Written by Peter Heck
The numbers speak for themselves. MSNBC is suffering through a ratings catastrophe as the disillusioned loyalists, who kept believing the network’s stable of left-wing hosts who continued to promise that Trump was an unelectable Hitler, have walked away.
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Tags: Abby Phillip, ABC, Barbara Walters, Bernie Sanders, Brian Stelter, Chris Hayes, CNN, David Brooks, David French, Donald Trump, Glenn Greenwald, Jen Psaki, Jennifer Rubin, Joe Biden, Joe Rogan, Joe Scarborough, Joy Behar, Joy Reid, Kamala Harris, Mary Katharine Ham, Max Boot, Megyn Kelly, Mollie Hemingway, MSNBC, Pete Hegseth, Rachel Maddow, Sunny Hostin, The New York Times, The View, The Washington Post, Whoopi Goldberg
Media Watch | David E. Smith | November 19, 2024 8:00 AM | Comments Off on Media Know They Must Change. They Won’t…
Written by Tim Graham
Forever earnest Brian Stelter tweeted out his late-night appearance on CNN with Abby Phillip.
“MSNBC’s Maddow is right to be thinking aloud about the possible repercussions of a second Trump term,” he typed. “Other media types and political veterans are doing the same thing. What might “retribution” look like? What are the pressure points that Trump could target?”
In a softball email interview with Maddow, CNN’s Oliver Darcy warned about the MAGA crowd:
“… Some of his extremist allies even talking about jailing their fellow Americans.
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Written by Tim Graham
The national media consider themselves essential in educating the electorate, so what happens when the electorate does not consider them a trustworthy guardian of democracy?
The Associated Press and the American Press Institute just released a poll on the 2024 election and found only 14% of their sample expressed “a great deal of confidence in election-related information they receive from national sources.” By contrast, 46% have little or no confidence at all in the information they receive from national news organizations.… Continue Reading
Tags: American Press Institute, Associated Press, Brian Stelter, Chris Licht, CNN, David Bauder, Donald Trump, Katherine Maher, Michael Bolden, National Public Radio, NPR, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post
Media Watch | David E. Smith | May 3, 2024 11:00 AM | Comments Off on Little Trust for the ‘Democracy-Saving’ Media
Written by Robert Knight
Anything can happen in 2024.
But right now, as the new year dawns, former President Donald Trump holds an insurmountable lead for the GOP presidential nomination, barring an unforeseen circumstance.
The former president also holds a slim but steady lead in polls over President Biden, notably in several battleground states.
Even a conviction on one or more of the many bogus charges filed in four different courts by Democratic prosecutors and being heard by Democratic judges would not derail him.… Continue Reading
Tags: Brian Stelter, Brian Stelter Memorial Award, Clarence Thomas, Democrats, Donald Trump, Fox News Channel, Gavin Newsom, Ginni Thomas, GOP presidential nomination, Jason Johnson, Joe Biden, Joe Scarborough, Kamala Harris, Media Research Center, MSNBC, Sean Hannity
Federal Issues | David E. Smith | January 3, 2024 8:00 AM | Comments Off on High Stakes in 2024 Election Are Cause for Anxiety
Written by Tim Graham
As CNN looks for a new leader, former CNN host Brian Stelter proposed this as the most important question: “What should an anchor do when a guest says something untrue?”
The public could turn this question around: “What should a politician do when a CNN host says something untrue?” The Stelters of this world cannot imagine anyone at CNN would ever say anything false. They arrogantly presume they always defend the “truth.”… Continue Reading
Tags: abortion, Biden-Harris Campaign, Brian Stelter, CNN, Dana Bash, EWTN, H.R. 8296, Jake Tapper, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Mike Pence, Nikki Haley, Owen Jensen, Planned Parenthood, PolitiFact, Roe v. Wade, Women's Health Protection Act
Media Watch | David E. Smith | June 9, 2023 6:00 AM | Comments Off on CNN’s Mostly False Take on Biden’s Stance on Abortion
Written by Tim Graham
CNN anchor Brianna Keilar is hosting a temporary program pompously titled “Democracy In Peril.” On Jan. 18, Keilar huffed: “We can’t discuss the tsunami of disinformation, jeopardizing American democracy, without talking about the mothership, Fox.”
