Written by James E. McNally
Opposition to the teaching of a seriously flawed ideology known as critical race theory has drawn the ire of Chicago Sun-Times columnist Neil Steinberg. His column is riddled with almost as many flaws as the NY Times “1619 Project”, apparently championed by Steinberg, which inanely asserts that the American Revolution was conducted because the colonists feared that Great Britain was about to abolish slavery, a ridiculous charge (among many contained in the document) debunked by serious historians of various political persuasions.… Continue Reading
Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Chicago Sun-Times, critical race theory, Democrat Party, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Jack Johnson, Joe Biden, Joe Louis, Klu Klux Klan, Muhammed Ali, Neil Steinberg, NY Times, Robert Byrd, Rush Limbaugh, The 1619 Project
Media Watch | David E. Smith | July 2, 2021 8:00 AM | Comments Off on Neil Steinberg’s Flawed Take on Critical Race Theory
Written by Robert Knight
Two recent opinion columns were eye catchers.
A Wall Street Journal piece by James Carville was headlined, “Democrats Are the Anticrime Party.” Seriously?
The other, by The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank, said, “The GOP’s fixation on race is on full display.” Seriously?
Both men are undoubtedly familiar with the definition of “chutzpah.” It’s someone killing his parents and then falling on the mercy of the court on account of his being an orphan.… Continue Reading
Tags: Anthony Fauci, Antifa, Biden Administration, Bill Clinton, BLM, Dana Milbank, Donald Trump, James Carville, Jason L. Riley, Joe Biden, Lori Lightfoot, Mother Teresa, The 1619 Project, The Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post
Media Watch | David E. Smith | June 7, 2021 8:00 AM | Comments Off on The Left’s Chutzpah Knows No Bounds
Written by Daniel Horowitz
Sadly, there is nothing new about the story of Darion Lafayette. A young black suspect with a long rap sheet who kills a cop with a gun he was able to purchase despite Illinois’ tough gun control measures — that is essentially the story of every major city. What is new, however, is that after the other cop in this deadly altercation was forced to kill Lafayette, the local media initially treated Lafayette as a martyr, despite the fact that the officer was justified by a mile.… Continue Reading
Tags: Black Lives Matter, Breitbart News, Caleb Livingston, Chris Oberheim, Darion Lafayette, Daunte Wright, Derek Chauvin, George Floyd, Jeffrey Creel, Jennifer LeMay, Jessica Kunz, Julia Rietz, KG Wilson, Trinity Ottonson-Smith, WCIA-TV
Media Watch | David E. Smith | June 2, 2021 6:28 AM | Comments Off on A World Upside Down: Illinois Cop Killer Initially Treated Like Victim by Local CBS Affiliate
Written by Robert Knight
We’re clearly living in a time of “doublethink.”
That’s when someone believes two mutually contradictory beliefs. The term comes from George Orwell’s novel “1984,” in which the government ruling party issued absurd dictums such as “War is Peace,” “Freedom is Slavery,” and “Ignorance is Strength.”
Anyone not going along with this was in for a rough time, including the novel’s protagonist, Winston Smith.
The psychological name for this is cognitive dissonance. One form of it is accepting as reality something that clearly conflicts with reason, sensory perception and common sense.… Continue Reading
Tags: Associated Press, Bill Lee, Centers for Disease Control, Critical Race Theor, Demi Lovato, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, gender confirming, George Orwell, KidsPost, science deniers, The Washington Post
Marriage, Family & Culture, Media Watch | David E. Smith | May 24, 2021 6:00 AM | Comments Off on Parents Must Push Back Against Progressives’ Doublethink
Written by Laura Hirschfeld Hollis
A free country depends upon an honest and vigilant press to demand accountability from the country’s political, economic and cultural leaders.
We are in serious trouble; our press is neither honest nor vigilant.
