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NPR CEO Maher Tells Colbert Public Radio Needed To Protect Democracy
CBS’s Stephen Colbert welcomed NPR CEO Katherine Maher to Thursday’s taping of The Late Show for a grieving session on the latter being defunded. According to Maher, the fate of democracy depends on NPR, and only people who seek to divide and pit Americans against each other could possibly support defunding it.

NewsBusters Podcast: Drew Holden Unspools Media Manipulating DC Crime
Managing Editor Curtis Houck and I speak with 2022 MRC Bulldog Award winner Drew Holden to unspool some of his famous X threads calling out the liberal media’s bias. Living in the D.C. metro area, we take a deep dive in Holden’s findings regarding a dubious Washington Post poll claiming D.C. residents thought crime wasn’t an issue. We also examine the media’s knee-jerk reaction to the…

Meltdowns Incoming: CBS News Close to Buying Bari Weiss’s Free Press
Puck’s Dylan Byers dropped the bombshell Wednesday night that the rumored deal was “on the 1-yard-line” for CBS News’s parent company SkyDance to acquire former New York Times writer Bari Weiss’s indefatigable site The Free Press and grant Weiss a senior role inside CBS News.

Cuomo Blows Up Erroneous ‘Genocide’ Claims Pushed By ‘Scholars’ & CNN
On the Wednesday edition of his eponymous NewsNation show, host Chris Cuomo took a rare swipe at his former employer, CNN and seemingly storied chief international affairs correspondent Clarissa Ward for giving attention to a dubious group of purported “scholars” who claimed Israel was carrying out a “genocide” against Palestinians in Gaza. Cuomo blew up the erroneous accusations by pointing…

MSNBC Tees Up Raskin To Call Trump's Anti-DEI College Push 'Stalinist'
If politics can be said to be a team sport, then MSNBC host and Thursday Morning Joe panelist Al Sharpton is the coach who puts the ball on the tee, and Rep. Jamie Raskin is the batter who takes the easy swing. Sharpton asked if a federal judge ruling President Trump illegally withheld funding from Harvard proves that his anti-DEI policies are political, and Raskin dutifully replied…

'F*** You': Colbert Rants At Trump For Citing Chicago's Murder Problem
CBS’s Stephen Colbert had an unconvincing rebuttal on Wednesday to President Trump’s recent Truth Social posts that portrayed Chicago as a crime-ridden and dangerous city. Colbert’s three-part response involved telling Trump “[bleep] you,” repeating some false statistics, and saying Chicago can’t be that bad because The Late Show traveled there in the summer of 2024 and came back…

STUDY: CNN NewsNight Is a Televised Struggle Session for Conservatives
Since last summer, when CNN NewsNight shifted to an panel discussion-only format, host Abby Phillip has been praised for consistently inviting prominent conservatives onto the otherwise lopsidedly left-wing network. But with how rarely Phillip actually permits said conservative guests to finish a point without interrupting them, NewsNight is more akin to a televised struggle…

CBS News Guest, Covid TV Mainstay Downplays Screw-Ups to Trash RFK
Appearing on Wednesday’s CBS Mornings and CBS Mornings Plus, infectious disease expert and Covid-19 pandemic TV mainstay Dr. Michael Osterholm stopped by to hawk his new book The Big One and, despite the best efforts of the CBS co-hosts to have Osterholm answer for the public health community’s failures during Covid that caused their credibility to crater, Osterholm…

Scarborough Rants Against 'Insanity' of Pirro Allowing D.C. Open Carry
On Tuesday's Morning Joe, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough ranted against a decision by U.S. attorney Jeanine PIrro not to prosecute D.C. residents for carrying a rifle or shotgun outside the home without a permit, calling it "bonkers" and "insanity."

CNN Gives Platform to Dem Conspiracy Theory Trump to Steal Midterms
CNN was seemingly engaged in some stochastic terrorism during Wednesday’s Inside Politics as host Dana Bash gave a platform to and promoted incendiary Democratic Party conspiracy theories claiming President Trump was going to steal the 2026 midterm elections. At no point did she try to poke holes in the idea, instead she praised Democrats for “sounding the alarm” and said Trump’s past…

Darcy Pitches Fit at Legendary Media Executive Thinking CNN Is a MESS
Former CNN senior media reporter and liberal media janitor Oliver Darcy expressed disgust in his Tuesday night newsletter Status that “one of Warner Bros. Discovery’s most powerful stakeholders” and legendary media boss John Malone has been blasting CNN this week in interviews with CNBC and The New York Times about a new memoir, insisting CNN’s “a left-leaning, anti-Trump news service…

Reid Goes Full Conspiracy Theorist, Claims Trump 'Was Supposedly Shot'
Former MSNBC host and professional crazy person Joy Reid joined former colleague Katie Phang on her YouTube show that partners with the MeidasTouch Network on Tuesday to argue that the news media is not being tough enough when it comes to questions around President Trump’s health. In one specific instance, Reid went deep down the conspiracy theory rabbit hole and claimed Trump was only “…

NY Times Pals Around With Communist Who Prefers To Live In North Korea
The New York Times has an inglorious tradition of glorifying communists, and the latest installment in this regrettable ritual came on Wednesday from Seoul bureau chief Choe Sang-Hun. Choe penned an uncritical profile of former North Korean soldier-turned South Korean resident Ahn Hak-sop, who has the dual life goal of removing American troops from the country and returning…

ABC Gets Hot and Bothered By China’s Show of ‘Patriotism and Power’
Since their parent company Disney was beholden to the Chinese Communist Party, even giving a “special thanks” to those carrying out a genocide against Uighurs in the credits of Mulan, ABC foreign correspondent Britt Clennett beclowned herself and the network during Wednesday’s Good Morning America. With prime seating in Tiananmen Square, Clennett had a huge smile on her face…