News Busters
FLASHBACK: Paul Ehrlich, The Media’s Favorite “Doomsday Celebrity”
Here’s a fact about how TV news finds its policy experts: There’s no random dart tossing at faculty directories. The segment producer knows exactly what they’re looking for, and books experts who best match the pre-determined…
On PBS, Journalists Label House GOP As All ‘Fringe’ and ‘Very Extreme,’ Unlike Democrats
On Tuesday's Amanpour & Co., taxpayer-funded PBS put on display the liberal media's tendency to view nearly all elected Republicans as "extreme." In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan's GOP was…
NewsBusters Podcast: Ratings Keep Falling for Woke Golden Globes
The ratings of Tuesday's Golden Globe Awards telecast on NBC fell again from its last airing in 2021. Awards shows now feature a lot of woke lecturing and reward obscure movies and TV shows many people haven't seen.…
Here Were the Smartest and Dumbest Questions on the Biden Docs from Friday’s WH Briefing
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre faced the press corps Friday to close out a week almost no one saw coming with the revelation that the Biden administration had kept hidden for two months that classified…
Twitter Files: Dem Rep. Schiff Pushed Twitter to Censor Political Content He Disagreed With
Democrat Rep. Adam Schiff’s office nagged Twitter to censor content it disliked and even suggested law enforcement should be able to track the flagged tweeters, in the latest Twitter Files. In Thursday's Twitter Files…
Cliché ALERT: ABC Frets ‘GOP Pounces’ on Biden’s Classified Docs Scandal
ABC News appears to be in such a state of urgency to defend Joe Biden in the wake of the documents scandal that they regurgitated a term that was thought to have been mocked out of existence. The worn cliché,…
Why the Prevalence of JFK Assassination Conspiracy Theories?
WASHINGTON -- I am engaged in reading a very fine book by my colleague, Paul Kengor. It was written six years ago, so do not feel bad if you missed it. You still have time. It is called “A Pope and a President.” It covers the…
PBS Claim: GOP ‘Immersed in These Far-Right Networks…From Moscow to Budapest’
Under the graphic “Exporting Extremism,” PBS News Hour host Geoff Bennett set the table to compare right-wing extremists in the U.S. and Brazil in the opening moments of Wednesday evening’s show: “And the attack on…
ABC Laments Docs Probe ‘Interrupts’ Biden’s ‘Good Run’; CBS Continues to Hammer WH
Friday morning’s broadcast network news shows spanned the spectrum of effectiveness on the growing scandal with classified documents having been found in possession of President Biden’s (faux) think tank office and his…
The View Defends Biden’s Lack of Transparency, Holidays Distracted Him
24 hours after dubiously suggesting Republicans may have planted the classified documents in President Biden’s garage in Delaware, racist co-host Sunny Hostin of ABC’s The View refused to walk back that conspiracy theory…