Written by Tim Graham
There is never a level playing field in an American election. For example, the two major political parties have major advantages that third parties can’t muster. Another example is the major Democratic Party advantage of the home-team announcers calling the action on the playing field. Our national media set the terms and the tone of our democracy.
The pro-Democrat tilt of every election comes to mind when the pseudo-conservative Alyssa Farah Griffin gushed on ABC’s “The View” on Sept.… Continue Reading
Written by Tim Graham
It’s hard to believe, but our “news” media think U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito‘s wife hanging a flag upside-down outside their home for a few days is a much more serious matter than an attempted assassination of Justice Brett Kavanaugh in 2022. That story was quickly squashed.
Start with taxpayer-funded National Public Radio, which never managed to produce a single feature story on the foiled Kavanaugh assassination but has provided multiple stories in the Alito flag frenzy.… Continue Reading
Tags: Brett Kavanaugh, Chris Hayes, Clarence Thomas, Elie Mystal, Ketanji Brown Jackson, NAACP, National Public Radio, Nina Totenberg, Ruth Bader, Samuel Alito, U.S. Supreme Court
Media Watch | David E. Smith | May 31, 2024 1:00 PM | Comments Off on Smearing Alito and Thomas as Racist Insurrectionists
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 Dr. Everett Piper
In the past few weeks, Uri Berliner, a 25-year veteran of NPR, blew the whistle on the state-funded media giant’s pervasive liberal bias. In response, NPR’s new CEO, Katherine Maher, suspended the senior editor without pay for telling the truth about the company. This ultimately led to Mr. Berliner‘s resignation.
NPR’s heavy-handedness in suppressing truthful dissent should surprise no one. Ms. Maher, after all, has been clear in saying that “truth” is not important to her.… Continue Reading
Written by Robert Knight
For years, those of us in the media have known that National Public Radio could also be called National People’s Radio.
It’s no secret that tax-subsidized NPR has leaned left since its inception in 1970. But the network had some good reporting and used to keep its most radical elements mostly in check.
Public radio even features discussions pitting conservatives against liberals on various issues. I did some of those when I worked as a cultural policy analyst for the Family Research Council and Concerned Women for America.… Continue Reading
Tags: Adam Schiff, Black Lives Matter, Concerned Women for America, DEI values, Donald Trump, Family Research Council, George Floyd, Hillary Clinton, Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, National Public Radio, New York Post, NPR, Sarah Lawrence, Substack, Uri Berliner, Washington Times, white privilege
Media Watch | David E. Smith | April 15, 2024 7:00 AM | Comments Off on NPR’s Lurch to the Left
Written by Tim Graham
National Public Radio is a sandbox for the Left. The “news” there is manufactured by leftists, for leftists. You can find it easily in the latest interviews about the Biden reelection campaign. The interviewers are clearly nervous that President Joe Biden’s messaging isn’t working. It’s not that Biden’s incompetent; it’s that voters are ignorant.
On the Jan. 9 “Morning Edition,” NPR host Michel Martin interviewed Democratic National Committee Chair Jaime Harrison and worried that the Biden focus on “saving democracy” from the “far right” threat of Trump wasn’t working.… Continue Reading
Tags: All Things Considered, Andy Beshear, COVID lockdowns, Democratic National Committee, Donald Trump, Hamas, Israel, Jaime Harrison, Joe Biden, Michel Martin, Mitch Landrieu, Morning Edition, National Public Radio, Scott Detrow
Media Watch | David E. Smith | January 13, 2024 4:00 AM | Comments Off on Internal Democrat Worries Aired on NPR
Written by Ronald Kessler
The failure to stop the 9/11 terrorist plot was blamed in large part on a failure to connect the intelligence dots.
Now a similar failure is preventing the country from recognizing what is behind the massive increase in mass shootings: the increasing legalization and potency of marijuana.
The connection should be obvious. A new study backed by the National Institute on Drug Abuse estimates that 30% of schizophrenia cases in men aged 21 to 30 are linked to cannabis addiction.… Continue Reading
Tags: Dr. Russell Kamer, Joe Biden, Laura Ingraham, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Public Radio, Nora Volkow, Partners in Safety, Pulse nightclub, schizophrenia, THC, Umpqua Community College
Drugs/Alcohol/Addictions | David E. Smith | May 9, 2023 7:00 AM | Comments Off on Connecting the Dots of Mass Shootings
Written by Tim Graham
National Public Radio left Twitter in a hilarious huff. In a statement, CEO John Lansing announced, “We are not putting our journalism on platforms that have demonstrated an interest in undermining our credibility and the public’s understanding of our editorial independence.”
This contains multiple layers of comedy. For starters, NPR is a platform that has demonstrated an incredibly aggressive interest in undermining the credibility of Fox News Channel and the public’s understanding of how it balances out NPR’s relentless liberal bias and censorship.… Continue Reading
Tags: Dana Milbank, David Folkenflik, Dominion Voting Systems, Donald Trump, Fox News Channel, Fresh Air with Terry Gross, Hunter Biden, Jeremy Peters, Joe Biden, Joe Scarborough, John Lansing, National Public Radio, New York Times, Robert Draper, Tim Miller, Tucker Carlson, Washington Post
Media Watch | David E. Smith | April 17, 2023 7:30 AM | Comments Off on NPR Won’t Hide Their Hatred of Republicans and Fox News
Written by Robert Knight
This past month, America’s Progressives showed they will do anything to elect Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. This includes having social media, along with “legacy” media, spike articles by America’s fourth largest newspaper, The New York Post.
But that’s not all. These Marxists are even vowing revenge on Trump supporters if they get back the reins of power.
“When this nightmare is over, we need a Truth and Reconciliation Commission,” tweeted Robert Reich, former Labor Department secretary under Bill Clinton and adviser to Barack Obama.… Continue Reading
Tags: ABC News, Adam Schiff, Amy Coney Barrett, Babylon Bee, Barack Obama, Big Tech, Bill Clinton, Black Lives Matter, Center for Antiracist Research, Chris Hayes, Donald J. Trump, Hunter Biden, Ibram X. Kendi, Jack Dorsey, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Maize Hirono, Marxism, Monty Python, MSNBC, National Public Radio, New York Post, Noorie Malik, Open Secrets, Robert Reich, Russian Collusion, Seth Dillon, The New York Post, Twitter, User Operations, Yelp
Federal Elections, Media Watch, Political | David E. Smith | October 29, 2020 8:00 AM | Comments Off on The Relentless Revolution
Written by Robert Knight
What sets our current age apart from previous ones is not only technological wonders but the shocking abandonment of truth.
For Marxists, a lie is as good as truth if it works to advance their cause. A case in point was a recent article on the front page of The Washington Post’s Sunday Outlook section. Next to a large, serious portrait, the headline proclaimed: “Barack Obama: Conservative.” Sure.… Continue Reading
Tags: ACLU, Alfred C. Kinsey, Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders, Bob Guccione, David Levithan, Dick Teresi, Dr. Rupal Yu, Judith Reisman, Kinsey, National Public Radio, Omni magazine, Piedmont Health Services, Planned Parenthood, Scholastic, Sex and Fraud, The New York Times, The Washington Post
Media Watch, Political | David E. Smith | December 4, 2019 7:00 AM | Comments Off on ‘Conservative Obama’ and Pregnant Men