominate.”
You’re Going to Miss This: 10 More WH Press Briefing Battles From 2024
As the Trace Adkins song goes, you’re going to miss this, you’re going to want this back. Deep down, that’s surely the way at least some feel about the bizarre, entertaining, meandering, only occasionally informative, and stammering White House press briefings in 2024 under Karine Jean-Pierre. With part one having covered 10 moments from January to May, this blog contains the second 10…
NY Times Gushes Over 'Great Peacemaker' Carter, Victim of Circumstance
Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States, has died at the age of 100, and the New York Times gargantuan obit made it onto Monday’s front page: “Jimmy Carter, Peacemaking President Amid Crises, Is Dead at 100 -- Rising from Georgia farmland to the White House, he oversaw the historic Camp David peace accords, but his one-term presidency was waylaid by troubles at…
NY Times Cries Sexism: ‘Will US Ever Be Ready for a Female President?'
Thursday’s New York Times story by Lisa Lerer and Jess Bidgood was a 1,500-word excuse-making lament over Kamala Harris’s embarrassing loss to Donald Trump, “Will the U.S. Ever Be Ready for a Female President?” Trump's win "has only deepened anxieties over gender bias and prompted a fresh round of debate over the electability of women to the nation’s highest office."
WORST OF 2024: The Craziest Analysis Award
Today we present the WORST OF 2024: The Craziest Analysis Award.
NewsBusters Podcast: Nick Kristof's Fake Virgin Births & NPR's Pagans
Some media outlets aren’t interesting in wishing you a Merry Christmas. They use the occasion to suggest the Christmas story is bunk. But taxpayer-funded NPR will eagerly promote a pagan "High Priestex" at the Winter Solstice.
PBS Oozes Over Paul Krugman: He Sees 'Resurrection' of Biden's Image
On Friday’s PBS airing of Amanpour & Co., host Christiane Amanpour introduced “the Nobel prize winning economist, Paul Krugman, who's written his last column for The New York Times, after 25 years of sharp and often indispensable takes on major issues that shape America and the world.” But NewsBusters has compiled decades of research proving Krugman’s knee-jerk…
MSNBC Swerves Around NY Times Noting Biden Couldn't Do Four More Years
Thursday's front page at The New York Times featured a story headlined "Biden, Wearied and Stinging, Prepares to Exit." White House reporters Peter Baker and Zolan Kanno-Youngs were blunt in the third paragraph about Biden's twilight. "Time is catching up with Mr. Biden....it is hard to imagine that he seriously thought he could do the world’s most stressful job for another four years…
The White Pill: Big Government Can Be Defeated (Just Ask the Soviets)
The movie “The Matrix” gave us the “red pill” and the “blue pill.” The red wakes you up to reality; the blue keeps you indoctrinated. Internet culture then invented a black pill. Those who take it think the world is doomed.So, podcaster Michael Malice wrote the book “The White Pill,” calling it a “symbol of hope.” “Young people in recent years,” he tells me, “were discouraged about the future…
PBS, NYT Fears ABC’s Trump Settlement Is ‘A Really Chilling Message'
The PBS NewsHour was in full panic on Monday evening after ABC settled a defamation lawsuit by Donald Trump, offering scaremongering with this online headline: “ABC News settlement with Trump raises concerns about press freedom in his 2nd term.” PBS’s guest, New York Times reporter David Enrich, hyped up ABC’s supposedly strong case, ABC’s decision “sends a really chilling…
Scarborough Desperately Clings to Wisconsin to Downplay Trump Win
On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough repeatedly cites the election results in Wisconsin to downplay the scope of Trump's win. He doesn't mention that Trump flipped the state after having lost it in 2020. Scarborough also buries the fact that the electorate shifted right in all 50 states, and in 89% of counties.
NYT Heads Into Battle Vs Trump With Radical 'Youth Climate Activists'
The New York Times huddled with the leftist “youth climate movement” as they girded for battle against Trump II, in a so-called news story that appeared in Thursday’s paper: “As Teens, They Fought Trump on Climate. Now What?” by Austyn Gaffney, who has previously written freelance for Rolling Stone, The Guardian, and Grist, three left-wing publications.
Recalling Media Hostility for Bill Buckley & Conservative Movement
For decades, the liberal media establishment showed open hostility toward conservative powerhouse William F. Buckley, as well as for the broader conservative movement he helped launch.