News Busters
A Case Study on PBS’s Convention Coverage
One piece of PBS’s coverage of the last night of the Democratic National Convention unwittingly confirmed media labeling bias on PBS and other “mainstream “outlets. First, Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart hailed…
Why Would Harris Duck a Press Corps That Asks Questions Like These?
In the five weeks since Kamala Harris took over President Joe Biden’s struggling presidential campaign, she’s notably avoided any substantive interactions with the press — no sit down interviews, no long press conferences.…
I’m Going Wild at Gun-Grabbing Democrat Speech
It's been more than a year since the leftist media made instant heroes out of the "Tennessee Three," Democrat state legislators that were briefly expelled for disrupting legislative proceedings because they…
Time Magazine Pays the Price for Lost Credibility
Last week in this space the focus was on Time magazine’s glorification of now Democrat presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris. The point was that the then-current cover of Time - an illustration of Harris that, as…
89 For Trump, 33 For Harris
With both party conventions now in the books, so too are PolitiFact’s nightly recaps. After four days of the RNC and the DNC, PBS’s new fact-checking partner, gave Republicans three times as many false ratings while giving…
ABC Fawns Not ‘A Big Progressive’ Harris, Oprah In DNC Recap
The cast of Saturday’s edition of ABC’s Good Morning America had nothing but glowing reviews for the recently concluded Democratic National Convention. They falsely claimed that having Republicans address the convention was…
Comic Propagandists Crush All Pretense of Objectivity
The Democratic National Convention featured the expected crush of progressive stars. Think Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Kerry Washington, John Legend and more. Beyonce was a calculated no-show, but one celebrity’s appearance should…
‘We Call Bull****’ On Both Sides
After an unsuccessful appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, CNN’s Kaitlan Collins tried the late night comedy circuit again on Friday as she joined HBO’s Bill Maher on Real Time to recap the Democratic National…
PBS Hails DNC's 'Patriotism' Versus RNC's 'Weighted Blanket'
Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart and New York Times columnist David Brooks recapped the Democratic National Convention on Friday’s PBS News Hour by contrasting its “jubilation” and “patriotism” with the…
Harris Makes Dems ‘Feel Seen,’ ‘Trump Derangement’ Not Real
PBS opened its fourth and final night of coverage from the Democratic National Convention in Chicago with reporting from the PBS News Hour, with congressional reporter Lisa Desjardins, reporting from D.C. a segment on the…