2019 was another year of smashing success for the NewsBusters team as we had umpteen media stories to cover throughout the year, whether it was the Jussie Smollett debacle, the Mueller Report,…
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December 31st, 2019 10:00 AM | Curtis Houck
December 30th, 2019 5:05 PM | Brent Baker
Since late January of 2012, the Washington Examiner’s Paul Bedard has once a week featured a “Mainstream Media Scream” selection in his “Washington Secrets” column. For each pick, usually posted…
December 29th, 2019 2:52 PM | Tim Graham
Chuck Todd ended 2019 with a special edition of Meet the Press on "Alternative Facts: Inside the Weaponization of Disinformation." It felt more like moving Reliable Sources to NBC. It had all the…
December 29th, 2019 2:12 PM | Nicholas Fondacaro
On Sunday, NBC News political director Chuck Todd dedicated the final Meet the Press of 2019 to insisting President Trump had brought about a “post-truth society.” The same network that pushed the…
December 26th, 2019 11:12 AM | Clay Waters
Chuck Todd surely knows the reputation of Rolling Stone in 2019, and yet there's this amazing headline from the interview he granted them:
How Disinformation Spreads, According to Chuck…
December 25th, 2019 9:00 AM | Geoffrey Dickens
This week, NewsBusters is recounting the most obnoxious liberal bias of the decade. On Monday, we presented some of the most outrageous examples of journalists fawning over liberal or left-wing…
December 22nd, 2019 2:01 PM | Tim Graham
Liberals think Chuck Todd is the "gold standard" of pundits/interviewers. Tom Jones of the Poynter Institute honored Todd as the "media personality of the year." But on Wednesday, Rush Limbaugh…
December 21st, 2019 11:43 PM | Tim Graham
On the December 15 Reliable Sources, CNN's Brian Stelter insisted "There is a lack of courage from GOP leaders right now. I'm talking about Mitch McConnell, Kevin McCarthy and others turning down…
December 19th, 2019 10:39 AM | Kyle Drennen
Appearing on NBC’s Today show on Thursday to react to Wednesday night’s impeachment vote, Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd lamented “the end of a decade that has been just hyperpartisan,…
December 18th, 2019 10:04 PM | Nicholas Fondacaro
Not long after Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) began tallying the House vote for the first Article of Impeachment against President Trump Wednesday night, NBC political director Chuck Todd began to…
December 18th, 2019 12:49 PM | Kyle Drennen
Amid special coverage of Wednesday’s House vote to impeach President Trump, NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt and Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd waxed historical about the meaning of it all…
December 18th, 2019 10:49 AM | Kyle Drennen
During NBC’s live special coverage of Wednesday’s impeachment vote, Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd went all-in for House Democrats, claiming that the partisan process somehow proved that…
December 16th, 2019 3:53 PM | Tim Graham
On Sunday's Meet the Press, NBC reporter Heidi Przybyla sounded in sync with the Democrats on how tremendously weighty this impeachment is as a historical marker. President Trump violated "one of…
December 11th, 2019 5:21 PM | Kyle Drennen
Anchoring special MSNBC coverage of Wednesday’s Senate hearing with Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz, Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd worried that “Republicans are playing…
December 9th, 2019 5:33 PM | Alex Christy
The media just cannot bring themselves to admit that just because Russia interfered in the 2016 election, does not mean that Ukraine did not, even if on a smaller scale. The latest media…
December 9th, 2019 11:32 AM | Geoffrey Dickens
Exasperation is in the air.
Liberal journalists are convinced the only way to save the Republic is to impeach Donald Trump and yet increasingly hosts, reporters and pundits are clearly…
December 8th, 2019 1:47 PM | Nicholas Fondacaro
Sparks flew and a temper flared during a heated argument between NBC political director Chuck Todd and Republican Senator Ted Cruz on Sunday’s Meet the Press. The former raged as the latter…
December 7th, 2019 12:15 PM | Scott Whitlock
Two years ago this week, Democrat Al Franken resigned from the U.S. Senate amidst multiple allegations from women of unwanted touching. Yet journalists lamented the “rush” to remove the liberal…
December 4th, 2019 11:08 PM | Ryan Foley
As the panel on Tuesday’s MTP Daily reacted to the release of the House Intelligence Committee’s impeachment report, host Chuck Todd repeatedly griped that the Democrats have not pushed hard…
December 3rd, 2019 1:06 PM | Kyle Drennen
On Tuesday’s Morning Joe, MSNBC anchor Joe Scarborough launched into a bitter anti-Trump screed demanding that House Democrats expand the impeachment inquiry in order to “show the American people…
December 2nd, 2019 8:39 PM | Nicholas Fondacaro
In a recent interview with TIME magazine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he never approached conversations with President Trump “from the position of a quid pro quo.” It was a…
December 2nd, 2019 5:18 PM | Curtis Houck
On Monday, CNN colluded with itself to deem Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) and those not in the Resistance as their political enemies, offering segment after segment about the latest scuffle between…
December 2nd, 2019 4:24 PM | Scott Whitlock
Who better than a Democratic Senator to fact check his Republican colleague? That, apparently, is the view at MSNBC. Network anchor Andrea Mitchell on Monday erupted in anger that Republican…
December 2nd, 2019 10:46 AM | Mark Finkelstein
Let's be clear: Anthony "The Mooch" Scaramucci wants you to know he isn't comparing congressional Republicans to Hitler—just to the people who collaborated with Hitler!
Scaramucci was back…
December 1st, 2019 10:02 PM | Tim Graham
If it's Sunday, Chuck Todd is exasperated and yelling at a Republican. This week, the victim was Sen. John Kennedy, Republican of Louisiana. But first, Todd demonstrated his double standard by…