Written by Tim Graham
The easiest layup in proving the “mainstream media” is hyperpartisan is to study how they cover congressional hearings. After two years of obsessive media promotion and congratulation and live coverage of the Pelosi-picked panel on Jan. 6, the network “newscasts” can’t locate a hearing now with two hands.
On March 1, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee questioned Biden administration Attorney General Merrick Garland for the first time in the new Congress. The hearing was not devoid of newsworthiness.… Continue Reading
Tags: ABC, Brett Kavanaugh, Catholic, CBS, Jen Psaki, Joe Biden, Josh Hawley, Justice Department, Latin Mass Catholics, Mark Houck, Merrick Garland, NBC, Nicholas Roske, NPR, PBS, Ted Cruz, U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee
Executive Branch, Federal Issues, Media Watch | David E. Smith | March 3, 2023 8:06 AM | Comments Off on Congressional Hearings About Team Biden Die in Darkness
Written by Tim Graham
The so-called fact-checkers are energetic defenders of President Joe Biden — almost like they’re his siblings or his nephews. No cockeyed critique of Biden is silly enough for them to forgo the urgent need to “check.” They’re perpetually poised to pounce!
PolitiFact gave us two examples on Feb. 10. Both were “Pants On Fire” warnings, but only one was about pants. The headline was “Joe Biden put his pants on backwards,” and their headline continued: “We know all about pants.… Continue Reading
Tags: Chuck Schumer, Ciara O'Rourke, Donald Trump, Facebook, Instagram, Jeff Cercone, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Mindy Robinson, PolitiFact, QAnon, Snopes
Media Watch | David E. Smith | February 18, 2023 5:00 AM | Comments Off on When ‘Pants on Fire’ Fact Checks Are About Biden’s Pants
Written by Dr. Everett Piper
I reposted a meme this week. It was a graphic of a mass of humanity, with tens of thousands of people standing shoulder to shoulder and one solitary individual standing outside, looking back at the group. The accompanying text was, “Yes, you all are wrong.” To this, I added, “It appears those of us who stood nearly alone on masks and jabs are exonerated. May the same prove true on all else woke and wrong.”… Continue Reading
Tags: Adolph Hitler, Adrian Rogers, BBC, Black Lives Matter, CNN, COVID–19, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Dr. Aseem Malhotra, Hans Christian Andersen, mask mandate, mRNA, Os Guinness, Pfizer, Rasmussen, The Washington Post, Twitter Files, William Wilberforce, Winston Churchill, Wuhan coronavirus
Media Watch | David E. Smith | February 14, 2023 7:00 AM | Comments Off on Truth Always Wins: Liberal Media Has Started to Report Actual Facts
Written by Robert Knight
The constant trickle of lies coming out of Washington became a gusher this past week.
We’ll look below at President Biden’s State of the Union speech. But first, Big Tech took center stage at a U.S. House Oversight Committee hearing on Wednesday.
Former Twitter executives testified that Twitter has never hassled conservatives. Nor were they politically motivated to censor the New York Post’s coverage of the Hunter Biden laptop just before the 2020 presidential election.… Continue Reading
Tags: Andrew McCabe, Bernie Sanders, Big Tech, Chinese Communist Party, Christopher Wray, Democratic Party, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Equality Act, Facebook, FBI, Hunter Biden, Jim Baker, Joe Biden, Mark Zuckerberg, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Strategic Petroleum Reserve, Twitter, Vijaya Gadde, Wall Street Journal, Yoel Roth
Federal Issues, Media Watch | David E. Smith | February 13, 2023 4:00 AM | Comments Off on Lies From Big Tech and ‘Big Guy’ Biden
Written by Robert Knight
The first thing the communists did after the 1917 Russian Revolution was round up anyone who disagreed with them.
They shut down newspapers and denied all public forums to dissenters. This included their “useful idiot” socialist allies.
We think it can’t happen here, but some recent moves to stifle free speech and enforce official viewpoints should give us pause.
