The scandal that could be called "Subscription-gate" involves government agencies paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for a media service like "Politico Pro." But Politico claims they've never taken government funds, like it doesn't make "Politico Pro." Come on, bro.
The national media are now focusing a lot of their negative "news" energy on Elon Musk and his drive for government efficiency. CNN is upset about his messing with the Agency for International Development, and Jake Tapper lamented Elon opening "old wounds" with British grooming gangs raping little girls, which is a "distraction" for new prime minister Keir Starmer.
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr is going to look into San Jose radio station KCBS unmasking undercover law-enforcement agents conducting operations in a town plagued with gang activity. Joseph Vazquez of NewsBusters had the story, and he joins the show to discuss.
According to content cops at Elon Musk's X, a tweet mocking CBS News for their softball interviews with Kamala and "Feeble Joe" was tagged under their "Hateful Conduct" policy. It's mocking someone's age or disability? Or is someone just super-sensitive about mocking CBS?
Speculation can be the opposite of information, but any breaking news event is going to be wallowing in it. A plane-helicopter crash that kills 67 over the nation's capital is going to dominate many news cycles. The victims and their loved ones left behind deserve a nonpartisan, fact-based investigation of what happened. Our political system makes that difficult.
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!
Conservatives wonder why J.D. Vance is wasting his time with liberals like CBS "Face the Nation" host Margaret Brennan. But when you watch him methodically take down every hostile question from Brennan, it's a win for him and a loss for CBS. Jorge Bonilla breaks down the battle.
Two Politico alums dropped a bombshell about how their old employer mandated bias by omission on Hunter Biden in 2020: "Don’t write about the laptop, don’t talk about the laptop, don’t tweet about the laptop." Their "cowardly editors" made "dumb decisions"!
It's a cruel winter for the liberals, and the media are not taking it well. Will coverage of Trump's second term sound like a rerun? Curtis Houck talks about inauguration coverage and Nick Fondacaro wraps up all the revelations from the CNN defamation trial.
On Inauguration Day, we are already chronicling the bitter media tears that Donald Trump the 'Fascist Threat to Democracy' is coming in and Joe Biden has to be nice to him. Even last-minute pardons for influence-peddling Biden family members was given a bizarrely positive spin.
A jury in Panama City, Florida found CNN guilty of defamation in the case of Zachary Young, who worked to rescue people from Afghanistan after America withdrew. CNN must pay $5 million in damages (not counting punitive damages). Associate Editor Nick Fondacaro has been in the courtroom to explain it all.
Senate Democrats brought out the slime buckets for the Pete Hegseth confirmation hearing on Tuesday. The journalists call it "tense," but we might call the Democrats "unglued." Trump's nominees are receiving much harsher media treatment than Biden's nominees four years ago. Bill D'Agostino marvels at the sight.
CNN touted a former CNN producer from the "fact-checking" site Lead Stories saying Facebook cutting them is like "disbanding your fire department." That's wrong, and deeply insensitive. The media are now crying "disinformation" when anyone seeks to blame Democrats for their preparedness before the Los Angeles wildfires.
NewsBusters reported that five late-night comedy shows uncorked almost 6,000 jokes against Trump to about 1,110 about Joe Biden (and only 92 about Kamala Harris). All this allegedly hilarious hostility failed to prevent Trump from getting re-elected. Our comedy analyst Alex Christy has crunched all the late-night numbers and analysis of the Keystone Cops of comedy.
Mark Zuckerberg fired the so-called "independent fact-checkers" from the Meta websites. He said they're so biased they "destroyed more trust than they created." Free Speech America VP Dan Schneider says this is a big victory.
Surprisingly, the networks weren't riveted by President Biden awarding a presidential medal to Liz Cheney (and Democrat Bennie Thompson) for their work on the Pelosi-Picked Panel on January 6. One newspaper preposterously said the medals were part of Biden's "push for bipartisanship and decency in politics." This is pure publicity, claiming that Biden's been decent and bipartisan to the Republicans.
Filmmaker Adam McKay -- best known for making films like "Anchorman" with Will Ferrell -- comes unglued on Twitter, suggesting the movie musical "Wicked" is all about radicalization and fascism, so "If America keeps going on the track it is I wouldn’t be surprised to see the movie banned in 3-5 years." Which movies were banned under Trump in the first term?
Is CNN toast in 2025? Is MSNBC going to flounder? They're nervous on the Left about the legacy media being replaced by podcasters and the like. But if the usual pattern holds, the leftist base of these networks will return once Trump is inaugurated. We can hope they'll have a small audience in the long run if they're sticking to leftist propaganda.
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.
How will the latest shutdown showdown end? The media always use the threat of shutdowns to paint Republicans as heartless budget slashers, and that's especially fun for them at Christmas time. They paint federal employees as too broke to buy a Christmas tree. Paul Teller of Advancing American Freedom talks about hopes for restricting federal spending in 2025 and beyond.
How will Team Trump revise the seating chart or the questioner list at the White House briefing when new press secretary Karoline Leavitt takes the podium in January? Would they dare to put conservative media in the front row? Managing editor Curtis Houck brings all his daily monitoring of the briefings to the table.
The Left was enraged that ABC News settled a defamation lawsuit with Donald Trump by agreeing to donate $15 million to a Trump “presidential foundation and museum” over George Stephanopoulos repeatedly claiming in a March interview that Trump was found “liable for rape.” That's not accurate. But cable "news" partisans shrieked about Trump's "authoritarian playbook." Like suing a media outlet is authoritarian?
During what’s supposed to be a slow time of year for major political stories, NewsBusters has been kept on their toes. Associate Editor Nick Fondacaro and Managing Editor Curtis Houck are dodging leftist assassins and buzzing drones on this episode in which they chat about the liberal media’s yearning love affair with the assassin of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, the media's reaction to the mysterious drones over the Mid-Atlantic states, and preview Nick's year-in-review items on...The Vi...
CNN sunk to a new low as fill-in host Audie Cornish implied subway "vigilante" Daniel Penny was no different than Luigi Mangione, the alleged murderer of UnitedHealthCare CEO Brian Thompson.
Donald Trump accepted an interview request from NBC "Meet the Press" host Kristen Welker, and once again she incessantly interrupted and "fact checked" the president-elect. Jorge Bonilla reviews all that was asked and answered.
As he subbed for radio host Mike Gallagher, Scott Jennings interviewed L.A. Times owner Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong. The billionaire revealed he was working on a "bias meter" for the Times, an AI-generated tool to add balance to news stories to present all sides. The everyday journalists hated it and insisted there was no evidence of their biases.
Would you like to imagine the New York Times publishing an email your mother sent you telling you you’re a terrible spouse? That's what happened to Pete Hegseth, and his mother. They will use notes that were supposed to be private for their own political gain.
After months of Biden and his press aides denying the president would pardon his son Hunter, when he went back on his word, the media didn’t want to say he “lied.” It was an “about face” or “a reversal from promises he made during the campaign.” They played up the “very close” family ties and proclaimed it a “poignant” moment.
Donald Trump Jr. said they are considering giving podcast stars like Joe Rogan and Megyn Kelly a seat in the White House press briefing room instead of the usual liberal suspects, which might "blow up some heads." What might change in the daily drama of the Karoline Leavitt briefings?
PolitiFact co-founder Bill Adair is still doing liberal-media interviews for his book on why Republicans lie more. He admitted to a public-radio host that the "Truth-O-Meter" is an imprecise, subjective measurement. Everything about the "independent fact-checkers" is loaded with partisan opinion.
