NewsBusters Podcast: NPR Coddles Kamala Harris... Again

July 5th, 2023 10:23 PM

It's your tax dollars at work, National Public Radio conducting another softball interview with Vice President Kamala Harris, with questions such as "what's your message?" and "what does an event like this mean to you?" Kamala gets to unspool ponderous long answers with zero fear of hardballs or interruptions.

NB Podcast: Media Predict Jim Crow 4.0 Following Major SCOTUS Rulings

June 30th, 2023 6:03 PM

Since the last NewsBusters Podcast, three major rulings have come down from the U.S. Supreme Court: affirmative action, free speech, and student loan forgiveness. Your managing editor Curtis Houck and I discuss how the liberal media shrieked in horror at the prospect of fair admissions processes, free speech for the religious, and President Biden getting his underhanded campaign ploy trounced…

NB Podcast: Nets Mention Biden Scandals, But Buried by Trump Tsunami

June 28th, 2023 11:44 PM

Associate editor Nick Fondacaro and I reunited for Wednesday’s show to break down the NewsBusters team's new time counts of network coverage (or lack thereof) on the Trump indictment and allegations of impropriety from the Biden family. While the Biden numbers surprisingly aren't zero, the Trump numbers still dwarf them like a skyscraper-sized tsunami.

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NewsBusters Podcast: Media Hold Memorial for Roe 1 Year Overturned

June 26th, 2023 5:36 PM

Welcome NewsBusters listeners! On this episode of the NewsBusters podcast, Senior Research Analyst Bill D’Agostino and I break down the liberal media’s mournful remembrance of Roe v. Wade one year out from it being overturned. We examine their unhinged meltdowns and their rare admission that the liberal position of abortions at any time and for any reason was something too “extreme”…

NewsBusters Podcast: The Media Counts Down to Demise of Titanic Sub

June 23rd, 2023 6:00 PM

TGIF! On this episode of the NewsBusters Podcast, Senior Research Analyst Bill D’Agostino and I try to contain their rage over the liberal media’s morbid and disturbing coverage of the tragic OceanGate submersible disaster: chiding the CEO, who was on board, because he donated to Republicans. Meanwhile, one outlet threw up a countdown timer until they presumably ran out of breathable are.

NewsBusters Podcast: The Liberal Media’s Crack(pipe) Hunter Coverage

June 21st, 2023 5:11 PM

On this episode of the NewsBusters Podcast, video editing wiz Bill D’Agostino and myself line up and sniff out the liberal media’s crack coverage of Hunter Biden’s plea deal. As loud Italians, we sound off on Hunter getting away with a felony gun charge average Americans would be locked up for given the evidence, and call out CNN for their lazy research into Fox News coverage of Hunter’s…

NewsBusters Podcast: Sunday Shows Cracking Up Over Trump Indictment

June 19th, 2023 10:15 PM

While the networks are piling up hundreds of minutes talking about the Trump indictment, they don't seem happy with how it's going. On Sunday, ABC host Jonathan Karl couldn't even spit out poll results showing Donald Trump's favorability went up among Republicans. NBC's Chuck Todd wouldn't let former vice president and presidential contender Mike Pence finish a sentence on our "two-tier…

NewsBusters Podcast: Biden Disses the Press, Republicans Get the Fuss

June 16th, 2023 10:51 PM

It's a different era. This president can scowl at (conservative) reporter questions and call them dumb, and now it's not an authoritarian moment. Jim Acosta doesn't try to rend his garments like he's in a summer production of Jesus Christ Superstar.

NewsBusters Podcast: Pardon Me, Can You Find the Big Guy at Burisma?

June 14th, 2023 10:40 PM

We counted 291 minutes of Trump indictment coverage on ABC, CBS, and NBC over four days. But as usual there were zero seconds of the latest allegations that Joe and Hunter Biden took bribes from corrupt Ukrainians at Burisma. "Ten percent for the Big Guy" remains largely untouched by the Big Three.

NewsBusters Podcast: The Media & the Perpetual Trump Scandal Machine

June 12th, 2023 10:46 PM

Regardless of the final result of Donald Trump's indictment over classified documents, it feels like the Jack Smith prosecution Is Mueller the Sequel, that the prosecution is the purpose, regardless of the eventual verdict. Trump scandals get thousands of minutes, and Biden scandals get zero seconds. Media editor Bill D'Agostino has a new video on why the GOP shouldn't let NBC moderate debates…

NewsBusters Podcast: PBS, NPR, & VOA Provide a Play Mat for Democrats

June 9th, 2023 10:48 PM

"Public" broadcasting is for liberals. PBS and the Voice of America offered softball questions to Biden on his Pride Month activities at the White House. NPR set up House Democrat leader Hakeem Jeffries to denounce "extreme MAGA Republicans," and attacked the "far right" on election integrity.

NewsBusters Podcast: Was CNN CEO Chris Licht Doomed from the Start?

June 7th, 2023 10:14 PM

CNN CEO Chris Licht is out. But was he ever really in? Or did his predecessor Jeff Zucker still rule the radical roost? Licht was savaged for a "non-existent vision" of restoring some balance and fairness. The Zucker camp deeply admired themselves and their ranty editorializing, confusing it with "truth" and "facts."

NewsBusters Podcast: Why the Sudden Exit of Chuck Todd?

June 5th, 2023 10:57 PM

Chuck Todd announced he's going to leave NBC's Meet the Press. Did he leave voluntarily? Was he pushed? There's one thing we know: It's hilarious when he claims he's been all about the facts.

NewsBusters Podcast: Quiet PBS Rage and Dizzying Debt-Limit Spin

May 31st, 2023 10:54 PM

How do House Republicans negotiate on a debt ceiling when the media so blatantly favor the other party? Our research guru Rich Noyes has been digging into months of evening news coverage of the Republicans and Democrats on the debt-limit debate, and on how the two parties are portrayed on taxpayer-funded PBS.