On the very same day, NPR U.S. Supreme Court reporter Nina Totenberg aired a story claiming that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch was callously ignoring requests from Chief Justice John Roberts to wear a mask during oral arguments in deference to diabetes-suffering colleague Justice Sonia Sotomayor.… Continue Reading
Tags: Ariane de Vogue, Bret Baier, Brian Fallon, Brian Stelter, Brianna Keilar, Clarence Thomas, David Gura, Drew Holden, Eddie Glaude, John Roberts, MSNBC, Neil Gorsuch, Nina Totenberg, NPR, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Shannon Bream, Sonia Sotomayor, Twitter
Media Watch | David E. Smith | January 21, 2022 11:00 AM | Comments Off on NPR’s Fake News From the SCOTUS
Written by Tim Graham
Brian Stelter and Oliver Darcy, CNN’s in-house cheerleaders for censoring or squelching conservative media outlets, celebrated a letter in which Democrats on the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee pressed TV providers to punish right-wing spreaders of so-called “misinformation.”
California U.S. Representatives Anna Eshoo and Jerry McNerney asked, “What moral or ethical principles (including those related to journalistic integrity, violence, medical information, and public health) do you apply in deciding which channels to carry or when to take adverse actions against a channel?”… Continue Reading
Tags: Adolph Hitler, Anna Eshoo, Anthony Scaramucci, Axios, Brett Kavanaugh, Brian Stelter, BuzzFeed, CNBC, CNN, Deborah Ramirez, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, James Comey, Jerry McNerney, Joe Stalin, John King, Lanny Davis, Mao Zedong, Michael Cohen, MSNBC, NBC, NewsBusters, Oliver Darcy, Steele dossier, The New York Times, Thomas Frank
Media Watch | David E. Smith | February 26, 2021 7:00 AM | Comments Off on CNN Should Shut up About ‘Misinformation’
Written by David Limbaugh
Why does the left want to silence conservatives? Why do rank-and-file Democrats go along with this abomination? Leftists have bad intentions, but how about the Democrats who enable them? I prefer to think they’ve being manipulated.
As worried as we should be about the hyperexploding national debt and our inevitable fiscal catastrophe, I am even more worried about the left’s success in turning America into a police state (ironic, given its simultaneous war on the police).… Continue Reading
Written by Tim Graham
Liberals love to insist they’re on the “right side of history,” and their confidence crests in the liberal dominance among historians. Just as the liberal media dominate our evaluation of day-to-day developments, liberals count on their historians to dominate our evaluation of the decades behind us.
It’s not just historians but our taxpayer-funded storytellers, like the insufferable PBS documentarian Ken Burns. On the day before President-elect Joe Biden‘s inauguration, NPR’s “Morning Edition” presented him as an American treasure with no partisan bias.… Continue Reading
Tags: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Brian Stelter, CNN, David Nakamura, Democratic National Committee, Douglas Brinkley, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Joe Biden, John Kerry, Joseph Crespino, Ken Burns, Leah Wright Rigueur, Matthew Dallek, Morning Edition, Nicole Hemmer, NPR, Politico, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Sara Gideon, Sherrod Brown, Susan Collins, The Washington Post, Washington Post
Media Watch | David E. Smith | January 20, 2021 8:00 AM | Comments Off on Beware Those Hysterical Historians
Written by Tim Graham
Journalists have strongly slanted the “news” during the Trump era in order to destroy Donald Trump’s presidency, and to destroy it early if possible. Their actions betray that they feel they have important and influential platforms from which they can and should run America in between elections. The voters can have a say for about two weeks every two years.
Recall 2004, when Newsweek‘s Evan Thomas admitted the press would go all in for Democratic presidential and vice presidential nominees John Kerry and John Edwards, and that the effort would “be worth maybe 15 points.”… Continue Reading
Tags: Barack Obama, Big Tech, Brian Stelter, CNN, Donald Trump, economic growth, Evan Thomas, Fox News Channel, Hunter Biden, jobs reports, Joe Biden, John Edwards, John Kerry, Kamala Harris, Media Research Center, Newsweek, Operation Warp Speed, Tara Reade, The Polling Company, Tucker Carlson
Federal Elections, Media Watch, Political | David E. Smith | November 25, 2020 8:00 AM | Comments Off on The News That Biden Voters Didn’t Know