Government & Press

CNN's Collins: World Leaders 'Make Fun' of Trump Granting Press Access
CNN primetime host and White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins appeared on Thursday's Late Night with Seth Meyers and whimsically discussed how world leaders make fun of Trump for dragging them into hour-long news conferences, which is not the norm with the press. She implied how anti-Trump the reporters are by saying it was like "blood in the water" and "total mayhem" when they…

AP Drew 'One of the Largest Investments' from the Federal Government
Wallace White at the Daily Caller reported it isn't just Politico that's a substantial beneficiary of federal government support. The Associated Press -- which in recent years has offered a seriously soft touch to President Biden -- receives many millions from taxpayers

FIVE Reasons to Defund 'Public' Broadcasting
Now that Republicans have control of Congress and the White House and Trump’s “government efficiency” czars are looking hard at slicing the funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), it bears repeating: “public broadcasting” is not serving the public. It serves a narrow slice of America, an audience of wealthy liberal elites.

FCC Chair Brendan Carr Opens Up Probe of NPR/PBS 'Underwriting'
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr opened up a probe of NPR and PBS Thursday over their airing of commercial announcements. The New York Times warned of a “politicized” debate over public broadcasting. To suggest it tilts left "politicizes" it. But somehow, to tilt left is....not politicizing things?

NB Podcast: Lawrence O'Donnell Sounds Delusional on WH Press Patsies
A Daily Caller study of first-week press interactions between Biden and Trump II drove MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell straight into delusional ranting. He claimed the White House press corps are now just polite stenographers of Trump's lies, that they are uniquely polite to Trump. How insulting it was to NBC's White House reporters!

WashPost Seeks Journo Advice from Couric, Don Lemon, and Lyin' Brian!
Tuesday’s Washington Post revealed their angst for a second Trump term. Whatever can the media do now? All the media's horses failed to knock Trumpty Dumpty off the wall.

ROUNDUP: 9 Outlets Simping for UK's Starmer Following Musk Rebuke
What does the media decide to do when the world’s richest man draws attention to a government coverup of one of the biggest child rape scandals in years? Simp for the politicos accused of being tied to the coverup.

Column: Who Can Trust White House Reporters Who Hid Biden's Infirmity?
Even after The Wall Street Journal reported how Joe Biden’s staff hid his cognitive decline, there wasn’t a single question at the White House briefing. Hugh Hewitt upset knee-jerk defenders of the media when he said “with the exception of Peter Doocy, I would ban everyone from the White House press room who has been there for the past four years, because they are obviously of no use…

Fox's Doocy Rips Colleagues for Skipping WSJ's Biden Decline Bombshell
Stepping in to co-host Fox & Friends Saturday, White House correspondent Peter Doocy took a moment to express amazement at the lack of curiosity from his fellow White House reporters after the bombshell Wall Street Journal report that outlined how the White House hid President Joe Biden's cognitive decline from the public going back to the 2020 campaign.

Ex-CNN/WashPost Reporter: 'Should Have Pushed Harder' on Biden Decline
Former CNN and Washington Post political reporter Chris Cillizza was feeling contrite. In a Friday video, he suggested "As a reporter I have a confession to make. I should have pushed harder, earlier for more information about Joe Biden's mental and physical well-being and any signs of decline."

NPR Airs Hour of Leftist Shrieking About Trump's Revenge on the Press
On Wednesday's Fresh Air, NPR host Terry Gross put on ex-Washington Post executive editor Martin Baron and New Yorker editor David Remnick for another.44-minute rehash of all the pompous talk about how Donald Trump hates "fact-based" journalism as it's published by these two propaganda organs for the left. It was especially humorous when Baron complained "I would…

MRC Honors Original Vision for Free Speech Week with 2024 Awards
The Media Research Center (MRC) seeks to uphold the original vision of Free Speech Week, and nothing encapsulates those efforts more than the free speech advocates MRC has honored this year.

Sulzberger Claims NYT's Not Political, But Trump's an Authoritarian!
Trump-loathing liberals were delighted when New York Times publisher Arthur Gregg Sulzberger wrote a long op-ed in The Washington Post attacking Donald Trump as a threat to press freedom. The message? "I have no interest in wading into politics, but this Trump guy is a danger to freedom of speech." So that would suggest "don't vote for Trump."