Fired New York Times Editor James Bennet: The Times 'Lost Its Way'

December 16th, 2023 4:00 PM

In the day, it was a news-grabbing story. NewsBusters’ own Curtis Houck headlined the story when it happened in 2020. 

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Real Time Pans Media's Anti-Red State, Pro-Palestinian Bubbles

December 16th, 2023 12:09 PM

Friday’s season finale of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher condemned two media bubbles. First, the New York Times’s progressive bubble after former editor James Bennet penned a lengthy essay in The Economist recounting the 2020 Tom Cotton op-ed and second, the media’s bubble that seeks to blame Israel for the lack of Israeli-Palestinian peace.

The NYT Joins the Acela Media’s Collective Freakout Over Univision

December 12th, 2023 12:01 AM

The idea that the onetime home of Walter Duranty should be taken seriously on anything pertaining to an editorial shift, or concern over an editorial shift at any other media outlet, is laughable. But, alas, here we are. The Old Grey Lady is the latest to weigh in on the Acela Media’s collective panic over Univision’s interview of former President Donald Trump specifically, and over a…

NYT Finds Fear, Sorrow in 'Little Palestine,' Relays CAIR Propaganda

December 11th, 2023 8:50 PM

Local “enterprise reporter” Christopher Maag’s latest New York Times byline boasted of having “spent four weeks reporting in Paterson and Clifton, N.J., interviewing members of the Palestinian community,” and the resulting journalism certainly identified with the Palestinian cause, with added melodrama that started in the headline: “In a Place Called Little Palestine, People Feel…

NYT: Pampered Arab Rulers Accept Israel, Poor Arabs Want Israel Gone

December 11th, 2023 8:05 AM

Thursday’s New York Times featured “Gaza War Widens Gap Between Arab Rulers and Citizens” by Vivian Nereim, the Gulf bureau chief for the Times, based in Saudi Arabia. Nereim offensively portrayed those Arab leaders who dare agree to accept Israel's existence as pampered and privileged, in contrast to the poor citizenry marching in the streets of the Middle East country of…

FLASHBACK: Barack Obama, ‘An Evolutionary Flash Point For Humanity’

December 9th, 2023 8:43 AM

Fourteen years ago tomorrow (December 10), liberals were ecstatic as President Barack Obama accepted the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo. Obama had been president for a mere 11 days before the window for nominations closed on January 31, but his media fan club nonetheless celebrated the “towering honor” bestowed upon their hero.

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Journalists Hate On Trump But Act As PR Flacks for Hamas

December 2nd, 2023 9:00 AM

From warning that Donald Trump will execute his political opponents to acting as PR flacks for Hamas, the following are the worst outbursts from leftist journalists and celebrities from the month of November. 

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Scarborough Suggests Halting US Funding For Israel Until Bibi Booted

December 1st, 2023 6:47 PM

On Friday's Morning Joe, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough unsubtly suggested that the U.S. should cut off funding for Israel until Benjamin Netanyahu was deposed as prime minister

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NBC’s Kotb, NYT’s Sorkin on Musk Interview: We Saw His ‘Demonic Side’

November 30th, 2023 3:40 PM

Reacting Thursday morning to Wednesday night’s bombshell Elon Musk interview at The New York Times DealBook Summit, NBC’s Today co-host Hoda Kotb and CNBC’s Squawk Box co-host Andrew Ross Sorkin, The Times columnist who interviewed Musk, described it as an illustration of Musk’s “demonic side” and “version” as Musk blasted corporations who’ve pulled…

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Loopy NYT Columnist Pushes Israel to Give 'Free Pass' to Hamas Leaders

November 29th, 2023 6:48 PM

Appearing as a guest on Tuesday's Anderson Cooper 360 on CNN, New York Times foreign affairs columnist Tom Friedman delivered some flaky analysis of the war in Gaza as he pushed for Israel to offer a "free pass" to Hamas terrorist leaders if they turn over the weapons and leave the country after releasing all hostages. He even suggested that Israel might release on…

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Abrams RIPS 'Far-Left Media' for Equating 'Toddlers and Terrorists'

November 29th, 2023 3:00 PM

NewsNation continued to flaunt its moral compass, on Monday, with primetime host Dan Abrams taking to his eponymous show to call out “far-left media” organizations like MSNBC and The New York Times because they were trying to draw a parody between Hamas releasing the women and children they kidnapped and Israel releasing convicted terrorists, who were women and young adults. He called…

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Nets SUPPRESS Multistate Child Privacy Lawsuit Against Meta

November 27th, 2023 11:42 PM

The major network evening newscasts have failed to report a story that has been reported far and wide elsewhere: the multistate lawsuit against Meta, parent company of both Facebook and Instagram, over complaints that the company failed to protect the privacy of minors thus exposing them to harm.

NY Times' Hulse Goes Label-Happy Again: GOP ‘Far-Right…Extreme Right'

November 27th, 2023 6:18 PM

New Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson (LA) certainly isn’t getting a honeymoon at the New York Times. The paper’s chief Washington correspondent Carl Hulse is both a veteran correspondent and a long-time player of the labeling bias game, as he showed in his Sunday edition story. The labeling slant started in the headline: “Mike Johnson's Rise to Speaker Cements Far-Right Takeover…

WOMP, WOMP: Journalism Union in Disarray Over Support for Hamas

November 27th, 2023 12:56 PM

Semafor’s Sunday media newsletter offered a scoop from media reporter Max Tani spotlighting discord within the union representing journalists as, led by union reps at The Wall Street Journal, “[i]nfluential members of the country’s largest journalist union are resisting calls to release a statement supporting a ceasefire in Gaza.”