Media Reality Check

Today we present the WORST OF 2021: The Media Heroes Award.

Today we present the WORST OF 2021: The Praising and Protecting Old Joe Award.

Today we present the WORST OF 2021: The Joy of Hate Award for Joy Reid Rants.

Today we present the WORST OF 2021: The GOP Wants to Bring Back Jim Crow Award.

Today we present the WORST OF 2021: The Damn Those Conservatives Award. 

Joe Manchin on Sunday likely doomed Joe Biden’s massive $2 trillion spending plan and the media reaction was predictably hyperbolic. There were audible gasps on ABC when the news that he would vote no broke. The New York Times on Monday’s front page accused him of “deserting” the President. Incendiary talk by liberal journalists has been amplified by real-world bullying of Manchin and his…

The crisis at the border is still spiraling out of control and the liberal news networks are determined to smother any mention of it. According to statistics from U.S. Customs and Border Security, there were 173,600 encounters along the southern border in November. This is a five percent increase over October. Yet, the evening newscast coverage dropped to a shocking zero. Zero minutes and zero…

Seth Meyers isn’t funny, but he’s definitely a joke. The Late Night host trashed Donald Trump when the Republican was President. Now that a Democrat is in charge, he has a new obsession: Moderate Democrat Joe Manchin. Rather than hold Joe Biden to account, Meyers slimes the West Virginia Senator as a corrupt, “ignoble” politician who “s****” all over the President’s agenda.”  

It was a challenging task but an esteemed panel of NewsBusters editors led by MRC President L.Brent Bozell and MRC’s Vice President for Research and Publications Brent Baker boiled down all the biased outbursts from lefty hack hosts, anchors, reporters and pundits in 2021 and declared a winner.

It has now been 22 days since a bigoted, anti-Semitic killer drove his SUV into a Wisconsin, parade, murdering six. Yet, not long after the Waukesha slaughter, the networks stopped mentioning the name of alleged killer Darrell Brooks. By December 7, ABC, CBS, and NBC had completely abandoned the story altogether. 

The Jussie Smollett hoax trial went to the jury on Wednesday, but you wouldn’t know it on Good Morning America. Since the start of the trial, the ABC show has offered ZERO coverage of the claims that the actor lied about a MAGA mob assaulting him. It seems as though GMA’s reporters and hosts are embarrassed of their past credulous, fawning interview with Smollett. 

There was a lot for the leftist journalists to be upset about this month. First they saw a key bellwether race in Virginia blow up in their faces. Then they saw their man President Joe Biden’s ratings take a nosedive, even as they lamely attempted to sell his policies and try to tell their audiences that…

The following is just a small sampling of journalists spinning the bad inflation numbers for the Biden administration.

The following is look back through the Worst of Brian Williams via the MRC’s archives. On Tuesday, MSNBC The 11th Hour anchor announced he was not renewing his contract with the network at the end of the year as he stated: “This is the end of a chapter and the beginning of another.” What Williams didn’t say was how this latest chapter began.