To the contrary, the national media in the United States is hopelessly biased, selectively incurious and relentlessly deceitful about the most important issues we are facing today. As a result, the health of the nation is at risk.… Continue Reading
Tags: Anthony Fauci, Barack Obam, Bill Clinton, Bowe Bergdahl, Centers for Disease Control, Chinese Communist Party, Chinese virus, COVID–19, Donald J. Trump, Franklin Roosevelt, Hezbollah, hydroxychloroquine, Iran Deal, John F. Kennedy, Josef Stalin, Laura Hirschfeld Hollis, Lyndon Johnson, Nicholas Wade, Obamacare, pandemic, SARS2, The New York Times, Wuhan Institute of Virology
Media Watch | David E. Smith | May 20, 2021 8:00 AM | Comments Off on Press Deceit Is a Pathology
Written by Robert Knight
You know it’s getting thick when even U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) says Facebook and other social media are too censorious.
First, she took the mandatory shot at Donald Trump. “I’m glad that he’s not on Facebook,” the Massachusetts Democrat said of the ban on the former president upheld on May 5 by a Facebook appeals board. “I think that he poses a real danger.”
She went on: “But I don’t think that Facebook ought to have this kind of power.… Continue Reading
Tags: Adam Smith, Amy Klobucher, Apple, Big Media, Big Tech, Bust Up Big Tech Act, CCP, COVID–19, Donald Trump, Elizabeth Warren, Facebook, Google, James Freeman, Josh Hawley, Kelly Loeffler, Lindsey Graham, Marco Rubio, Mark Zuckerberg, Marsha Blackburn, Mike Braun, New York Times, Nicholas Wade, Online Freedom and Viewpoint Diversity Act, Parler.com, Prager U, Robert A. J. Gagnon, Robert Epstein, Roger Wicker, Section 230 Immunity, Teddy Roosevelt, Tom Cotton, Tucker Carlson, Twitter, Vimeo, Wall Street Journal, World Health Organization, YouTube
Media Watch | David E. Smith | May 17, 2021 8:00 AM | Comments Off on Breaking Up Big Tech Hard To Do, But It Should Happen
Written by Tim Graham
Everyone knew instinctively that the Biden White House would get enormous cooperation and positive media coverage from the “news” media, given that it follows the alleged democracy-darkening Donald Trump days. But Team Biden’s control of the narrative can look more like a stranglehold.
On May 10, Politico revealed that “If you’ve read a quote from an administration official in a newspaper or a wire story recently, there’s a good chance that the White House communications team had an opportunity to edit it first.”… Continue Reading
Written by Dr. Everett Piper
On April 13, the editors of National Review opined: “More than a year ago, Americans welcomed [Dr.] Anthony Fauci into their homes as a sober scientist who was helping them make sense of a deadly new virus. But he has worn out that welcome.”
William F. Buckley’s heirs are absolutely right, and here’s why.
Anthony Fauci is no longer viewed as our nation’s sober “scientist” because he’s not one. Instead, he has shown himself to be a political opportunist and our country’s new high priest of “scientism.”… Continue Reading
Written by Tim Graham
President Joe Biden averaged a 56 percent job approval rating from his inauguration through March, according to Gallup, about the same as the ratings of former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, and much higher than former President Donald Trump‘s (42 percent). One factor in that approval might be the tone of press coverage.
Rich Noyes and Bill D’Agostino of the Media Research Center studied ABC, CBS and NBC evening-news programs from Jan.… Continue Reading
Tags: ABC, Bill Clinton, Bill D'Agostino, CBS, Dave Weigel, Donald Trump, George W. Bush, Georgia, illegal immigration, Jim Crow, Joe Biden, John Aravosis, Major League Baseball, Media Research Center, NBC, Rich Noyes, Steven DeKnight, Twitter
Media Watch | David E. Smith | April 21, 2021 7:00 AM | Comments Off on The Watchdogs Nap for Biden
Written by Jackie Cushman
This week, Project Veritas released a video of Charlie Chester, a CNN technical director, talking to a woman who recorded him during what he thought were “dates”; she had purposely targeted him and videoed him surreptitiously. While you might not agree with her tactics, her videos reveal that CNN was involved in what proved to be a successful media campaign to control the political process.
“Look what we did, we got Trump out.… Continue Reading