Last Tuesday, the satellite TV provider DirecTV kicked the fast-growing conservative cable news network Newsmax off its network.… Continue Reading
Tags: AT&T, Christopher Ruddy, Colin Kaepernick, deplatform, DirecTV, Facebook, furries, Google, Instagram, Ivan Provorov, Jack Phillips, Kevin B. Blackistone, March for Life, Newsmax, One America News, Shadow ban, Tony Dungy, Vimeo, Washington Post, YouTube
Media Watch | David E. Smith | January 30, 2023 8:00 AM | Comments Off on Agree With Us, or Else: Soviet-Style Totalitarian Spirit Afoot in America
Written by Robert Knight
Nobody seems to know who leaked the U.S. Supreme Court’s draft in the Dobbs case overturning Roe v. Wade. Nobody seems to know how many serious adverse effects occurred shortly after COVID-19 shots. Nobody seems to know how the FBI was turned into a left-wing political weapon.
“Mainstream” media doesn’t find these things worth pursuing.
Thanks to an exhaustive investigative analysis by The Washington Post, however, we now know how many parents — 38 — around the country have challenged Jonathan Evison’s book “Lawn Boy” in school libraries.… Continue Reading
Tags: American Library Association, book ban, COVID–19, Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health, Donald Trump, FBI, Glenn Youngkin, Greg Abbott, Hannah Natanson, Jonathan Evison, Lawn Boy, Mark Robinson, pedophilia, Roe v. Wade, Ron DeSantis, The Washington Post, U.S. Supreme Court
LGBTQ Agenda, Media Watch | David E. Smith | January 10, 2023 7:49 AM | Comments Off on The Controversy Surrounding ‘Lawn Boy’
Written by Peter Heck
Mere moments after former President Donald Trump dropped his “big announcement” about a new line of virtual trading cards, more than a few left-leaning voices were scoffing and asking how any self-respecting person could continue to associate themselves with such a huckster. While I will let Trump fans speak for themselves, I feel it incumbent to ask how these same leftists continue associating themselves with the credibility clown show that is modern American progressivism right now.… Continue Reading
Tags: Alexander Vindman, Ben Collins, Dimond and Silk, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Eric Swalwell, Jack Dorsey, John Ondrasik, Mike Doyle, NBC, Ted Lieu, Tom Elliot, Twitter
Media Watch | David E. Smith | December 26, 2022 8:55 AM | Comments Off on Twitter Isn’t Dying, But A Progressive Speech Monopoly Is
Written by Tim Graham
Anyone who thinks the First Amendment is best represented by the “news” media is not paying attention to the way they wage war on freedom of speech for the conservative “rabble” on social media platforms.
Imagine if the media had attacked new media owners Jeff Bezos or David Zaslav with the kind of venom that they’re using on Twitter owner Elon Musk. No one would suggest it’s important for the government to monitor The Washington Post or CNN as potential sources of misinformation.… Continue Reading
Tags: Andrea Shalal, Center for Countering Digital Hate, CNN, David Zaslav, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, First Amendment, GLAAD, Hunter Biden, Jeff Bezos, Karine Jean-Pierre, Rupert Murdoch, The Washington Post, Twitter
Media Watch | David E. Smith | November 30, 2022 8:00 AM | Comments Off on The Media vs. Free Speech on Twitter
Written by Robert Knight
When my wife and I were in Colonial Williamsburg several years ago, we talked briefly to a store clerk about an unwanted change – the passing of a longtime pharmacy in the Market Square area near the William & Mary campus.
The pharmacy had an old-fashioned lunch counter that served up the best milkshakes and limeades we had ever tasted. Now it was gone.
As we lamented its replacement by a chain store, the clerk stiffened her spine and barked, “Change is good!”… Continue Reading
Tags: Boy Scouts, Country, Country Extra, Country Woman, DeWitt and Lila Bell Wallace, Disney, Elizabeth Bartholomew, Farm & Ranch, Great American Family, Hallmark, Jason Buhrmester, New York Times, Playboy, Reader’s Digest, Reiman Publications, Reminisce, Siege: An American Tragedy, Trusted Media Brands, War on Books
Media Watch | David E. Smith | November 29, 2022 8:05 AM | Comments Off on When Old Friends Like Reader’s Digest Go Off The Rails
Written by Tim Graham
The United Nations is one of the most sacred political cows in the liberal media. This is especially true when they convene the global elites on the perils of “climate change.” The latest confab in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, began with the usual appeal to fear and panic from U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres, formerly known as the Socialist Party prime minister of Portugal.
“Our planet is fast approaching tipping points that will make climate chaos irreversible,” Guterres warned.… Continue Reading